Clockwork Planet

"Clockwork Planet" (クロックワーク・プラネット) is a Japanese light novel series written by Yuu Kamiya and Tsubaki Himana, with illustrations by Shino. The story is set in a world where the Earth has been destroyed and rebuilt using gears and clockwork by a mysterious genius engineer known as "Y". The protagonist, Naoto Miura, is a high school student with a passion for mechanics. His life changes when a box containing a broken automaton named RyuZU falls into his apartment. Naoto's exceptional hearing allows him to repair RyuZU, and he becomes involved in a global crisis. He teams up with Marie Bell Breguet, a young genius engineer, and her cyborg bodyguard, Vainney Halter, to stop government conspiracies. The series has been adapted into a manga and an anime. The first light novel volume was published on April 2, 2013, and there are four volumes to date. The manga adaptation illustrated by Kuro began serialization in Monthly Shonen Sirius in September 2013. The anime adaptation premiered on April 6, 2017, and consisted of 12 episodes.