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He runs without reason. Just forward.

This music video portrays the protagonist’s struggle and recovery as a “choral member who has lost the joy of singing,” layering it with motifs of flowers and butterflies. The shifting color of the soothing herbal tea “butterfly pea,” which changes from blue to purple, symbolizes the members’ bond and the trigger for renewal, while the overlap between center Yunana Shibata’s member color and Nogizaka46’s signature color reflects a gradient of the heart moving from tension toward release. Butterflies resting their wings before taking flight once more. Inspired by that motif, flower petals rendered in CG drift upward from below to above, symbolically coloring the dance scenes. By singing together with companions, the work delicately depicts the rising emotions that break free from confinement and the shared energy that fills a single space.

I directed the music video for Jizou Sonzai name-less’s “Danzai Democracy.” We created an actual playable game, captured its gameplay footage, and used it to compose the entire MV. To suggest that words of justice can, before long, end up hurting people, the opening begins as a game about freeing people, but by using cheats it is reversed, and people end up being restrained instead. This is our first attempt to express the artist’s distinctive background through the medium of a game.