Nobody talks about this one. Four minutes of Official HIGE DANdism's "Chessboard" set to animation that treats every frame like it means something, where characters move like they're pieces in their own story rather than witnesses to it. The song doesn't just play over the visuals. It is the structure holding everything together. Watch it once and you'll understand why NHK picked it for a children's program that somehow still hits adults harder.

Chessboard is a single-episode music video made for the song of the same name by Official HIGE DANdism. The song was featured on Minna no Uta, a program on NHK. Rather than a series, the release is a brief music piece built around one track from the artist.