The Orbital Children

is a two-part Japanese anime science fiction film series written and directed by Mitsuo Iso. Kenichi Yoshida provided the character designs for the anime, while Toshiyuki Inoue is the main animator. The film's soundtrack was produced by Rei Ishizuka.

The film will be released in two parts for two weeks each, with Part 1 on January 28, 2022, and Part 2 for February 11. The movies will presumably roughly 1.5 hours long each as sets of 3 episodes with the series version having roughly half hour episodes. Netflix announced in November 2021 that it has acquired the global distribution rights, and was released as a 6 episode series on January 28, 2022, to coincide with part 1's debut in Japan.

Plot
Taking place in the year 2045 at the Anshin Space Station, the last child born on the moon; Touya meets the three winners of Deegle Space program Taiyou, Mina and Hiroshi. All seems to be going well until an unexpected disaster hits the space station. As the air pressure drops and the time keeps ticking away from them, the children find a way to escape the crisis at hand, unaware they are fulfilling the prophecy of the most intelligent AI in history.

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