The method of making the reel was designed as a grid system in the time dimension. Rather than cutting from the full-length footage each time, I chose an editing approach in which short sequences were pre-cut and then rearranged like a puzzle. By defining the production process itself, the aim was to give the final output a tone independent of any individual worker, layering in the magic of division of labor and collaboration.

Toyo Kotetsu’s new logo and branding film. The logo is designed around the motif of the iron “cutout” holes created by a blanking press. Using restructured sound built from machinery noises recorded in an actual factory, the film artistically portrays the production process through which products are created, resulting in a branding movie that expresses the brand’s identity.

【Chatty Fried Chicken Age-ta-kun】 A one-minute anime airing every Monday at 21:54 on Hiroshima Television. An entirely new style of animation that’s impossible to forget after just one viewing and fun for the whole family. The setting is a certain company in Hiroshima. When salaryman Yamada-kun, who has been transferred there, opens the lunchbox he was about to eat during his lunch break, he finds a piece of fried chicken that starts talking to him in the Hiroshima dialect with way too much familiarity... While Yamada-kun handles the jokes as the straight man, all the other side dishes are in on the gag. A series of amusing conversations unfolds, featuring all kinds of commotion on the desk, everyday happenings, and Hiroshima in-jokes that are sure to bring a smile.

A showcase using “QUASAR,” a musical instrument developed by COSMIC LAB that plays sound and visuals simultaneously. A live session with Plant Records, led by DJ YASA, formerly of KIREEK, who achieved the remarkable feat of winning the DMC World Championship five years in a row. YoshimiO (OOIOO) and TOKIO AOYAMA also took part in this work.