This is a CG test reel for short animated series under planning and development. Uses a variety of animation techniques, including 3DCG animation, 2D animation, and V R animation software. It is new Magical Girls by the use of dance and musical communication to relax, purify and resolve the enemy, rather than exterminating them through physical combat.

To announce the debut of SIGMA’s new lens series for mirrorless cameras, the “I series,” we produced a promotional video. Its presence, born from the beauty and texture made possible only by exceptional quality, goes beyond being a mere tool and offers the joy of holding and handling it, as well as the pleasure of owning it. As a promotion for this new lens series, we aimed to create a visual presentation that would allow viewers to fully experience the lens’s outstanding build quality, the texture of its finer details, and the pleasant feel of operation.

I was in charge of the animation for NHK Minna no Uta’s “Boku no Naka no Guitar Case” (“Me Inside the Guitar Case”). The image that came to mind was of a humble, steadfast me, living each day while carrying worries and anxieties. Turning the various thoughts and realizations that arise in everyday life into music, and that music enriching my life. I wanted to depict that adorable little life. I also felt that this song was not only for those who dream of becoming musicians, but for everyone who is pursuing different kinds of dreams. So I decided to make the animation feel like a collection of pieces from an ordinary, simple life. This time, the protagonist is me, carrying a guitar case, but I think many of you may find your own lives reflected in it as well. I hope your everyday lives will come to feel dear and precious to you. *The video shown is silent due to licensing restrictions.

“To Everyone, Diamonds” You can love whomever you choose. That’s the kind of era we’re living in. And yet, even so, we still feel bound by all kinds of constraints. The uncomfortable gaze of those around us. Societal assumptions about what we should do. Laws and rules that fail to keep up with the times. We’re done letting things like that get in the way. Surely, everyone has the right to love equally, no matter who they are or what situation they’re in. There’s no need for stiff, rigid reasons. Because we love with all our heart. That alone should be enough. So that anyone can express their love to the person in front of them. Ameya Eitaro is expanding overseas with “Sweet Diamond,” a diamond-shaped candy. To express its world, a music and animation piece was created together with internationally acclaimed artist Kan Sano and animation creator Yu Hiramatsu.

This work exists somewhere in some era, and also here and now. In the work’s world, under the same flow of time as the real world, morning comes with sunrise at the place where the work is installed, and night begins with sunset. If it rains in the real world at the place where the work is installed, it also rains in the work’s world. Flowers and grasses change day by day with the seasons. People’s lives also change constantly according to the time of day and weather in the real world, while festivals and events are held with the seasons. As various stories are added each day, people’s activities continue on permanently. The work’s world is influenced by the viewer’s behavior. When the viewer touches the people in the work’s world, they react, but if the contact is slight, they return to their everyday lives. However, if the viewer continues to touch the people, those nearby begin to quarrel, which escalates into killing, and before long the conflict spreads throughout the town, engulfing it in flames. The fire continues for more than a year, the people die out, and the town is completely burned away. Even in the devastated town with no one left, as time passes in the real world, the sun rises and sets, the seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter come and go, and a few months later, new grasses and flowers sprout from the charred remains. Flowers and grasses are born, bloom, and fall in repeated cycles, changing day by day in the flow of real time. And over a long period of time, trees and plants grow thick and dense, repeating the changing of flowers each year, continuing forever. Once this world begins to burn, it can never again be seen as it was before the fire. And the viewer is also a participant in its consequences. Related exhibition: Aomori Museum of Art https://www.teamlab.art/jp/e/aomorimuseum/ Work details: https://www.teamlab.art/jp/w/world_of_irreversiblechange/

This work is an animation based on my past experience of confronting death for the first time, set on the Shimanami Kaido. In some regions across Japan, there is a custom called “honekami,” in which, after cremation, one eats the bones of the dead in an attempt to take them into oneself and overcome grief. Whether I wanted it or not, my family in my hometown had this custom. The first death I experienced was my father’s, but when I was made to try “honekami” as part of the ritual, I could not bring myself to chew the bones. That became a childhood trauma: an experience of being unable to face my father’s death directly, and not knowing how to accept it. Like an imaginary bone stuck in my throat, it could not be put into words, nor could it be forgotten. More than ten years have passed since I left my small, distant hometown at the age of 15. Fireworks storage buildings still remain along the island’s coast. The fact that there were fireworks magazines, rather than air-raid shelters, in my neighborhood made me feel that death and merciless violence existed for me not as something to be endured, but as something to be inflicted. When I think about these things as an adult, I came to link my father’s bones with the fire in the fireworks magazine, and decided to face “honekami” once again. The island’s landscape and sea are full of life, and within their calmness there is an unchanging severity. The shadows of the dead still exist in the same space and time, both now and in the past. Through this project, by blurring the boundary between life and death, I sought to create a confrontation with the bones I could not chew. The visual concept of this project was to merge natural landscapes with childhood memories, and to visually bring memories to life through the accumulation of dots. For this reason, I used colored pens to layer pointillist dots on paper, then filmed the paper under a camera while placing it over transmitted light. In doing so, I hoped to entrust the haziness of memory and the emotions of childhood to the technique as particles of colored light.

Directed the music video for ONE OK ROCK's "Renegades," released on April 16, 2021. The individuality of RENEGADES (LGBT, fashion, art, distinctive characters) is expressed through a simple yet grand world created with VFX, combined with ONE OK ROCK's powerful, expansive performance scenes.

A work in which, inside a confined room, a single line weaves lyrics together as if placing all hope in them.

I was in charge of planning, directing, and producing the Magic: The Gathering Kamigawa animation trailer.

Showreel by Shuji Hirai. Its distinctive features are cinematic visuals that look striking no matter which moment you capture, and graphic direction that moves fluidly between 2D and 3D.

This is “Imaginary Friend,” a song provided by Seiko Oomori, presented as the second collaboration project in “Kumikyoku,” a collaboration initiative launched by virtual singer KAF, centered around collaborations with real-world artists and composers.