On Your Mark

On Your Mark is an Animated Music Video made in 1995 by Hayao Miyazaki, set to the eponymous song by Chage & Aska.

The video is set in a futuristic megapolis, and begins with a police raid on a religious cult, rescuing a girl with huge white wings. The two men that found her endeavour to set the girl free.

See it here.


 * After the End: It's heavily implied that some kind of nuclear disaster took place prior to the events of the video.
 * Big Damn Heroes: First the police raid on the cult headquarters, then.
 * Broken Angel
 * Cool Car: The massive, bright orange utility vehicle.
 * Cool Shades
 * Cult: With giant eye symbols and "GOD IS WATCHING YOU" motto.
 * Domed Hometown: The city is domed to protect it from radiation.
 * Dynamic Entry
 * Expy: The angelic girl is pretty much a carbon copy of Nausicaa. May also be the Ghibli house style.
 * The eye symbols are also reminiscent of the hidolas in the manga.
 * Faceless Goons / Gas Mask Mooks: The cultists and cops/lab workers, respectively.
 * Fair Cop: One of the policemen is pretty handsome. He kinda looks like an older Ashitaka. And considering those roses on his desk, the ladies think so in-universe too.
 * Forgot I Could Fly
 * Free Wheel
 * Groundhog Day Loop: It's implied that there's something like this in place without any characters being aware. The events are repeated again and again until they rescue her the right way.
 * It's more of a non-linear editing thing. They screw up, and the action resets to the last "save point".
 * Heroic Sacrifice: The two guys.
 * Not to mention.
 * Hidden Eyes: One of the policemen never takes his goggles off.
 * I Will Only Slow You Down
 * People Jars
 * Product Placement: Coca Cola cans can be seen littered around the winged girl, apparently the only "food" the cult gave her.
 * Scenery Porn: ... Duh?
 * Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: Those two policemen are ready to do anything to set that girl free. Treason included.
 * Smoking Is Cool
 * They Would Cut You Up: Ostensibly the girl's fate had she not been rescued from the lab.
 * Winged Humanoid