Clockwork Planet

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)
Genre	Action, Clockpunk, Fantasy
Light novel
Written by	Yuu Kamiya Tsubaki Himana
Illustrated by	Shino
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	Male
Imprint	Kodansha Ranobe Bunko
Original run	April 2, 2013 – present
Volumes	4
Manga
Written by	Yuu Kamiya Tsubaki Himana
Illustrated by	Kuro
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA Kodansha Comics USA
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Monthly Shōnen Sirius
Original run	2013 – present
Volumes	5
Anime television series
Directed by	Tsuyoshi Nagasawa
Produced by	Junichiro Tanaka Kei Fukura Shin Furukawa Gouta Aijima Takatoshi Chino Atsushi Aitani
Written by	Kenji Sugihara
Music by	Shū Kanematsu Hanae Nakamura Kaori Nakano Satoshi Hōno
Studio	Xebec
Licensed by	NA Funimation
Original network	TBS, BS-TBS
Original run	April 6, 2017 – present
Episodes	4

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. A manga adaptation with art by Kuro has been serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sirius since 2013. It has been collected in five tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Xebec will begin airing in April 2017. 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 four people (a machine otaku, an automaton, a technician and a bodyguard) who after a month of meeting become the world's most infamous terrorists.

At an unspecified point in the future, the Earth dies. Then, a genius engineer only known as "Y" manages to revive the Earth using only gears and clockwork. Thus the world is renamed "Clockwork Planet", with cities being built inside the planet's gears. A thousand years later Naoto Miura, a student and lover of machines living in the Kyoto gear, finds a crate has crashed through the roof of his apartment. Inside the crate is a coffin containing the broken body of an automaton. Using his superior sense of hearing, Naoto fixes the automaton, who is named RyuZU YourSlave, who reveals she has been broken for over 200 years. RyuZU promises complete loyalty to Naoto and the two become close. Later they meet two people trying to find RyuZU: Dr. Marie Bell Breguet, the youngest person to become a "meister", a group of master engineers; and her bodyguard Vainney Halter. A month after their encounter, all four appear in Akihabara, Tokyo, having now become the world's most infamous terrorists.