This piece, as its title suggests, is centered on “youth.” The artist told us that the song explores youth from three different perspectives, and that the music itself unfolds in three corresponding sections. Based on that structure, we also created the video as a three-part work. We depicted young people moving in groups within society, in a way that seems to resist that movement—or perhaps not quite resist it. The video is built on real-time rendering using Unity. All of the objects are programmed so that they do not collide with one another.

I just absolutely love the song! The moment I heard it, colorful candies started spinning around in my head. Since it’s “daishikyuu,” I wanted to make something fast-paced, chaotic, and above all super cute, so we had lots of costumes prepared, along with a bike, props, and all kinds of things for the shoot. With the theme of dreams you see while sleeping, I imagined a story like this: you desperately need to wake up, but you can’t get out of the dream world and end up going on a wild rampage! Also, I planned it with an image of a struggle over who has dominion over the dream—whether it’s Kana-chan’s dream or Sakina-chan’s dream, whose dream is it, anyway!? In the end, the domination battle element was removed, and it was shaped into more of a dream world, a cute little space, and that sort of image... When I listen to the song, it gives me the image of the two of them playing sports, and I pictured them wearing baseball uniforms in a gyaru style. I thought it would be absolutely adorable, so we went with it. (Kind of like Ayaya’s “Tropica~l Koi Shite~ru” lol) I also pushed for us to film the bike scene. When you think of speed, you think of a bike. The animation is also gorgeous, and for the very first OP animation, I asked misa to create something based on the idea that it takes place inside a girl’s dream. It’s insanely cute and amazing. The animation for the first chorus is the scene where they blow away the nightmare, and that was created by RaParu-san. I’ve loved RaParu-san for a long time and always hoped we’d get to work together someday... so I was really happy that my wish finally came true. And for the flashy effect animation in the baseball scene, of course it had to be Tetsuya Tatamiya-kun, the reliable go-to for effect animation!

"An endless loop of being humiliated by what is called one’s own work" If those geniuses didn’t exist, maybe my work would get more recognition. No, in the end, without those geniuses, I wouldn’t exist in the first place. This is a song born from jealousy and respect for those geniuses. The video features many moths and butterflies. I created everything myself, including the music and visuals. This is a remixed, revised version of a work I made in 2020, released as the 2024 version. #Hashtag Animation Fes 2021 Arch Co., Ltd. Award Winner (previous version)

Music video for Banana Bread Pudding by electronic musician Serph. A digital paint animation that expresses the song through everyday scenes from 2021–2022, based on the concept of a dessert of memories. Produced as live visuals for Serph’s performances at Porter Robinson’s digital festival “SecretSky” and the virtual music festival “SANRIO Virtual Fes,” held at Sanrio Puroland.