Bright, bubbly synth-pop melodies bouncing off each other like sunshine. Cheerfull! is a 2007 visual novel, and the original soundtrack commits fully to that upbeat, heart-on-sleeve energy the genre does so well. "Hopping Sun!"
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is relentlessly cheerful with peppy keyboard lines and a tempo that refuses to slow down. "Dance Floor of the Starry Sky" closes things out with sparkling arpeggios and a dreamy rhythm. "Drifting Darkness" is the one track that dips into something somber, and it hits harder because everything else around it glows.
Twenty-one tracks covering the full emotional spectrum of a story-driven VN. If you want background music that alternates between making you smile and quietly wrecking you, this does both.