Analysis
The video was inspired partly by the Chernobyl accident of 1986, in which a damaged reactor had to be covered with concrete and the surrounding area evacuated. The two men are meant to look like the singers Chage and Aska themselves. One of the men (wearing a naval cap) is depicted as brave and caring, while the other (wearing a helmet and dark goggles; apparently Chage as implied by the text on his coffee mug) is depicted as being somewhat goofy, but warm-hearted. This kind of pairing is common to anime.
The winged girl resembles a princess from another Miyazaki film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. The theme of the film is notable in that Princess Nausicaä studies and takes samples from the Toxic Jungle, a lethal forest contaminated and mutated after the apocalyptic "Seven Days of Fire."
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