Two minutes in and you're weirdly emotional about a cartoon dad, which is exactly the Minna no Uta ambush. The pull here is the credit line: Yoshito Usui, the man behind Crayon Shin-chan, drawing those same squat bodies and rubbery, half-melted faces, except pointed at sincerity instead of butt jokes. Kazuo Zaitsu's voice does the heavy lifting, warm and unhurried, the kind of vocal that makes a song about your old man land without a single dramatic beat. There's no plot to speak of and no stakes, just a short NHK slot doing what that program has always done best: hand you a tune and a few drawings and let them sit in your chest for a decade. Watch it once, then catch yourself humming it at your father's age.

Sore ga Boku no Otou-san is a single-episode music video made for the song of the same name by Kazuo Zaitsu. Yoshito Usui handled the animation, and the piece aired on NHK's Minna no Uta program. It carries comedy and slice of life labels, so expect a short, lighthearted look at everyday moments set to the song.