Eve is a J-pop and rock singer-songwriter. He started his career in 2009 releasing cover songs on Nicovideo. From 2012 to 2013, Eve was a vocalist for an indie band called Einie, and moved to a group called Riot of Color in 2014. That same year, he began releasing solo work and debut albums. His songs have been featured in various anime over the years, and he has released dozens of music videos made by various animators and directors.
In 2022, Eve helped make a Netflix film called Adam by Eve: A Live in Animation highlighting his art. He owns a clothing brand named Harapeco, published a manga called Kara no Kioku, and a light novel called How to Eat Life.
Discography
Studio albums
- Round Robin (2015)
- Official Number (2016)
- Bunka (2017)
- Otogi (2019)
- Smile (2020)
- Eve Vocaloid 01 (2020)
- Kaizin (2022)
- Under Blue (2024)
Tropes
- After the End: It's heavily implied the Boy in "We're Still Underground" lives in a timeline where nuclear war destroyed and mutated most of humanity, while the Girl lives in the timeline where it never happened.
- Anti-Climax Cut: In "Underdog", Kake gets chained up to a block and is about to be hit with an atomic bomb. Fade to white and the scene shows him waking up with a Chalk Outline around him.
- All There in the Manual: Characters' names are provided on pieces of concept art related to the videos, but not usually in the videos themselves. One notable exception is "Touhiko", where the characters are labeled in a family photo early in the video.
- Aspect Ratio Switch:
- Most of the video for "Sayonara End Roll" is shown in a vertical aspect ratio on Tobi's phone. His dream sequence is done in full widescreen.
- "Ghost Avenue" is mostly shot in 4:3, but some sequences are shown in a vertical phone aspect ratio, and the final shot is in full widescreen.
- "Touhiko" switches between being full-framed, having a movie-like aspect ratio with black bars on the top and bottom of the screen, and being framed in 4:3.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: At one point in "Underdog", the camera zooms out to show three poses of Aira running against an animation paper template.
- The Cameo:
- Tobi and Baku, the protagonists of "How to Eat Life" and "Fight Song" make a cameo riding a bus in "feel like" and at the very end of "Insomnia".
- The protagonists of "The Secret About That Girl", and the boy, girl, and Handman from "As You Like It", briefly reappear in "Promise".
- In the "Last Supper" Steal in "How to Eat Life", the characters sitting at the table are the boy, girl, and Handman from "As You Like It", Hitotsume from "Literary Nonsense", Pattun and Mocchi from "Outsider", and Janitor from "Tokyo Ghetto".
- Akame and Zukin from "Night is Faint" make a brief cameo in "Fight Song".
- Akame from "Night is Faint" appears as a sticker in "Gunjo Sanka".
- Cold Open: "Underdog" starts with a scene of Kake and Aira playing a fighter game against each other, making Aira Rage Quit and go to bed. The actual song starts playing in time with Aira waking up.
- Computer Screen Story: Most of "Sayonara End Roll" takes place on the protagonist's phone, illustrating the depression he's going through through showing his camera, pictures, and social media. It's also done in a vertical phone aspect ratio.
- Continuity Nod: The video for "Underdog" contains various references to "lazy cat", as both of them have the same animator (OFFSCRIPT).
- A Dog Named "Dog": The backpack demon in "How to Eat Life" is named Baku, doubling as a Punny Name as "Baku" is a supernatural being who devours nightmares
, tying in with the Horror Hunger theme of the song. - Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: "Touhiko" follows Kou-kun, an older brother who is overworked and stressed from his multiple jobs, wanting to provide for his sisters while also feeling like he's going nowhere in life and has no real talents. At the end of the video, his sisters repair his heart and he realizes what he's been working for all this time (a feeling of familial love), finally smiling in the final shot of the video.
- Deliberate VHS Quality: Part of "Ghost Avenue" is done in 4:3 aspect ratio with a VHS filter over it.
- Four Is Death: In "Ghost Avenue", a digital clock goes to 4:00 AM right before Mahiru is stabbed with a needle by Lilin, making him bleed out and die.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: When the bus passes by in "feel like", for two frames, Tobi and Baku from "How to Eat Life" can be seen riding it.
- Fun with Subtitles: The videos make good use of YouTube's text subtitle effects, frequently glitching out or disappearing in time with the music. For example, in "feel like", the word "summer" is styled to be chosen from an autocomplete menu entirely with the captions. In "Ghost Avenue", after Mahiru collapses into his doorway, the subtitle letters fall off the top of the video. In "How to Eat Life", the subtitles are replaced with block characters as the title gets smudged.
- Given Name Reveal: "How to Eat Life" and "Fight Song" have the same protagonist, but only the latter reveals his name: Tobi Otogiri.
- Instructional Title: "How to Eat Life".
- "Last Supper" Steal: In the music video for "How to Eat Life", the line "sitting at the table with everyone was all I ever wanted" is visualized with a bunch of figures with blackened, darkened faces sitting at a table in the same positions as The Last Supper.
- Life Meter: The video for "Ghost Avenue" shows a pixelated bar of life hearts throughout the video. The hearts deplete throughout the song, and once Mahiru walks in on his dead lover, the hearts drop to zero. His tears refill one heart, although it's now colored blue.
- Lyrical Dissonance: Despite the jazzy tone of "Touhiko", the lyrics describe the feelings of monotony, jealousy, and resentment that come with needing to work multiple jobs and feeling like you're going nowhere in life.
- Meaningful Background Event: Throughout "Sayonara End Roll", the battery meter on Tobi's phone is steadily decreasing, until it dies at the end of the video.
- Medium Blending: The video for "Touhiko" mixes 2D animation with CGI.
- Precision F-Strike: The word "Damn!" is dropped in "Ghost Avenue".
- Splash of Color: For most of "Underdog", the only colors used are black and white, plus red for Kake's horns and Aira's head arrow. The two Animation Bumps use more colors for particle effects and some grass on the ground.
- Title Drop: In the music video for "Iolite", the title is written on a box of cereal.