A short animation created for the short reel album featuring the song “I Want to Live!” by Freedom Hiruko and various artists/collectives. Of the three videos, two were produced with a focus on traversing between images and videos, so the first and second are connected.

Produced the opening video for TGS2023 × CR CUP Street Fighter 6. This event was held offline as a special main stage event at Tokyo Game Show 2023. Centering on the fist monument that symbolizes Crazy Raccoon Cup Street Fighter 6, this cinematic video was created around the theme that “one’s own pride, along with the feelings of teammates and supporting fans, is too heavy to bear alone, but only by turning that pressure into strength can one reach the top.” It tells the story that, because the first tournament drew such tremendous excitement, the memories of that moving event gave rise to the floating land in the sky. For the typography, the goal was to fuse the rawness of street culture with the formality of a grand stage. As an element of street culture, we created team tags and other tags using a graffiti technique known as tagging. In the animation, the overall look is elegant and chic, based on the design concept and the atmosphere of the typefaces used, while the tagging is given a sense of speed to serve as an accent. For the music, Trap EDM forms the foundation in order to incorporate the modern atmosphere of the game itself and its street-culture sensibilities. In the opening, fragmentary synth sounds inspired by the game’s BGM create tension, while deep reverb effects evoke a spacious environment suited to the visuals. In the scene where the floating land rains down upon the city, melodic dubstep elements are added while retaining the Trap EDM feel to express supernatural power, depicting the determination and passion of those taking on the tournament through pounding rhythms and melodies that surge violently up and down.

.ENDRECHERI. Tsuyoshi Domoto’s heartfelt rearrangement of “Machi,” the singer-songwriter debut song he released in 2002, revisited 22 years later in 2024. Starting from Nara, Tsuyoshi’s hometown, the piece depicts each scene with the image of moving eastward through Osaka, Aichi, and Tokyo. It was mainly produced as 2D cutout animation with digital drawing, and the two opening shots of the character’s movement were created using rotoscoping.