⚙️VIRGIN PUNK: Clockwork Girl (2025) — A Bloody Symphony of Steel and Smoke | Release Date, Cast, Plot & Where to Watch 💀

“In a world where flesh breaks and steel survives… what does it mean to be alive?”

The gears of destiny begin to turn once more as VIRGIN PUNK: Clockwork Girl — the first part of a new original anime film series by Yasuomi Umetsu and SHAFT — prepares to detonate across U.S. theaters this November 11 (Japanese audio with English subs) and November 13 (English dub).

A wild fusion of mechanical beauty, gunpowder-laced chaos, and cyberpunk melancholy, Clockwork Girl reintroduces fans to Umetsu’s gritty, sensual, and fearless storytelling — marking his long-awaited return as an animation director after a decade.

🔩 A Fusion of Legends: Yasuomi Umetsu × SHAFT

The world of anime has seen many collaborations — but few as electric as this.

Yasuomi Umetsu, the visionary mind behind cult classics like KITE (1998) and MEZZO FORTE (2000), is known for crafting worlds where violence, style, and emotion collide. Now, teaming up with the avant-garde animation studio SHAFT (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Monogatari Series), he brings to life a wholly original saga — VIRGIN PUNK — where humanity and machinery spiral into a dance of survival and sin.

Guided by screenwriter Yuya Takahashi (Kamen Rider, Mountain Doctor), Clockwork Girl becomes more than just an action story — it’s a tale of anguish, rebellion, and rebirth.

💣 The Year is 2099: Bounty, Blood, and the Price of Flesh

“Bring the brain of a wanted criminal possessing illegal Somadea to authorities.Alive or dead — doesn’t matter.”

That’s the law of this new world.

Humanity has conquered disease and death through Somadea, a revolutionary Medical Android Technology that grants physical perfection beyond human limits. But with progress comes corruption — Somadea enhancements are hacked, modified, and weaponized, turning people into walking machines of destruction.

To combat this, the government legalized a brutal system: Bounty Hunting. Kill a rogue Somadea, bring the proof — and get paid.

Enter Ubu Kamigori, a cold, mechanical beauty and ruthless bounty hunter surviving on her wits, bullets, and bottled emotions. But when her past resurfaces in the form of Mr. Elegance, a man with whom she shares a haunting connection, her steel heart begins to fracture.

Thus begins a story “woven by mechanical girls and the smell of gunpowder smoke” — a suspenseful, neon-soaked odyssey where loyalty rusts, justice corrodes, and love is as sharp as a blade.

⚙️ Meet the Cast: Gears of the Machine

🩸 Ubu Kamigori – The Clockwork Girl Voiced by Saki Miyashita (Japanese) / Xanthe Huynh (English)A bounty hunter built for precision and survival, haunted by echoes of humanity she can’t quite erase.

🕶️ Mr. Elegance – The Gentleman Killer Voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi / David Cooley

Charismatic, dangerous, and unreadable — a ghost from Ubu’s past who turns her mission into something deeply personal.

💉 Lewis Gaudi – The Tech Prophet Voiced by Taku Yashiro / Daman Mills

A criminal genius obsessed with Somadea’s forbidden power.

🔥 Maggie – The Firestarter Voiced by Rui Tanabe / Suzie Yeung

A rebel bounty hunter with a taste for chaos.

🛠️ Tommy J – The Gunsmith Voiced by Norio Wakamoto / Brent Mukai

🔪 Ayano Andriette – The Fallen Doctor Voiced by Fūka Izumi / Erica Mendez

🦋 Vespa – The Killer Doll Voiced by Sumire Uesaka / Risa Mei

Each character feels like a cog in the great mechanical tragedy — spinning, clashing, and burning toward inevitable collapse.

🧨 Behind the Scenes: The Art of Destruction

With art direction by Yushi Honjo and Yuki Funagakure, color setting by Yasuko Watanabe, and music by Yoshiaki Dewa, Clockwork Girl pulses with visual madness and melancholic rhythm.

The world of VIRGIN PUNK is gritty yet graceful, beautiful yet broken — a neon labyrinth of rusted steel, fractured dreams, and symphonic violence.

“It’s not the body that rusts first… it’s the soul.”

That haunting idea runs through every frame — and in classic SHAFT fashion, the visuals are surreal, angled, and alive, mirroring the emotional dissonance of its characters.

🔥 The Theatrical Experience

See VIRGIN PUNK: Clockwork Girl across U.S. theaters nationwide this November 11 (Japanese audio with English subs) and November 13 (English dub).

This release marks the North American debut of the Virgin Punk project, following its limited Japanese premiere in June 2025. Distributed by Aniplex of America, the film is expected to expand into streaming platforms in early 2026.

💀 Final Thoughts: Where Steel Meets Sorrow

VIRGIN PUNK: Clockwork Girl isn’t just another cyberpunk action piece — it’s a return to raw, hand-crafted rebellion.A world of androids and assassins, bounty hunters and broken hearts — each frame igniting with Yasuomi Umetsu’s unmistakable style.

For fans of Ghost in the Shell, Alita: Battle Angel, or SHAFT’s more experimental narratives, this is the one to watch.

So load your weapon, charge your heart, and prepare for impact — because when the clock strikes midnight in Gotham 2099, the Virgin Punk will rise.

“Even machines can dream… they just dream in bullets.” 💥