Quick Final Thoughts – Clockwork Planet

I expected better of a project even slightly involving Yū Kamiya (author of No Game No Life), like some spark of life, some original thought, something even possibly hinting at imagination. I really should have known better, given the studio attached to this project, but even for Xebec (most famous for shows like Ladies Versus Butlers, High School DxD, and To-LOVE-Ru) this looks like hot garbage. I wouldn’t really call it “off-model” because everything looks screwed up more often than not, all the character designs are below-average at best and cutting-room fodder at worst, and the animation is a complete joke. This isn’t Hand Shakers bad, but it’s somehow worse than that, because where Hand Shakers looked interestingly terrible, this just looks boringly terrible.

I’ve been putting off mentioning the story because I didn’t realize that Kamiya had even less involvement with it as Gen Urobuchi did with Aldnoah Zero, but it’s the most standard and overdone of harem setups – the hot, half-naked female lead literally falls out of the sky and crashes into the whiny protagonist’s bedroom, and since she’s an android he has to strip and repair her, which apparently only involves tightening two screws, and now that he’s fixed her she swears eternal loyalty to him (while insulting the human race directly TO HIS FACE) and proxy-blows him. Even if I were straight this wouldn’t have been hot; it’s just so stupid I can’t wrap my head around it.

Preposterous concept meets D-level production, with a famous name associated with it to reel in suckers.

2/10, dropped after one episode.