We designed the main character with lines that resemble a child’s doodles. We expressed Soraru’s and Mafumafu’s lives by turning them into a game, and built a story of them advancing across the board while carrying anguish and inner conflict, searching for the answer to life.

[Story] This is the story of Ray and Anne, continuing from KASHIKA01. Anne appears before Ray, who is living a listless life…!? [Technique] For the visuals in the chorus, I centered them around dance. I created the choreography, captured it with motion capture, added camera work, and then recreated it as hand-drawn animation. I also incorporated plenty of motion graphics and dot-style expressions to convey a pop world, with the intention of creating visual expression not usually seen in traditional 2D animation.

A story of a man who, after enduring countless torments of hell, comes to possess himself. I aimed to depict universality that feels real to myself and to Velladon by projecting it onto Trinitarian thought and Kafkaesque absurdity. The work was created while evoking mythology and history around the Roman Empire. The black figure is Y, the silver figure is N. Y and N are the same person, and by driving one of them to the extreme, the other breaks free of absurdity and comes to possess himself as one being. Compared with my most recent works, the darkness of the story and the worldview express my direction much more purely.