Voice actor Shoya Ishige has been added to the voice cast of the ongoing Orb: On the Movements of the Earth TV anime series as Albert Brudzewski. The anime first aired in Japan on October 5, 2024 and will run for two consecutive cours at 25 episodes.
Brudzewski will appear in the anime’s 23rd episode, which marks the show’s final act. The character is described as a young baker who lost his academic spark after witnessing a certain incident. He is based on the Polish astronomer and mathematician of the same name.
He joins a main voice cast that has starred:
- • Kenjiro Tsuda as Novak
- • Maaya Sakamoto as Rafal
- • Sho Hayami as Hubert
- • Katsuyuki Konishi as Oczy
- • Saya Hitomi as Yolenta
- • Yuichi Nakamura as Badeni
- • Miyuri Shimabukuro as Draka
- • Satoshi Hino as Schmidt
Kenichi Shimizu (Parasyte: The Maxim) is directing the anime series, with Shingo Irie (Afterlost) as series screenwriter and Shino Masanori (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean) as character designer. Madhouse is in charge of the animation production.
Netflix has licensed the anime for weekly streaming worldwide, releasing the first two episodes in its premiere week.
The anime is based on the manga series by Uoto, which was serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits from September 14, 2020 to April 18, 2022. Eight tankobon volumes were released in total. The manga was awarded the Best Comic category winner at the 54th Seiun Award.
Seven Seas Entertainment releases the Orb: On the Movements of the Earth manga series in English, describing the main synopsis 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?
Source: Orb: On the Movements of Earth Official Website, Comic Natalie
