Shaft Virgin Punk Anime Series Begins With Clockwork Girl

The first part of the Virgin Punk animation series from SHAFT and Yasuomi Umetsu is Clockwork Girl. A trailer for it has appeared on the Virgin Punk X (formerly known as Twitter) channel.

You can check out the Clockwork Girl trailer here:

Clockwork Girl takes place in the future and it focuses on a girl escaping a facility. Assassins are in pursuit of her, and she evades them with her own fighting skills and mechanical enhancements. While the main staff appear in the credits, there’s no information yet on the voice actors who’ll be in Clockwork Girl.

Virgin Punk is a collaboration between SHAFT and Yasuomi Umetsu. Umetsu is an animator, director, writer, and storyboard artist who’s worked on shows since 1981. He was the ending director and storyboard artist for the first two seasons of Bungo Stray Dogs, as well as Twin Star Exorcists. He was also the character designer for the infamous Dynamic Chord anime. As a director, he worked on Mezzo Forte, Kite, and Wizard Barristers, among others.

As for SHAFT, the company was founded in 1975, but became an animation studio several years later. It has a distinctive style and aesthetic thanks to the influence of “Team Shinbo,” including unique cuts and color contrasts. Some of the shows and movies it’s worked on include RWBY: Ice Queendom, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and the Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei series, among others.

Clockwork Girl, the first part of the Virgin Punk series, will debut in Japanese theaters in early Summer 2025.