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Diogo Strausz's New Video Is A Spastic Neon Cartoon-Fest

“Garoto Nacional” is inspired by an obscure 1960s Japanese TV show.

A few seconds of the above video are NSFW

Yet another video jam-packed with pop culture references! Earlier today, we told you about The Death Set‘s new video that pulled together images of Batman, Super Mario, and the Simpsons. Now, here’s one director Julio Secchin did for Brazilian producer Diogo Strausz that’s even crazier—not that there’s more urban destruction than The Death Set’s video. Rather, the first few seconds might induce seizure, and if you make it through that, the rest of it could drive you completely insane.

To complement the Enka-sampled melody heard in the song, Secchin pulled together several Japanese pop culture references including Godzilla, Pikachu, and a few unidentifiable but undoubtedly Japanese characters.

The most intriguing reference is the one the song is named for—“Garoto Nacional.” That translates to National Kid, a 1960s Japanese TV show created as a promotional campaign for an electronics company called National, known today as Panasonic. The song samples the theme song from National Kid as well.

Nobody in the entire world cared about National Kid, but weirdly, the show was extremely popular in Brazil, and Strausz and Secchin are bringing it back with this video. Secchin designed the visual elements of the video on the basis of Strausz’s love for apocalyptic themes, zombies, and monsters. Assembling all the elements together took them a month and a half. Strausz had this to say:

We spent weeks working with After Effects, rotoscoping, which is the process of tracing over a video frame by frame to highlight what we want from each sample, and also shooting some scenes, like TV several times, or with me playing the bass. We mixed that with several GIFs, then Julio molded some 3D objects, and the salad was ready.