In Buddhist terms, it refers to reaching ultimate enlightenment in one leap, without undergoing long and rigorous training. This concept also refers to an instant realization, a sudden epiphany, or a profound understanding, triggered by some kind of trigger. This work depicts the moments before and after sudden enlightenment.

A music video set in the world of the manga BEASTARS. The first 89 seconds also serve as the ending sequence for the second season of the TV anime BEASTARS. The blue-world portion in the first half was colored frame by frame entirely with watercolor paints. By combining this blue segment with the red-world segment that begins in the second half, which is expressed digitally, the video presents two extremes within a single music video, contrasting the tenderness and happiness that have filled the past in the story behind this song with the cruel reality that is to come. For the production of this video, three-dimensional models of each character were created. Using these as references for the drawings made it possible to depict the BEASTARS characters, whose complex shapes are difficult to express through animation, with hand-drawn animation.

I collaborated with illustrator Soichi on the music video for DUSTCELL’s “Kaen.” It depicts how the “vague dissatisfaction and anxiety about something” that everyone harbors becomes the spark, fueling a fairy-tale-like destructive impulse.

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