Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Opening Surpasses 2 Million Views

The opening for Orb: On the Movements of the Earth officially surpassed 2 million views in 12 days. Sakanaction performs the opening theme “Kaiju,” marking the group’s first anime theme song performance. New episodes of Orb are released every Saturday with Netflix streaming the series worldwide. Check out the opening below:

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Toru Iwasawa directed and storyboarded the opening while Reiko Nagasawa worked as the animation director. Iwasawa’s previous works include the storyboard for OP7 and OP8 for Black Clover, the latter of which he also directed. Meanwhile, recent animation director work of Nagasawa includes OP1 of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End and the opening for takt op. Destiny, which he was the chief animation director for.

Orb has placed 26th and 19th in our Week 2 and Week 3 polls respectively. Meanwhile, the new series from studio Madhouse is one of the highest-rated anime of the Fall 2024 season on some sites, ranking in the top 10 on both MyAnimeList (8.20) and Anilist (78%). The series is now currently Madhouse’s second-highest-rated anime of the past four years with only Frieren ahead of it.

Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Staff and Cast

Ken’ichi Shimizu (Parasyte -The Maxim-) is the director for Orb: On the Movements of the Earth. Shingo Irie (Kuroko’s Basketball) is in charge of the series composition with Masanori Shino (Black Lagoon) handling the character designs. The rest of the main staff consist of the following:

• Music: Kensuke Ushio (DanDaDan)
• Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi (Chainsaw Man)
• Director of Photography: Akane Fushihara (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End)
• Art Director: Yasutoshi Kawai (Ninjala)
• Color Design: Narumi Konno (Blue Box)
• Editing: Kashiko Kimura (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End)

The cast for Orb: On the Movements of the Earth includes some big names. Maaya Sakamoto (Ciel Phantomhive – Black Butler) voices the role of the main protagonist Rafal. She’s joined by Kenjiro Tsuda (Nanami from Jujutsu Kaisen), who is voicing one of the main characters in Novak, along with Shou Hayama (Aizen from Bleach) as Hubert, Yuuichi Nakamura (Gojo from Jujutsu Kaisen) as Badeni, Katsuyuki Konishi (Fuegoleon from Black Clover) as Oczy, and Saya Hitomi (Mai from Uma Musume) as Yolenta.

Manga Details

Orb: On the Movements of the Earth is a historical mystery manga written and illustrated by Uoto. The seinen magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits began publishing the series in September 2020 until it ended in April 2022. Winning multiple awards, including the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and “Best Comic” at the 54th Seiun Award, the manga also won the Mandou Kobayashi Manga Grand Prix back in 2021.

Seven Seas Entertainment licenses the series in English and has released 2-in-1 omnibus volumes, all of which are currently published. The publisher describes the series as:
In fifteenth-century Europe, heretics are being burned at the stake. Rafal, a brilliant young man, is expected to enter university at an early age and study the era’s most important field, theology. But Rafal values reason above all else, which leads him both to the shocking conclusion that the Earth orbits the Sun, and into the hands of the Inquisition! A decade later, two members of the Watch Guild, the dour young Oczy and the cynical Gras, find a hidden stone chest that details the secrets of the universe Rafal left behind. Dare they try to change their own stars by selling the heretical texts, or would that only lead to the stake and the fire?

Orb: On the Movements of the Earth opening will continue to change with each new main character introduced.

Source: Official Website, Official X
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