Clockwork Planet

Main

• Miura Naoto (見浦ナオト)
• 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.

• Ryūzu (リューズ)
• 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 which nobody could fix, she treats him like her own master. Contrary to her beautiful appearance, RyuZU is incredibly sharp-tongued. Her supreme command is "One Who Follows" ("Yourslave")

• Marī Beru Burege (マリー・ベル・ブレゲ)
• 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.

• Vai'nei Harutā (ヴァイネイ・ハルター)
• 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.

• Ankuru (アンクル)
• AnchoR is another automaton part of the "Initial-Y Series" which is listed as Unit 4, and she is RyuZU's "younger sister". She was the only automaton manufactured as a weapon among the "Initial-Y Series", giving her the strongest combat ability. Her supreme command is "One Who Annihilates" ("Trishula") and her special mode is Bloody Murder.

Others

• Y is a genius engineer who is said to have rebuilt the entire functions on Earth with gears. Additionally, He 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.

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.[7] Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the light novels in North America for print.[8]

Manga

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 was 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 was composed by Shū Kanematsu, Hanae Nakamura, Kaori Nakano and Satoshi Hōno. The opening theme titled "Clockwork Planet"[37] is sung by fripSide, while the ending theme titled "Anti Clockwise" (アンチクロックワイズ)[38] is sung by After The Rain.[39] It aired from April 6 to June 22, 2017, on TBS and BS-TBS[40][41] Crunchyroll licensed and streamed the series,[42] and Funimation dubbed the series and released it on home video in North America.[43][44] The series ran for 12 episodes.[45]