Bright and bouncy with a warm school-life glow. Inpyuri is a 2013 Windows visual novel about humans and ayakashi, and the soundtrack swings between cheerful slice-of-life and emotional gut punches. "Happy School Life" is exactly what it sounds like, all sunshine energy, while "Hikari Sae Todokanai" drops into this heavy, suffocating darkness.
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"Tsukiyo Ni Futari De" sits somewhere in between, quiet and romantic under moonlight. "Konran! Kyouran! Daiharan!" brings the chaos with frantic energy when things go sideways. Then "Hidamari No Naka De" pulls you back to warmth like nothing happened.
The range from cute to devastating is real. Twenty-two tracks that cover every mood a romance VN needs and then some. Great background listening if you miss that mid-2010s VN sound.