In your opinion, which anime had a soundtrack that fit, and defined the atmosphere and the setting on the anime itself the best?
For me, it's Shinsekai Yori's. A traditional, homely Japanese sound interloped with rock, as well as electronic music. A perfect fit, considering the setting.
In your opinion, which anime had a soundtrack that fit...
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Levi Young
Madoka Magica.
Oliver Ortiz
Uchuu kyoudai and clannad
Eli Phillips
Eureka Seven
Thomas Cook
Squealer did nothing wrong
Brayden Hill
Houseki no Kuni
Cameron Ward
Sawano in KLK. A match made in heaven.
Michael Scott
He was unable to convince even his strongest human advocate of his humanity, as shown by her ability to mercy-kill him without even a twinge of harm to herself.
Joshua Lee
He did - he lost.
Andrew Sanders
Literally abused in Angel's Egg, IIRC. Not only the music but the auditory sense overall.
Justin Clark
Kaiba
Denpa Onna
Aria
Adrian Gray
>the auditory sense
*the whole auditory sense. Oh, and Lain too (if I'm not mistaken again).
Connor Davis
fpbp, Rebellion's OST is incredible too.
Tyler Campbell
Anything by Yoko Kanno.
Also this.
Kevin Cox
Good taste.
Kara no kyokai's score was awesomw and perdect fit to the movie too.
Tyler James
boogiepop phantom. soundtrack was the best part of the show.
Nolan Sullivan
Mahoutsukai, MiA, Death Note come to mind
Jordan Mitchell
This is on the backlog purely because of the soundtrack. I'll get around to it eventually.
Cowboy Bebop, though, remains the sole series that has caused me to import materials from the island nation of Japan. In the form of music CD box sets that were stolen and are not replaceable.
Luis Brown
House of Five Leaves
Brayden Lopez
This season I'd say yuru camp. Not this season though I'd have to go with Eva. Everything is memorable and goes well with the show.
James Clark
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Mason Torres
Kaiji.
Chase Jackson
Haibane Renmei
FLCL
Kids on the Slope (this is cheating, I think)
Rakugo Shinjuu
These are the tightest fit of music to aesthetic.
Bentley Smith
He was a disgusting commie dictator. That people actually side with him is a telling sign how Russia allowing Stalin to rule wasn't strange and your average American is just as bad of a totalitarian brainlet, coming with "equality" and "progress".
Isaac Taylor
Aria, Monogatari, Ping Pong
Jace Wilson
Kemono no Souja Erin
Luke Green
>Rakugo Shinjuu
Imawa no Shinigami is literally the perfect opening. No anime ever will come close.
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FMA '03 has one of the best soundtracks ever made.
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James Hernandez
The people siding with him is called democracy you mental midget
Hudson Flores
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Why does Sup Forums have no appreciation for Yoko Kanno's best work
Oliver Barnes
>Squealer was practicing democracy
lol
Lincoln Rivera
Fuck Bones tbqh, so many great soundtracks in that anime that were never released
Landon Ward
Joshiraku
It's very playful, chill and silly at times. I listened to the OST so many times over the years and it never gets old. Thanks for making me listen to it again
Grayson Carter
Yoko Kanno was mentioned already. Same goes for Sakamichi no Apollon (though i wouldn't say background music there was that noticable. OP and all performed music were of course). I loved DtB too.
Ian Kelly
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Robert Davis
Sawano in Unicorn.
Lucas Moore
Chihayafuru. I'd say it wouldn't be half as thrilling to watch without that bgm.
Julian Reyes
Utena
Elijah Lopez
UNMEI
MOKU
Charles Morales
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Castle in the sky
Redline
Hudson Reyes
M01.
Jayden Roberts
>soundtrack that fit, and defined the atmosphere and the setting on the anime itself the best
Spice and Wolf
Also Tsukuyomi (just first half).
Jason Parker
Detective Conan
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Isaac Rodriguez
Made in Abyss does a very good job selling the mystery and wonder of its setting through the ost.
Jack Howard
Texhnolyze for me. Such an outstanding OST.
Bentley Lewis
>Spice and wolf
This.
Andrew Morgan
>FMA '03 has one of the best soundtracks ever made.
Still gives me chills.
Austin Bailey
>Rebellion
It's even better. If you told me Yann Tiersenesque accordion music would fit so well into a (dark) anime, I wouldn't have believed you before Hangyaku no Monogatari.
Oliver Miller
beautiful and magical
Parker Rogers
I don't have a specific anime to choose but Spice&Wolf and Made in Abyss are honorable mentions
Shinsekai is great as well
Michael Bell
>Sawano
Most overrated anime composer alive. The Hans Zimmer of Japanese cartoons.
Adrian Peterson
>I don't like your opinion, therefore mine is correct
Nicholas Barnes
Hyouka
Hudson Ortiz
Isn't that how "discussion" typically goes on Sup Forums?
Aaron Thompson
>Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer is actually good though. He gets a lifetime free pass from me for Gladiator, The Lion King and Interstellar's scores.
Nolan Ortiz
>Redline
Fuck yeah
Jaxon King
Dylan Thompson
I don't know if I'd say it's THE best but it's one of them
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Asher Wright
This except I would never compare him to Zimmer.
Angel Howard
He did everything wrong. The guy had a functional society on the verge of industrialization and had no valid military rivals because of his feral child. He could've established boundaries and engaged in a voluntary exchange of goods with the cantus users while expanding into the terra nullius surrounding his territory, which would've been profitable for both sides, but instead he sperged out over historical injustices and launched an ill-conceived attack that lead to a retaliatory genocide of his people.
Jackson Watson
The cantus were already planning to exterminate his entire colony before he began the war against them.
Sebastian Wright
Kanno Yoshihiro is a composer of art music, not entertainment stuff. He did a fantastic job.
Jaxon Wood
kanon and clannad
Dylan Collins
I don't recall that. Not saying you're wrong, but if I remember correctly, the whole reason Squealer's surprise attack succeeded in the first place was because the the kantus humans didn't really consider them a threat. Saki even says so herself when she comments on the fact that the queerrat division of their government before the attack was essentially an insignificant underfunded department.
Aaron Cox
Subhuman sympathisers like you should have been purged aswell.
t.someone who was in the crowd laughing at Squealer saying that his in dirthole living rat species were humans.
Carson Watson
ya beat me to it. While the movie was pretty shit, the soundtrack it had was also really good.
I still listen to Storywriter every summer.
Benjamin Harris
>I don't recall that.
To tell you the truth, I might be remembering it wrong. I know that at the very least the cantus resolved to exterminate his colony before they were aware of their messiah.
>the whole reason Squealer's surprise attack succeeded in the first place was because the the kantus humans didn't really consider them a threat.
The cantus don't consider any of the queerats a real threat, they just get buttmad when they break the rules and slaughter the entire colony to send a message.
Grayson Turner
Aesthetically speaking, they're not human, but functionally, they're no more alien than the walking atom bombs who need emotional stability to keep from destroying themselves and the world with their barely controllable superpowers.
Angel Flores
Right. I think the main impetus for his colony's extermination was the unresolved issue of the two missing children and his rapid expansion. Plus Squealer was getting pretty uppity. All of these issues could've been mitigated through diplomacy and trade, which would've built trust, and might've led to the council changing their perspective and loosening the rules, which only really exist because the kantus view the queerrats as savage tribals incapable of providing anything of value to them.
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Connor Robinson
This, 100 percent. It helped that so much of the show was inspired by music in the first place. There was a real good connection between the soundtrack and the show. Also, getting Hardfloor to do a new song for the new movie is really cool.
The standout tracks are obviously "Storywriter", "Get it by your hands", "Tiger track", and "Niji", but all of the OPs/EDs are great and the rest of the soundtrack is also very, very good.
Joshua Cox
Niji is the best use of an insert track I've ever seen. I'm amazed that it wasn't commissioned for the episode, but rather long predates the series. Everything about it is absolutely perfect for that scene and for the series broadly.
John Garcia
>I'm amazed that it wasn't commissioned for the episode, but rather long predates the series
Seriously? I didn't know that at all. I absolutely never would have imagined that it wasn't made for the show; as you said, it's fits so fucking well that, even predating the show, it almost feels like it was destined to be used there.
Caleb Bailey
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1994. Kyoda heard it as a young adult.
Nathaniel Lopez
men of good taste.
Noah Ortiz
Wrong version:
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This release is from 1996, but the track is from 1994.
Matthew Adams
That's so strange to me. I think it's great that Kyoda was so moved by something he heard 10+ years before E7 came out that he included it in the show. It was perfectly synchronized and fit in the best thematic way. I never, ever would have guessed it wasn't simply made for the show
Blake Ortiz
William Lee
The soundtrack of Michiko to Hatchin had absolutely sick tracks.
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This could just as good run in some rageton party thing with bodies grinding at each other.
Also very underrated anime.
Nolan Lopez
Madoka. There isn't a single bad track on the entire OST, each song sounds lovingly and thoughtfully created (whether it be character songs, BGM, or the OP/ED) and it all goes very well thematically.
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Christian Phillips
beat me to it.
un lumiere envoutante still gives me chills
Cooper Foster
Rebellion's soundtrack really is just a joy to listen to. There's all these cool leitmotifs dancing throughout the whole thing I never noticed during the movie, every song is unique and interesting while still fitting with the overall theme. You can kind of track the events of the whole movie too, even if you don't specifically remember which song plays when. Rebellion is such a god damn masterpiece.
Leo Anderson
In fact, I'm going to put it here for anyone to enjoy since you can't find it on youtube without content ID fuckery. mega.nz
Xavier Ramirez
Utena hands down.
Andrew Butler
Madoka is shit, but the OST is a masterpiece
Aiden Myers
user I really like your post. The music that plays when moonies arrive is so good
Julian Carter
Though it doesn't stand up to some of the OST's in the thread, Sayonara Zetsoubou Sensei's fits the show and aesthetic and characters perfectly. The vastly different OPs/EDs too, and the fact that a lot of the music in general has this "older" feel to it. It's great.
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Another great one
Ian Ward
I unironically think Samurai Champloo is one of the best anime soundtracks out there.
Gabriel Martin
Berserk
Initial D
Made in Abyss
Connor Martin
His over-the-top style was a complete fit with KLK's over-the-top nature. I don't see how that guy's wrong.
Carson Gutierrez
Sawano's style is maybe over-the-top on the surface but is really languid and lifeless. He builds up to meaningless climaxes over and over
Hudson Hernandez
Landon Garcia
If you can't identify it as human, the death of shame would not affect you. Even if she's coming around to the idea that the rats are human, it's an imprecise response. It reacted to a monk self mutilating and even an image of a woman superimposed over a burning creature, not to mention it got a reaction from the Messiah despite being at least two degrees of separation from the death.
It could even have gotten to the point that she no longer considered him living.
Michael Barnes
To me those are fine examples of anime OST I enjoyed.
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Jackson Campbell
Overrated? Sure
Also undeniably a genius. You can be both given too much credit and deserve a bunch of it.
Zachary Thomas
The whole reason why the kantus humans mutated the remaining humans into queerrats was precisely because of how visually based it was. They chose the naked molerat as the base not because of any useful characteristics, but because its physique evoked the most disgust without being threatening like a Spider. The mercy-kill was her way of acknowledging his humanity despite being biologically structured to subconsciously view him otherwise.
Carson Reed
They decided to do it after he wrecked the Hornets. The moment they dug up decent evidence he was using cantus, they sent the exterminators.
The mistake was believing that it was a mole or rogue from the village. The exterminators literally run up to her to meet her and are all brutally disintegrated before they realize she's an "Ogre".
Matthew Bell
They can't provide anything of value to them: Their society is effectively post-scarcity. They've intentionally regressed to hone and contain their power.
There's nothing the Queerrats can do for them but kill humans and perform labor that they don't feel like using power for.
Justin Nguyen
Apocrypha's soundtrack was one of the few good things about it. It doesn't really sound Romanian, but it sounds heroic. A delicious mixture of Eastern instruments and Western arrangements - and since the heroes come from all over the world this is logical.
Bentley Hernandez
How did it feel getting fucking rekt by a rat? I was laughing as all of you "gods" died
Justin Flores
This.