City pop is a genre of music that was popular in 1980s Japan, combining the words “city” and “pop.” Advertisements, animations, and film images produced during that era have since become part of the broader city pop content trend alongside the music itself. Thanks to this, a single scroll can feel like time travel. The urban sensibility that crosses between past and present has been digitized through technological advancement—preserved and consumed in digital form. The past is now reduced to an aesthetic device that can leap into the present through terms like “newtro” and “retro.” I stumbled upon Adachi Masao’s A.K.A. Serial Killer (1969), a film that proposed the “landscape theory” as a critique of capitalist urbanization in 1970s Japan, embedded in a city pop playlist image. Titles like Evangelion and A.K.A. Serial Killer are consumed alike today as aestheticized pop backgrounds. Historical images in our present may be drifting as nostalgia and distorted memories, having lost their function. Mute attempts to reveal a muted present—where history seems impossible—through a montage of period animation, advertisements, and film imagery.