Thought-provoking/Emotional VN music

Choose VN music (several if possible) that elicits a strong emotional response then describe a scene that portrays the feeling, or you can simply describe the emotional response in detail (the latter being the lamer). Please provide a link to the piece(s) and the name of the VN if possible, I encourage giving interpretations of a piece(s) if someone else mentioned it beforehand. An example:

Yume Miru Kusuri: Girls are made of Cake Frosting

Brings to mind a haphazardly joyful girl dancing erratically but elegantly in a motionless and silent meadow, as if the world froze just to watch her frolic. It feels like she would vanish if one glances away from the smile on her tranquil face. Did I mention she has a massive rack and was incredibly gorgeous? Well now I did.

I haven't played many VNs, but Saya no Uta has always been my favorite.

Song of Saya

Shoes of Glass


And as an honorable mention, a guitar cover of the soundtrack Sin from Saya no Uta. I feel this cover managed to capture the entire energy of the story perfectly. From beginning to climax to end. I can envision the entire story when listening to this.

The erratic, but elegant dancing imagery eludes me. I'm wondering if I would understand your interpretation a bit more if I read Yume Miru Kusuri.

For me, the song gives off an indoor-esque feel. The piano and the acoustic sound that is played in the middle makes it feel like this is something you might hear at a laid back cafe in a quiet summer day. It helps that the melody gives off a jazzy feel to it.



I would like to say I did not understand your interpretation of this song until I reached towards the end. The turning point where it switches to a dominant guitar definitely invokes a sort of climax. I have not personally read saya, but I've heard enough about it to have some bias on my interpretation.

To me it sounds like the ticking of someone's patience. The tension that builds up almost becomes redundant, but when the climax hits, it feels like you understand. Chaos descends, the patience is broken, and along with that, the sanity of that someone. This is intensified by the repeating chords at the very end. It's as if that someone burned out. It is was comes after the chaos. It is a feeling of emptiness.

As for my own submission...



This song plays in the VN Narcissu, which happens to be among one of my all time favorites.

To me, this song is the epitome of many negatives. Sorrow, loneliness, and regret. Throughout the song, the tone and general melody carries through. There is no climax; the melody simply continues to cycle. That repetition feels like it adds to the core of the song in that it brings about a type of sadness that does not get resolved.

Anyways, for me this brings to mind the scene of a girl laying on a hospital bed all alone. She's in a white room with her window open and the curtains are ever so lightly flowing from the breeze outside. She looks out the window and sees a freedom she would never reach and tears flow down her eyes, but she doesn't let out a sound. She's letting her tears run silently down her face because she's accepted the fact that her life will have no climax or resolution outside of her death.

I've only played a handful of VNs, an all time favorite of mines being Hoshizora no Memoria. The OST was pretty fitting but this song is one that really stuck with me.


Well the song signified a huge conflict resolving which usually had a bitter-sweet feel about it. I don't really know of a way to express how the song went about transmitting that feeling or rather, if it was a scene making me relate the feeling to the song. Either way I found listening to it both relaxing and exhausting.

I'm actually surprised nobody picked G-senjou no Maou early on, even more so that nobody wants to pick Air on the G-string. I'm not one of those pretentious pricks that say old is better, I just like good music.

Dra+koi was a good pick, it's another one of those songs that's simple in structure yet profound. Nitroplus strutting their stuff again.

On a side note it's probably better just to change this into a "favorite VN music" thread, since it's easier.

Your interpretation is pretty accurate.

Dammit. You sure know how to translate music into words, Narcissu's leitmotif is one of the reasons I can't play that game anymore - it's just too heartwrenching, first time I played Side 2nd I was bawling like a child.

Anyway, here's my entry, 'Gravestone' from Muv-Luv (this is mainly the song that plays on the main screen of Chronicles):



Truth be told, this is a rather minor song when compared with others from Muv-Luv, but to me, it qualifies as a sort of anthem to Unlimited/The Day After and any depressing /m/ show: I picture it as hopelesness at its finest, as the bloody end of a conflict from the point of view of the defeated. The war is lost, there's no hope nor glory left in the weary combatants, people who by now have nothing to lose, resigned to go out with the loudest bang possible in what will be their last stand - maybe praying that even in the darkest hour, their sacrifice will not be completely in vain.

;_;7