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The production committed to recreating Musashino streets as recurring, tightly dressed practical sets that foreground public space as psychological stage. The production design builds a compressed urban topology through repeatable exterior dressings and economical matte composites to suggest a shared, uncanny city. The tight framing of narrow alleys and apartment-front facades concentrates attention on small props — golden inline skates, a bent bat and a baseball cap — as manufactured symptomatic objects. Costume and prop discipline is foregrounded through wardrobe-continuity and object choreography across episodes rather than heroic single-episode highlights. The baseball cap and skates function as portable dressing that reads identically in quick coverage, and the Maromi mascot is treated as a commercial puppet prop whose textures register corporate soft-object design. Costume choices favor everyday silhouettes to normalize the uncanny, with hat and skate fragments engineered as recurring visual anchors for episodic recognition. Effects and post-production balance practical-effect work with hand-crafted digital composite interventions to fragment visual continuity without dissolving material presence. Diegetic-sound and foley are mixed to privilege on-set abrasion and synthetic city hum over overt score, reinforcing a measured, uncanny rhythm. Editing follows a slow-burn tempo that lets set-dressing, prop choreography and camera positioning generate associative montage, producing a production-minded anatomy of collective memory within Japanese animated television grammar.