Madder

A new music video from Yorushika has arrived, accompanying one of the more emotionally heavy romance anime in recent memory. 'Akane' is the ending theme for the Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu movie, and this single-episode visual piece is exactly what you'd expect from Yorushika — quietly devastating, built around imagery that lingers longer than it should. If you've seen their previous music videos, you already know they treat the format like a short film, not a promotional clip. The visuals are deliberate, the mood is heavy in that bittersweet way that makes you stare at the ceiling afterward. If you're someone who finished the Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu movie and needed one more emotional gut punch before the credits fully rolled, this is that. It's less than five minutes, but Yorushika has a way of compressing a lot of feeling into a short runtime — something fans of their other work like 'Elma' or 'Say It' will recognize immediately. Think of it less as anime to watch and more as a coda to an experience you've already had. You don't need to have seen the movie to appreciate it, but if you did, this will hit differently. Worth the four minutes.