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.

I directed the official music video for PSYCHIC FEVER - “Paradise”.

VALIS, a six-member virtual girls’ group from SINSEKAI STUDIO, performs as a mysterious virtual circus troupe that appears and disappears at will. This is the music video for their 10th original song, “Reconstruction Weaver.” The past and the present are all connected. Because we had our friends, we made it this far. This is where we belong, after all the stumbling along the way.

Music video for YOASOBI’s song “Tsubame,” a unit that turns novels into music. The song was produced based on stories collected from younger generations around the theme of “living together,” and that theme is brought to life in the video.