Beautiful World
ビューティフル・ワールド
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
- Mecha
- Music
- Episodes
- 1
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Beautiful World is a visually captivating music video crafted by director Tsurumaki Kazuya, serving as a promotional piece for the Rebuild of Evangelion film series. The video intricately weaves together original animation with scenes from the films, creating a rich tapestry that complements the poignant musical theme, "Beautiful World."
With its blend of striking visuals and evocative melodies, the piece invites viewers into a thought-provoking exploration of the series' deeper themes. As the animation unfolds, it captures the essence of the narrative while resonating emotionally with the audience, making for a memorable experience that reflects the beauty and complexity of the Rebuild of Evangelion saga.
Otaku Consensus
Beautiful World lands as a polished Khara-curated Evangelion artifact rather than a fully satisfying standalone anime, with its 6.7 MAL score and 67/100 AniList score reflecting admiration for Kazuya Tsurumaki’s dense visual direction more than broad enthusiasm. Its strongest assets are the precise editing around Hikaru Utada’s theme performance, the fusion of new animation with Rebuild-era imagery, and the urban sci-fi mood; the recurring limitation is that its promotional music-video format leaves little room for narrative development or emotional payoff outside existing Evangelion context.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Beautiful World if you want Evangelion distilled into image, rhythm, and mood without committing to a feature-length Rebuild entry. It is best suited to viewers who value anime as audiovisual design: Tsurumaki Kazuya’s direction, Khara’s mechanical and urban imagery, Hikaru Utada’s vocal performance, and Eimi Lee’s editing all work toward a compact tone piece rather than a conventional story. It scratches the same itch as an opening sequence you replay for its framing and timing, or the more abstract promotional side of mecha anime, rather than the plot-driven pull of Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone. The cyberpunk-adjacent city textures, train imagery, and teenage emotional register make it especially rewarding for Rebuild fans studying how Evangelion sells feeling through composition.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
Khara produced the short as a one-episode music video tied to the Rebuild of Evangelion film series, making it closer to an official audiovisual companion piece than a standalone OVA.
- 2
Kazuya Tsurumaki directs the piece, a notable credit because his Evangelion work is associated with compressed, high-intensity visual storytelling rather than explanatory drama.
- 3
The structure depends on Eimi Lee’s editing: original animation is cut against Rebuild film material to create musical continuity instead of scene-by-scene narrative progression.
- 4
Hikaru Utada’s performance of Beautiful World is not background accompaniment; the short is built around the song’s phrasing, giving the music the role that dialogue or plot would usually occupy.
- 5
AniList’s tag profile highlights Cyberpunk at 75% and Primarily Teen Cast at 60%, with smaller Trains and Urban tags, matching the short’s emphasis on city infrastructure, adolescence, and technological melancholy.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The staff list separates photography credits between Nanae Hirabayashi and Junpei Takatsu, underscoring that the short’s finished look depends on compositing and image processing as much as drawing.
- Fun fact 2
- Ken Miyagi is credited for 3DCG, which fits the Rebuild-era Evangelion pipeline where mechanical imagery and digital staging are part of the franchise’s modern visual identity.
- Fun fact 3
- Hiroshi Katou served as art director, giving the music video a dedicated background and environment lead despite its single-episode promotional format.
- Fun fact 4
- The production credits name Tomoyuki Ogata and Takatoshi Okajima, reflecting a compact but formally credited production structure rather than an anonymous music-label montage.
- Fun fact 5
- Its database footprint is modest for an Evangelion-adjacent work: MAL lists 5,462 votes and popularity rank #7224, while AniList records only 48 favourites.
Studios
- Khara
