A five-year-old counts on her fingers while the world softens around her, and you remember what it felt like to be small and sure of everything at once. Ayako Ikeda's song doesn't try to move you, it just sits there, patient and true, while the animation holds space for the melody instead of fighting it. This is what healing looks like when nobody's performing it for you.

Kazoeuta is a single-episode animated music video made to accompany Ayako Ikeda's song of the same name. The piece was featured on Minna no Uta, a program on the Japanese broadcaster NHK.