Music video for Helsinki Lambda Club’s song “Speed.” A massive outbreak of giant snakes lands in the city where they live. Snakes swarm outside the window and in the hallway outside the room, creating a desperate situation. It depicts the final moment that arrives amid a life lived in a dizzying, roller-coaster-like rush.

Rotoscope animation rotoscope animation This was created by rotoscoping a crab filmed at an aquarium.

Description: To help young people discover the appeal of becoming a tax accountant and aspire to the profession, this piece was created in an RPG-style animation. It was produced to convey the many facets of the tax accountant profession through game-like skills and traits unique to the role, such as defeating daunting tasks (bosses) with a huge workload and overcoming difficulties brilliantly with knowledge (magic). Effects, sound effects, and BGM were used to boost that image and add to the player’s sense of excitement. Incidentally, generative AI was used in part of the background illustration production.

A lavish track by Hakushi Hasegawa × TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA. Hakushi Hasegawa says, “I want to see you again like a ghost,” and then appears as an anime character, or disappears into an afterimage. I hope the people who see it can meet there. Though the form doesn’t resemble him, the movements and gestures of the red afterimage, the “feeling” itself, were Hakushi Hasegawa—that is what I think the meeting of anima and anima is. As a tribute to Sophie’s song “It’s Okay To Cry,” who passed away just before this song was made, there is also a moment where Hakushi Hasegawa’s animated character briefly strikes the pose from the thumbnail of that music video. Whether because of COVID or being unable to meet, we are waiting for the other side of the wormhole, like Zoom, to connect again; or, if you watch this MV, I hope our eyes can meet.