A million laughs
A million tears
#gawrt

it's the montage in look back, from middle schoolers to 18 year olds, that made me think about the comparison, both with its small moments gesturing to the characters' eventual separations. but the ishitani MV has an approach to rhythm that is way more emotionally complex

look back's approach to time, in its flatly default and almost-cloying "scene transition, years are passing; time for a montage! and with fortissimo!" made me think of the OP/ado music video ishitani did, which handled some similar themes, but in a much more delicate, adept way

don't know how much i'll post though, since idk whether i stopped using twitter way back when because i got tired of social media, or i got tired of social media because musk ruined twitter. but thank you.