One night, in the moments before falling asleep, a robot begins to tell a story to a young girl. Its voice is a little clumsy, somewhat awkward. And yet, there is kindness in its words, as they softly melt into the quiet night. A warm story spun by such a robot.

Music video for the song "lucy far" by electronic musician Serph. The song’s world, inspired by an information-based life form, is expressed through CG animation.

I directed and animated TWANY’s concept movie. The music was composed by Masakatsu Takagi.

I directed animation for the first time after having only ever made independent animations before. In independent production, data management is much looser, there’s no need to separate in-between drawings from key drawings, and there’s no need to give instructions to anyone, but commercial animation doesn’t work that way, so it was tough. There were at least three major accidents, and I ended up drawing a huge amount of layout, key animation, in-between animation, and backgrounds. In the end, I got heavily involved in every stage except the photography, and for the month leading up to the deadline—34 days—I worked every day for 13 hours while talking on the phone with the art director, making it feel like the three of us, including the photography director, were producing an independent animation. Because my memories of my first time as director were like this, it has become a trauma.