Airy Me demonstrates how thematic mystery and individual interpretation can wildly affect a person's opinion on a single video. It's a story that is intentionally abstract and vague, allowing the viewer to come to their own conclusion to the story and its meaning. "A test subject is administered daily medication by a nurse in a ward where mysterious medical experiments take place. One day, when the nurse presses the switch of the test subject, they successfully transform into a chimera." (Japan Media Arts Festival) Airy Me is an animated music video inspired by Cuushe's 2009 song of the same name. The distinctive music blends masterfullywith the animation, as the line-art shifts and changes in time with the song. The soft, wistful and sometimes pained vocals of the music adds greatly to the entirety of the video. The character design and animation are a blend of cute blobs, contrasted with the visceral contortion and body horror that appears later half of the video.

Yoko Kuno is a graduate of the Department of Graphic Design at Tama Art University. While a student, she created installations, sculptures, and animated works centring on themes of young girls, animals, delinquents and other motifs with an undefinable graphic quality. Yoko created Airy Me from 3,000 still images drawn over almost two years. Images were drawn with coloured pencils and crayon and edited with Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. It received the Animation Division New Face Award at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival. Yoko is also known for her commercial work as a Rotoscope Animation Director on the film The Case of Hana & Alice. Also as a storyboarder, key animator (ED) and episode director (EP11) for Land of the Lustrous.

I love watching Airy Me, and every time I do, I notice something visually different. I always leave with a warm mellow feeling. It's a feeling that I can't describe, I have only ever felt it while watching this video. It's short, so you should watch Airy Me if you want to see something amazing, emotional, and different in tone from many of the other animated music videos out there. Airy Me is a perfect blend of a creepy/cutesy aesthetic that I would like to see more of in animation.

(Lyrics)
Unable to sit still, I practice those steps
One, two, three, one, two, three
Unable to settle down, my head is now in Madagascar
Becoming transparent, I want to melt into the night
Tonight like air: Airy me
I don't want to be anything
The town's lights, like marble lights, assault me
I climb Tokyo Tower late at night, twelve

I become suffused into that red
Cover you in syrup, I want to eat you
And then, we're flying off, inside a crazy dream
The distant landscape we just saw, I want to melt into it
I don't want to feel anything
But when you laugh, and that puts a stopper on me
But, you know, the world just turns so fast
Like you always do, laugh for me
If you don't at least do that, I'll soon
I feel I'll disappear