A five-year-old's fever dream directed by someone who actually understands how kids' brains work. Imakuni builds a world where a crab in a bun falls in love with another crab in a bun, and the song wraps around it so tight you stop asking why claymation is talking to felt puppets. One episode. Pure joy. No plot complications, no second-guessing itself, just the thing that happens when a Pokémon composer decides to make something genuinely weird and genuinely sweet.
A music video for "Koi no Sube-Sube Manjuu Gani," a song by Imakuni? (Tomoaki Imakuni), which aired on NHK's Minna no Uta. Imakuni is mostly known for his Pokémon work, but this song has nothing to do with that franchise. The visuals combine live-action puppetry and claymation with a range of other animation styles.