This expresses a mix of feelings entangled with lingering attachment and anger over a broken heart, and a faint hope of getting back together.

“Those seeds you sowed will surely sprout. When our sprouts finally emerge, let’s celebrate together.” I spent two years steadily creating this 1 minute 46 second piece. I drew everything with a pen tablet, without using 3DCG or rotoscoping. I drew it while observing and researching many things. I would be delighted if something were to sprout in the hearts of everyone who watched it.

The film was produced so that the breadth of the character’s worldview and their strong sense of justice would come across.

An art animation based on Shotaro Ishinomori’s *Jun*, a manga once said to be difficult to adapt to film, rendered not in cel animation but in a hand-drawn style. With no dialogue, using only music and sound effects, it is a work that speaks to the heart regardless of age or nationality. The film overlays Jun’s episodes with Ishinomaki City’s journey toward recovery from the sense of loss left by the earthquake and disaster, and artistically expresses the idea that through Jun’s growth, dreams can come true if one does not give up, even in difficult circumstances. It is now being permanently screened at the Video Hall of the Ishinomori Manga Museum in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture.