I participated in and created this work for the logo movie project “Hulu IDs” for the U.S. version of the streaming service Hulu. I aimed to create an animation style that was energetic and exciting above all else. The music was made together with a friend I have worked with since my student days. As for the singing, I wanted to create a Japanese song that people overseas could enjoy too, so I chose Japanese words whose pronunciation I found appealing, regardless of their meaning, and arranged them to fit the melody. Paper drawing (brush pen, Copic markers, watercolor) After Effects (Adobe) Photoshop (Adobe) CLIP STUDIO PAINT (used on iPad for sketching)

Produced by Masahiro Araki (Remigai/Fredricson/Kaho Nakamura Band), the music video for "Blue," the lead track from CRUNCH's debut—and definitive—album, Tenkiame, by Nagoya three-piece girl band CRUNCH. This music video, which seems to drift through suspended time, uses water, photographs, and dolls to portray the members' feelings and the poetic atmosphere that permeates the song. ---------- CRUNCH "Blue" Lyrics I keep searching because no matter how long I live, it will never be filled. The deeper I look, the more it feels like I’ll be swallowed whole—an endless blue. Even when I’m hoping, you always act like you don’t care, as if nothing can touch you. But the unreasonable one is actually you, like a child. So free it feels lonely, because I can decide everything. The inconvenience of having someone there—I miss it now. In the city at night, where countless flecks of light crowd together, those days, half-transparent and blinking, are somewhere out there, crying. I played with kids I barely knew, and then all that was left was to go home and sleep. The future I want, and surely the future you don’t want either. So free it feels lonely, because I can decide everything. The inconvenience of having someone there—I miss it now. So free it feels lonely, this transparent feeling. The person who was waiting in the sun shower is now in the sunlight.

From singer-songwriter RIQUO’s album “TWIN PIANOS,” a short animation set to the song “The Meaning Of Love.” A singer sings of the meaning of love amid sounds that echo and travel through water. “How many springs have passed since we first met? And there are things known only to the two of us And now I am by your side That feeling I have when I’m singing I know it—this love is true” (excerpt from the lyrics) Like improvising within a jazz piece, this is a visual poem drawn from imagination, valuing feeling over meaning.

Promotion for the product “A Red Berry Burst,” named after a novel by Häagen-Dazs. This was adapted into a manga by Mengo Yokoyari and then brought to life as an MMV (manga music video). The project was conceived by Kazua Kuribayashi. The song is performed by Asaginyo. Together with animation director Fumi Ohashi, we translated the spaces between manga panels into image-based animation, using a variety of techniques such as drawing, motion, and liquid effects to bring it to the screen.