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I'm gonna look at this from beginning to end, so spoilers ahead. You can watch the whole 6 minute thing on Youtube for free.

We open to a girl with huge anime eyes, because we don't use stylized artstyles to set a tone and allow us to better express ideas (Kaiba's a good example of that) anymore but to pander to otakus. More enforced by the camera flashing around her short skirt. A1 pictures after all.

Next, if a story is going to focus on one perspective, we'd better be aware of what that character knows, unless there's a good in universe reason for it ... (Fightclub). Blabbering some vague nonsense is also getting old. Take a movie like Synecdoche, New York which starts with a little girl signing a song; it sets the location and foreshadows the plot, while not being incoherent for the viewer.

Afterwards, the music video portion is wasting time as it doesn't advance the narrative and gets into repetition. Not an expert to comment on the music itself, so if the composition was well made, let me know. For my part, the autotune was annoying the music so loud it started giving me a headache after multiple viewings. It's not as bad as I might make it out to be.

Ok, now logic time. If in whatever time or alternative earth this takes place, keeping people alive through the machines they plagiarized from The Matrix is a thing, as well as launching people into space, then why's just the girl getting away. Oh no, excuse me, if one person can manage to do all that, then how come humanity doesn't launch the equivalent of a space station, with enough people to reproduce the species and tie them to computers, which I guess also give you the nutriments to survive. But no, this plan is just an one-off. This is even worse when the whole thing ends up with a message about hope. What hope? Earth's presumably destroyed and she's the only one alive in a ship in the middle of nowhere. At that point I'd support assisted suicide. Can you image how living in complete solidarity, unable to die must feel?

That done, we're left with a few other things. There are no characters, but walking cliches with no depth. Girl is lonely, father's protective. That's about it. And I am aware this is a music video. That's no excuse, something as simple as a dish track, like Eminem's Warning, can present more complex characters.

I've already commented on the bad character design. The animation itself is good and the color scheme competent in its use of color theory and saturation.

This music video garnered traction because the anime community far too often decides to suspend their mental faculties and be swayed by emotional manipulation. Not worth the hassle.