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Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 13
In this story the individual characters are secondary to the larger ideal.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 23
Any series that can deliver moments like that cannot be dismissed out of hand, no matter now much it stumbles on the road between them.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 10
"Knowledge is power" is one of those old saws so eponymous that we rarely stop to think about what it means.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 21
We'll see if Orb manages to make a silk purse out of this somehow.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 03
Oppression is oppression, and atrocities are atrocities. And kudos to any writer who chooses to use their gifts to expose such evil.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 09
Sometimes it takes someone with intellectual clarity - even if its misplaced - to break through the bonds of ignorance.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 15
I feel as if things may have wandered down a bit of a narrative cul-de-sac here.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 17
Everything since the torture porn and timeskip has played like Chi Chikyuu fanfiction.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 22
I sure as hell wouldn't have believed you if you'd told me a couple of months ago this is where we'd end up.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 11
There's no pretty way to depict what men like Nowak did for a living, and Orb certainly doesn't try.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 16
Boy howdy, this series does love a time skip.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 05
If you're the sort of anime viewer that thinks words like "serious" and "ambitious" equal pretentious you should probably bail at this point.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 06
The essential nature of the divide is brought forth beautifully and poetically, as Orb has a talent for doing.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 04
There are many fundamental questions being posed here, not least the idea of whether asking questions is in itself incompatible with the concept of faith.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 19
If I had to sum up my feelings about Chi Chikyuu in a single word, I think it'd be "bemused".


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 14
I guess torturers don't even get New Years Off...


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 07
Golly, I wonder who Jolenta's father is.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 18
Everything about Orb is just a hot mess right now.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 20
"I Love Heliocentrism" would make a heck of a bumper sticker.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 12
I've spoken before about the overlap of faith and science in this series, and it's one that's tackled from several different angles.


First Impressions: Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth)
You can't talk about this series without acknowledging that it is, at heart, both academic and philosophical as much as entertainment for its own sake.


Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 25 (End) and Series Review
Maybe the whole with Chi Chikyuu was less than the sum of the parts , but the parts were still awfully good.


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Yuzuki-san Chi no Yonkyoudai. – 08
I can't help but think that if the cast were sisters instead of brothers, mainstream anime fans would be all over it.
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Yuzuki-san Chi no Yonkyoudai. – 03
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Yuzuki-san Chi no Yonkyoudai. – 09
Of all the shows being unjustly ignored this season, Yuzuki-san Chi no Yonkyoudai. is probably the one where it pisses me off the most.


Yuzuki-san Chi no Yonkyoudai. – 07
Because the series doesn't dwell on it constantly, it can be easy to forger just what the Yuzukids have been through.


Yuzuki-san Chi no Yonkyoudai. –11
Minato is kind of a zettai shounen, boyish in every sense of the word - cheerful and energetic and volatile and reckless.


Yuzuki-san Chi no Yonkyoudai. – 04
Hayato is basically still a child himself but at the age where the reality that he no longer gets to live like one can hit pretty hard.


Yuzuki-san Chi no Yonkyoudai. – 06
We all mature at different rates (it seems more stark in boys), and first year junior high seems to be the ultimate showcase for that.


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