Bouncy, chaotic, cartoon-science-experiment energy blasting out of every track. WandabaStyle is a 2003 anime about a kid genius trying to reach the moon, and the soundtrack matches that absurd premise note for note. Fracastorius opens things up with this frantic pace that never really lets go.
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Clavius' Melancholy hits different, pulling back into something surprisingly emotional between all the comedy. Then MOON de GO! GO! comes in as the TV size closer and it's pure sugar-rush J-pop. Every track is named after lunar craters and features, which is a wild detail.
Twenty-one tracks of mood whiplash. Throw this on if you need proof that anime soundtracks from the early 2000s were built different.