{"id":24401,"date":"2025-01-12T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anime\/chi-chikyuu-no-undou-ni-tsuite-orb-on-the-movements-of-the-earth-16\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:00:28","slug":"chi-chikyuu-no-undou-ni-tsuite-orb-on-the-movements-of-the-earth-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=24401","title":{"rendered":"Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) \u2013 16"},"content":{"rendered":"


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It\u2019s ironic that Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite<\/em> didn\u2019t skip an episode for the new year (which is almost unheard of for anime to my recollection) cause boy howdy, this series does love a time skip. And this is a big one \u2013 25 years this time. To be frank it\u2019s a good \u201ctime\u201d for it, because I could feel the narrative perceptibly losing steam on the path it was headed the last few weeks. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d say it was a dead end, but at the very least it was a path I was less interested in taking than the ones which Orb<\/em> had taken before.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell this new \u201cLiberation Front\u201d organization doesn\u2019t have any historical parallel, even an anachronistic one. That said, so-called \u201cpeasant revolts\u201d (which actually included lots of non-peasants) were increasingly common in the late middle ages. And for good reasons \u2013 the ones spelled out in this episode, pretty much. Chi Chikyuu<\/em> has always taken a liberal view of specific historical events and figures in order to make its point more dramatically, and that seems to be the case with this new arc as well.<\/p>\n

I do know this \u2013 Naturalism as a philosophy (which has its roots in ancient Greece) was almost unheard of in the Middle Ages and indeed, didn\u2019t begin to reappear in earnest until the Enlightenment. But Schmitt<\/a> (Hino Satoshi<\/em><\/a>) seems to be an outlier even within his own organization. There\u2019s still a lot of blank space to be filled in here, but it\u2019s implied that it\u2019s more of a general anti-orthodoxy group, and Schmitt and his unit are the ones specifically wedded to Naturalism (and anarchy). In practical terms though they free heretics, and seek to destabilize the Church and its leadership. As such, heretical teachings (like Oczy\u2019s journal, perhaps) are obviously of potential use to them.<\/p>\n

Schmitt and his lieutenants Fry and Lewandowsk<\/a>i make use of the latest technology, which in this case is explosives. Schmitt gets himself arrested in order to pull of an inside job and liberate (in addition to some random heretics currently in the hands of the Inquisition) a book (whether specifically Oczy\u2019s I\u2019m not sure) that will be of use to their leader (whose identity we don\u2019t know). The heretics initially ask to join his squad, but Schmitt puts them to his usual initiation test \u2013 they must declare that they don\u2019t believe in the Holy Scriptures. And yeah, that\u2019s a big ask for the average medieval bloke, especially one looking to reform rather then destroy the religious order.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a backwards timeskip here, as we jump back again to 25 years earlier. But not as far as I can tell to anyone we know. A family of three is fleeing a village the father says has gone mad \u2013 possibly one of those peasant revolts \u2013 when his younger brother intercepts them on the way out of town. He espouses some politically radical but perfectly valid positions, and when Aniki refuses to stipulate to them, proceeds to slash him<\/a> and then go after the son. His mother saves the boy (presumably at the cost of her own life), and it\u2019s clear that he survives and becomes important in the \u201cpresent\u201d. But I don\u2019t get the sense that he\u2019s Schmitt, so details on that are still to come.<\/p>\n

Lastly we have an abandoned village, supposedly to the plague, where Schmitt and his men stop to resupply and rest (and for Fry to study the book). But it\u2019s not abandoned, and in fact Church militia is close by. They\u2019re serving Antoni<\/a>, and outnumber the trio sufficiently that they secret the book and flee for the moment. They have a prisoner already<\/a>, one who Antoni is more interested in, and I\u2019m guessing it\u2019s Nowak but then 25 years is a long time. I presume we\u2019ll get a lot of this cleared up next week.<\/p>\n

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