Audience reviews
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Odinsknight101
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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(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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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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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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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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This review contains some spoilers:
Literally the only redeeming factors of this show were the character Halter and the fact that I had the best time drinking and making fun of this show (the only reasons this has a 2 and not a 1.) The story was a convoluted mess that was only about a quarter explained. I had the only the vaguest idea of what was happening. The villain was given no explanation to his motives and while the two main characters meet him, it's glossed over for at least 2 episodes (??!!!???). And the two Automatons don't use their full power in any meaningful way - RyuZU doesn't use her imaginary gear and AnchoR doesn't use her kickass guns or her ability to send things into the frickin shadow realm when facing the big bad. Those powers appear once or twice and are never broug…
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Clockwork Planet for LA is easily summed up in 6 words "could have been sooo much better".
Clockwork Planet from the genius mind of Yuu Kamiya of No Game No Life fame is about Naoto Miura voiced by Yoshino Nanjo who is obsessed with automata's and has an eerie ability to hear what's wrong with automations and when a black box containing a female automata by the name of RyuZU literally falls into his lap, his world of success and failures of a gear-like world will come under attack.
Yeah, sounds interesting right?.....yeah too bad it utterly fails in it's execution though.
What does LA mean by this?, well LA will be referring to Yuu Kamiya's other work No Game No Life for this a couple times in this review but for the main protagonist Naoto, he's essentially Sora without the sense of urg…
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Clockwork planet review
Beautiful android girls saving the world from government corruption with the help of an eccentric ability user and a genius engineer.
There are slight spoilers mainly in character analysis so please be aware as you read the review
Based off the light novel of the same name Clockwork planet is an action based anime that has a pretty interesting premise in that it combines an action based anime with something that we usually see inside a sci fi anime which in this case are the automatons which is a type of advanced android that populate the world that this anime is set in. Combine this with the unique setting that Clockwork planet is set in and you get clockwork planet. I always been a fan of sci fi and action anime but what I really like more is one that combin…
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Story:
This is the anime's weakest point. It starts off okay, but the events that go on don't generally have a particularly good connection to each other and it's very predictable. There is literally no reason to anticipate that any major character will actually die or is in any danger and it's really just a show where the major characters blow stuff up and keep succeeding. There is very little world building as well despite the potential that this show has to make that interesting.
Character:
One of the slightly better parts of the story. There is some growth in Marie Bell Briguette and there's some development with AnchoR. But other than these two the rest are kind of one dimensional. Marie also surprisingly looked a lot better in her disguise than her usual outfit, so it kind of begs t…
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It's not a good sign when the most compelling scene of a new anime series occurs before the opening credits in the first episode. Clockwork Planet was pretty much all downhill from there.
I recall noticing a comment on some website or other noting that this was the ultimate chuunibyou show, and I'd say that's about right. Clockwork Planet plays out as an endless variation on weird anime-centric fetishes instead of something resembling a real story. I was initially attracted to the show because I thought it might involve some kind of steampunk aesthetic, but I was quickly disabused of that potentiality. Instead, you have a ludicrous notion that the entirety of planet Earth was reconstructed with gears, cogs, and endless other mechanisms. Evidently this world also includes artificial intel…
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Anime is like a well-oiled machine. When all of its parts work harmoniously together (i.e. the story, characters, aesthetics, and the like), you end up with a piece of work that functions well as a piece of entertainment that has a larger majority of its audience responding well to it. But when there're sections that don't really work all that well, then you've got a problem.
Story: With the world dying to the point that it could no longer sustain life, a man known only as 'Y' rebuilt it from gears and clockwork, thus creating the 'Clockwork Planet' that the characters live in. (Don't ask me how he did it, the characters themselves don't even fucking know) It is here where our dual protagonists come across many wrenches in this world of gears as they try and work out the kinks in the mach…
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This is a anime with a intriguing idea, and interesting premise and start, that doesn't really feel like it goes anywhere. Which is a shame as there is so much to like about the world, I liked the idea of the earth essentially being a clock work planet now.
Problem is this is a example of a great idea hindered by poor villains and lack of feeling of gravitas. I never understood the villians goals, or their reasons and what their final plan was supposed to do. which made the final moments confusing.
I would say watch a few episodes to get the feel for the anime and the world, but if you watch more, be prepared to possibly feel unfullfilled.
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