A single music video that moves like a short film, where the animation doesn't serve the song, it interrogates it. Zutomayo's production design creates a world of geometric dread, all sharp angles and color shifts that make your eyes work to follow what's happening. The pacing doesn't let you settle into comfort; every frame pushes you forward before you're ready. This is what happens when you give animators permission to treat a three-minute track like it deserves a feature's visual density. By the end, you won't be able to separate the song from the images it burned into your brain.
Hippocampal Pain, known in Japanese as Kaiba Seichoutsuu, is a single-episode music video made for the Zutomayo song of the same name. TV♡CHANY handled the animation, setting visuals to the track. The piece carries a supernatural genre label, and it works as a standalone companion to the song rather than as a conventional story.
Streaming Hippocampal Pain legally, as of the last catalog refresh. Availability changes by region.
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