Mar 26, 2025
Exceptional ending!
As well as exceptional story. I don't want to delve too deeply into the story.
Every hour of this anime is an hour well spent, although you can't really count on getting attached to a characters. After all you're not following them but a small sparkle of curiosity that started a movement that would move the Earth. However, would such a move not shake the world? You'll have to find the answer yourself by watching the anime or reading the manga, which I reiterate my recommendation. Prepare for a voyage through starry skies and different times, in pursuit of satisfying curiosity.
As to the title
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of the review (there will be spoilers).
Uoto managed to do something I wasn't prepared and even less expected to do. Now, when I look at it, I'm feeling like complete fool, but then it only enhances the flavour. The story told in Orb ended in episode 23 with Draka's poetically depicted death on a rock in the glow of the rising sun as the stars fade with the heliocentric theory.
So the question therefore arises – Will Potocki get his 10% as there are still 2 episodes left?
The action from the Kingdom of P moves to the Kingdom of Poland and so we move on to the epilogue. I don't need to explain what an epilogue is, but it is worth knowing that it is not an ending – an ending happens beforehand. I feel I have to point this out because I have seen most accusations precisely against a misunderstanding of this fact.
In the epilogue, the protagonist becomes Albert Brudzewski, who is the first character to be modelled on the historical personality of the same name. The plot orbits around his life, starting with his childhood, but for what? This is justified by two things: firstly, Albert is the first historical figure usually considered most important in fiction, and secondly, Uoto credited him with creating the content of the manga itself. In on of the final scenes, Albert as a young man hears surreptitiously a particular phrase in the street: "On the Movements of the Earth". It turns out that the story in episodes 1-23, is prose written by Albert, which is modelled on people and events present in his life and titled after that overheard phrase.
I have read opinions that, in that case, the story of Rafal, Schmitt, Eyes, Badeni, Grabowski, Jolenta, Nowak and Drak does not matter at all, but this is not the case. I have also seen some indications of a multiverse, but this is even less the case. These are two separate worlds, fiction within fiction. In practice, it has this interaction as if you were reading a book, manga or watching an anime about anything. This is all the better realised because in the real world, the Church still regarded heliocentrism as blasphemy in Copernicus' time (which is why the latter only published his work ‘De revolutionibus orbium coelestium’ after his death), so the heliocentric theory had to be presented to the public in this way. Fascinating!
I hope Uoto will produce a story in the future dealing with the theme of the great geographical discoveries in similar manner!
One of those anime that you have to watch at least once in your life.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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