Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite Episode 3 Discussion

Yes, that's true, there are things happening at the opening that I just can't even imagine what they're about xD

@PokefanPT Try to avoid spoilers as much as possible! There are so many great twists that happen later on!

Wait he really just died? Like bruh? Intense episode and Rafal just proved that a man will die for his dreams. Just like Hubert left his dreams on Rafal's hands he left it too. Insane episode.

Wait WHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT?????

I was not expecting he got catch this soon, but he also died omg.

So if we are going for multiple MCs, I wonder if it will reach until Nicolau Copérnico? The one that actually manage to prove the theory.

Honestly, this anime is just ridiculous.

Nobody was burn at stake in the 15th century for subscriving to the theory of heliocentrism for purely logical and scientific reasons. You got problems only if you start speaking out against the major dogmas of Christianity, and heliocentrism is NOT one of them. That's why Copernicus lived a peaceful life despite working on the theory of heliocentrism and even sending his books to the pope (who didn't particularly think anything about it), while Giordano Bruno was sentenced to death because he wrote ideas like reincarnation of the soul or Jesus being not God.

It seems like the mangaka didn't care about finding out how people lived and thought in the 15th century to write such a ridiculous story. I'm okay with works of fiction set in historical context, but you have to do your research first to avoid writing, well, bullshit. A story set in a historical context doesn't have to be perfectly historically accurate, but at least it shouldn't give a blatantly false view of the reality of said historical context.

Let's just talk about the discussion between the boy and the inquisitor about death. Boy starts to quote ancient philosophers about nobody knowing what is death, and so on. Come on, we are supposed to watch a story set in Europe, in the 15th century, when everybody believed that a man named Jesus died, descended into Hell where he freed Adam, Abraham etc, then was resurrected. Actually, everybody at the time think they know what is death, because everybody have faith. You just don't ask yourself what is death, or what happens after death, in the 15th century in Europe.

Characters in this anime are behaving like today's people, and sometimes particularly like today's Japanese people (like the boy in episode 1 saying "you're like a god", like he was living in a Shinto society). To write a good story set in a context far from your cultural and historical time, you need to do a lot of work, a lot of research, or else you just write something mediocre and not believable. Unfortunatey, mangaka didn't even try to do that.

Biggest problem, however, is that there are still people in the anime community thinking that the "reality" depicted in this anime is true because it reminds them vaguely of clichés about the Middle Age, and then are going to recommend watching it. It's okay believing in clichés until somebody opens your mind and shows that said clichés are totally false. But the lazy author of Orb doesn't do that, it's even worse, he or she continues to spread these clichés. So please, let's not label his work as good and well written when it is just not the case.

Novak popping out of nowhere to harass Rafal feels so forced and out of place. At least the Simpsons made it a comical satire, in here the author couldn't give a proper reasoning for Novak to hound him after several days or even weeks had passed since their last encounter. If Novak felt he was corrupted by Hubert's teachings in episode 2, why did he wait until now to continue his hounding?

Also, do they hand out poppy seeds to heretic prisoners? I feel that they would want to avoid these priosoners to kill themselves before being tortured and burnt alive. I see no other way why would Rafal had poppy seeds in the first place. And if they plan to make it a huge ruse with a fake death later on, that's a stinkier diaper full of poo worse than the historical innacuracies.

Rafal tearing down the deal given him by the church was only lacking upbeat J-rock music to cement the shonen tropes of younguns defying the unfair status quo established by big bad mean adults. Thank god this is a seinen, am I right guys? /s



Like where?

It's not bad, but it's very average. Any knowledgeable guy that knows about animation wouldn't call it amazing. Just because they are being faithful to adapting the panels of the manga that does not equal to amazing animation.