Music video directed and animated by Ryoji Yamada for the song Prayer X by King Gnu 

In the music video Prayer X, King Gnu takes an abstract and animated approach to mental health topics such as paranoia, anxiety, depression, and suicide.
The setting is in a grey monotonous world where the main character is trapped inside a repetitive schedule which slowly drives him insane. 

(Source: JROCK NEWS) 

Note: The song was originally used as the ending theme in the anime Banana Fish.

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands—and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance...
 
(Source: Viz Media)

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