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Clockwork Planet
First light novel volume cover featuring the character RyuZU
クロックワーク・プラネット
(Kurokkuwāku Puranetto)
GenreAction, Clockpunk, Fantasy
Light novel
Written byYuu Kamiya
Tsubaki Himana
Illustrated byShino
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintKodansha Ranobe Bunko
DemographicMale
Original runApril 2, 2013 – present
Volumes4
Manga
Written byYuu Kamiya
Tsubaki Himana
Illustrated byKuro
Published byKodansha
English publisher
MagazineMonthly Shōnen Sirius
DemographicShōnen
Original runSeptember 26, 2013 – present
Volumes9
Anime television series
Directed byTsuyoshi Nagasawa
Produced byJunichiro Tanaka
Kei Fukura
Shin Furukawa
Gouta Aijima
Takatoshi Chino
Atsushi Aitani
Written byKenji Sugihara
Music by
  • Shū Kanematsu
  • Hanae Nakamura
  • Kaori Nakano
  • Satoshi Hōno
StudioXebec
Licensed by
Original networkTBS, BS-TBS
Original run April 6, 2017 – June 22, 2017
Episodes12

Clockwork Planet (クロックワーク・プラネット, Kurokkuwāku Puranetto) is a Japanese light novel series, written by Yuu Kamiya and Tsubaki Himana, and illustrated by Shino. Kodansha has published four volumes since April 2, 2013 under their Kodansha Ranobe Bunko imprint. The story is set in a clockpunk fantasy version of the world, in which the entire planet is run by clockwork. The main characters are five people (a machine otaku, two automata, a young technician and a bodyguard) who, after a month of meeting, become the world's most infamous terrorists.[1]

A manga adaptation illustrated by Kuro was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sirius since 2013 and ended in August 2018.[2] It has been collected in nine tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Xebec aired from April 6, 2017[3][4][5] to June 22, 2017.

Plot

At an unspecified point in time, Earth collapses. Despite it being almost inevitable that humankind would definitely die out, a genius engineer known only as "Y" manages to rebuild Earth entirely with gears and clockwork mechanisms, renaming it "Clockwork Planet". 1,000 years later, original cities of Earth's countries are flourishing inside the planet's surface gears. Naoto Miura, a high school student living in Grid: Kyoto who is in love with mechanics, is dragged into a world crisis when a mechanical crate crashes into his apartment. There, he meets RyuZU, a broken automaton who is part of the Initial-Y Series, a series of automaton created personally by Y himself. Using his superior sense of hearing, Naoto fixes her in three hours despite RyuZU having been broken for 206 years as nobody was able to revive her. Promising loyalty to him, the two are eventually found out by Dr. Marie Bell Breguet, a princess of a noble family and the youngest person to become a master engineer in an international separate government organization "Meister Guild", and her automaton bodyguard Vainney Halter. With the faulty Core Tower, a central tower in every Grid city that controls its gear functions, Naoto pinpoints the problem with his sense of hearing alone in ten minutes, fixing it along with other engineers of the Meister Guild and thwarting the government's attempts to purge the city and destroy lives. As the government's illegal technological experimentation is still at large, the pairs join forces to carry out justice and prevent further purges. A month after their encounter, all four appear in Akihabara, Tokyo, having become the world's most infamous terrorists in their quest.[1]

Characters

Main

Naoto Miura (見浦ナオト, Miura Naoto)
Voiced by: Yoshino Nanjō[4] (Japanese); Dallas Reid[6] (English)
Naoto is a high school student and a machine otaku. He has a hearing ability better than other people, which is why he wears headphones with a noise-canceling ability. Naoto is not interested in human girls, but he is romantically attracted to RyuZU, who is an automaton.
RyuZU (リューズ, Ryūzu)
Voiced by: Ai Kakuma[4] (Japanese); Jeannie Tirado[6] (English)
RyuZU is an automaton that "Y" left behind. She is Unit 1 of the "Initial-Y Series" and was manufactured about 1,000 years ago, but was broken 206 years ago and has been in a non-functional state ever since. After Naoto repaired the failure inside her that nobody could fix, she treats him like her own master. Contrary to her beautiful appearance, RyuZU has an incredibly sharp mouth. Her supreme command is "One Who Follows" ("Yourslave") (付き従うもの(ユアスレイブ), Tsukishitagau mono (Yuasureibu))
Marie Bell Breguet (マリー・ベル・ブレゲ, Marī Beru Burege)
Voiced by: Saori Ōnishi[4] (Japanese); Skyler McIntosh[6] (English)
Marie is the youngest president of Breguet company and a first-class clock technician. She is a self confident genius girl with a sharp mouth. After she and Naoto stopped the Kyoto purge, she faked her own death and decided to keeping the clockwork in the planet safe.
Vainney Halter (ヴァイネイ・ハルター, Vai'nei Harutā)
Voiced by: Kenichirou Matsuda[4] (Japanese); Christopher Sabat[6] (English)
Vainney is Marie's bodyguard and a former soldier. He specializes in fighting with a mechanized body of latest technology. He has been with and supported Marie for a long time.
AnchoR (アンクル, Ankuru)
Voiced by: Sayaka Senbongi[4] (Japanese); Monica Rial[7] (English)
AnchoR is another automaton part of the "Initial-Y Series" that is listed as Unit 4, RyuZU's "younger sister". She was the only automaton that was manufactured as a weapon among the "Initial-Y Series", giving her the strongest combat ability. Her supreme command is "One Who Annihilates" ("Trishula") (撃滅するもの(トリーシュラ), Gekimetsusuru mono (Torīshura)).

Others

Y
Y is a genius engineer who is said to have rebuilt the entire functions on Earth with gears. He also created a series of automatons called "Initial-Y Series" (Initial-Yシリーズ), but the blueprints of his creations have long been lost.

Media

Light novels

The first light novel volume was published on April 2, 2013 by Kodansha under their Kodansha Ranobe Bunko imprint. As of December 29, 2015, four volumes have been published. North American online light novel publisher J-Novel Club have licensed the light novel.[8] Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the Light Novels in North America for print.[9]

No. Release date ISBN
1 April 2, 2013[10]978-4-06-375293-9
2 November 29, 2013[11]978-4-06-375348-6
3 October 31, 2014[12]978-4-06-381415-6
4 December 29, 2015[13]978-4-06-381508-5

Manga

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 February 7, 2014[14]978-4-06-376445-1March 21, 2017[15]978-1-63-236447-0
2 October 31, 2014[16]978-4-06-376487-1May 16, 2017[17]978-1-63-236448-7
3 March 9, 2015[18]978-4-06-376529-8June 27, 2017[19]978-1-63-236449-4
4 September 9, 2015[20]978-4-06-376571-7August 22, 2017[21]978-1-63-236450-0
5 March 9, 2016[22]978-4-06-390611-0October 10, 2017[23]978-1-63-236466-1
6 January 6, 2017[24]978-4-06-390674-5December 12, 2017[25]978-1-63-236467-8
7 April 7, 2017[26]978-4-06-390694-3February 27, 2018[27]978-1-63-236542-2
8 September 8, 2017[28]978-4-06-390729-2
9 March 9, 2018[29]978-4-06-511021-8

Anime

An anime adaptation of the light novel series was announced in December 2015, which was later confirmed to be an anime television series adaptation in December 2016.[3] The series is directed by Tsuyoshi Nagasawa and written by Kenji Sugihara, with animation by Xebec, character designs by Shuichi Shimamura and mechanical designs by Kenji Teraoka. The music is composed by Shū Kanematsu, Hanae Nakamura, Kaori Nakano and Satoshi Hōno. The opening theme titled "Clockwork Planet" is sung by fripSide, while the ending theme titled "Anti Clockwise" (アンチクロックワイズ, Anchikurokkuwaizu) is sung by After The Rain.[30] It premiered on April 6, 2017 on TBS and BS-TBS[4][5] and ended on June 22, 2017. Crunchyroll licensed and streamed the series,[31] and Funimation dubbed the series and released it on home video in North America.[32][33] The series ran for 12 episodes.[34]

Episode list

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  29. ^ クロックワーク・プラネット9 (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
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  34. ^ "BD/DVD".
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