Naoki Urasawa doesn't make music videos. He makes statements. A single song becomes the skeleton for something that moves the way his manga does, frame by frame, with weight behind every moment. Kazuyoshi Saito's "Boy" isn't background to the animation, the animation is background to what the song is actually saying about growing up, about time, about what you lose when you stop being one. Five minutes will cost you something. That's the deal.

Kazuyoshi Saito's song "Boy" gets a one-episode animated music video. The song was released as a digital single, and the video was directed and animated by the manga artist Naoki Urasawa, who handled the visuals for the track himself.