I’ve been listening to a lot of ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION lately on account of the fact I’ve been working on a fanlisting for them, and part of that has been watching their music videos. To be honest, the only PVs of theirs I’d seen were “Rewrite,” “Kimi no Machi Made,” and “Fujisawa Loser.” The first of those is a pretty standard PV, the second is UTTERLY INEXPLICABLE (more on this later), and the third is a very interesting concept PV. Anyway, as I was looking through them, I found that they’d recently released a new PV, “Yoru no Call.”
And I came to the conclusion that there is not and never will be an ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION PV that is anything but downright weird.
“Yoru no Call,” at least, is fairly standard Ajikan fare. It primarily features the band making little puppets of themselves, and then juxtaposes shots of the puppets playing with the band playing. Of course, they’re not normal puppets. The picture’s worth a thousand words:
I personally find it hilarious that Yamada’s looks like a vampire, because he looks like a zombie in just about every picture I’ve seen of him. Kita’s weird green skin is pretty out there, too. And Gotoh’s can certainly sing like him!
Watching the puppets go around to different places is quite amusing, but the funniest part is definitely this:
The true mystery, though, is how Masafumi Gotoh looks so young in every single PV. I mean, he’s 32 years old!
But, really, nothing can really compare to their 2004 PV “Kimi no Machi Made,” which can be entirely summed by this bizarre picture:
Yeah. I got nothin’.
(And neither does Gotoh.)