Takashi Murakami turned a Louis Vuitton commission into pure visual intoxication, five minutes of animation that moves like nothing else you've seen. The story is basically a delivery mechanism for the aesthetic, and it doesn't pretend otherwise. What hits is the refusal to apologize for being a commercial, instead weaponizing it as the entire point, wrapping you in a world so visually specific and dreamlike that you stop caring about narrative and just surrender to the movement.

Aya is waiting for her friends outside a Louis Vuitton store when the LV Panda gobbles up her cell phone and then swallows her too. Inside his stomach she finds not darkness but a doorway into a psychedelic wonderland. The special was made with superflat artist Takashi Murakami, is built around his characters, and doubles as a commercial for the handbag maker. It is a short musical fantasy adventure whose unusual animation matters more than its plot.