Chage & Aska - On Your Mark
definitely one of my fav MTV ever. it is this MTV tat let me fall
in love with Jap anime. watching this MTV nv fail to make me emo...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BATU4v0yA
The video begins with shots of a peaceful but vacant village,
overgrown with weeds, with the enormous concrete sarcophagus of a
covered-over nuclear reactor in the background.
As the music picks up, the scene changes to a nighttime
military-style police raid on a religious group. Futuristic flying
troop transports crash through the windows of a tower topped by the
neon slogan "God Is Watching You," and anti-terrorist policemen
exchange gunfire and grenades with people whose hoods depict an
enormous eye, similar to those of the Dorok priests in Miyazaki's
Nausicaa manga. The police are victorious; as they sort through the
bodies of apparent mass suicide victims, two of them find what
appears to be a girl, lying unconscious, with large feathered wings
on her back.
The scene changes again, now to bright daylight and blue sky. The
two men are driving a sports car down an empty road. One of them
helps the girl up; she spreads her wings; he holds her hands as she
gains confidence, and finally with a nudge she is airborne.
Back to the discovery of the girl in the tower: the two men
carefully carry her out and offer her something to drink, and are
encouraged when she sips. But a team of scientists wearing
radiation suits arrives and quickly whisks the girl away after
placing her into a sterile container.
The two men are shown relaxing later, but thinking about the girl
and looking somewhat morose, until they have some sort of
realization - something as beautiful, as miraculous as this young
girl, should be free to fly, to shine - not be held in a security
field and have tests run on her. The two hatch a plan - we see them
working on various aspects of this, then the pair wearing radiation
suits and breaking into a laboratory and rescuing the girl. This
triggers the lab's alarms, and we see the three of them escaping in
an armored truck. They drive along a narrow suspended roadway over
what appears to be a domed city built in a crater. Police craft
pursue them, and one of them collides with the roadway and destroys
it, sending the truck plummeting. The winged girl refuses to let go
of the hands of her rescuers, and so the three of them presumably
fall to their deaths.
There is a short musical bridge, and the story "resets" for another
telling.
A montage of previous shots follows: the discovery of the girl, the
girl flying through a blue sky, the two men rescuing the girl from
the laboratory and stealing the truck, the truck plummeting amidst
the wreckage of the roadway. But this time, the truck fires
stabilising thrusters and makes a short flight into the side of an
apartment tower. The men and the girl escape(one of the truck tires
has come off, but one of the men kicks it to keep it from hitting
anyone); they are seen in their sports car racing through a dark
tunnel underneath signs which bear radiation symbols and read (in
kanji) "Beware Of Sunlight" and "Survival Not Guaranteed", then
finally they emerge into daylight, passing through a field of
nuclear cooling towers and past a sign which reads "Extreme
Danger." Besides the green fields and trees, there are no other
signs of life.
As the car speeds down the road, one of the men helps the girl up,
and she spreads her wings and gives them a grateful smile; he
kisses her hand, and she is gone drifting upward into the sky. From
very high up, we see the shape of the car veering off the road and
slowing to a stop in the grass - it has been suggested on various
messageboards that the two men have either succumbed to radiation
poisoning or had simply stopped the car to watch the girl fly
away.
ENJOY! 