Punchy piano riffs and restless percussion that sound like creative ambition turned into music. Bakuman's second OST keeps the energy of the anime's second season firing on all cylinders. Tracks like "Kibou to Netsubou" hit with this desperate hopefulness, while "Suspense to Pride" goes full thriller mode.
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And then "Aoba to Junjou" just quietly wrecks you. The whole album runs on contrasts. Every track title is literally two opposing ideas joined by "to," and the compositions follow that same push-pull logic. Bright determination crashing into anxiety, warmth folding into doubt.
The kind of soundtrack that makes you want to stay up drawing manga even though you can't draw. If you ever needed motivation fuel disguised as anime scoring, this is it.