I was in charge of the pixel animation for the promotional video for Audio-Technica’s record player “SOUND BURGER,” directed and produced by the visual design studio WOW, which is based in Tokyo, Sendai, London, and San Francisco. This is a promotional video for a new color version released in 2023, following the model’s revival in 2022 after about 40 years. Under the communication message “SAVE THE VINYLS,” the story unfolds as SOUND BURGER, which first appeared in the 1980s, travels through time to return to the present day in order to save records that are no longer being listened to. The music was produced by music producer TORIENA.

Ending animation for the TV anime Bocchi the Rock!. Out of the 12 episodes, episodes 1–3 used “Distortion!!,” episodes 4–7 used “Karakara,” episodes 8–11 used “Nani ga Warui,” and episode 12 used “Korogaru Iwa, Kimi ni Asa ga Furu,” making up a four-song structure. I produced the three animations for “Distortion!!,” “Karakara,” and “Nani ga Warui.” “Distortion!!” is the first of those three animations. The episode where the ED would change was not clearly decided, but it had already been decided that I would be in charge of three EDs, and since I had also been given the songs and scripts, I created a full three-ED structural proposal, character designs, and rough image boards before producing them one by one. For the first one, I wanted to make an ED that would let people who were seeing the work for the first time after the broadcast began, or who happened to turn on the TV and only saw the ending, understand what kind of series it was, so I directed it to become a symbolic visual piece through the use of color, performance scenes, and so on. Also, since the character designs would be simpler and have shorter proportions than in the main story, I worked with the intention of preserving each character’s distinctive traits while making the designs easy to animate.

Community introduction video produced using illustrated animation