The song doesn't just accompany the animation, it IS the animation, every frame synced to a vocal line that sounds like it's breaking apart mid-sentence. One episode is all you need because Harumaki Gohan built something that doesn't overstay its welcome, a perfect argument for why music videos deserve to exist as their own art form. This is what happens when someone with full creative control locks in: sound and image become the same thing, and you feel it in the specific way only synesthesia-adjacent work can make you feel it.
Mikage's Diary is a single-episode psychological music video for the song Mikage Nikki. Harumaki Gohan directed and animated it and also wrote the music, while Hatsune Miku provides the vocals. It sits alongside earlier Harumaki Gohan music videos such as Mirage and Fireflies Never Came, which Harumaki Gohan likewise directed, animated and composed, with Miku singing.
Streaming Mikage's Diary legally, as of the last catalog refresh. Availability changes by region.
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