Unlocking the mysteries of the world from everyday life, and gently interpreting them. A music video of inquiry and simple trials.

Directed and handled the compositing for the lyric video of BUMP OF CHICKEN’s “I,” the ending theme for the TV anime My Hero Academia. The video was crafted so that the various “Quirks” featured in the series would color the screen in sync with the lyrics. Packed with direction inspired by the story, it was created to deliver a level of visual impact that goes beyond the usual scope of a lyric video.

Opening video used at the opening ceremony of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai. The opening ceremony’s theme was “The Relay of Life.” The visuals were designed to work together with the circular walls of the venue and the mountain-shaped screen placed at the center. The video was created as a collage using a variety of methods, including live action, animation, CG, and volumetric scanning.

This work, presented on August 13, 2025 at the “Neo Lantern Festival” held in Hino Town, Hino District, Tottori Prefecture, simultaneously unfolded a visual presentation and an illumination design that enveloped the entire space. Set in an old warehouse once used for storing rice, it repurposed a dormant space and transformed it into a place that connects local memory with the future. The illumination is not merely decorative; it is an essential element that shapes the rhythm of the space in response to the imagery. Light placed along the walls and beams overlaps with the abstract layers of the video, spreading outward as if embracing the audience’s bodily sense. In a space where the festival’s defining “light” and the installation’s illumination coexist, the traditional light of the festival and the light of contemporary digital art intersected. The theme of the work is “reconstructing the landscape.” It captures fragments of nature and daily life from the Hino District (Hino Town, Kofu Town, and Nichinan Town), then reassembles them into abstract designs. The video evokes memories of the landscape, while the illumination serves to extend those memories throughout the entire space. Viewers can experience the moment when the familiar appearance of the land is transformed by light and imagery, discovering another kind of beauty hidden within the region’s scenery. Underlying the work is a desire to reuse local resources and foster cultural regeneration. By reviving an unused rice warehouse as an art venue, it became an attempt to create new value that honors memories of the past while opening toward the future. The closed-off space of the warehouse was opened up, creating a place where local people could share an experience of being surrounded by light. This installation functions as a mediator that connects land, people, and memory through the unity of video, illumination, and the local community.

With emotion and inclusivity as themes, I aimed to create a floating, ethereal visualization.

He runs without reason. Just forward.

The ending changes as the story progresses, so we hope you’ll watch all the way to the ending!

「動きの面白さ」に注目した新しい工作番組。番組の提供する工作のしくみと視聴者のアイデアがあわさることで、新しいものが生まれる。映像配信の特性を活かした表現を駆使して、子どもたちのものづくりへの興味と力を育てます。その第一弾の特番です。 スマホやタブレットを活用した参加型コーナー「アニ工作」「アニカメラ」で新しい映像との関わり方を提案したり、簡単な工作で驚きの動きが生まれる「うご工作エンジン」わかりやすい映像として伝えたり、映像表現の活用という意味でも、これまでに培ったいまできることを投入・更新しています。ぜひご覧ください。

“Mobile Literature” (English: Mobile Literature) is a series that seeks to merge movement by bicycle and projection technology with literary expression, using a bicycle modified as a visual device to project texts written for each city onto the ground of those places while cycling through them. To date, the project has been carried out in Japan around the Tama River, in Ōgaki City, Gifu Prefecture, Atami, and around Tokyo Station, and overseas in Cairo (Egypt), Lusaka (Zambia), and London (United Kingdom). This work, “Mobile Literature: Kawasaki in the Shotashimura,” is a piece in which text written on the theme of southern Kawasaki City is edited into a visual work, and the text is projected onto the ground while cycling through the area at night on a bicycle. In “Mobile Literature,” writing is the act of inscribing into text the bodily sensation of motion, and the rhythm of breathing and travel, gained through the speed of a bicycle: slower than a car, yet faster than walking, at a human scale. The letters projected onto the ground are linked to physical sensations such as the force applied to the pedals, vibrations from the road surface, and changes in incline; they fluctuate, alter their shading according to speed and the texture of the road, and emerge with a singular, one-time expression, even when the same sentence appears. By treating bicycles and urban space itself as media, this series pursues the possibilities of literary expression rooted in place, as well as a reading experience impossible on paper or digital media. At the same time, because Ōgaki City, Gifu Prefecture—the site of the first work in the series—is the final destination of Matsuo Bashō’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the project aims to develop around the world, in the spirit of Bashō’s journey and contemplation.

I searched for algorithms whose names begin with each of the 26 letters from A to Z, and used them to create animated typography. Since the rise of NFTs, the genre of generative art has been undergoing renewed reevaluation. Although I have spent many years writing code and making works myself, when asked, “What is generative art?” I often find myself unsure how to answer. At the core of generative art are algorithms. Of course, one can create one’s own, but there are already many “masterpiece” algorithms in existence. In this work, I reimplemented those algorithms in JavaScript. Through this project, I want to think about the appeal of coding and algorithms, apart from art or design. It is also an attempt to place value on the process, which is often overlooked in the age of AI, and to once again draw out the joy of implementation.

The character’s movements (Live2D) and synchronized lighting were used to express sync with the sound.

This is a rebranding movie for eo, a provider of FTTH and energy services, offered by Optage Inc. We were responsible for the direction, design, and motion.