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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rui" data-source="post: 617688" data-attributes="member: 2">Good thread!I'm really bad at picking up on background music unless it's really unsubtle (Sawano's vocal tracks are great for that, as are classic Kajiura songs) so I often don't notice the composer. Which is weird because I'm a massive collector of soundtracks. The Megalobox OST is a great call because that one was impossible to ignore while watching the show; it lifted all of the intense scenes up so well. I didn't like the more mellow, artistic music in the second season quite as much because I'm a simply soul who likes their music dramatic!The Macross Frontier stuff was also Yoko Kanno, if I recall correctly, though it was a mixed bag for me with May'n's songs easily the best part. I'm not as fond of Kanno's overall output as many but Macross Plus, as mentioned above, was a standout. It was one of the rare OSTs to be readily available in music shops in the UK back in the old days, along with - strangely - the Lodoss soundtracks and a couple of other experiments.Kenji Kawai's best work, for me, was the music he did for Seirei No Moribito. One of the OSTs went out of print by the time I watched the show and realised I liked it so I had a devil of a time tracking it down across Japan. It was worth the wait.In the interest of contributing a new name to the thread, I'd like to nominate J.A. Seazer's soundtracks for Revolutionary Girl Utena/Shoujo Kakumei Utena. They took the music in a completely different direction to pretty much any other show at the time and his weird, weird sense of atmosphere is one of the reasons it's such a classic. I still sing along with the show in spite of myself. There are loads of individual battle songs and they're all gorgeously melodramatic. I have a type. Most Ikuhara shows seem to incorporate strong soundtracks.(While slightly off topic, since it's a theme song, this thread has reminded me to pick up the excellent Kageki Shoujo!! ending CD in my next order. I had been wondering whether it was by a musical composer since it's such a good fit for the style of the show and it turns out that it's Tsuneyoshi Saitou. I'd never really noticed/rated his work for anime before - he's turned in a fair number of scores - but it seems that he's composed quite a few actual Takarazuka Revue songs in his time too. Perhaps I should pay him closer attention in future.)R</blockquote>

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