Collaboration track “bootleg wonderland” by virtual singer Madobe Rika and TORIENA Planning and composition were handled by Toshitaka Shinoda. The video direction was divided among the three of them—Toshitaka Shinoda, Yonayona graphics, and Natsuki Tatematsu—each taking on different cuts. Shinoda conveyed the story concept to me, built around the imagery of Heisei-era internet horror and the deep web, connected with 9mm film footage shot in the mountains, and from there the cut concepts, imagery for each person’s assigned parts, and editing were all produced independently. For the cuts I was in charge of, I aimed to create sequences in which countless elements rush by like a flashback, drawing on the pleasant distortions and the layering of innumerable sounds that I felt in the music, as well as the project’s imagery. I also aimed to create cuts whose contrast with the live-action footage would remain as a sense of discomfort when placed side by side in the overall progression. Rather than delicate, detailed effective movement, I focused on inserting a variety of rough, miscellaneous effects, and I created the illustrations myself to add subcultural imagery to the material’s variety.

We produced a 3DOOH piece for Times Square as part of the GLYCERIN FLEX campaign for the sneaker brand Brooks.

CG animation for the “Nemuru Ma Anime” segment included in U-NEXT Kids’ picture-book reading program “Nemuru Ma Ehon.” By weaving together the factory motifs that Masaya Ishikawa had explored in his previous works with the absurd ideas of Senpuukyaku Hoshiko, the piece was brought to life as a mysterious and charming visual work. The 3DCG production was handled by Hoshiko. Through repeated trial and error, the process by which “something” whose state keeps changing—such as being stretched or painted—is manufactured was visualized. In the latter half, frame-by-frame “faces” are given to the manufactured objects to endow them with emotion, retelling the factory line as a single story.

A collection of works from 2015 to 2026.

An animated music video that further expands the world of the ending theme for BEASTARS FINAL SEASON Part 2. While following Legoshi’s life, it also incorporates imagery of SEVENTEEN, and the newly produced footage is longer than the version used in the ending theme. The color palette was chosen to match each scene and concept, using soft tones for female fans and deeper, stronger tones for fans of the original work. Building on our previous animation production in PS, we also incorporated Moho for about half of the process. The hand-drawn, frame-by-frame approach remains the same, but it now gives a stronger sense of paper-doll-like joint connections.

In this work as well, I carried over from my previous works the principle of rigorously applying sound sync, faithfully reflecting even the smallest traces of the music in the visuals, while using no intentionally symbolic shapes or imagery at all; instead, I composed it as simple motion graphics centered on primitive circles and squares. Compared with my previous independent productions, this work explores the limits of motion—moving even faster while remaining intact. In terms of its look, I aimed for a vivid, tactile appearance that, despite not being a 3DCG work, would still feel materially present, by compositing a 3D-like look inspired by Apple’s Liquid Glass—something absent from my previous works—onto flat 2D graphics. Although the work runs at 24 fps, which is visually disadvantageous for fast motion, I aimed for a crisp visual experience with no sense of afterimage, without relying at all on motion blur or similar techniques. I established certain rules for the luminance and hue differences between adjacent frames, as well as for the amount of change in the shapes themselves, though the latter is a subjective evaluation, and this led to an examination of how impressions differ depending on those threshold values. Personally, I also have the impression that in recent years there have been many examples of relying on camera movement to enhance the overall impact and “amount of information” in a video. In this work, I kept camera movement to a minimum based on the principle of not moving along two or more of the xyz axes simultaneously whenever possible, and instead focused on appealing graphic transitions through morphing of the shapes themselves. Especially with fast motion at 24 fps, I was keenly reminded of how long one second is, and how few frames there are to draw the necessary images for the progression of the piece, and I would like to continue exploring the possibilities at the limits of such constraints.

Gen Hoshino - Glitch [Official Video] Director: Migitakaru Meta In this work, I was responsible for the motion graphics / window design. Within a visual structure where glitches occur in a chain reaction across the desktop, I implemented a browser-crasher-like window proliferation effect using p5.js. Drawing on early internet culture and the UI context of PC screens, I designed the interface and motion of windows that self-replicate.

Watching things move or shine with your eyes is enjoyable. “Element” is a small animated specimen focused on primal sensations.

A story of two girls being true to themselves.

This work is a video piece that was exhibited and screened as part of an ambient projection-mapping presentation at the EXPO Hall “Shine Hat” and the Popup Stage East Outside at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai. Taking as its motif the “EXPO 2025 Design System” IDs, affectionately known as “Komyaku” at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, and with Kohta Hikichi, a representative member of the team that created it, serving as an advisor, we drew on the expertise in artificial-life ecological systems that HiRai has long been researching to create a real-time video simulation system and visuals. In producing the video, we referenced the design system’s history of being prototyped based on metaballs, and developed a real-time simulator in which the Komyaku behave as if they were alive while retaining the identity of the design itself. By using GPGPU to calculate the interactions among large numbers of Komyaku in real time, we built a system that can be flexibly expanded to support a wide range of possibilities, including interaction and the generation of one-of-a-kind videos. At the Popup Stage East Outside, we also took advantage of the architectural characteristics of a structure in which the projected image is interrupted by support columns, and created visuals that made it look as though each steel beam were packed full of Komyaku. We pursued video production that made the most of the characteristics of the projection surface. The name “Komyaku” naturally spread as a nickname referring to the IDs that make up the design system. Taking into account this derivative, fan-created cultural expansion, this work intentionally uses the term “Komyaku.”

REEL 2025.