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Commentary: My first meeting with Kanta was in the spring of our first year of college, at a club meet-and-greet. The duo known as Mizutamari Bond was formed about eight months later, on January 1. Our first stage performance was at Shinjuku Fu Live on January 8. The following January 1, we began posting videos every day on YouTube. Two years after that, we decided to make our way into society as Mizutamari Bond. (Tominaga repeated a year.) Was it fate that two people who are opposites in every way would continue doing this together? I think it was a miracle. If we had met even one day earlier, if we had formed our duo even one day later, if we hadn’t performed that bit at our first stage show, maybe we wouldn’t be together now. I’m not saying things like, “We’re a miraculous duo!” But even if a time machine were invented and I could go back to the past, I wouldn’t go. And even if I did, I’d definitely come back having done nothing. “If Mizutamari Bond Had Met in High School” is a work created from those feelings.

I created the logo motion for apbankfes ’23 ~Society, Life and Music~. ap bank fes began in 2005 as an event where people could think about environmental issues while listening to music in a familiar setting, and as a place to put various initiatives into practice. ※ ap bank was established in 2003 with funds contributed at the self-responsibility of three people: music producer Takeshi Kobayashi, Kazutoshi Sakurai of Mr.Children, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, the founder of the Artists’ Power project, which promotes natural energy through artists. (quoted from the official website) Based on the concept embodied in the logo design, I created a motion and video sequence in which each element writhes and comes alive.

This 15-second animation is based on the graphics used in the award-winning work “A Town Reborn,” which won the Grand Prize at SHIBUYA PIXEL ART 2019, and is inspired by the redevelopment area of Shibuya in early 2019.

PV for “Shachihata Comic Maker,” the world’s first original comic creation site that lets users turn stamp impressions into the faces of manga characters and create four-panel comics. To embody the fusion of the tangible impression of a stamp with the digital world of a comic maker, all materials, from the stamp impressions to the comic itself, were created on paper and animated through scanning.