Kagerou Project Wiki
Advertisement
Kagerou Project Wiki
Kagerou Project Wiki
419
pages
in: Citations needed, All pages, Producers

Sidu

Sign in to edit
Information
Sidu
Sidu Event
Name
Kanji しづ
Rōmaji Shidu
Gender Female[1][2][3][4]
Age 31 Years (September 4th, 1993)
Status November 2010 → Present
Associations Jin, Neru, Bibuko
URL 1st Place Profile
Twitter
Second Twitter
Tumblr
Pixiv
Instagram

Bluesky


Sidu (しづ Shidu)[5] is a Japanese illustrator, animator, and director who created various MVs and provides illustrations to various producers, including Jin. She created most of the MVs for Kagerou Project. Sidu often provides 'dark' illustrations, as seen in some notable works such as Abstract Nonsense and Tokyo Teddy Bear by Neru. She is also the creator of the mixed-media project, Spinoid.

Until March 2015, Sidu was known under the name Shidu, but renamed herself in an official statement about the name change on her blog, where she explained that the change happened because she personally liked the sound of it. The English releases of the manga and light novels use her new spelling.[6]

Background[]


Jin met Sidu through Twitter after searching for himself on the website: Sidu first listened to Jinzou Enemy on Daily Vocaloid Ranking. Since she thought it was a good song, she tweeted it on Twitter ("Jin's song is really cool!") and immediately got followed by Jin. The latter said it was because there were very few people (about 80 followers) who had listened to his song at that time. When he saw Sidu said she liked it, he immediately followed her. At first, all they talked about was some kind of game, while Jin did not know that Sidu was an illustrator.[7]
When drawing a MV, Sidu usually listens to the song first, to get a general image. After having Jin explain the song to her, Sidu draws the continuity and shows it to him. If Jin approves of the continuity, Sidu begins to add other details to make the full video. She normally spends two to three weeks to make a MV .[7]
Sidu thinks the hardest Kagerou Project MV she made was Losstime Memory. At that time, she had to ask Jin to help them with that MV. However, Jin thought that the toughest of all was Children Record. Two of Sidu's tablets broke and they burnt her hands while making the Children Record, Losstime Memory, and Yobanashi Deceive MVs.[7]
Sidu and Jin get along extremely well with each other and have never really had any kind of conflicts before. Jin also mentioned that he took a lot of Sidu's ideas into the project. Furthermore, she was the influence for Shintaro's jersey outfit, because during the process of designing the character, Sidu saw the red jersey Jin was wearing and thought that it would fit him as well. Jin thought he was being included in the series when receiving the design[8] and was afraid people would think he was cosplaying when attending events. Therefore, he said he had come to hate Shintaro a little bit at that time.
When designing characters for the series, Sidu would start to decide on their colors. Because Shintaro's color is red, his sister Momo received a color related to red, orange. Since the main colors of Kagerou Daze are blue and red, Hibiya's color became blue and Hiyori's pink. Momo was first intended to have an "annoyingly attractive character" design. Konoha was first designed as a girl. However, there were too many girls in Kagerou Project at that time, so she was changed into a boy. Sidu, however, still really likes female Konoha.[7]

Filmography[]

Anime[]

  • Mekakucity Actors (Original Character Designer, OP Animation Director, ED Illustrator and Animator, Promo Art Illustrator) (April 12th, 2014 - June 28th, 2014)
  • Kagerou Daze -in a day's- (Writer, Director, Original Character Designer, Promo Art Illustrator) (November 4th, 2016)
  • Spinoid (Writer, Character Designer, Illustrator, Animator) (April 25th, 2019 - Ongoing)

Music Videos[]

Kagerou Project Songs[]

  • Mekakushi Code by Jin Feat. Miku Hatsune (Original MV Illustrator) (May 29th, 2011)
  • Kagerou Daze by Jin Feat. Miku Hatsune (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (September 30th, 2011)
  • Headphone Actor by Jin Feat. IA (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (December 15th, 2011)
  • Kagerou Daze (Cover by Jin MV Illustrator) (January 21st, 2012)
  • Mekakucity Actors (Album Crossfade Illustrator and Animator) (January 22nd, 2012)
  • Konoha no Sekai Jijou by Jin Feat. IA (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (March 30th, 2012)
  • Mekakucity Days (Album Crossfade Illustrator and Animator) (May 13th, 2012)
  • Headphone Actor (Mekakucity Days version) (May 16th, 2012)
  • Kagerou Daze (Mekakucity Days version) (May 22nd, 2012)
  • Children Record by Jin Feat. IA (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (July 21st, 2012)
  • Yobanashi Deceive by Jin Feat. IA (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (February 17, 2013)
  • Losstime Memory by Jin Feat. IA (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (March 29th, 2013)
  • Ayano no Koufuku Riron by Jin Feat. IA (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (April 22nd, 2013)
  • Mekakucity Records (Album Crossfade Illustrator and Animator) (May 27th, 2013)
  • Yuukei Yesterday by Jin Feat. IA (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (August 4th, 2013)
  • Outer Science by Jin Feat. IA (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (August 31st, 2013)
  • Summertime Record by Jin Feat. IA (Original MV Animation Director) (September 2nd, 2013)
  • Shounen Brave by Jin Feat. IA (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (December 25th, 2013)
  • daze by Jin Feat. MARiA (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (April 29th, 2014)
  • days by Jin Feat. Lia (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (June 13th, 2014)
  • Mekakucity Reload (First Teaser Illustrator and Animator) (August 15th, 2017)
  • Shissou Word by Jin Feat. Miku Hatsune (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (December 29th, 2017)
  • Mekakucity Reload (Second Teaser Illustrator and Animator) (August 14th, 2018)
  • Mekakucity Reload (Album Crossfade Illustrator) (October 18th, 2018)
  • Additional Memory by Jin Feat. Miku Hatsune (Original MV Illustrator and Animator) (September 14th, 2018)

Other Songs[]

Illustration Work[]

Character Design[]

Album Jacket and Interior Illustrations[]

Light Novel Illustrations[]

Magazine Illustrations[]

Other Book Illustrations[]

Merch Sets[]

Other Illustrations[]

Bibliography[]

Art Books[]

Manga[]

Live Events[]

Gallery[]

Trivia[]


  • She owns a pet dog.[10]
  • Her blood type is B.[citation needed]
  • Her favorite character was Konoha, but has since become Seto with Takane (not as Ene) coming in second.[11]
  • Her favorite character changes nearly every MV she makes (For example, when she drew Yobanashi Deceive, Kano was her favorite character, but when she drew Losstime Memory, Shintaro became her favorite), but Konoha remained at the top for a long time until Seto took it over.[7][12]
  • She once wrote Momo's name as "Maki" and Shintaro's as "Tsuntaro".[13]
  • Sidu has admitted that her handwriting is so dirty that only she herself can understand it.[14]
  • Sidu's favorite scene of Mekakucity Actors is when Konoha rescued Hibiya and Hiyori in Act 05: Kaien Panzermast.
  • During the airing of the anime Sidu took a special liking to Kano, stating that she wanted to cherish and spoil him, and for him to have an easy life with a companion of some sorts, namely a girlfriend.[14]
  • Sidu wanted to bully Konoha, and felt that it was strange that this was the case even though she loved him the most.[14]
  • Kido, Kano and Haruka's voices were exactly how Sidu imagined them to be, in particular Kido's, which she loved.[14]
  • Sidu thought the Snake's airtime was rather abrupt, and expressed wishes to draw him more, hoping that this would happen in the manga or an anthology comic.[14]

References[]



Producers
Jin • Sidu • Wannyanpoo • Mahiro Satou • Sayuki
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
More Fandoms
Advertisement