Interview with Sumiko Shindou

How did the first ending, "Girlppi" come to fruition?

Shindou

The motif for the ending song was the children's song Ai ai. The point was to make a lively song with catchy lyrics. In contrast to the mature-like "Kiiroi Bakansu", this is cute song that was made to be familiar for all the middle school and high school viewers. There were recordings made of this song even before the first postscoring, but most importantly it was "Anything goes, don't worry about it!" (laughs).

What did you think when you saw the song accompanied by video on TV?

Shindou

I was surprised. It was amazing, really amazing. I was surprised how the pictures and the song were linked, how the way the subtitles were inserted distinctly, and how vivid colours were used. I felt like "I've just seen the most cutting-edge opening video ever!" The ending pictures change every time. It also inspired our music team. They said, "The video is amazing! We can't lose to this!!"

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Trick to Understand Girlppi with Shin Oonuma

From the beginning, I had thought of showing the passage of time by having it change between sun, rain and night in the background, but I didn’t plan for the chibi characters to change every single time. However, after we decided to have Saeko appear in Episode 2’s ending, we eventually ended up changing characters every time (laughs). The way to create the ending is to first come up with chibi characters that I want to appear, to which I ask Aboshi Mako-san’s help. Once we had this first step completed, we could send characters out with a message to how we wanted movement be added.

Editor's comment: The MaroMayu characters that appear in Episode 18 of the main story. Apparently, the aim was to give a sneak preview at the end.

Read the interview with Shin Oonuma about directing Girlppi Ending video.