Flying Lotus - More (feat. Anderson .Paak)

What this video is

Released May 2019 as a lead single from Flying Lotus' album Flamagra (Warp Records), 'More' arrived at a moment of peak cross-pollination between Japanese anime culture and Western experimental music. The video's premiere on Adult Swim's Toonami block — historically the primary American broadcast home of prestige anime — cemented its dual identity as both a music artifact and an animated short film. The…

Why it matters

Landmark example of experimental hip-hop and avant-garde electronic music commissioning prestige anime direction, legitimizing the music video as a short animated film. Demonstrates the Adult Swim / Warp Records nexus as a cultural pipeline for avant-garde audiovisual work. Reinforces Flying…

The director

Shinichiro Watanabe is a Japanese anime director best known for Cowboy Bebop (1998) and Samurai Champloo (2004), both landmark series acclaimed for their genre-blending fusion of animation, music, and cultural aesthetics. He directed the animated short Blade…