{"id":136667,"date":"2025-10-09T10:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=136667"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:33:46","slug":"king-gnu-drops-so-bad-anime-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/10\/09\/king-gnu-drops-so-bad-anime-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"King Gnu Drops &#8220;SO BAD&#8221; Anime Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">If you wanted an anime where an evil baby fires a sniper rifle at a behatted swordsman, look no further than Japanese band<strong> King Gnu<\/strong>&#8216;s new anime music video for its September digital release &#8220;SO BAD.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Directed by <strong>Nonashi Baisun<\/strong> at <strong>A-1 Pictures,<\/strong> the four-minute animation features hordes of werewolves, a baby (not the same baby as the sniper rifle one) who falls from the sky and comes into the custody of the aforementioned swordsman (he has a pistol too) and his buddies, and other sorts of zaniness. All this is delivered through an aesthetic that makes the video feel like an anime from some corner of the 2000s.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"King Gnu - SO BAD\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d4st4aEjQ28?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Among the other staff credits for the &#8220;SO BAD&#8221; music video are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Planning, original story, direction: <strong>OSRIN<br><\/strong>\u2022 Character designers: <strong>harakiri<\/strong>, OSRIN<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Storyboard (animation part direction boards): <strong>koya (KENJA) harakiri<br><\/strong>\u2022 Assistant director: <strong>Megumi Maeda<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Colorist and paint checker: <strong>Kanako Hokari<\/strong> (<\/span><span style=\"color: initial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>My New Boss is Goofy<\/em>)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Background art director:<strong> Ryuta Hayashi<\/strong> (<em>Ranma 1\/2<\/em> Season 2 co-background art director)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Compositing director: MAPPA&#8217;s <strong>Haruka Juta<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8220;SO BAD&#8221; is the theme song for Universal Studio Japan&#8217;s Halloween Horror Night&#8217;s Zombie de Dance attraction. The main characters in the video are the King Gnu members themselves, says <a href=\"https:\/\/natalie.mu\/music\/news\/643494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Music Natalie<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Looking for a less actiony anime music video? Wanuka&#8217;s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/10\/08\/library-romance-blooms-in-saishinwa-anime-music-video\/\">Saishinwa<\/a>\u201d the ending theme for the <em>A Star Brighter Than the Sun&nbsp;<\/em>TV anime, recently received a cozy video with young love in a library.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KingGnu_JP\/status\/1975848642763497616\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">@KingGnu_JP<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wanted an anime where an evil baby fires a sniper rifle at a behatted swordsman, look no further than Japanese band King Gnu&#8216;s new anime music video for its September digital release &#8220;SO BAD.&#8221; Directed by Nonashi Baisun at A-1 Pictures, the four-minute animation features hordes of werewolves, a baby (not the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":136669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,10],"tags":[14,2941],"class_list":["post-136667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-music-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/King-Gnu-SO-BAD-anime-music-video-screenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-zyj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137616,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136667\/revisions\/137616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}