Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite

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Synonyms: About the Movement of the Earth

Japanese: チ。―地球の運動について―

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 8

Chapters: 62

Status: Finished

Published: Sep 14, 2020 to Apr 18, 2022

Genre: Award Winning

Theme: Historical

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Big Comic Spirits

Authors: Uoto (Story & Art)

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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?

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Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite won Grand Prize at the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards in 2022.

The series has been published in English as Orb: On the Movements of the Earth by Seven Seas Entertainment as 2-in-1 omnibus volumes since November 21, 2023.

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Rafał

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Oczy

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Draka

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Jolenta

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Nowak

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Schmitt

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Lewandlowski

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Heretic

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Fry

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Oct 12, 2023

jingo123

Recommended

About the Movement of the Earth is a nice story about humanity's purpose told through the struggle for heliocentrism. It goes through the lives of its multiple main characters while they fight for this cause, each having their own personal struggles, covering different themes alongside the main one.

The themes are brought up thoroughly in long dialogue that are tied into the story itself. The characters talk A LOT about philosophical ideas in these blatant lecture-style ramblings (?). It feels more like the characters are having debates in the middle of whatever's happening in the story. But more often than not, it does feel quite natural. ... I'm not saying it's realistic but it does fit the manga's tone.

This does get annoying sometimes, and the lack of visual presentation does not help. I don't mind the 'ugly' drawings, but some panels are just bland or even empty. It makes it feel like I'm just reading a script for a play or something. Actually, the story is structured like a stage play. There's a bunch of characters explicitly ranting towards each other or to themselves, and the scene ends with one big moment. Idk if that's accurate but the plays I've watched are like that (I've only watched 2 of them).

Best part about this manga is its depiction of the value of human life in the pursuit of a greater purpose. There's something romantic about hundreds and thousands of people giving up their lives for a single cause or idea, especially when this cause ends up lasting an eternity (eg: the pyramids, any religion). The forgotten lives of the workers that built the pyramids might seem meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but the fact that they contributed to one of the greatest legacies of humanity, it gives their lives meaning.

The reality is that a lot of human greatness was achieved by the sacrifice of many. It's a theme that I rarely encounter in media. Most of the time the sacrifice of the background characters is not addressed at all in favour of the main ones. About the Movement of the Earth depicts this theme with a bleak honesty on the oppression and suffering experienced by our characters, but also a feel-good aftertaste since heliocentrism did eventually prevail at the end. The fact that every characters struggle ends up being useful, no matter how small it is, also gives the reader some semblance of relief. It probably wasn't as nice in reality.

Symbolically, the fight to prove that earth was not at the center of the universe represents the rejection of selfish individual greatness. The sun will keep revolving regardless of what happens to us, same as the lofty ideas that will outlive its famed founders. But the founders themselves are a product of a greater whole. The perceived greatness of Copernicus or any other great man was built on the works of a hundred lives, forgotten by time, just like everything else in the universe.

Overall a pretty nice manga. 7-8/10

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Aug 1, 2022

Zrisha

Recommended

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About the Movement of the Earth is a historical manga, a rather underappreciated genre in the medium. But branding it merely as such takes away its allure – despite it being set in 15th Century Poland and exploring a historical finding that is commonplace knowledge now, the appeal of its central theme is both universal and timeless.

The story does not take time in establishing that theme – an authority who is controlling the circulation of information, and heroes who are risking it all to bring the truth to light. The truth here being that Earth is, in fact, moving around the sun and is not ...

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May 25, 2023

tisetise

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In general, i do not know why this manga has not more feedback. This should have been a widelly read work, becuase it is artistically excelent; intellectually excelent too. I can get one thing that people may not like; this manga does not do favors to the fans; there is no plot armor at all, and at first, i did not appreciate it (once rafael dies, after you start liking him and start feeling you will go to the big journay with him, you get then indroduced to some people you do not know, only for the same proccess to repeat). Anyways lets go ... piece by piece.

ART: I personally did not like the art that much. Too simplistic, but you still could make out different characters from their faces and not hair style. If the reader expects to see beautifull art, this wont cut it, most of the art here is drawn as simplistically as possible. The drawings arent the subject here, it is clear the writer invested more on the story and the feelings he wanted to convery to the reader throught dialogue. In this sense, the story and dialogue over-conmpensates for the art. All in all, i would put the art a good 7.

STORY: This is the strong part of this work. The story. The writer manages to build it up, with you being hooked, and hoping anyone from the original crew would survive, with none surviving. They all die out, one by one, but as Rafael says to Novak at the end of the story "We all have been cooperators in this". This is the feeling this manga wants to convey; the feeling of belonging to something big. This is a manga about people who mostly fight for their own individual porpuses, ending up nonetheless sacrificing themselves for a greater porpuse, and contributing to the knowledge we have today. The writer is also not a chauvinist in the sense that the intellectuals of this story are only the intellectuals; it starts and ends with intellectuals indeed, but the main protagonists of the story are not at all intellectuals; it is terrorists, mercenaries, defectors from the system and gipsies. The arcs of the intellectuals (basically, rafal and albert) compromise not more than 10 chapters from the 62. It can easelly be said that 90% of the story is the writer telling you that every human being, if so they desire, can be an intellectual in equal footing with the top of society who produce the mainstream intellectuals. The concept of revolution and theology is importand here. What is also importand is that the writer really, really did do so much work and reading and thought before writing this, so much philoshophical and historical dialogue, and for things far from his japanese society too. One can appreciate that the writer was not at all lazy in this work. All in all, the story gets a 10

CHARACTERS: As it is being said above, if you are here looking to identify with a character throught all the story, you are wrong. There is not a single main character here being an idealized version of the 'good guy'; not only this, there is no plot armor for them. They all end up getting what they would get in real life, outside of plot armors. This is becuase the characters are only engines for the meaning of the story the writer wants to tell, and by them passing the way they pass, the feeling that all this, our world, is not the work of 'great men' or a single man, but throught the work of generations and generations (remiding our foolish generation that thinks we are 'smarter' than the 'idiotic' ancestors) that we see high, becuase we are stepping in the shoulders of giants. Nonetheless, there is character development, which makes the story even better; when the characters die, you feel sad. I dare say, all can identify, becuase the characters are just so real, from the first to the last. Rafal was an elitist bastard who wanted to make people work for him and exploit them, yet, while his desire started from his individualism, he growed to embrace the whole, and came to understand himself as part of the bigger picture. Not only this, but rafal ended up dying for his convictions. The reader may think that this was all for nothing, but 10 years later, it seems that two random mercenaries, with one being a little interesting in astrology, and the other not being able to look the beauty stars out of his shame that he is so filthy (he kills people for money after all), and not even being able to read, by luck find out his legacy. The story begins again, and mercenary oczy with the help of monk rebel badeni continiue what rafal left unfinished. Oczy is basically the protagonist of this story; he has the biggest character development, and it is his book that links the past, present and future. Next up, we have a group of revolutionary terrorists lead by Oczy's former friend, and a captain named Schmitt trying to find Oczy's lost book where the theory of the earth moving has been written in a simple manner for mass consuption so everyone can understand it, and then next we have draka's arc, where a gipsy tries to become a big time capitalists ends up abandoning all this for the sake of the 'greater whole'. The last thing she does is send a message about the book, which by sheer luck, Albert Brudzewski hears the title off (the only thing that survived from the work), and starts thinkng about this theory seriously. Then, he teaches Copernicus, and we have the copernecian revolution. All in all, 10 here too.

Overall score, 10.

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