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.

A music video created on 8mm film that captures the poetry and worldview depicted by TORIENA. It portrays the contrast between the chaotic atmosphere of an old downtown area in Tokyo and the tropical scenery of Okinawa through a noisy visual world rendered on 8mm film.

ある朝のこと、サイボーグの少女・パルスは勤め先のヒゲくま社長からの一本の電話で目覚めた。 どうやら街に大量の敵が現れたらしい。人助け課でアルバイトをしているパルスはゲームボーイを片手に街へ繰り出す。