Dark strings and traditional Japanese instrumentation bleeding into something uneasy. Harukanaru Toki no Naka de's drama CDs on PlayStation pulled from the same well as the game, all Heian-era atmosphere and supernatural tension.
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This fourth volume, Seiran no Maki, only has six tracks but they're dense. The chapter titles read like poetry. "Mujouu Sakki" (Transient Demon Slayer) hits with this weight that the short runtime can't contain. "Akanesasu Kagerou" closes the story side with a haze that lingers.
The two short version songs, Hotaru no Tourou and Utsusemi no Koi, feel like fragments pulled from something larger. Vocal pieces trimmed down but still carrying all that longing. For anyone curious what early 2000s otome drama CDs sounded like, this is concentrated melancholy in six tracks.