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Title song for the film Fureru by YOASOBI. It is structured so that the story of Mari Okada’s novel “Fureru. no, Zenya.” and the story of the film itself intersect. The scenes from the novel were directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai, who also directed the film, while the film scenes were created as image animation by a team of animators led by Yoshiki Imazu. It is a music video brought together through the efforts of many creators and everyone involved.

I directed animation for the first time after having only ever made independent animations before. In independent production, data management is much looser, there’s no need to separate in-between drawings from key drawings, and there’s no need to give instructions to anyone, but commercial animation doesn’t work that way, so it was tough. There were at least three major accidents, and I ended up drawing a huge amount of layout, key animation, in-between animation, and backgrounds. In the end, I got heavily involved in every stage except the photography, and for the month leading up to the deadline—34 days—I worked every day for 13 hours while talking on the phone with the art director, making it feel like the three of us, including the photography director, were producing an independent animation. Because my memories of my first time as director were like this, it has become a trauma.

Just to be clear, this was also filmed in Urayasu.