Held at the National Art Center, Tokyo in Roppongi, Tokyo, “MANGA City TOKYO: Japan’s Manga, Anime, Game, and Tokusatsu 2020” This exhibition was a homecoming project for “MANGA⇔TOKYO,” which was held in Paris, France in 2018 and drew more than 30,000 visitors. By collaging exhibition archives from La Villette in Paris, scenes of Tokyo, and the elements on display, the overall image of the exhibition was reconstructed. *The exhibition footage was filmed at La Villette (Paris, France).

Description: This work is an official collaboration with the DeFi-staked crypto collectibles “Aavegotchi,” and was released as crypto art. The “aave” in Aavegotchi means “ghost” in Finnish, and it is a web3 game where you collect various NFTs themed around cute ghosts. The frog “ROFL” that appears in the game is said to be modeled after PEPE, the internet meme frog that also became one of the origins of crypto collectibles. In this work, “ROFL” is likened to the Taniguku of Japanese mythology, and together with the rhythm struck by the ghost “Gotchi,” it attempts to reinterpret life. The music in this work incorporates rhythms from within the Gotchiverse, and hidden figures emerge in the spectrogram.

This video won the Grand Prize in the Motion category of the Adobe MAX Challenge 2023. It was created around the concept that “if you keep making steady efforts (placing keyframes), no rain will last forever, no night will never end, and in the end you can reach even your biggest dreams.” Centered on the colorful and vibrant palette that I love and am good at, it is finished with a pop and playful design and animation.

I created the video that will be exhibited at the ChiikawaBaby pop-up shop. I focused on making the characters look even cuter than usual by portraying them as babies.