This isn't a narrative. It's a single perfect moment stretched into being. YOASOBI built something that sounds like every athlete's internal monologue the instant before they break through, that specific collision of doubt and certainty happening at the exact same time. One song, two languages, one unmissable image of what it feels like to stand at the edge of something that matters.

A music video for Butai ni Tatte, a song by YOASOBI that NHK picked as its sport theme for 2024. The video exists in two versions: a Japanese one put out on August 6, 2024, and an English one, with the song renamed On the Stage, that arrived a few days later on August 11.