Nobody's making a one-minute music video like this. The animation doesn't move to impress you. It moves to hold the exact shape of loneliness the song is already describing, frame by frame. Ootori finds the space between the music and the image where grief lives, and lets you sit there without explanation. This is what happens when a animator understands that sometimes the smallest gesture, a hand, a shadow, rain that falls the same way twice, says everything a story needs to say.

White drizzle in gloom is a one-episode music video made for a song by Togenashi Togeari, the band featured in the anime Girls Band Cry. Ootori handled the animation. The song's Japanese title is Kiutsu, Hakudakusu. Viewers who followed the band in Girls Band Cry can see one of its tracks given its own animated treatment.