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[series:3339#1552] |
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(Watch-/ Avoid+) While the premise of a literal clockwork planet has potential on paper with what it could offer for worldbuilding, said premise is wasted in this series due to the mishandling of its storytelling between the abrupt tonal shifts involving the series milking humor off Naoto's ogling of the robot girls under his servitude which irked me quite a bit, unnecessary moments of fanservice, and rather shallow and cliched characters types and storytelling elements. Largely a rather forgettable and underwhelming series for me. Last updated Saturday, May 07 2022. Created Saturday, May 07 2022. | ||||||||
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(One episode watched): If a Genie popped out of a magic lantern and offered to grant me one wish--which had to be related to my hobby of reviewing anime--I think I would ask that it be made clear to me exactly what the difference is between new shows which pique my interest and others which fall flat. I struggled to understand why Clockwork Planet left me so unenthused. Perhaps the problem is that the first episode of a new show has got to leave potential viewers with questions that they want answers to. But at the end, I couldn't really think of any. I was clearly supposed to take sides with this Naoto guy as he struggles against some sort of military dictatorship that uses Mecha to control the people; but nothing he had said or done had made him seem all that likeable to me. I didn't dislike him, but I didn't like him either. Perhaps if the time that was allocated to a little battle at the beginning of the episode had been used instead to instill him with a little personality, things might have gone better. But he seems like a largely personality-less stranger. Maybe that was intentional, so that viewers could imagine themselves in his place as a hot chick is dropped into his lap in a too-good-to-be-true one girl harem situation. Questions which did occur to me, and which I wouldn't mind getting answers to--like, what destroyed the world, and how did humanity survive without it, and how did it build a whole new planet--these are clearly not going to be what the series concentrates on. Perhaps if the situation had been explained better--the ANN synopsis suggested a much more complex premise than I got any sign of from episode one. Instead I get a vibe of a fairly ordinary and unambitious anime. For one thing, why is watchmaker-type technology, with intricate gears interacting, included here? Will it really make a difference? Fanservice, however, will clearly play a part, which is often a giveaway of mediocre quality. I suspect the show will rely more on T&A than sci-fi. The jokes could be worse, but were definitely not LOL quality. So, the impression I was left with was of a show which didn't do anything spectacularly wrong, but didn't do anything exceptionally right either, and I don't have time for these. Apparently the lives of 20 million people will be at stake in episode two, but it tells you a lot about this show that I couldn't really bring myself to care. Last updated Wednesday, April 12 2017. Created Wednesday, April 12 2017. | ||||||||
