Kenyan artistes going anime in their videos

Is it just me or are Kenyan artistes taken aback by animated music videos? International artistes have used them and the reception of the fans to their videos has so far been great.

We have watched as some of our very own artistes, mostly rappers, have attempted this form of video production, animating themselves, thus making the videos more interesting and illustrative, but has the reception been good for them so far?
Jua Cali tried it on his ‘miaka’ song, and I have to say, he really tried on that one. Fans loved it too. The fact that his anime version looked so like him, made it original and acceptable. Failure comes when the animated character looks nothing like the artistes it is meant to represent. Jua Cali pulled it off in this one.
Just A Band is another music group that has captured this art perfectly. Their video for the song ‘Iwinyo Piny’ is not bad at all. In-fact, it is one of the best efforts in music video animations I’ve seen in Kenya.
Octopizzo tried it out too with his track ‘Octo montanna’. The video was uploaded on YouTube but was later brought down for reasons not revealed to us… yet.
And now, Kenrazy has just joined the list with his latest track, ‘GI-RF’, which is fully animated. Check it out below and give us your honest feedback.
All in all, I can safely say that we are on the right track with this animated music videos. A bit more work on them, and we’ll be good most definitely.