I directed and produced the music video for tofubeats - "REFLECTION feat. Kaho Nakamura."

Since this was the music video for the opening theme of the hit anime *Ya Boy Kongming!*, we prepared costumes inspired by all kinds of party people. I thought this was the kind of project that avex is often known for, where they force a Japanese cover onto a foreign dance track like MAX’s “TACATA’” or DA PUMP’s “U.S.A.,” so rather than making it feel like a standard female idol dance MV, I wanted it to have a sort of joke-like quality. That’s why I took the feel of a Para Para instruction video, or those avex trance MEGAMIX videos that were everywhere in the ’90s and 2000s, and warped it through a 2022 sensibility to create a kind of outrageous spectacle you’ve never seen before. The background is constantly shimmering and insanely acidic, creating a totally incomprehensible cutting-edge design where momentum, madness, coolness, lameness, and stylishness all exist at the same time. The animation near the end, which shows Shibuya—the setting of *Ya Boy Kongming!*—being covered in hearts by a kaiju’s heart attack, was created by Rapparu!!!!! Thanks to this animation, the MV gained so much depth and became a very moving piece of footage. Rapparu’s animation is truly the best.

A music and animation piece for sauna lovers. This is a new version of a previous work, with the sauna room depiction changed to my ideal sauna room. The video is built around a loop animation at 8 fps.

The method of making the reel was designed as a grid system in the time dimension. Rather than cutting from the full-length footage each time, I chose an editing approach in which short sequences were pre-cut and then rearranged like a puzzle. By defining the production process itself, the aim was to give the final output a tone independent of any individual worker, layering in the magic of division of labor and collaboration.