Audience reviews
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_Bubassotto_
A cliché that was actually fun at the time
When I first watched Clockwork Planet, I was still quite new to the world of anime. Back then, the concept of an incredibly powerful girl who holds a sort of near-absolute admiration for a "master", someone extremely intelligent yet physically weak, was something new to me. I hadn't encountered this type of dynamic much before, so I was able to really enjoy the relationship between the characters. It felt fresh and worked well within the scope of my experience at the time.
The problem is that, revisiting the series today, it becomes much more obvious just how clichéd that dynamic is. The archetype of the protagonist who appears ordinary or frail but is highly intelligent, accompanied by a powerful female character who admires and protects him, h…
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Just felt like rewatching this, the first watch from years ago wasn't very memorable. Clockwork Planet is actually kinda cool, but nothing is that amazing about the plot and the characters' development to me. It just felt like I was getting to see the MCs adventuring, which was totally fine and entertaining. It's a short anime I rewatched in two nights, so if you want to see two genius kids and their robots just saving the world and stuff, I would say why not crank it out. Otherwise, I wouldnn't prioritize watching it, it's just a time-killer.
Oh I guess my review was too short to publish. I guess I'll add that I like the artstyle, the animation is nothing special though. The characters' actions and conversations aren't the most human, so the world-building and premise are probably the m…
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This is pretty bad anime but it has some serious SOUL.
I started watching this because of the opening being done by fripSide. In the end, the opening, ending and I guess also the music was the only legitimately good part of this anime.
The art fluctuates from okay to bad. The story and characters are pretty random and dumb. The whole piece leaves me thinking that it was written by a teenager taking his favourite parts from shounen shows he's seen stuffing it into this. Most of the things happening do not make any sense whatsoever.
Was about to drop this but after watching three episodes, I somehow stuck through with it and I half don't regret it. Since as I said, this embodies a lot of the cool things from shounen shows which I've seen plenty when I was younger and even now. Thus, the SO…
Read at the sourceOdinsknight101
Intuitive characters.
Poor writing from time to time
Beautiful world design (Resonance of Fate feels)
Comedy I found to be entertaining.
Opening commits ''opening sin''. (As I like to call it) Although it was enjoyable from time to time.
The dub was excellently performed
If I were starting anime and I saw this, I would have been asking for a season 2 but the show set out what it wanted to do, executed it and arrived at its conclusion.
It is one of times that made me think '' If only they had more time ''.
I never had any issue with the vision of world and the many cogs + gears that connect everything together. Visual presentation and the thaughts + feelings displayed, shown and heared by the main cast characters all felt great to see in their enaction of it.
The Government on the other…
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It is mediocre.
The series is set in a world where Earth was destroyed, and in its place a clockwork planet was built by a mysterious individual called Wye for humanity to live on. Thousands of years later, the protagonist Naoto, a young clocksmith with unexplained superhuman hearing, has an ancient robot girl fall on him, and is the first person to fix her after 200 years. The robot girl pledges to be his slave, and joins him and a goup of elite clocksmiths to fix the damaged parts of their world and thwart terrorists and evil military conspiracies. Another character called Marie is introduced who gets Naoto into the organisation, and the two have a very interesting dynamic in which both are geniuses in their own ways, but their opposing ways of going about fixing problems makes it hard f…
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Having finally finished "Clockwork Planet" I can finally reach a conclusion. Overall this does have a nice number of things going for it. Some good background music, an interesting world, and some great character back and forths....
However execution is key and at numerous times throughout the series events feel so rushed and characters seem to be arbitrarily stupified.
The main problem.over everything else is certainly in the character designs. Everyone looks 7 or 8 yo. Which really intensifies the awkwardness of some of the scenes dialogue or visuals. I can honestly imagine Sora from No Game No Life saying certain lines from the shows main character and them working. But on account of a child saying them they just seem shoved in his mouth rather than part of his character.
If these…
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(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
Clockwork Planet features and stars a couple of automata, robots who are more human than machine (on the outside at least).
Last year, a video game titled Nier:Automata stayed true to its name and did the same. I quickly fell in love with the somewhat niche project: 2B, the phenomenal OST, the amazing (true) ending. Not only was it my favorite game from 2017 but also it earned a spot within my all-time-best list. Alongside the likes of Banjo-Kazooie, Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest, Dark Souls, The Last of Us, and many others.
In comparison, Clockwork Planet will in no way be earning a similar treatment.
STORY
1000 years after the Earth’s demise, it finds new life within Clockwork Plan…
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This anime is a bit special to me; it was written by the author of No Game No Life, one of my favorite lightnovels, Yuu Kamiya-sensei.
First off, I would like to say that the benchmarks for a 10 are:
Story: Steins;Gate, Iron-Blooded Orphans
Art: 5 cm per second, Violet Evergarden
Sound: Guilty Crown, Spice and Wolf
Character: Kimi no na Wa, Koe no Katachi
Enjoyment: Lucky Star, Ghost in the Shell
Overall: Working!! It is the story of a genius boy (Naoto) that can hear every detail inside a world made entirely out of clockwork by a man named Y 1000 years ago: Clockwork Planet. His skill is certainly useful in this world where everything is made out of gears since he can spot problems really quickly.
One day, a girl automaton - human-looking androids that are wholly made of gears - falls…
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Tick-tock goes the clock, forever...
Story (7/10) - The world has ended, and a new one was built in its place, literally. When a failure clock smith high school student 'discovers' an important automaton, his biggest dream has come true. But everything has a price, which he soon finds out when he gets roped into stopping a calamity-potential conspiracy.
Art (7/10) - The uniqueness of Clockwork Planet is a given, and Xebec did a very good job in bringing it to life.
Sound (6/10) - The Intro and Outro weren't bad, just not the best either.
Character (6/10) - A high school teen with an obsession with Gears and his faithful servant meet a master clock smith and her bodyguard, what could happen?
Enjoyment (6/10) - This was a nice little show.
Overall (6.4/10) - I've been planning to wat…
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Anchor-chan is so cuuuuuuuuuuuuute!
Certainly the best character so far in this anime.
But for some reasons, the other characters aren't pioneered their potential, especially the Automatons, and I think the rushed story takes responsibility. Their emotions change so fast that I couldn't understand how the situation solved. Some of their quotes didn't even relate to the problem they were facing.
They also don't explain a lot of things in the light novel makes this series hard to be understood.
The sound is so interesting to hear, with gear's sound is the main. It surprised me because of complex sounds has been done so well.
However, this series is fun to watch. Even it can't be used to be a commercial for the light novel in my opinion, I still recommend this to who love the sci-fi seri…
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Now this is important: You should never just take someone else's opinion as the end all be all.
ILL KEEP IT SHORT FOR YOU:
This anime is a masterpiece in its own right. The only way i see it getting so many bad reviews is that all the people that actually bother to write these things are closed minded idiots that cant embrace the different perspectives that some anime series try to recreate like this one.
Clockwork planet's plot is by all means short and very open to a second season if they can bring back the same or improved interest (hooks) as the first season.
With its stupid comedy sections thrown into random scenarios the series keeps you focused on not just the action packed fights but also at what the characters are saying.
If we look into the characters a bit, we will notice th…
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You know what type of anime is the absolute worst to review? The one where you can't even voice a detailed opinion about it without a horribly massive spoiler, which I won't reveal. I was incredibly close to dropping this whole thing every moment from episode 1 to 10 but stuck with it almost entirely thanks to the beautiful artwork, even though 9 of 10 contraptions are just dumb redundant clusters of gears spinning in place without the slightest credibility to their function.
I flat out hated the main guy until the spoiler, then I only disliked him intensely. I thought everything was absolute moronic garbage beyond compare until the spoiler, then I only thought it was really dumb and poorly planned. Had I stopped and dropped before the spoiler I'd have scored this anime among the worst I'…
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Overall, I think this series was quite a train wreck. When I was first watching the series, I thought that the idea of a planet made of gears would be a super interesting concept, and that our MC would become super OP, much like the MCs of NGNL; however, at the end of the series, I felt like the MC was quite useless compared to his female counterpart. After finishing the series, I can say that, although it was a train wreck, it had enough momentum to keep me thoroughly entertained and I highly recommend watching the actual show.
Story (7/10)
The story seemed a bit random. A bunch of nonsense stopped the MCs multiple times throughout the arcs which all seemed very... meh. Although the plot of both of the arcs were not anything revolutionary, they had enough randomness to make the show unp…
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Warning possible Spoilers
When I found out that Clockwork Planet was created by the same person who made No Game No Life I was definitely interested with what it would offer me, although despite not being as good as NGNL Clockwork Planet was still alright.
When Earth was destroyed it was rebuilt by some God or being and made entirely out of Gears, Our MC Naoto Miura has a special gift that is needed by people to help fix certain gears, luckily he has a ragtag group to help him on his journey.
The story of Clockwork Planet is pretty confusing and I'll admit it was hard to follow, but what I got from it is that gears are used for literally everything and that includes the cities people live in so if a gear goes wrong and can't be fixed then everyone is in big trouble so a group of special…
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One day, a little MyAnimeList user named FrozenRoy was on his friend's Crunchyroll account, looking for a show at the start of the anime season to watch, and eventually review on My Anime List. Our little FrozenRoy quite enjoys steampunk and clockpunk stuff and so was interested in a show called Clockwork Planet, because it had a really interesting premise. That's how we get here.
Clockwork Planet's premise is, indeed, pretty cool: The planet Earth was fucked up so hard that it looked like humanity was going to become extinct, long ago. A supergenius only known by Y proposed and performed a massive operation to replace the planet, piece by piece in its entirity, with a world made out of clockwork, gears floating in space. And he managed to do it. A thousand years later, we live in a world…
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If i were to describe this show in one word it would be "Melodramatic".
The show had so much potential to shock and awe us with a unique universe based on the concept of an artificial planet functioning via clockwork gears. But the show doesn't really go anywhere with it, the gears serving more as both just a quirky aesthetic and as a plot device rather than any kind of functioning environment. Either the effort just wasn't put in or a sub-par narrative just fluked an interesting premise.
To compound the feeling of melodrama the show doesn't really have any pace but absolute haste. It's a never ending rush from one problem to another and this has a knock on affect in regards to the quality of the introduction of new characters because they are given next to no background when they appear…
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The concept had promise. Then reality came along. The first couple of episodes jumped from dialogue right out of a Hentai to Ecchi and back again. For a while it looked like it was going to be loli Ecchi, then the director changed his mind. Then went back, then tossed in the towel and tossed in some of the worst drawn automatons to pollute the airwaves.
Then there's the gears. 6 billion to make one loli robot. Need to make gears?Wear a suit and dance naked in VR to a golden flower and create them from nothing. Seriously. WTF.
It's just so totally screwy that all enjoyment goes out the window. There's literally nothing redeeming about this anime.
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TL;DR Section at the end of the review. This review may or may not contain minor spoilers.
Oh, Clockwork Planet... How I had such high hopes for you, and in a way, you didn't let me down at all.
Clockwork Planet revolves around a world made out of... gears and clockwork parts. Go figure. The earth's resources had been used up to it's fullest, so a mysterious man known as Y made the Clockwork Planet by himself. Fast forward a hundred years or so, and we have Naoto Miura, an aspiring clocksmith. Someday, a female automaton falls through his roof, and discovers that she's not functioning properly. He then uses his insanely OP talent of being able to hear how the gears move and see their locations to fix RyuZU. She ends up making Naoto her master as they move on to greater and bigger things.…
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This anime had potential, the source material is good. BUT The anime adaptation lacks creativity and script is subpar. Flow in Clockwork planet is very clunky and it is distracting from the story, that could have been interesting but script is bad. From the main villain who just appears out of nowhere we don't hear until the very end and his background is not explored, his motives are not setup properly and basically all we know about him is from his mumblings and very short flashbacks. You can't really get into things if you don't really know why things happen. Then there is the MCs, Naoto seems some what developed but is still a too 2 dimensional character. It seems like he is not very well set upped, black slate almost. Then Marie... Her mood shifts swings like a pendulum, one moment ki…
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Real Score:5.5\10
ClockWork Planet, an adaptation of the Light Novel written by Kamiya Yuu, you might know him from the No Game No Life franchise. It has a wonderful setting, an interesting premise and a good overall design, but nothing more. The entire project falls flat and becomes generic, stale and not enjoyable at all at times. I don't like putting low scores, in fact i have given very few scores under 6, but all of the wasted opportunity and dull moments forced me to do it
Story 4
The Story, if it exists, is bad, really bad. The pacing is horrible and the 2 major story arcs fell rushed and dull. The "Main" Villain of the story is your typical generic and boring villain and i'm not joking if i say you can predict all of his lines even before he says them. The story itself has a real…
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