Four vocal tracks and every single one of them goes harder than expected. Gun-Katana's Song Archives is a tiny album from a mid-2000s Windows visual novel, and it commits fully to that dramatic J-pop meets rock sound that was everywhere in eroge at the time.
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"Raison d'etre" opens with conviction, the kind of vocal performance that makes you look up the singer. "CHAIN" keeps the energy aggressive and forward-moving, tight arrangement with no wasted space. "Nemuri no Mayu" (Cocoon of Sleep) slows things down into something dreamlike and uneasy, fitting the title perfectly.
Then "Mugen no Nemuri" (Eternal Sleep) closes with weight and finality. Four songs, zero filler, the whole thing is done in maybe fifteen minutes. Worth the listen if you appreciate VN vocal tracks that actually stand alone as songs.