Tatsushi Momen | Director Reel

First, since this group’s feelings were condensed into the lyrics, I aimed for an expression in which the lyrics would serve as the core of the whole piece. Because I wanted to add more depth to the thoughts and story embedded in the lyrics, I translated the lyrics into concise, summarized English and tried to give the meaning a new angle. Since there is a work that preceded this one, the song “3WD,” I also paid attention to the changes and evolution from that earlier piece.

MV for Tomonari Sora’s “Yellow Signal,” the new opening theme for the rebroadcast version of the TV anime *Assassination Classroom*. This work is composed as a retro video game-inspired world, with motifs drawn from the story and characters of *Assassination Classroom*. By using pixel-art textures and low-poly 3D models, and then applying a VHS-style composite in the final finishing stage, the visuals were given a nostalgic texture. In addition, the cut-ins and movie-like scenes that were “typical” of slightly older games were researched and recreated. In the flight scenes, to emphasize the sense of speed at Mach-like movement, we also incorporated the delay effect of chunk loading that occurs during high-speed travel in games such as *Minecraft*. In addition to the youthful feeling of the anime itself, taking into account the context of a rebroadcast of a series from about 10 years ago, we aimed for a feeling like a “reunion that brings back memories of those days” by weaving in retro elements.