I mean, we ARE planning to host a Bookclub for the Love Song albums soon hopefully 
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Iām not really fond of electro remixes, but I honestly thought that they made Kimi to no Nakushi Mono sound better. I skipped on Disc 1 because I havenāt really checked out the tracks in AB! yet, but favorite in Disc 2 must be Sasayaka na Hajimari; they made it sound really good. :))
He also posted Yakeochita Tsubasa, original song of Yakeochinai Tsubasa.
https://twitter.com/jun_tenhou/status/831817716076003328
Translation: I would like to upload Yakeochita Tsubasa which was requested repeatedly because Yoshida allowed it. This song is the original song of Charlotteās ED. I made it when I was a college student. The last high point of the song āSora ga kuzureochi bokura ha nemuru~ā was Yoshidaās ad-lib and the section is used for Charlotteās ED.
(Yoshida is his dearest friend. He sung for Maedaās song when they are in college. You can know more about him by listening to Satsubatsu Radio by Maeda)
The sound seems to be deleted by 26th May, so it is recommended to download it if you want.
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Ahh I love all these old versions of tracks so much, I hope he continues to release stuff like this.
Iām super hype for literally any music he releases.
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So I feel like making semi-wild guesses on who composed/arranged the anime-only OSTs in Rewrite. Iāll get back here if they ever release an album for those (which will be great because those are some damn fine tracks), just to see how on point these guesses are.
- For the first track used, the anime-original Kagari theme, my bet is that Ryou Mizutsuki arranged it. She seems to have a strong inclination to piano that sometimes lead up to something big (ahem Scene Shifts There ahem), and the (vaguely jazzy) country waltz-like music that the piece builds up to sounds similar to her usual style. Also, violin melodies. My second bet is Tomohiro Takeshita.
- The neat arrangement of Kari that showed up in Episode 13 might still be arranged by the composer herself, Maiko Iuchi, considering her inclination to electronic music that is matched by her background as an Iāve Sound composer.
- The piano arrangements for End of the World and Last Desire might also be Mizutsukiās, seeing how she often arranges Key OSTs to piano.
- The piano piece that was used in Episode 14 where Kotarou was reminiscing had a Mizutsuki flavor to it, so thereās my guess.
- The acoustic guitar track first used in Episode 18 sounds like something Shinji Orito would compose. It adds that it has a similar flavor to Harmoniaās Oppidum.
- The cool Retribution arrangement that was first used in Episode 20 sounds like the composer himself, Orito, also did the arrangement. For a track that carries a lot of weight, thereās an air of simplicity to how it was crafted, which sounds just about Oritoās style.
- If thereās going to be an orgel music in the final episode, Iām betting that itās Orito. Or Takeshita because Towa no Hoshi e.
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Itās really hard to choose a favorite when it comes to key sounds label but still those are the BGMs I love the most:
CLANNAD : Ushio,country train,to the same height
Little busters : Song for friends, ring ring ring
Air : Aozora
Kanon : Last regrets
Angel beats : Brave song
Tomoyo after : Light colours
Rewrite :rewrite, komiubi
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Every time i visited itunes one thing bugged me, the price of the music albums. You wont believe me but it costs 2$ per album (average) in india whereas its its like 12 to 15$ (CLANNAD OST) in the US. I would like to know if there are other countries with the same pricing.
The CLANNAD OST is Ā£15 on iTunes (UK) which must be over US$20!
I donāt know why but rewriteās music reminds me of mass effect trilogy. Especially Sanka (Scattered flowers) and nirinsou (soft windflower). They give you a feeling of travelling through the stars.
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I donāt know if I should start a new topic butā¦
Whoās going?!?!
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Article in progress
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When you donāt know Japanese yet and have a slight fear of heights as well as enclosed spaces, so you canāt even go into planes.
Dang thatās an awesome thing. I hope somebody here goes and shares the experience. I can only begin to imagine hearing all of the brilliantly written music in person. They already sound great but, boy itās gotta be a different beast to hear it in person.
Well, where to start now with the music I loved.
It all startedā¦
when I was bornā¦into this world (Ya get ya get I mean itās a, yeah everyone got this joke)
I think Iāll start from oldest to newest in the VNs (the ones I played. Sorry Kanon, need to get to you, as well as and place my top 4. I chose 4 to start off with because Air doesnāt have a huge amount of music that I loved. I also refrain from using opening themes to the game, minus one. Theyāre so great. Nonetheless, the reasons why they were important for me, starting with Air:
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4 Natsukage. I love Misuzuās childish antics and this piece doesnāt honestly capture it in the way youād think but, thereās just something about it. The tone, the slow buildup, the same sound throughout most of it after it built up. Itās a great theme for a great character.
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3 Niji. Po. Kano reminded me a lot of Kotomi and, truthfully Kotomi was a cool gal so I kinda liked Kano right off the bat. This theme is really fantasy like and sounds like it deserves to be in a fantasy video game. Wait it is, sort of. Never mind, you get my point I hope. The mysterious nature of it all and it reminds me of when you stumble upon a magical NPC.
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2 Farewell Song. I personally also have to say I love all the EDs as well, they do a fantastic job with them but, this is the only one that can reach the top four. Be it the lower amount of music in Air or not, itās a catchy song and itās the lyrics that does it for me ultimately. Itās very moving when you look up the lyrics and listen to it.
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1 My number one goes to Hane. The true, main route in Airā¦oh boy, that ruined me. I mean it, I cried about 4 separate times and this song was the main culprit. I cannot recall how many times it was played, or where it was even but I always remember and equate to when Misuzu is on the beach and she calls out to her āmamaā. It makes me tear up just thinking about it.
The next is Clannad:
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5 Thatās Like The Wind. Iām a huge Kyou fan and I can sit and talk about her for months. This song captures her extremely well to me. Real upbeat tune and it doesnāt ever really fluctuate with that. I love when songs go up and down, moves around but, they did a great job with Kyouās theme in this regard. I can see her getting to a monstrous kicking combo every time I hear it.
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4 Existence. There are few songs, pieces as well, than can give me goosebumps and Existence gives me goosebumps. It tugs at you in a way that is indescribable unless youāve experienced it for yourself. Itās sad and makes you believe thereās no hope but somehow is still great to listen to.
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3 Country Train. This would be number 1 in most games. I canāt even say much about it. Itās a nice, upbeat tune you know, it SOUNDS like a train but thatās not the reason I love it so much no, the reason is Ushio asking about her mom. Everyone who has played Clannad, whether or not you love this track, you canāt help but feel something at that scene. Thereās a handful of those in Key visual novels and theyāre great.
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2 Shining in the Sky. Clannad makes me cry, alright? It just makes me cry and I loved it for that. I feel like I must like crying at this point because this track makes me cry, almost every time. Itās so simple and so effective, and then just once it reaches the top oh my goodness. Thereās nothing else like it, period. It gets to that top and itās like āThere seems to be some rain in my room somehowā.
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1 TOE. This wasnāt even a track I truly cared for but the sentimental value held up. I hear Kotomi utter āFather. Mother. Welcome home.ā and itās over. I do actually love the piece as well, the way it flows almost over time, across many continents, searching for itās true destination. Especially the end of it. It feels like the song set out what it was supposed to do in life, accomplished that and faded away into the night.
Planetarian doesnāt have many tracks so Iāll just put that:
- 1 Gentle Jena. It just couldnāt be something else, could it? Itās the song you think of when you hear Planetarian or when you read. Plus all the buildup in the game/anime leading to it and then you get this song sort of as a reward and itās the greatest reward you could ask for. Just as the name states, itās so gentle and almost comforting. No, not almost it IS comforting. I canāt say Iāve ever said a song made me feel comforted but this one does. It makes you feel like you arenāt a little grain of sand but something more than that.
Little Busters:
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5 Faraway. No words. I have no words other than āWas my life happy?ā āThat I wasnāt happyā¦how could I say that, when I had great friends like you!ā
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4 Only One Magic World. Speaking of very fantasy-esque tracks, this is another one that reminds me of that. Itās such a touching and sad song but thereās hope in there, somehow thereās some speck of hope. I love when it pauses and returns with such a beautiful little melody and sets forth itās path right to your heart.
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3 Ring Ring Ring!. Wow. All of the Little Busters themes, perfection. I mean it too theyāre all fitting in their own way but, Rinās takes the cake rather easily for me. Again, the buildup is big for me as Iāve stated several times before and then when it hits there you really think to yourself āYeah, this is Rin!ā. It takes time to warm to it, much like Rin and when you have warmed up to her, just like the song, it gets really going and you start to smile a bunch.
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2 Little Melody. This was a hard choice because this means I had to leave out a song or two that I loved but, Little Melody, as it states, is a little melody and I fell in love with itās simplicity. The amount of feelings I have just from listening to it is remarkable and this is one of those sentimental pieces for me. Itās beautiful, truly beautiful.
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1 Song For Friends. There canāt be another number one, there cannot. Itās also my favorite song in any of the VNs Iāve listed here, pretty safe to say that as well. It is so lovely and so sweet but itās also about such sadness and moving on almost. Whether youāre down in the dumps or in a great mood, this song works for all occasions. Itās, perfect.
Special mention would be Clear Weather After The Rain. I hate leaving it out but, when I look back at the Little Busters soundtrack, itās amazing. Thereās no other words I have.
Thanks for anyone who reads. I stayed up way too late and was thinking āHey, I wanted to talk about music at least once here soonā so I decided to now. I mean, itās 6 AM but, meh, Iām happy to talk about this. Plus Iām 5x more emotional at night. (Donāt do the math. That makes me like a 1504/100 on the emotional scale)
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Iāve been listening to Keyās C93 Acoustic Album ćHumans pleasurećand I think it deserves a special mention.
To me it has definitely one of keyās best musical performances in recent times, Iād even consider it overall greater than ćKeyCLASSICćfrom 2012. The album cover is adorable and the performances are just magical.
Iāve always been a big fan of Keyās classical remixes, even tracks that are originally pretty loud and jumpy can suddenly become emotional pieces when performed with the right instruments, by the right musicians 
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Does anyone know if Humans Pleasure will ever be available on the iTunes US? A lot of Key albums are available on there a few months after the Japanese release, and Iād really like to be able to buy the album.
Hoshi No Fune in particular is the song that Iād love to be able to buy. The acoustic guitar with Liaās wonderful voice in the snippet of the song just sounds so right with each other as a whole.
Iām a fan of āBGM 2ā that came with Alka Tale. With the calmer piano on the right and the two sadder violins that chime in from different directions, itās like a conversation. Itās cool how you can have that kind of blocking in music (maybe thereās an actual music term for it, Idk). BGM 1 is the track they want to push as a front of the ost, I guess. The timing is really making me believe there will be a vocal version; lyrics just seem to slot in very easily.
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Before I checked out the track, I thought you were referring to something like BurgmĆ¼llerās The Little Party Etude, but it turns out it was something different, ahaha. Anyway, as for the exact term, uhhh, you might be thinking of countermelody. Or spatial mixing ā a technique to create an illusion of depth in an audio file. They do sounded like they were coming from different directions. :o
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Iāve been listening to Rewrite OSTs again lately, and was in the mood to rank them, so this video happened. Feel free to question my shit taste in music. :^)
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Watching the Kanon 2006 anime, a new top 10 or maybe even top 5 contender for my favourite Key BGM
Fuyu no Hanabi - Winter Fireworks.
So haunting, it makes my eyes sweat, or somethingā¦
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Scattered Flowers from Rewrite sits at the dais of the throne that contains Tori no Uta, for me. Talking about Tori no Uta would be cheating though, and frankly I donāt even know where to begin. Therefore, Iāll tackle a work of art that I can comprehend.
Key has many emotional songs, usually sitting under the wide umbrella of āsadā, but Scattered Flowers is a lot more than that to me. It is a nebulous cloud of many things, but primarily it grants me some semblance of peace, especially when I consider the context of when it plays in Rewrite. The scattered flowers it references are those of the cherry blossom petals, symbolic in Japan as a metaphor for the transient nature of life. They are like clouds, in how they appear and disappear like dreams or memories on the canvas of the endless blue sky, reminiscent of time itself.
I do not speak here of anything new, only to appreciate how focused this song is in helping feel the beauty of life because of how fragile it is. How all things are destined to end, and because of that ever present ceiling falling down on us, our precious time is best spent living our lives to the fullest. This is most reminiscent, of course, of Sakuya from Rewrite, who embodies this song better than any other Key character I can think of at the time of writing this.
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Tomoyo After is kind of a poopy game. It has a beautiful ending and some scattered moments of legitimate emotion but overal the pacing is all over the place and there is no shortage of padding and filler. That said, Tomoyo After is responsible for creating not only my favorite Key song but one of my favorite pieces of music ever and that is the seminal work, āLife is like a Melody.ā
The piece makes many allusions to the literal events of Tomomyo After, specifically its ending, but more so than any of that I want to talk about the narrative arc of the song itself and the beauty therein. The song can be divided roughly by itās choruses, each of which state a different thing and the evolution of that message is where the heart of the story comes in. Worry not, I will not talk about the actual parallels to literal story events of Tomoyo After, so there will be no spoilers.
The first chorus reads as such:
Can we each walk on our own? Everyone around us will disappear
But the time we spent holding hands until today will carry us to the unknown future
Which establishes the mentality that life is finite and that the progression of time is relentless. āCan we walk on our own?ā is reflective of this fear towards the unknown and the inevitable. We are sustained by our bonds, but ultimately the end is something we can not escape. Come the second chorus we see this mentality shift:
We could walk together, too; we believed strength was in our joined hearts
Our strides didnāt match well, but if we walked slowly we could be side-by-side
Here the focus has shifted. In order to fight the pain of isolation we come together. Can we walk on our own becomes āWe could walk together too.ā The second line draws out shades of Eva, discussing how even with the differences that we as people have and the fact that no one will ever quite line up people can still live together if that is what they desire, that the happiness that comes from that is worth the price. With a lot of uplifting or otherwise sentimental media the message of the piece would stop at this moment. āNo one needs to be alone let us come together,ā is a nice message and one that is easy to accept and integrate. However, Life is like a Melody goes a step further and it is in this that the meaning of the song goes all the way around to being one of my favorites. The final chorus reads:
Can we each walk on our own? Everyone around us will disappear
But this life of unforgotten trembling will engrave in us the hope we need to continue
The first line echoes that of the first chorus, but the second line shifts the meaning therein. Ultimately we live in a finite world with loss guaranteed. This is something that we must all accept in order to grow up. This final chorus tells us that that is okay. We will lose things in our life, but that is okay. What is important are the memories of the good times we carry with us that āengrave in us the hope we need to continue.ā
Iāll leave this with the final final line of the song, which I feel captures this maturity and acceptance perfectly.
Our strides may never match again, but if we walk on, we can aim for the future
Stay golden,
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