A visual novel soundtrack that wears its season on its sleeve. AQUA by SORAHANE is a 2011 Windows title, and CONCERTO OF SUMMER wraps its entire identity around sun-drenched nostalgia. "EVERLASTING BLUE" opens with the kind of sweeping melodic ambition that tells you this score takes itself seriously, and hearing it return in three different arrangements -- the Concerto of summer rework, the vocal track "TRANSPARENT," and a bare Piano Solo version -- shows how much weight that single theme carries.
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The middle section is where daily life lives. "Holiday with you" has that warm, lazy afternoon glow, "Poetry on the sand" evokes beach scenes without resorting to cliches, and "Orange" captures the golden-hour feeling that the best slice-of-life VNs are built on.
But it's not all sunshine -- "There is nothing again" and "Not connected" pull the mood into something lonelier, more reflective, the kind of quiet melancholy that hits when summer starts fading. "Symphony of Steel" and "Machinery Heaven" hint at a harder edge buried in the narrative, mechanical textures cutting through the pastoral atmosphere.
The vocal tracks "TRANSPARENT" and "SUMMER DAYS" bookend things with proper J-pop polish. For fans of VN soundtracks that commit fully to a mood and hold it for twenty-nine tracks without breaking, this one delivers.