The official website for Gensho Yasuda‘s Make A Girl anime film announced this week that the director is working on a second feature length anime film that will premiere in 2027. More information about the second film and its title were not announced.
A preview image of the second film was released, showcasing a silver-haired assassin girl.
Yasuda previously released some animated shorts featuring the assassin character on his YouTube channel as well.
Make A Girl premiered in Japanese theaters on January 31, 2025. It is an original project that is based on Yasuda’s 2020 anime short Make Love, which was produced by the Blender open source 3DCG software tool. It received a world premiere on the Global Stage Hollywood at the TCL Chinese Theater last November.
Yasuda is credited as the film’s director, screenwriter, storyboard artist, unit director, and CG director. Kenichiro Suehiro (Re:Zero, Undead Unluck) is credited as the music composer, with Gensho Yasuda Studio by Xenotoon is in charge of the animation production.
A crowdfunding campaign for the anime film with a 10 million yen target ran from August 2022 to October 2022 and raised 23,730,805 yen (US$152,421). Another crowdfunding campaign was organized for increased quality and completion purposes, and ran from September to October 2023, amassing 23,176,413 yen in total.
Kadokawa describes the main premise of Make A Girl:
The story takes place in the near future: Akira Mizutamari, a scientific genius who succeeded in developing and commercializing SALT, a robot that supports people’s lives, finds himself stuck in a rut when all of his new inventions fail. After hearing from a friend that he can “power up” by creating a girlfriend, he does literally that and scientifically creates an “artificial” girlfriend named “No. Zero”. Torn between her programmed emotions and her growing feelings, No. Zero starts to waver. Is it “love” that buds between her and Akira, who is unaccustomed to communicating with others, or perhaps something else……?
Source: Make A Girl Official Twitter, Official Anime Website
