The animation moves like the song breathes, no wasted frame, no moment to look away. Syo5 builds something that feels less like a music video and more like watching someone's entire emotional collapse happen in real time, compressed into the exact length it needs to destroy you. One episode. That's all it takes.

Higasa is a one-episode music video made for the song of the same name by Nanawo Akari. syo5 both directed and animated the piece, which carries a drama label. The track has a second life outside the video as well: it was used as the theme song for the short film Sunday and the Mermaid.