Nobody expects a children's choir music video to sit with you the way this does. The song moves at the speed of genuine curiosity, not performance, a kid asking "isn't this strange?" about the smallest, realest parts of living. One episode is all it needs. The arrangement wraps around you like something you forgot you already knew. This is what comfort actually sounds like when it stops trying.

A music video set to the song Aa Okashii ne, performed by the NHK Tokyo Children's Choir. The single short piece appeared on Minna no Uta, a program on NHK.