Clockwork Planet...
Recently, I took the opportunity to watch Clockwork Planet...
There is some mild fan service in Clockwork Planet, but, the fan service is quite tame and there are no naughty bits to speak of. On the other hand, there is quite a bit of frank dialogue that might not be appropriate for the youngest anime fans among us. While there is quite a bit of violence in the series, surprisingly, the series is fairly bloodless. In one particularly notable scene where aircraft are shot down, the pilots are shown parachuting to safety -- G.I. Joe style. There is another scene where three people are ambushed and destroyed, but, later, one of the three turns up somewhat not dead. And, we don't really feel bad for the other two as it turns out, that they were likely not human anyway.
In Clockwork Planet, eye candy abounds as the world is revealed to be made out of a vast number of gears. There are a multitude of intricate geared mechanisms both large and small on display throughout the series. Much of the violence in the series involves gun play and the use of slashing weapons. Although, many robots and cyborgs end badly, humans are treated reasonably well. Unless, of course, you happen to threaten Naoto in the presence of RyuZU, then you can expect to have sharp implements pointed at your throat.
A significant part of Clockwork Planet are the gears and the specialists that maintain the geared mechanisms that make up the world. There is some technical dialogue and quite a large chunk of the series relies on a foundation of people with special gear-centered powers and in latter episodes, these gear-centered powers take on an almost mystical quality. Clockwork Planet requires quite a lot of suspension of disbelief to begin with and by the end of the series, that suspension of disbelief is stretched pretty thin. Overall, Clockwork Planet had some minor flaws, but, was fairly fast-paced and reasonably entertaining, I gave Clockwork Planet a 3 out of 5.
In Clockwork Planet, not unlike Madox-01, where an advanced piece of exotic hardware literally falls off the back of a truck, RyuZU, likewise falls off the back of a transport vehicle and lands in the apartment of Naoto, a boy so obsessed with clockwork mechanisms, that he keeps a collection of broken clocks in his apartment. Naoto manages to repair the automaton and RyuZU decides to serve Naoto. Although, Naoto professes his love for RyuZU and her marvelous clockwork mechanism, RyuZU finds such a relationship unfitting for a servant and her master. RyuZU has a penchant for being very blunt and, at times, somewhat condescending towards humans.A thousand years after the world was rebuilt with clockwork, machine-obsessed Naoto Miura becomes the master of an automaton named RyuZU. When this beautiful piece of machinery crashed into his apartment, Naoto's superhuman hearing allowed him to fix her broken cogs-but little did he know it would land him squarely in the middle of a horrific government conspiracy.
Are you just going to ignore the opportunity to sleep in my lap?
There is some mild fan service in Clockwork Planet, but, the fan service is quite tame and there are no naughty bits to speak of. On the other hand, there is quite a bit of frank dialogue that might not be appropriate for the youngest anime fans among us. While there is quite a bit of violence in the series, surprisingly, the series is fairly bloodless. In one particularly notable scene where aircraft are shot down, the pilots are shown parachuting to safety -- G.I. Joe style. There is another scene where three people are ambushed and destroyed, but, later, one of the three turns up somewhat not dead. And, we don't really feel bad for the other two as it turns out, that they were likely not human anyway.
In Clockwork Planet, eye candy abounds as the world is revealed to be made out of a vast number of gears. There are a multitude of intricate geared mechanisms both large and small on display throughout the series. Much of the violence in the series involves gun play and the use of slashing weapons. Although, many robots and cyborgs end badly, humans are treated reasonably well. Unless, of course, you happen to threaten Naoto in the presence of RyuZU, then you can expect to have sharp implements pointed at your throat.
A significant part of Clockwork Planet are the gears and the specialists that maintain the geared mechanisms that make up the world. There is some technical dialogue and quite a large chunk of the series relies on a foundation of people with special gear-centered powers and in latter episodes, these gear-centered powers take on an almost mystical quality. Clockwork Planet requires quite a lot of suspension of disbelief to begin with and by the end of the series, that suspension of disbelief is stretched pretty thin. Overall, Clockwork Planet had some minor flaws, but, was fairly fast-paced and reasonably entertaining, I gave Clockwork Planet a 3 out of 5.
