Shaft Virgin Punk Anime Series Begins With Clockwork Girl
The first part of Punk Virgin animated series from SHAFT and Yasuomi Umetsu is Clock Girl. A trailer for it has appeared on Punk Virgin Channel X (formerly known as Twitter).
You can check Clock Girl intro here:
Clock Girl takes place in the future and focuses on a girl who escapes from a facility. Assassins are chasing her, and she escapes using her own fighting skills and mechanical enhancements. While the main cast appears in the credits, there is no word yet on which voice actors will be involved. Clock Girl.
Punk Virgin is a collaboration between SHAFT and Yasuomi Umetsu. Umetsu is an animator, director, screenwriter, and storyboard artist who has been working on shows since 1981. He was the ending director and storyboard artist for the first two seasons of Bungo Stray Dogsas Twin Exorcists. He is also the character designer for scandal Dynamic chords cartoonAs a director, he has worked on Mezzo Forte, Kite, And Lawyeramong other things.
As for SHAFT, the company was founded in 1975, but became an animation studio a few years later. It has a distinctive style and aesthetic influenced by “Team Shinbo,” including unique cuts and color contrasts. Some of the shows and films it has worked on include RWBY: Frozen, Puella Magi Madoka Magicand Goodbye, Mr. Zetsubo series, among others.
Clock Girlfirst part of Punk Virgin The series will premiere in Japanese theaters in early summer 2025.
