Ai Otsuka has invited a variety of music producers and track makers from different genres to join her in a remake project, releasing her own reimagined songs as digital singles once a month. The fifth release is “Peach Petal (mabanua Remix).” “Now, more than ever, I find myself feeling affectionate toward my old songs.” The image is of light shining onto sounds that had been dazzling and left in the shadows. “Sounds that were hidden in the sunlight show their faces before the moon.” With the hope that each song would reveal many different expressions, this remake project has been accompanied by animated music videos. In her debut song, “Peach Petal,” those expressions gather in forms like animals and plants. The intention was to evoke a scene reminiscent of a nirvana painting.

A 360° hand-drawn VR animation by Kazuki Yuhara, who is enrolled in the Animation program of the Graduate School of Film and New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts, this work is also a music video for the song of the same title by Shugo Tokumaru, whose work combines an experimental spirit with pop sensibilities. Centered on the theme of a single canary’s encounter with the world, every inch of the 360° space has been hand-drawn in vivid, meticulous detail. Compatible with VR headsets, full-dome screens, computers, and smartphones, the piece uses cinematic direction while guiding viewers toward immersion in a vast world within a virtual space that retains the freedom unique to VR. A work that seeks to redefine the music video, from something to be watched into something to be experienced.

A music video for “Little Tooth,” a solo project by Kaoru Hashimoto, the frontman of the rock band Helsinki Lambda Club. An all-animation piece that unfolds through collage and motion, centered on a 3D diver object. Inspired by the lyrics, - diving into and exploring one’s own inner self, or the other person’s inner world - dance number × “the reckless, all-or-nothing feeling of love” = just dance the video aims to be cute, energetic, and full of life.

Filmed at JAXA.