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NHK Sing and Learn: "When You're in a Bear-y Bad Spot" - 映像作家: erikasahara
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NHK Sing and Learn: "When You're in a Bear-y Bad Spot"

2026
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Created the animation for “Kuma Toki wa,” broadcast on ETV’s Utatte Manabo. I was in charge of character design, direction, and backgrounds. The content teaches three kinds of measures: measures to take if you encounter a bear, measures to avoid coming across one, and measures to prevent bears from entering town. The aim was to convey these measures in a fun, approachable way, so that children can actually reenact them from the video and learn how people and bears can coexist in their respective environments.
YOASOBI "Comet" Official Music Video - 映像作家: kadowakikouhei
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YOASOBI "Comet" Official Music Video

2020, 2021
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A music video set in the world of the manga BEASTARS. The first 89 seconds also serve as the ending sequence for the second season of the TV anime BEASTARS. The blue-world portion in the first half was colored frame by frame entirely with watercolor paints. By combining this blue segment with the red-world segment that begins in the second half, which is expressed digitally, the video presents two extremes within a single music video, contrasting the tenderness and happiness that have filled the past in the story behind this song with the cruel reality that is to come. For the production of this video, three-dimensional models of each character were created. Using these as references for the drawings made it possible to depict the BEASTARS characters, whose complex shapes are difficult to express through animation, with hand-drawn animation.
NHK Special "2030: A Turning Point for the Future" - 映像作家: whatever
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NHK Special "2030: A Turning Point for the Future"

2021
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For the NHK Special series “2030: A Turning Point for the Future,” we were responsible for planning and producing the program logo design and opening title sequence. The program reports on the environmental issues facing the world. It examines 2030, said to be a “turning point” for global challenges. Over the next decade, it considers how we can avoid crisis and achieve a sustainable future. In the logo and opening title, we used animation to portray the importance of confronting the real issues humanity faces and making our own choice at this turning point in the future. https://www6.nhk.or.jp/nhkpr/post/original.html?i=26703
[NHK E-tele] The Wakey Show "Impressionist Song" Marigold [Learning Song] - 映像作家: shizukaamano
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[NHK E-tele] The Wakey Show "Impressionist Song" Marigold [Learning Song]

2025
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NHK E-tele’s “The Wakey Show” music video for the September 2025 learning song, “The Song of Impressionism.” This song is about a character named “Marigold,” who is well-versed in art, and is themed around “a song that teaches you about the art movement Impressionism.” In the video, the “Motte Pets” dolls, which appear in various roles throughout the program, are dressed up as Impressionist painters, and the piece is edited so that Marigold and the painters seem to be singing together. I was responsible for the direction, character design for the painter costumes, magical CG, and editing, including compositing. Editing environment: Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve
Minna no Uta “The Murmurs of Insects” - 映像作家: harukasuzuki
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Minna no Uta “The Murmurs of Insects”

2020
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This is an animated music video for the August–September song "Mushi no Tsubuyaki" on NHK Minna no Uta. It tells the story of a girl who finds herself in the world of insects and meets insects with all kinds of worries. While listening to the song, I felt that our own strengths can also become weaknesses or sources of worry, and I wanted to create a lovely work that gently accompanies the troubled insects, much like asking someone who seems to be struggling, “What’s wrong?” I also paid attention to the colors of each scene and the character designs so that the process of meeting each insect would feel enjoyable and visually charming.

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Mobile Literature Kawasaki in the Shota Shimura - 映像作家: shotashimura
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Mobile Literature Kawasaki in the Shota Shimura

2026
00:09:09
“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.
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NHK Minna no Uta | Daisuke Mori “Nice to Meet You, I’m Urashima.” - 映像作家: オタミラムズOTAMIRAMS
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NHK Minna no Uta | Daisuke Mori “Nice to Meet You, I’m Urashima.”

2025〜
00:01:07
“Urashima Tarō’s ending is just too sad...” Many people probably felt that way when they were children. With the hope that there might have been a happy story waiting beyond that ending, singer-songwriter Daisuke Mori sings about Urashima Tarō’s second life with plenty of pop charm and humor. The visuals are created by Ohtamirams, a creative unit active across a wide range of genres, including the music videos for Wednesday Campanella’s “Momotaro” and tofubeats’ “Koi to Missile,” as well as commercials, short films, and picture books. [From the Animation Team, Ohtamirams] 《What on earth happened to Urashima Tarō after he became an old man?》 In order to answer the long-standing question of people across Japan, we at Ohtamirams were given the opportunity to animate the continuation of the story to Daisuke Mori’s music. Since everyone, if they keep living long enough, will eventually arrive at a second life, we at Ohtamirams put a lot of thought into it and came up with a logline: “What if Urashima started doing little jobs to help everyone, and in that world line he was able to enjoy a happy, long-lived second life surrounded by many new friends?” We also made it into a seasonal piece that makes the most of Urashima’s signature trait of “aging.” We’d be delighted if, every winter season, people would remember this song and animation…… This is an animation that “wishes upon a star” for “the best and happiest New Year’s season and second life for everyone in Japan…….”
Ken Hirai “ON AIR” Music Video - 映像作家: オタミラムズOTAMIRAMS
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Ken Hirai “ON AIR” Music Video

2016
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To celebrate his 30th debut anniversary, Ken Hirai will release and make available all of his music videos on November 19, 2025. The full version of the official music video for “ON AIR” (from his 9th album THE STILL LIFE), directed and animated by OTAMIRAMS, has also been released. - This music video for “ON AIR,” a heart-fluttering pop song full of ‘80s flair that Ken Hirai wrote as the 30th anniversary theme song for his hometown station FM Mie, captures the song’s retro charm. Although it had not yet been released, the track was performed at venues across the country during his nationwide hall tour marking the 20th anniversary of his debut, where it drew a strong response. Now, the up-and-coming creative team OTAMIRAMS has turned it into an addictive yet cute and fancy animated music video brimming with ‘80s style.
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NHK Minna no Uta “Buddy” - 映像作家: takuyainaba
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NHK Minna no Uta “Buddy”

2026
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NHK Minna no Uta, broadcast in February and March 2026. We were in charge of the animation for a song in which singer-songwriter Mao Abe sings straight from the heart to a simple melody about the power and warmth of a special relationship called a “Buddy” — neither lovers nor family, and a little different from other friends — as well as the fragility and poignancy that come from supporting each other and being supported in return. We depicted this special relationship called “Buddy” as two cats drawing manga together. Kindred spirits who share the same aspirations, walk in the same direction, and go through both joys and hardships together. I think if you could meet such a Buddy, you would surely be happy.
Hako-fugu and the Sea of Minamata (trailer) - 映像作家: takuyainaba
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Hako-fugu and the Sea of Minamata (trailer)

2024
00:00:30
The boxfish lacks confidence and always spends its time alone among the rocks, envying the other fish. Then one day, it meets a pygmy seahorse said to have come from the sea of Minamata, and sets out on its first adventure to help bring the pygmy seahorse back to the sea of Minamata. Based on Sakana-kun’s picture book The Boxfish’s Wish, this short animation portrays the diversity of living creatures, environmental issues, and the affirmation of one’s own individuality. (Approx. 19 min.)
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Nyan Tele Weather Forecast! - 映像作家: sawakokageyama
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Nyan Tele Weather Forecast!

2024
00:00:33
Today's weather forecast ********************** This video work was exhibited in the group exhibition Character Matrix (2024), held at BUG, an art center operated by Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. This work is an animation themed around "television," and it was created as three programs broadcast by the fictional TV station "Hoshinyan Broadcasting": "Nyan TV Weather Forecast!," "Nyan TV News," and "Angel TV Shopping." Hoshinyan is a character wearing a cat-shaped hood, with twin tails styled like shooting stars. All of the characters are drawn freely and intuitively, without any particular obsession with detail, but they are all easygoing and carefree in temperament. Also, the memory of the game "Domo-kun no Fushigi Terebi," which I was obsessed with in childhood, remains very strong, and its "cute yet slightly unreasonable worldview" and "easy, casual fun" also influenced this work.
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UGO Workshop: Nice to Meet You - 映像作家: masayaishikawa
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UGO Workshop: Nice to Meet You

2025, 2025〜
00:26:02
A new craft program that focuses on the “interestingness of movement.” By combining the program’s craft mechanisms with viewers’ ideas, something new is created. Making full use of expressive techniques unique to video streaming, it nurtures children’s interest in and ability for making things. This is the first special episode. Using smartphone- and tablet-based interactive segments such as “Ani-Kougei” and “Ani-Kamera” to suggest new ways of engaging with video, and clearly presenting the “Moving Craft Engine,” where simple crafts create surprising motion, the program also makes use of video expression to introduce and update what it can do now. Please take a look.
Sleeping Room Picture Book - 映像作家: masayaishikawa
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Sleeping Room Picture Book

2024
00:01:39
“NEMURUMA EHON” is an original picture book read-aloud program that began streaming on U-NEXT in October 2024. Featuring a carefully selected lineup of Japanese picture books that we want people to read now, chosen together with Nemu Yumemi, the program invites a variety of readers to bring them to life. To convey the appeal of picture books themselves, the actual books are filmed on camera. By making full use of editing techniques such as preserving the sound of pages being turned and action cuts, we aim to transform a single reading experience into video. At the end of the program, “Nemuruma Anime” by Yosuke Omomo continues to play, gently encouraging a calm state of mind and sleep. By exploring what is uniquely possible with streaming video—such as not showing “the next recommended video” and not fixing a set runtime—we aim to create a program that can be a small help in childcare, one that parents can feel comfortable handing to their children on a tablet or smartphone.
Open the Box - 映像作家: masayaishikawa
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Open the Box

2023
“Hirake Hako” is a new packaging design, along with a group of technologies that form its elements, developed with Keiaki Nakaji and presented at TAKEO PAPER SHOW 2023, “PACKAGING—Function and Laughter.” By treating the wave-like structure of Takeo’s fine-paper corrugated board “Fine Flute” as if it were the teeth of a gear, we developed mechanical element technologies that create a variety of “movements” using paper. Building on this technology, we proposed a package that contains the mechanism within the box itself, offering a new way to open it and a distinctive unboxing experience.
Ani Crafts #01 Eyes and Flames (from "Ugo Crafts") - 映像作家: masayaishikawa
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Ani Crafts #01 Eyes and Flames (from "Ugo Crafts")

2024
This is an original segment for the new craft program “Ugokosaku,” which is being developed jointly by the video streaming service U-NEXT and designer Masaya Ishikawa. By working together with animations displayed on a tablet or smartphone and placing the craft on the screen, you can create a moving craft—that is, “ugokosaku.” “Ugokosaku” also uses technology and optical illusions to deliver the joy of making things by hand through new crafting and visual experiences unique to streaming.
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