The official website for the upcoming stage play adaptation of Uoto's Orb: On the Movements of the Earth manga released a first trailer . In addition to introducing the main cast members, the clip also features the play's official promotional song "Hoshi" ("Star") performed by the four-member Japanese rock band PK shampoo . The manga's original author, Uoto, has long been an avowed fan of the band. Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Stage Play Trailer The tagline on the key visual reads: "Do you have a belief that you would not compromise even if it meant sacrificing your life? Do you have a virtue that you want to stick even if the whole world is against you?" Key visual RELATED: Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Stage Play Reveals Main Cast Members The Orb: On the Movements of the Earth stage play will perform at the New National Theatre's Playhouse in Tokyo from October 8 to 26, 2025, then will also run in Aichi, Hiroshima, Osaka, and Fukuoka. General sales of the tickets began on July 16 and the tickets for the 23 performance in the Tokyo venue are already sols out. Avshalom Pollak , known for his works on The Cat That Lived a Million Times musical, serves as the director, and Keishi Nagatsuka writes the script. Kaitaro Abe provides music and Ella Rothschild works on choreography. The main cast members include: Oczy played by Masataka Kubota Nowak played by Mirai Moriyama Jolenta played by Toko Miura Gras played by Yusuke Oonuki Draka played by Sakura Kiryu Antoni played by Mitsuru Fukikoshi Badeni played by Songha Uoto began the original Orb: On the Movements of the Earth manga series in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in 2020, with eight volumes released in Japan to date. The TV anime adaptation aired on NHK General TV in Japan for 25 episodes from October 5, 2024, to March 14, 2025. Netflix was streaming the series worldwide. Seven Seas Entertainment releases an English version of the manga and describes the series: 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? Source: "Orb: On the Movements of the Earth" stage play official website
