On Your Mark

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"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.

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Tropes used in On Your Mark include:

• 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 the truck revealing it can fly.
• Broken Angel
• Cool Car: The massive, bright orange utility vehicle that can fly.
• 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
• Ghibli Plains: The ending shot, when the angel is flying away into the sky, takes place in a lush, open field. After escaping from the narrow, confined habitats and nuclear reactors, you'll arrive at wide Ghibli Plains in their natural habitat.
• 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 seem to intend one, as they're trying to get the girl to fly away even as they're falling from miles up.
  • Not to mention driving into the radioactive zone to free the girl.
• 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