At six in the evening, her plans fall through. In “Mitei de Ii,” a woman takes an unfamiliar station exit and finds her way to a café, a bookshop, and the streets beyond. For this MV, I tried linking the story in the lyrics to the story on screen. I wanted to stay with her through the whole unplanned night.
Listen to “Mitei de Ii” and read the lyrics
Following the lyrics into the city
She passes through the station gate, enters a café, and chooses a seat by the window. I put some of the places and small actions from the lyrics into the video. The beat pushes forward, but when the song says she does not need to fill her free time, the screen holds on two empty café chairs. They could suggest someone missing, or space that is finally hers. I like that little pause.
The chorus moves from the city into a performance scene. Against broad fields of blue and red, she sings beside a piano, drums, and guitar. It lets “Mitei de Ii” open up on screen, beyond the shots of her walking alone.
Later, she stops at a bookshop and picks up a book. I wanted those choices to feel like one continuous night, rather than a series of separate illustrations.
That approach also showed me where I have more to learn. Some actions feel a little odd, and in a few places I turned a line of lyric too literally into a movement. Watching it back, I think a look or a pause might have said more. I want to remember those moments when I make the next video.
A theme I keep returning to
Every so often, I want to make music and videos about a woman who is independent and comfortable being herself, without having to be larger than life. I made the recent “Slow” MV with a similar feeling. I am not quite sure why I return to this subject.
In “Mitei de Ii,” she does not rush to replace her canceled plan. She sends a short “see you,” chooses a book, and keeps walking if she feels like it. These are small decisions, but they suit the song’s sense of freedom.
Making the whole song into a video
I am still learning video editing and how to plan a visual story. I talk ideas through with AI, try them, watch what I made, and try again. Making more videos seems like the way I will find an approach that feels like mine.
When I see the movement in anime-style videos made with tools such as Seedance, or lyric art woven into the frame, I want to try those ideas someday too. Right now, what I enjoy most is taking a song and lyrics I planned and made with AI’s help, and giving the whole thing a visual story. I like finishing a full-length MV. Even as a hobby, that is something I want to keep doing.
Perhaps the wish to make a wedding MV for “Kimi ba Omou toyo” came from a similar place: I wanted to see the song’s story all the way through on screen. There are things I would change about this night in “Mitei de Ii.” Still, moving between the lyrics, the sound, and the images until the video was finished was a lot of fun.
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