A five-minute tribute that treats grief like something gentle instead of spectacular. The animation moves like watercolor bleeding into itself, holding space for loss without needing to prove anything. This exists because real children needed real help, and it never pretends to be more than what it is.
Blossom is a single short music video from 2012, made for Zapuni, a project that pairs Japanese visual artists with well-known musicians from around the world. The work raises money for charities supporting children hurt by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster. On screen, angels keep watch over an elderly farmer as he labors to revive land wrecked by the tsunami. The video is dedicated to the memory of the disaster and asks viewers to remember the people it struck directly. It premiered at the Tokyo International Anime Fair in 2012.
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