A single song about trying, about showing up even when you're tired, set to animation that knows restraint is its own kind of beauty. The melody does the heavy lifting here, not spectacle. This is what comfort actually looks like on screen: a kid moving through a ordinary day while Hiro Tsunoda's song quietly insists that the effort itself matters.

Ganbare My Boy is a one-episode music video made for the song of the same name by Hiro Tsunoda. The animated piece appeared on Minna no Uta, a program broadcast by NHK.