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‘Clockwork Planet’ anime unfolds cast, premiere date, staff

Early this week, the official website for the Clockwork Planet anime opened, revealing the television adaptation series’ cast and staff.

Clockwork Planet anime, 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 (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

STAFF

• Series composition: Kenji Sugihara
• Character designer: Shuichi Shimamura
• Mechanical designer: Kenji Teraoka
• Music composers: Shū Kanematsu, Hanae Nakamura, Kaori Nakano, and Satoshi Hōno
• Prop Design: Yoshitomo Hara
• Worldview Setting: Yasumitsu Suetake, Kio Edamatsu
• Art Design: Masahiro Kubota
• Art Director: Masatoshi Kai
• Color Key: Taeko Mizuno
• 3DCG: Yuki Funakoshi
• Director of Photography: Kenji Takehara
• Editing: Masahiro Matsumura
• Sound Director: Satoshi Motoyama

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.”

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