Ending animation for the TV anime Bocchi the Rock!. Out of the 12 episodes, episodes 1–3 used “Distortion!!,” episodes 4–7 used “Karakara,” episodes 8–11 used “Nani ga Warui,” and episode 12 used “Korogaru Iwa, Kimi ni Asa ga Furu,” making up a four-song structure. I produced the three animations for “Distortion!!,” “Karakara,” and “Nani ga Warui.” “Distortion!!” is the first of those three animations. The episode where the ED would change was not clearly decided, but it had already been decided that I would be in charge of three EDs, and since I had also been given the songs and scripts, I created a full three-ED structural proposal, character designs, and rough image boards before producing them one by one. For the first one, I wanted to make an ED that would let people who were seeing the work for the first time after the broadcast began, or who happened to turn on the TV and only saw the ending, understand what kind of series it was, so I directed it to become a symbolic visual piece through the use of color, performance scenes, and so on. Also, since the character designs would be simpler and have shorter proportions than in the main story, I worked with the intention of preserving each character’s distinctive traits while making the designs easy to animate.

A spin-off animation for adults derived from the popular “Minna no Dance” segment featured on TV Tokyo’s infant and toddler program “Shinapshu.” With simple, approachable characters and dance performances set to lively music, it humorously portrays small everyday scenes. In this work, the theme is “an evening drink,” expressed through humorous dance that captures the relaxing end of the day. Its short, intuitively enjoyable format and gentle world view are key features.

Created a video based on the theme of the “Paleozoic Era.” Characters were cut out of paper and animated one frame at a time, then filmed with a camera.