You're watching a four-minute marriage between a song that doesn't care about narrative and a manga legend who builds one anyway. The animation flares only when it matters, holding back so the few moments of full color hit like a shock to the chest. Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" doesn't sync with what's happening on screen, and that disconnect is the entire point, the song sprawls across six musical movements while Leiji Matsumoto's space opera collapses into silence, leaving you to feel the gap between them. It's built for people who already love both the song and Matsumoto's work, and it costs your patience if you need the story to explain itself.

A music video for Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", made in 2009 as the band's first video in Japanese animation, in collaboration with Leiji Matsumoto. The visuals draw on Out of Galaxy Koshika, a Matsumoto manga produced with Sunsoft. That story opens in Tokyo in September 2099, when a dimensional ship commanded by a woman named Haguro You heads into space to save Earth from destruction. A boy named Umino Hajime ends up on board, and secrets surround him and a silver cat pendant with a mysterious power. Part of the video premiered at events in Tokyo and Osaka on the anniversary of Freddie Mercury's death, and the full version followed on Japanese mobile sites.