A press release announced that the award-winning manga was written and illustrated by Uoto, Chi: Chikyuu no undou or tsuite (About the movement of the earth), will have an anime adaptation produced by Studios crazy house. The press release did not reveal a planned release date, but included a message from the author, who wrote:
- «I am very happy. I remember going to a friend’s house in Nakano a few years ago and stopping by Madhouse every week. Back then I never dreamed that my manga would be animated there. I am deeply moved and am already looking forward to it».
Uoto began publishing the manga through the magazine Big weird ghosts from the publisher Shogakukan in September 2020 and finished it in April 2022 with a total of eight anthologies published. The work won the coveted Grand Prize at the twenty-sixth edition of the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prizewhich took place in Japan in 2022.
Summary for Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite
The setting is 15th-century Europe. It is a time when heretical ideas are burned at the stake. The protagonist Raphau, a child prodigy, has to specialize in theology, the most important subject at the time, at the university, where he wants to skip his studies. But one day, a mysterious man appears at Raphaus’ door, studying a certain “truth” amidst heretical thinking.
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