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Creative Pieces and Merchandise Reflecting All 12 Songs
-When you enter the gallery, you immediately encounter plants, and beyond them, there’s a hut. Right from the start, you think, ‘What kind of space is this?’
Riko: The gallery itself is not particularly large, but it is filled with so many different elements that I felt like I could stay here forever, and it was a very comfortable space that made me want to look at each piece carefully.
I think that things like guitar chord charts for recordings and color adjustment papers for jacket photos are usually only seen by those who are at the site. If they were displayed like that, I would have looked at all of them. If you looked at it carefully, an hour or so would pass in no time.
Riko: The entrance door was really intriguing. The hut itself was entirely made of doors, and all the handles were concentrated on one door, but only one handle actually opened it, which was playful and amusing. Also, the ‘GO!!!’ letters written on the ground were done by the members themselves, so I thought I shouldn’t step on them [laughs]. Personally, the hand-drawn feel reminded me a lot of Hitsujibungaku, which I found cute and stylish.
-Could you mention some other memorable exhibits?
Riko: The bat exhibit left a great impression on me. The idea of using a bat to represent “a girl who makes choices that hurt herself” was interesting at first, and I was very surprised at the way they expressed the image of a girl with pigtails in braids and plasters on her hair. I was very surprised at the way they expressed themselves. It was cute and fashionable as an exhibit, but it also had a meaning, and I was amazed that there was such a way of expressing it.
Riko: I was also surprised to see that the works in this exhibition were turned into merchandise. I was shocked when I saw the seed paper for the first time in my life. It was like, “It really blooms! I was like, “It really blooms! If that had been around when I was in elementary school, I would have written a report on it for my free research [laughs].
-I was also surprised that jumpsuits were available for purchase.
Riko: That item is really cute too, almost too precious to wear. I might end up just keeping it on display at home forever. But wearing it to a live concert would also be nice… The embroidery of butterflies from the key visual, and the ‘Hitsujibungaku’ text embroidered on the sleeves, show such attention to detail. It’s really impressive, meticulous, you could say, not a single flaw [laughs].
