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HYPOTHETICAL PUPPET THEATER: ANTINOMY

SIX INC., Tokyo / SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT / 2023

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The puppet theater features a full-display background as its stage set. Puppeteers control analog characters, with effects like UI and bombs added in sync. An unprecedented puppet show seamlessly integrates digital and analog elements.

The video starts with the audience in a gallery. A buzzer sounds, and the show begins. Emotion-driven machines go to war at their parents' command, losing eyes, ears, and mouths as they question the purpose of fighting.

An inner voice tells them to live before losing everything. They explode with emotion, killing their parents, who are revealed to be their own creations. The cycle repeats 108 times.

The camera zooms out to reveal fallen audience members and a desolate landscape. A child's innocent narration, emotive puppets, digital displays, story-linked ending credits, and amazarashi's powerful vocals mix together to form an unparalleled puppet show and music video.

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With a focus on social issues like mental health and inequality, rock band amazarashi introduces their latest track, "Antinomy."

Antinomy means a contradiction between two ideas that seem true. The song warns about the modern world where life without emotions seems easier.

Chosen as the ending theme for a new anime based on the 2017 game "NieR Automata," amazarashi also provided a hidden track for the game. Our aim is to deeply share the artist's message through this one-of-a-kind Music Video, showing the special bond between NieR and amazarashi, from the game to the anime.

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