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A bit from the director at Sakura-con

In addition to just bringing the characters to life from their light novel form, when you create anime, it's up to our staff to create the world and background for these characters. When I went to work, I focused on Shiina because she came off really cute and kinda fuzzy to me. I focused on the backgrounds, there is a rainbow gradient across the image. When people usually look at anime, they focus on the color and the depth. My main goal was to make my main heroine look really cute.

So, when I first got the offer to direct Sakurasou, I never really directed a moe anime or a high school drama. It was really surprising to me that they would come to me to direct the series. I had no idea what the concept of "moe" was at the time. A lot of the production time was spent with the producers explaining to me what "buhiru"means. It seemed as though they were speaking a different language. I really had to play catch up in terminology when we started on this.