#toya5

This piece is about how Toya is healing his relationship with music thanks to his experiences with VBS, especially by learning how to feel more free with it. <- This is an idea explored mostly in Toya5 (Toya6 is another place where I believe its explored)

The flight feathers in the wings (which help birds take off) have Akito and Meiko's (initial VS) colors. The mid-wing covert feathers and the down feathers at the base provide smoothness and warmth, respectively.

The stars are a reference to the piano, violin, and trumpet. And the event Let it ring! Beautiful sound!

I was inspired by Hakushi Hasegawa's KYOFUNOHOSHI and its MV by Shu Yonezawa, especially this part:

I kept the art kinda messy, abstract, and undefined on purpose to show how the halves are just starting to escape their boundaries, as if they're just starting to merge or smth

I was gonna say I wanted to use a style like this because of smth related to the concept of the inner child, but i can't articulate it and I also don't know much about the concept.

I was also inspired a bit by Shu Yonezawa's other work. I plan to use an art style like this at least a few more times.