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.

We captured today as a single day, and electricity as the “power source” that moves someone’s heart.

I turned the jumbled mess inside my heart, which I couldn’t put into words, into a video.

When I was entrusted with the ending for the new anime adaptation of Yasuhiro Nightow’s TRIGUN, by the hugely popular manga artist behind series such as Blood Blockade Battlefront, I looked through a great deal of reference material and felt the poignancy and pain born from the love and sacrifice between two brothers who keep missing each other, as well as the strength to keep asking those questions despite everything. In addition, the quiet celebration and joy evoked by the star in the ending theme “Hoshi no Kuzu α” (Salyu × haruka) seemed to coexist with a certain sorrow—the ache of being unable to reach the stars. From these impressions, I chose to center the work on Knives’ perspective and the theme of stars, and rather than depicting stars as random lights or movements, I wanted to treat them as something with form and meaning, incorporating the myth of Gemini as one of the zodiac signs into the visual background. I also felt that the image of stars disappearing by morning and reappearing at night was closely tied to the relationship between the protagonists, Vash and Knives.