Last night, as I was watching this anime series on Netflix called Orb: On the Movements of the Earth (チ。―地球の運動について―) with my two sons, this scene came on at the end of Season 1 Episode 9, and it struck me as the perfect entry point to the concept of orality (apologies for the bootleg quality and lack of sound):
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The series, based on a Japanese manga drawn by Uoto (魚豊) from 2020-2022, is a quasi-historical fiction centering on the discovery of heliocentrism in 15th Century Europe. It is a speculative portrait of a time
