Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" was the only song choice possible for this AMV, and filtered through this context the song and OVA become inextricably linked. The artist as well as the titular album's story are well known at this point, but I feel like no other song of Nick Drake's, and really few other songs in the musical canon, manage to capture such a feeling of true resignation and realization as this one. The song's lyrics feel hazily apocalyptic and foreboding. "None of you will stand so tall, pink moon gonna get you all" is reconstrued into commenting on the inescapable influence of others on identity, for which a clearer connection could not be established than during the beach sequence near the OVA's conclusion. For the rest of the AMV, the song's elegiac mood plays into the dream state of the OVA, with Drake's floaty, eternally damned voice accompanying the work as if a Greek chorus to a great tragedy. The dichotomy of layered, thematically intense content against an ethereal presentation present in both the song and the OVA allow for the seamless melding of two seemingly disparate works of art.

Note: The other two Boku no Pico OVAs (mainly the third) do function on an interesting plane as they are primarily concerned with the creation of an ethereal dreamspace, which do play to some of the strongest atmospheric elements of the flagship entry, but lack the iconography and incisive commentary which is required to meaningfully impact a subculture/artform.

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