Orchestral swell that sounds like Ryuichi Sakamoto scoring a space race nobody believes in. Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise dropped in 1987 and the soundtrack still carries that analog warmth of real instruments recorded to tape.
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"Riquinni's Theme" is devastating in how simple it is, a quiet faith in something bigger. "Distant Thunder" rumbles underneath with the threat of a war nobody wants but everyone expects. Then "Shitotsugh's Decision" pulls it all together, one man choosing to mean something.
"Out to space" lands the finale and you can hear the gravity fall away. For anyone who wants to remember what anime film scores sounded like before everything went digital.