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Crunchyroll Streams Clockwork Planet Anime
posted on by Karen Ressler
Anime about amateur tinkerer, female automaton premieres Thursday
Media distribution service Clockwork Planet novels as it airs in Japan. The stream will premiere Thursday at 3:00 p.m. EDT in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Latin America.
In Japan, the series will BS-TBS on April 8 at 25:00 (effectively April 9 at 1:00 a.m.).
The anime stars:
- Yoshino Nanjō as Naoto Miura
- Ai Kakuma as RyuZU
- Saori Ōnishi as Marie Bell Breguet
- Kenichirō Matsuda as Vainney Halter
- aNCHOR
performing the ending theme song "Anticlockwise."
Kamiya and Himana launched the novel series with illustrations by licensed the manga series, and it describes the manga's first volume as follows:
Naoto's a high school dropout and brilliant amateur tinkerer. He lives in a world that has been so over-exploited that the entire surface has become one vast machine. When a box crashes into his home containing a female automaton, it's a harbinger of change that will rock the entire globe, and give Naoto his chance to be a hero.
Kamiya also wrote the A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives light novel series.