A 2020 reel by the creative unit “tsuchifumazu,” formed by Watakemi and Kairi Sato.

STORY The high school baseball player from Megalocity High was hailed as a future prodigy, a super high school-level genius slugger, but one day he lost his life while trying to save Dr. Yamada Belmara and his granddaughter, Rinda Yonekura, who were attacked by the massive criminal organization Death Guitar... However, the great criminal organization Death Guitar feared that even in death, the courage power of that high school baseball player had blasted through the Neo Drum Justice Gauge and sent the ball flying over the fence, so they performed evil cyborg Drummer surgery on him in order to exploit that justice power for their own wicked ends. But the moment he was revived as an evil cyborg drummer, he was rescued by Dr. Yamada, who had been captured and forced to cooperate by the massive criminal organization Death Guitar, and escaped from their hideout. The high school baseball player struggled with the conflict between the side of himself that was a baseball player and the side that was a cyborg Death Drummer (dissociative identity disorder), but through the surgery and treatment performed by Linda, the granddaughter who inherited Dr. Yamada’s genius brain, he was able to integrate both sides and acquire a single identity as Iron Gaban. Iron Gaban fights by transforming his drumsticks into a Metal Iron Bat in order to crush the evil that plagues the world and defeat the massive criminal organization Death Guitar!!!!! (By the way, the Metal Iron Bat is designed with spikes on the snare and toms, inheriting just the right balance of both drumming and baseball. Its shape also resembles Kyoto Tower, but that is because it serves as a fast-breeder reactor that amplifies the Galaxy Monster Energy caught by Kyoto Tower, the base of Iron Gaban and Linda. Furthermore, perhaps because of the evil feelings incompletely implanted in him by the massive criminal organization Death Guitar, he has no hesitation whatsoever in full-swinging the Metal Iron Bat at an enemy’s temple.) Meanwhile, in order to oppose the existence of Iron Gaban, the massive criminal organization Death Guitar secretly abducted and imprisoned the high school baseball player—an ultra high school-level genius pitcher whose skill was said to be Major League class—on the day of the Koshien final, and subjected him to evil cyborg surgery to turn him into Mega Bass. The regret of having been unable to fulfill his dream of winning Koshien merged with the evil cyborg feelings implanted in him, and he was revived as Giga Bass, who had returned to this world to destroy it in a form even Death Guitar had not anticipated. Giga Bass, having gained power so great that no one could control him, pressed the MEGA BASS button on the stereo mini component built into his body, and by thermally boosting the shoulders and elbows that, for a pitcher, are his lifeline and would otherwise crack, shatter, and be destroyed under the strain of his own power, he completely shattered the control panel in his brain and awakened as Iron Rider, able to throw balls that would tear the earth apart...

The outline of life’s existence is not the boundary of the physical body, but something ambiguous that also includes the environment continuous with it. As long as life is alive, it dissipates energy and moves the surrounding environment, such as the air. This work depicts the existence of a flock of birds through the energy the flock has given to the world. The existence called “I” is the mind, the body, and the environment continuous with them. A pebble, and things that humans have made up to now, have stable structures in and of themselves. Life, however, is different. A pebble will continue to exist even if it is placed in a sealed box cut off from the outside world, but life cannot maintain its existence when placed in such a closed box. Life is like a vortex born in the sea. A vortex is an existence within a flow, and the boundaries of its existence are ambiguous. In fact, a vortex is in a steady state, yet continues to writhe and appears like a single powerful living being. A vortex is not something that maintains a stable structure on its own; it is created by water continuously flowing from outside the vortex to inside it, and from inside to outside, and its structure is sustained by that flow. Life, too, takes in matter and energy from outside as food, releases matter, and dissipates energy outward while building an ordered structure. In other words, the structure of life is formed not by life itself, but by the environment continuous with it. Life is a miraculous phenomenon that arises in the flow of an open world, and like a vortex in the sea, it exists within an infinite continuum, with ambiguous boundaries to its existence. To be alive is to continue dissipating energy into the world and to remain continuous with the world. Work page: https://www.teamlab.art/jp/w/dissipative_birds/himeji/