I directed the music video for lilbesh ramko’s “haikai:pop.” In producing it, I drew inspiration from paranormal videos from the 2000s while incorporating special effects elements born on Nico Nico Douga, such as polid screens. The video was created using cross-era approaches, including AA (ASCII art) animation, video glitches generated by analog circuits, and the use of photogrammetry and point clouds.

When I first heard this song, I felt my emotions scatter in every direction, as if confusion and calm were spreading through my chest at the same time. A faint hope within sorrow. A small flame flickering without fading, deep inside a frozen body. This work began by gently gathering those contradictory feelings, the fact that they simply “exist,” as a visual expression. This music video depicts an emotional journey that begins with a parting. How a heart that has experienced loss wavers, and eventually moves toward acceptance. That inner transformation is carefully woven together through color design, lighting, framing, and camera movement synchronized to the rhythm. A room submerged in water, an empty deep sea, a motorcycle racing through the city at night— all of it symbolizes the protagonist’s mental state and emerges as an inner landscape. For the lighting, rather than direct light, I deliberately used reflections and silhouettes to leave room for ambiguity instead of clear-cut “answers.” The camera work was designed to visualize the heart’s fluctuations, shifting like waves from stillness to motion, from tight to wide. As for the structure, I prioritized the flow of emotion over a conventional storyline, so that viewers could focus on simply “feeling” the piece. Scattered memories and thoughts overlap into a single mental landscape, and before long, quietly, they become a tear. That pool of water may perhaps be an ocean made of one’s own tears. I would be happy if this video could gently resonate somewhere with the “deep sea” that exists within each viewer.

Multidimensional visual expression

A music video featuring a warm-touch animation depiction of GReeeeN (GRe4N BOYZ)’s famous song “Aiuta,” performed by the much-talked-about child singer Yuina Ishii.