Nobody talks about this one. A single NHK music video from decades ago, animated with the kind of tactile warmth that children's programming used to have before everything went digital, built around a song so pure it survives the decades even as the footage itself nearly didn't. The rarity alone would matter less if the animation didn't match the music note for note, each frame earning its existence. What exists now exists by accident, and that scarcity has become inseparable from what makes it worth finding.

Drops no Uta is a one-episode music video made for the song of the same name by Mieko Hirota. The piece was featured on Minna no Uta, a program broadcast by NHK. The video is now regarded as lost media, so it cannot readily be seen today.