Nobody talks about this one. A children's song from 1970s Japanese television becomes something stranger and quieter than nostalgia, just a kid walking toward an animal park while the world hums around them. The song itself carries all the weight, Hiroshi Kamayatsu's voice is the entire emotional landscape. Lost media that surfaces like a memory you didn't know you had, except you're not sure if you're remembering it or inventing it. For anyone who grew up with NHK's gentler side, or anyone exhausted by spectacle, this is the opposite of everything loud.
Doubutsuen e Ikou is a single music video made for the song of the same name, performed by Hiroshi Kamayatsu together with the Toei Jidou Gekidan. The clip was shown on Minna no Uta, a program broadcast by NHK. No surviving copy of the video is known today, and it is regarded as lost media.