On Friday, December 30, Clockwork Planet announced through its official Twitter account that fripSide will perform the series’ opening theme song.
fripSide previously performed the opening theme songs of the following television anime series: Ajin Season 2, Black Bullet, A Certain Scientific Railgun, Future Card Buddyfight 100, Schwarzes Marken, and Seraph of the End: Battle in Nagoya.
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fripSideが担当することに決定しました! 楽曲は今後発表させていただきます！ pic.twitter.com/dmFConihQ0— アニメ クロックワーク・プラネット (@ClockworkAnime) December 29, 2016
The Clockwork Planet anime series, under the direction of Tsuyoshi Nagasawa at Xebec, is slated to air April next year on TBS and BS-TBS. It was based on a Japanese light novel series written by Yuu Kamiya, (author of No Game, No Life) and Tsubaki Himana, with illustrations by Shino.
Cast:
Yoshino Nanjō (Love Live! School Idol Project’s Eri Ayase) as Naoto Miura
• Ai Kakuma (D.Gray-man Hallow’s Lenalee Lee) as RyuZU
• Saori Ōnishi (Argevollen’s Jamie Hazaford) as Marie Bell Breguet
• Kenichirou Matsuda (DRAMAtical Murder’s Mink) as Vainney Halter
• Sayaka Senbong (Servamp’s Marie) AnchoR
In April 2013, Clockwork Planet’s first light novel volume was published by Kodansha under their Kodansha Ranobe Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation, with art by Kuro, has also been serialized.
Story as described by Kodansha Comics:
“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.”