I was involved in the brand movie for “Hitotohito Holdings” as the director and motion graphics director. By carefully interpreting the narration script and considering the balance between the abstract and the concrete, I aimed to create a visual experience in which the narration would naturally and intuitively draw viewers in. While building on the blue used in the logo design, I also designed the piece so that it seamlessly moves between 2D and 3D, allowing the company’s diversity to be felt without any sense of inconsistency.

The end of humanity, stranded on a spaceship. Earth has perished, and people drift through space aboard a spaceship serving as an ark. Can they survive? No—can they continue to exist?

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.