# fripSide to perform 'Clockwork Planet' anime opening theme song <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0zjp84VQAA5K1U.jpg:large"> On Friday, December 30, <i>Clockwork Planet</i> 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: <i>Ajin Season 2, Black Bullet, A Certain Scientific Railgun, Future Card Buddyfight 100, Schwarzes Marken,</i> and <i>Seraph of the End: Battle in Nagoya</i>. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-cards="hidden" data-lang="en"><p lang="ja" dir="ltr">クロックワーク・プラネット オープニングテーマを 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！ <a href="https://t.co/dmFConihQ0">pic.twitter.com/dmFConihQ0</a></p>&mdash; アニメ　クロックワーク・プラネット (@ClockworkAnime) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClockworkAnime/status/814275960153350144">December 29, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> The <i>Clockwork Planet</i> 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 <i>No Game, No Life</i>) and Tsubaki Himana, with illustrations by Shino. <b>Cast:</b> Yoshino Nanjō (<i>Love Live! School Idol Project</i>’s Eri Ayase) as <i>Naoto Miura</i> • Ai Kakuma (<i>D.Gray-man Hallow</i>’s Lenalee Lee) as <i>RyuZU</i> • Saori Ōnishi (<i>Argevollen</i>’s Jamie Hazaford) as <i>Marie Bell Breguet</i> • Kenichirou Matsuda (<i>DRAMAtical Murder</i>’s Mink) as <i>Vainney Halter</i> • Sayaka Senbong (<i>Servamp</i>’s Marie) <i>AnchoR</i> In April 2013, <i>Clockwork Planet</i>’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. <b>Story as described by Kodansha Comics</b>: “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.”