Let's talk about the man and his music, his music that is packed with variety from epic orchestrations, light bubbly pop (Light Your Heart Up), and blood pumping comeback songs.
Also Kill La Kill > Kabaneri > Xenoblade Chronicles X > Gundam Unicorn > Team Medical Dragon > Guilty Crown > Attack On Titan > Sengoku Basara > Blue Exorcist > Aldnoah.Zero > Seraph > Seven Deadly Sins
I know he's a meme composer but I've only heard Kill la Kill and Xenoblade and both were fine in my books.
Jacob Hill
Kabaneri's OST is fucking boring, I barely even notice it.
Liam Allen
There's a TMD anime or is it just the drama?
Ryan Walker
copying yourself is not plagiarism.
Jaxson Bailey
>TMD and Unicorn not on top 2 >Kabaneri not on bottom 2 I fucking love Sawano's work but his works after Xenoblade X are absolute dog shit. Also mind you that he started composing for Xenoblade X back on 2013.
Ian Jackson
the KLK soundtrack is possibly the best thing about the show
Gabriel Parker
>Sawano in the [NzK] shrieking vocal Tracks era >Variety
Pick one
Luis Brooks
KLK and Unicorn had great soundtracks so why is everything else he does so shit?
Samuel Wright
Lost any creative spark after Gundam Unicorn.
Gabriel Anderson
the J-Drama.
Gavin Ward
Xenoblade X's music is one of the most unnecessarily shat upon things I've seen in recent memory.
Main menu theme means jack shit. The battle themes are godawful. It's fucking trash. Even low budget games can do better in house youtube.com/watch?v=AXrODaCYXmc
Jackson Cooper
>Main menu theme
Thanks for admitting you didn't even play the game, amigo.
I won't say I don't understand some of the criticisms, but I really don't mind them for the most part and on the whole I loved the soundtrack. Silly stuff like the "uh yeah" in New LA at night to the Don't Lose Your Way-esque tracks for tyrant fights were cheesy, yes, but I felt that they added a ton of personality to the game.
Camden Thompson
Uncontrollable may make you think "Wait, how the hell does this even fit in the game?" when listening to it without any context, but when fighting a tyrant, the theme gets the blood pumping so hard.
When you're getting to that last 20% HP and your entire party is in the red and the song is just hitting the double chorus.
Damn it feels good.
Joseph Allen
>falcom >final dungeon lol
Joseph Price
Right? The game wouldn't be the same without it. Lots of good environmental tracks too I thought, I like this one a lot: youtube.com/watch?v=ekykN90Ueq4
Blake Green
Definitely. Xenoblade X is one of the few open world games I can stand because it's actually a joy to run through the world. The scenery is enticing, the movement is fast and fluid, and the music for everywhere is great.
What are implying? This is garbage and not original at all for Sawano
Hudson Kelly
Hiroyuki Sawano is a great composer. I feel he gets a lot of residual flak from the projects he's worked on that I don't think is really fair to ascribe to him. I also feel some of the actual criticism of his work, by no means all of it, is not really a product of Sawano but of the director of a given project wanting 'The Sawano Soundtrack,' which is naturally going to lead to samey sounding shit.
At the same time, I do feel like a lot of his stuff in more recent years has sort of fallen prey to that. If you listen to the soundtracks to a few of the projects that he's done back to back or shuffled into a playlist, you'll be able to tell that many of his background-ish tracks and even a handful of the main-ish theme tracks sound like half-reorchestrations of the same like six or eight songs and half-new material written in. That's not to say that they are, or that Sawano is lazily slapping together music to ship a product, but I feel like Sawano's recent fame is kind of locking him into a narrow style of music.
Like you look at Taku Iwasaki or Yoko Kanno, for instance, and even though Taku especially has some odd instrumentation preferences that are going to show up in places you might not expect it, you listen to their soundtracks back to back and you (or at least I) don't really get that same kind of vibe.
I dunno. It has been a long time since I've studied music theory and whatnot so I'm probably not explaining things as well as I could.
Unicorn > Ao no Exorcist > Guilty Crown / Shingeki no Kyojin / Nanatsu no Taizai > Kabaneri / Kill la Kill > Aldnoah Zero > Owari no Seraph
Didn't watch the other anime he worked on. XCX's OST is between Unicorn and Ao no Exorcist. I'm only judging the music, not how it is used in the game.
Sebastian Martinez
>vocal song in a jrpg garbage
the 1st xenoblade is superior
Logan Bell
Why is Nanatsu no Taizai rated so low? I think it's great and different from his other works