"The origins of the story are in Japanese animism, the concept that there are gods present in every object, something I've always been really captivated by," says Kawamura. "Like when you get a new wallet and you transfer the cards, notes and coins. If you look at the old one that you had been using every day, it looks like a corpse, right? I thought about why it suddenly looks like a corpse and realized it's because between the object and its owners there are memories, like a soul."
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