The animation doesn't just match the song, it weaponizes it, every frame designed to hit you exactly when the beat does. Nakayama builds a visual statement about idol artifice that moves too fast to look away from, the kind of precision that makes you rewatch it immediately to catch what you missed. This is a music video that understands its own power and refuses to waste a single second of it.

A music video for YOASOBI's song Idol, directed by Naoya Nakayama. The song draws on "45510", an original novel by Aka Akasaka, and it also serves as the opening theme of the anime [Oshi no Ko]. The video exists in two versions: a Japanese one released in April 2023 and an English-language one released that May. It is labeled Psychological.