I captured as a documentary on film the events from the artist (mejifunny)’s college days. The death of a friend and a breakup with his girlfriend. I infused the direction with a sense of transience, using chaotic emotions as the theme. Through many discussions with the artist, I created this work while also processing my own past memories and experiences. ~The feelings I put into it~ My girlfriend, whom I broke up with three years ago. The days I spent with her in my student years—faint, painful, childish, yet somehow happy. I’m sure I will forget these feelings someday. But there is still a nostalgic, sad feeling somewhere inside me. During the preparation period for this work, I thought about those things as I made it. My first MV work, created in my 10th month since I started filming.

When I was entrusted with the ending for the new anime adaptation of Yasuhiro Nightow’s TRIGUN, by the hugely popular manga artist behind series such as Blood Blockade Battlefront, I looked through a great deal of reference material and felt the poignancy and pain born from the love and sacrifice between two brothers who keep missing each other, as well as the strength to keep asking those questions despite everything. In addition, the quiet celebration and joy evoked by the star in the ending theme “Hoshi no Kuzu α” (Salyu × haruka) seemed to coexist with a certain sorrow—the ache of being unable to reach the stars. From these impressions, I chose to center the work on Knives’ perspective and the theme of stars, and rather than depicting stars as random lights or movements, I wanted to treat them as something with form and meaning, incorporating the myth of Gemini as one of the zodiac signs into the visual background. I also felt that the image of stars disappearing by morning and reappearing at night was closely tied to the relationship between the protagonists, Vash and Knives.

Music video for the opening theme song of the TV anime Jujutsu Kaisen. It was re-edited into a music video using footage from the anime itself and other production materials. By blending lyric typography featuring the original manga’s title design into each shot, the video conveys the song’s sense of speed through its rapid succession of cuts.