I am a thief. Throughout all time, there have been many kinds of thieves, but I am a little different from them. I don’t steal money. I have absolutely no interest in antiques, jewels, or other valuable works of art. I am a thief who steals sound. "Haru o hisagu" is a slang term for prostitution. Here, it functions as a metaphor for "music as a business." Don’t you think that’s sad? It’s even more foolish than real prostitution. We shave away our pride to make a living, choose themes that cater to the masses, and search for pop melodies. We create works that are neatly worded and easy to understand. In this way, we sell ourselves—ourselves as expressed through the form of music—to you at a bargain price. I call that "haru hisagi."

We created this piece at the request of Sukima Switch, who asked for “the opening movie of a fictional animated work.” The video is themed around a protagonist struggling to change himself, but since it is an opening sequence for a fictional animation, we also incorporated visualizer-like elements and were mindful of the distance between sound and image in the production. For the dance scene in the chorus, we used a technique called rotoscoping. Only the dancers’ movements, captured simultaneously with multiple cameras, were traced, and the dance sequence was completed by connecting different angles through a transforming character. The dance scene’s background was also created based on CG, and combined with the subtly shifting camera angles, it helped create a surreal space.

Music video for the opening theme song of the TV anime Jujutsu Kaisen. It was re-edited into a music video using footage from the anime itself and other production materials. By blending lyric typography featuring the original manga’s title design into each shot, the video conveys the song’s sense of speed through its rapid succession of cuts.