From Hypnosis Mic, I directed the music video for Division All Stars’ song “Hypnotic Summer.” With “festival” as the theme, I set up stages for each division and structured the video around the lyrics and stage direction.

A music video focusing on “Soap,” one of the original characters from Yokomizo Yuri’s “Nandemo Ikimono” series. Filmed in a real public bath, it combines stop-motion and animation. Centered on the feeling that “bathing is fun!”, the video creates a playful space surrounded by steam and the sound of water. By giving each soap slightly different movements, it produces the charm and rhythm unique to a large crowd, while also weaving in the fragility of how soap gets smaller with use and eventually disappears, resulting in a video that leaves a gentle afterglow.

A music video depicting the hours until dawn, where artist Fujita and the music join hands. The starry sky time-lapse and the trails of a skirt, including light captured with a slow shutter, are rendered as shooting stars. The collage created for the jacket is developed into an animation, and the moment when the music rises up as the stars and Fujita resonate with each other is brought to life through a fusion of live action and graphics.

Directed the music trailer showcased in the second stage of the film Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle-. Using 2D graphics to express the worldview of each of the six divisions’ songs, the trailer was designed to serve as a bridge to the main feature’s 3DCG footage.