This work is a music video themed around the conflict of the gap between public image and reality. Based on the common situation illustrators face—“comedic or gimmicky drawings get more attention, but I want people to see my serious work”—it visualizes both the momentum and the chaos with a social media-like tempo and an information-overloaded screen composition. This work portrays, with unfiltered intensity, the moment when the exhilaration of going viral clashes with the honest feelings behind creation.

By crossing over three different modes of expression—reality, fantasy, and drama—I directed the work to capture “Que Sera, Sera,” or “it will all work out,” from every perspective. I explored new reactions that arise by blending things that seem unlikely to intersect: a fabricated story, a documentary that is not fabricated, and a god’s world created with CG.

A showreel compiling Shuji Hirai’s work up to 2018.

Released on Wednesday, 6/23 from the 1st EP “humming” — Mon Star (Official Music Video)