A music video that reconstructs the histories of TUBE and THE ALFEE, two bands with long careers, through pixel art. The fan bases of both bands strongly overlap with the generation that grew up alongside the dawn of gaming culture in the 1980s and 1990s. In this work, pixel art was adopted as a direct way to reach those visual memories, designing the visuals not as mere retro styling, but as a device that evokes the memories of an era. The video includes parodies centered on TUBE and THE ALFEE’s live performances, adding an element of delight for fans who enjoy spotting the original sources. By handling directing, editing, and pixel art creation consistently, the work goes beyond pixel-art visuals to create images that bring back memories of those days.

Khaki 「Overtone」のMusic Video。

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.

The first installment of Kanzaki Iori’s spring 2022 trilogy