A music video by Beatsofreen, a producer from Utrecht, the Netherlands. Objects resembling primitive life forms drift, flicker, and pulse with energy. Amid the vividly colorful visual progression, the film’s imagery also evokes a sense of nostalgia.

Commentary: “Kimyō na Kankei,” a solo project by composer and arranger Kaoru Okubo. Bringing together two artists he respects, he has produced a new work of visuals and music. The grand story woven by lyricist Seiko Oomori is depicted by illustrator Kaoru Aoyagi with a delicate yet passionate touch. I had the privilege of powerfully and delicately directing the inner turmoil of a boy living in a decadent near-future world.

Tatematsu Natsuna, yonayona graphics, and I each divided the project into separate parts and directed them individually. We set the world of the deep web, which is the theme of Madobe Rika’s song, in an abandoned school, treating it as a Japanese liminal space. Also, to create a noisy texture that could not be achieved with effects alone, we used a VX-1000— a camera from the early 2000s, when the deep web and underground sites were thriving — along with DV tape, a low-resolution digital format, to recreate the low-resolution visual tone that filled the internet at the time.

Animation music video for Takeuchi Yue’s “Tamiokun”