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FAKEANIMEGIRL
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A music video featuring the song "Airy Me" by Cuushe. As the title implies, the song is about a nurse taking care of a little kid then pressing his nose which makes him transform into a hideous shape-shifting monster that chases her throughout the hospital. The song sounds like a Björk demo, but the animation and directing is extremely impressive.
The visual style is reminiscent of... something I can't put my finger on at the moment. It has sort of a sketchbook feel as is all the rage with anime short films, but it's over both a white and manila background, and the outlines have this rotating tint of red and green. Camera just wobbles all over the place. Some pretty creepy imagery, light…
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As it is, Cuushe's Airy Me played over the 3,000 plus hand-drawn sketches of Kuno Youko is a delirious experience that bewildered my emotions, hesitating their entrance, and my thoughts, having trouble registering what was happening. Despite that, I'll try my best to interpret and make sense of this five-minute fever dream.
Since the music video is a field of symbolism, there are several important things to be noted here that contribute to the clarity of its meaning when contemplated.
- Hospital (and the burning facility)
- Apple
- Butterfly
- Keyhole
- Nurses and Doctors
- Rabbit supplying light through breaths
- The ceiling fan (Airy Me) - Test Subject
- Caterpillars in an apple broken by the nurse
- Chimera born by the Nurse's button press on patient's nose
- Chimera kissing the Nurse…
Read at the sourceMike4Life
Since it's a music video...
Music: the song is amazing. The singing is celestial, and the beat complements the animation, being fairly slow-moving and simple towards the start, hasty when the animation starts to speed up, and droning towards the end.
Video: although the art style is fairly simple, the art is still good, and the animation is extremely fluid The way outlines and shadows constantly change colours is mesmerising. That being said, I didn't like how gross and, more importantly, nonsensical it got towards the end. It really just explodes into chaos, even though the first half definitely could have lead to an ending more grounded in reality.
Overall, it's worth watching for the song, just turn your brain off towards the end of the video.
Read at the sourceEtsuko_Amejo
There are a great number of animated MVs listed on this website. Most are unfortunately forgettable, lacking the ability to produce a lasting impression. 'Airy Me' on the other hand, is very distinctive and memorable, with the potential to stay with you for a long time.
The visuals that accompany the song show a dreamlike, almost roto-scoped state of mind. From the loose and fluffy line-work to the muted color palette, this MV is almost like peering into a nightmare and a trance all at one. Some of the images are disturbing, contrasting strongly with the slow pace of the music, adding a sense of discord and uneasiness to the tone.
The music is slowly paced and almost methodical in its sound. The instrumentation is mellow and helps focus in on Cuushe's haunting voice.
The narrative of thi…
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Airy Me demonstrates how thematic mystery and individual interpretation can wildly affect a person's opinion on a single video. It's a story that is intentionally abstract and vague, allowing the viewer to come to their own conclusion to the story and its meaning. "A test subject is administered daily medication by a nurse in a ward where mysterious medical experiments take place. One day, when the nurse presses the switch of the test subject, they successfully transform into a chimera." (Japan Media Arts Festival) Airy Me is an animated music video inspired by Cuushe's 2009 song of the same name. The distinctive music blends masterfully with the animation, as the line-art shifts and changes in time with the song. The soft, wistful and sometimes pained vocals of the music adds greatly to t…
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Just personal scratch.
Advised, possible spoilers.
Opinion & Informal
Art: 7/10 It was good and detailed.
Animation: 7/10 Mostly to show the skill of the animator in my opinion, but it was very fluid. May make some dizzy.
Plot: 6/10 There's an actual plot here but it wasn't that interesting. Development: 6/10 There's actual development, but hard to decipher any deeper meaning at all aside from what the synopsis tells us.
Music: 5/10 There's actual music, but I didn't particularly like it and couldn't judge its appropriateness.
Overall: 6/10 It was fine. Most notable for the art and animation. There is a very simple but not fleshed out plot. Music was not memorable or didn't feel too engaging to the story.
Read at the sourceProfaneValkyrie
This is an AMV by Cuushe... And no spoilers.
This music video is really something... The video itself and the song goes beautifully hand in hand, enhancing one another. But the name of the music genre is unknown to me but you can somewhat call it dream pop, a very calming but somewhat experimentally, I feel like that it has a "björk" vibe to it.
The music video is very artistically done with a really beautiful fluent but unique animationstyle, the story of the music video is also artistic but not the completely mindfuck like, there is a story to it and I feel like this needs to be rewatch to get all the lovely details of a more complex story. :)
A very calming but intriguing AMV for those who wants to relax and let the mind philosophical fly away ^^
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This came to me via a recommendation of a friend/acquaintance after a short chat about 00:08 because of the similarity of their art style. Both are emotionally driven, hand drawn pencil ellipsoidal animations with a series of repetitions eventually coming to a kind of explanatory crescendo. The difference for me was that the narrative of 'Airy Me' has clarity that 00:08 was lacking.
The video was directed by visionary Yoko Kuno, an animator known for a highly stylized animation style of schoolyard drawings and large, feminine, soft eyes created the video using 3000 individual hand-drawn illustrations and utilized the look of a child drawing pictures to create a feeling of innocence. The colours are subtle and hazy, just like in a dream and the incorporation of butterflies as a method of s…
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