A chubby little king just wants to fly on his carpet, and the song doesn't ask you to want more from him than that. The animation moves like the music breathes, unhurried, kind, completely at ease with its own smallness. This is what comfort actually looks like: a kid's show that trusts gentleness enough to make it the entire point.

A chubby little king dreams of riding a flying carpet in this single-episode music video, animated for a song by Kouichi Kawatsu that aired on NHK's Minna no Uta program. The piece first appeared in 1975. When NHK broadcast the song again on February 4, 1983, a new singer, Shiro Kishibe, performed it, but the animation stayed identical to the original.