Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite Episode 9 Discussion

The reason this anime is so dark because when the brightness comes, it'll be so shining that you have to close your eyes from reflex.

It's strange to say that I feel the holiness from anti-religious anime like this.

Scientists at that time were too obsess with simplicity and symmetry. But who can blame them when even scientists in our time are still looking for elegant discoveries like theory of everything.

As soul-crushing it must've been to do on his deathbed, it's commendable of Piast to plainly accept the invalidation of his and the thousands before him's life's work as the truth. As far as final sights go, at least the dude got one of the better ones.


Also, I've been thinking about it for a while but Jolenta really reminds me of a Team Plasma Grunt from Pokemon BW lol

The reason this anime is so dark because when the brightness comes, it'll be so shining that you have to close your eyes from reflex.

It's strange to say that I feel the holiness from anti-religious anime like this.

Scientists at that time were too obsess with simplicity and symmetry. But who can blame them when even scientists in our time are still looking for elegant discoveries like theory of everything.

Piast story finished. His ideas and knowledge over the years were simply useless, and that was proven in this episode. At that moment when Piast did not want to hand over the key he was already aware of this: his knowledge and his study to date have been invalid from the moment Oczy managed to see Venus. Those tears were of deep sadness, imagine dedicating your entire life to studying something and in the end they prove to you that all your study was simply done wrong for years.

Piast is definitely the character with an excellent story construction so far. Him knowing that he was studying something wrong, and giving people the opportunity to make a correct analysis of what he did wrong was simply beautiful and sad at the same time. Sometimes all we have to do is accept that we might be wrong about something. Pias did exactly that, he managed to show that even if he was wrong, he would not carry such mistakes into the future.
The final scene of Piast looking at the sky and crying only proves how much he saw his mistakes, but there he already knew, there was no way to change what he had already studied. All he could do was let the truth come out, though he wouldn't be the one to do it... This was definitely the only and best good episode of Orbe that I felt successful seeing the whole outcome (my opinion).

Maybe the only thing missing was a soundtrack in that final scene, but other than that, it was a magnificent episode. I hope good characters start appearing after Piast. The only good character so far. 5/5

@utopia- Love your comment! Piast's research is not useless though. As Hubert says to Rafal, "An incorrect answer is not a meaningless one". All mistakes are stepping stones towards the truth. In this case, Piast's knowledge is Badeni's stepping stone.

The reason this anime is so dark because when the brightness comes, it'll be so shining that you have to close your eyes from reflex.

It's strange to say that I feel the holiness from anti-religious anime like this.

Scientists at that time were too obsess with simplicity and symmetry. But who can blame them when even scientists in our time are still looking for elegant discoveries like theory of everything.

The reason this anime is so dark because when the brightness comes, it'll be so shining that you have to close your eyes from reflex.

It's strange to say that I feel the holiness from anti-religious anime like this.

Scientists at that time were too obsess with simplicity and symmetry. But who can blame them when even scientists in our time are still looking for elegant discoveries like theory of everything.

If reading is a miracle (it is), so is this show.
I doff my cap to Madhouse. A year ago they gave us Frieren and now this. They are redefining what a mainstream anime series can be in my opinion.

@utopia- Love your comment! Piast's research is not useless though. As Hubert says to Rafal, "An incorrect answer is not a meaningless one". All mistakes are stepping stones towards the truth. In this case, Piast's knowledge is Badeni's stepping stone.

@BIGDnDGirl Thanks. Yes, that's exactly it, it's that thing, you know, "to reach a satisfactory result, we have to make mistakes countless times until we reach the result."

For example, when we learn mathematics, we don't know a quadratic equation right away, so we have to make mistakes until we learn it. The story of Count Piast was exactly that, but with astronomy. He made mistakes countless times throughout his life, but the mistakes will now be going into the future until someone finds the "truth". That final scene of him crying is precisely the sense of insignificance in the face of the study he did throughout his life in the wrong way. There he recognized that he was not a adept to continue, but he would have to let go of his selfishness and let his failed attempts become the truth in the future. It was beautiful!

Another great episode! I loved the parallels between Piast's story with his mentor and the present time, dealing with heliocentrism disproving his theory.

Jolenta's comparison of reading and writing to miracles were on point! I'm sad we might not get to see much of her again.

Peak dialogue this episode with some hard hitting lines, it almost makes me forgot how yet again this episode has 0 brightness.



Cold cold cold. 🥶 🥶 🥶


Count Piast saying "Venus in its final phase" went so unexpectedly hard.


But then after these 2 peak lines we get some cheesy "This is what it means... to learn something, I think." Line. It ruined my moment.