After finishing a shoot, I went to a service area. We arrived around 7:30 p.m., just before the 8:00 p.m. closing time. The place was packed with customers who had rushed in to eat dinner, and it was extremely crowded. However, they ran out of rice just as the customer ahead of me was being served. A long line was left behind. Some customers were even shouting at the staff. Hunger takes away a person’s patience. That’s the story.

I directed and produced the music video for “Pikkan!”, the ending theme for the TV anime Pokémon. With “adventure” as the theme, I created the music video. It is the story of an adventure in which a breakdancer and a girl skater meet on the street, battle, and evolve. For the special animation, we filmed live-action performances by pro dancer ASHITAKA and pro skater Riku Kanemoto of SNACK, and Hiroo Sakimura handled the animation direction and key animation.

Description: I am the vocalist and also handle composition in the band Chemical Glitch, and basically I do everything myself in a DIY way, from the visuals to the music. This song was released on 2024/3/1. The concept is: is it really right to lose your true self and what you once believed in by bending yourself to fit the many words found in various philosophers’ works and self-help books, just for the sake of believing in “our own rules” and moving forward? This is a work that lays my own will bare. I kept the production process as minimal and simple as possible. The only software I used was FCPX and Blender. The rendering was done in Eevee. It really comes down to a battle of ideas.

I created a Vocaloid MV with a rather unusual atmosphere by combining live-action backgrounds and characters with animation. Using photogrammetry and depth maps, I gave it a dreamlike feel.