This one reaches into whatever half-finished project folder you've been avoiding and dares you to open it again. Kanata is the kid who films everything and finishes nothing scary, Yuu Orie is the adult who already quit once, and the movie catches them at the exact moment a busking set on a random street corner becomes somebody else's reason to keep going. The craft is the argument: it doesn't just talk about music videos, it builds whole stretches of the film like one, so the cuts and color start moving to the beat instead of the plot. "Mimei" earns every second it's given, and Frederic's ED sends you out the door humming. Yes, it gets cheesy, and yes, its take on making art is simpler than the real thing. Anyone who has ever uploaded something at 3am and refreshed the view count anyway will forgive it instantly.

Kanata Asaya is a high school boy absorbed in making his own music videos. One day he is deeply moved by a performer busking on the street, and he becomes set on creating a video for that song. The singer turns out to be Yuu Orie, a teacher and musician who has abandoned her ambitions in music. The film centers on the meeting between the young amateur creator and a woman who has stepped away from her music.