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Shaft Produces 'Virgin Punk' Original Anime Series

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Sep 16, 11:35 AM
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The Aniplex Online Fest 2024 event announced an original anime series titled Virgin Punk on Monday, revealing the production staff, a teaser visual (pictured), and the first promotional video. The first installment, Clockwork Girl, will premiere in Cine Libre Ikebukuro in Tokyo and Theater Umeda in Osaka in early Summer 2025.

Yasuomi Umetsu, best known for creating A Kite (Kite) and Mezzo Forte, is credited as the original creator alongside animation studio Shaft. This marks Umetsu's first work in ten years since he created and directed Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil (Wizard Barristers) in 2014.

Staff
Original Creator, Director, Character Design: Yasuomi Umetsu
Series Composition, Script: Yuuya Takahashi (Lupin III: Part IV)
Main Animator: Genichirou Abe (Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen), Shinya Takahashi (Fate/stay night Movie: Unlimited Blade Works assistant animation director), Maho Kando (Fate/strange Fake: Whispers of Dawn key animation)
Sub-character Design: Keita Matsumoto (Persona 5 the Animation: The Day Breakers character design)
Art Design: Shinichi Yokota (Psycho-Pass Movie)
Art Director: Yuuji Honjou (Koukyoushihen Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution 2: Anemone), Yuuki Funagakure (Wonder Egg Priority)
Assistant Art Director: Mizuki Saitou (Dance Dance Danseur)
Color Design: Yasuko Watanabe (Bishounen Tanteidan)
Prop Design: Naoko Kouda (Blood-C), Shinya Nishizawa (Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon character design)
Mechanical Design: Niθ (Muv-Luv Alternative)
Director of Photography: Takayuki Aizu (Fate/Extra: Last Encore), Rei Egami (Luminous Witches)
3DCG: Studio Moe, Cre-p, DandeLion Animation Studio, Shaft
Motion Graphics: Capsule
Editing: Rie Matsubara (Undead Girl Murder Farce)
Sound Director: Shouji Hata (Spy x Family)
Music: Yoshiaki Dewa (Yofukashi no Uta)
Studio: Shaft
Distribution: Aniplex

Synopsis
The story follows Ubu, a young woman who finds herself living the dangerous life of a bounty hunter. As she grapples with her inner turmoil, she becomes entangled in a world filled with chaos and the desires of the powerful and eccentric individuals around her.

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Official site: https://virgin-punk.com/
Official X (Twitter): @virginpunk_pr

Source: animate Times

Virgin Punk on MAL

Sep 16, 11:36 AM
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same director as kite and mezzo forte but i doubt this will have hentai

and guess this will be a movie series like movie trilogy
Sep 16, 11:47 AM
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This looks quite identical to A Kite with the difference of not being porn.

Sep 16, 11:50 AM
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I just heard about this actually. Seems really interesting, and want to perhaps add it to my plan to watch list.

Piromysl said:
This looks quite identical to A Kite with the difference of not being porn.

Seems like it!
Sep 16, 12:21 PM
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If it is more like Mezzo DSA and less like Wizard Barristers I am in.

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Sep 16, 12:23 PM
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This looks quite identical to A Kite with the difference of not being porn.
@Piromysl Shaft's hentai idea sounds equally crazy and funny, but who knows what direction they'll decide to take. Not hentai, of course, but it will clearly be something edgy.
Sep 16, 12:25 PM
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fanservice<3

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The early 2000s called, they want their anime back
Sep 16, 12:38 PM
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Yasuomi Umetsu is back! 🔥
It looks great in every way 🤩. I wish more great quality sci-fi anime were made. I'm really looking forward to this new project 😊.
Sep 16, 12:47 PM
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I refuse to watch this if it doesn't have rape, violence, blood, gore, guns, bare tits and rape
Sep 16, 12:55 PM

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I refuse to watch this if it doesn't have rape, violence, blood, gore, guns, bare tits and rape
@Catalano
Maybe the anime does have all that. What you have to wonder is how explicit it will be with those issues.
Sep 16, 1:58 PM

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Unfortunately there probably won't be any sex scenes in this.

Still expecting some great action and hopefully some raunchy fanservice as par for course for any Umetsu directed anime.

No expectations for this otherwise, anything would be a step up after Wizard Barristers tbh.
Sep 16, 3:11 PM

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Really looking forward to this, PV looks good.
Sep 16, 3:54 PM

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I love umetsu's character designs, can't wait to see how shaft handles it! I just hope the story is good tho.





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Sep 16, 4:54 PM

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weeeeeee, I recognize that design, weeeeeee!

Sep 16, 4:56 PM
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looks good the visuals are not that bad
Sep 16, 9:05 PM

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I’m so excited my boy Umetsu is backkkkkk so happy to see this! Can’t wait ❤️
Sep 16, 11:46 PM

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Honestly looks fantastic. Seeing a 2000's style with modern animation techniques creates such a unique visual flare.
Sep 17, 8:26 PM
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Didn't know we would be getting a Remake of "A Kite"
Sep 18, 6:06 AM
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love Umetsu and I'm glad to see him back.
Sep 24, 3:23 AM

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Yasuomi Umetsu is not only directing a new anime, but on top of that he returns with a show that gives so, so huge A Kite and Mezzo DSA vibes?! Excellent. This information alone would be already great, but woah, this trailer looks stunning. Wonderful news. :D I can't wait to watch this show.
Sep 24, 1:26 PM

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Yasuomi Umetsu is not only directing a new anime, but on top of that he returns with a show that gives so, so huge A Kite and Mezzo DSA vibes?! Excellent. This information alone would be already great, but woah, this trailer looks stunning. Wonderful news. :D I can't wait to watch this show.
@Adnash I've been wanting to ask for a long time, are all these shows part of the same universe?
Sep 24, 11:50 PM

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@Adnash I've been wanting to ask for a long time, are all these shows part of the same universe?
@RobertBobert While they say different stories that differ in terms of tone, I say yes, because Mezzo Forte OVA, in which one important character from A Kite appears, is a prequel to Mezzo DSA TV series. Therefore, it's safe to assume that these three shows belong to the same universe. You can also add Kite Liberator OVA, a sequel to A Kite, to this list as well. I wonder if Virgin Punk will have any connection to any of those works. Probably not, but who knows. I'd appreciate seeing a decent cameo of, in example, one of Mezzo DSA's characters, hehe.
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Umetsu? yay! Bounty hunter? yay! Not X-rated? :(

watching, waiting, commiserating
Sep 29, 8:20 AM

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looks cool! i wonder if they rotoscoped scenes, animation kind of reminds me of chainsaw man. looking forward to it!

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