The setting is 15th-century Europe. It was a time when heretical ideas lead those to who possessed such a mindset to being burned at the stake for their beliefs.

The protagonist, Rafał, a child prodigy, is expected to major in theology, the most important subject at the time, at the university where he plans to skip a grade. One day, however, he comes across a mysterious man, and is now studying a possible "truth" in the midst of heretical thought!

(Source: Shogakukan, translated)

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Studios

• MADHOUSE
• Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
• NHK Enterprises
• Shogakukan

Staff

• Masanori Shino — Character Design
• Yasutoshi Kawai — Art Director
• Kashiko Kimura — Editing
• Kenichi Shimizu — Director, Storyboard (eps 1-3, 10, 12, 13, 22)
• Kisuke Koizumi — Sound Director
• Shingo Irie — Script (eps 1-22), Series Composition
• Kensuke Ushio — Music
• Tooru Iwazawa — Episode Director (OPv1-OPv3), Storyboard (OPv1-v3)
• Akane Fushihara — Director of Photography
• Yorushika — Theme Song Performance (ED)
• n-buna — Theme Song Arrangement (ED1, ED2), Theme Song Composition (ED1, ED2), Theme Song Lyrics (ED1, ED2)
• Narumi Konno — Color Design