A boy runs through water that won't let him stop. Makino's direction turns a three-minute song into something that feels like drowning in real time. The animation moves at the speed of panic, matching every beat of YOASOBI's production so precisely that you can't separate the image from the sound. By the end you understand why it's called "Gunjou", that specific shade of blue that sits between sky and ocean, between hope and surrender. This is what happens when a director and composer refuse to waste a single frame or second.

Blue is a single-episode music video made for YOASOBI's track Gunjou, with Atsushi Makino in the director's chair. The video comes in two versions. The original Japanese cut went online on December 1, 2020. Almost a year later, on October 28, 2021, YOASOBI released an English rendition of the song under the name Blue, accompanied by its own upload of the video.