The music video is great combination of a catchy song (one that actually made me search for more song by the artist) and mesmerizing animation. The directors typical style of morphing fantastical creatures is applied to the humanoid cast of this Kanashimi no Kodomo-tachi and it works better than expected. The result is surreal, flashy, colorful and mindblowing (in some parts literally) work of art, with the content itself having interesting psychological implication too.
This is definitely not anime in traditional sense and you shouldn’t expect that (not only the animation is atypical, the format of music video is too). In fact, this might be more interesting to fans of experimental animation in general than to anime fans. But yeah, definitely worth watching. Rewatching too. It’s among the best music-type anime on MAL – trust me, I’ve watched most of them. And honestly, by the time you’ve read this review, you could have instead already completed this.
