Bright, sparkling synth melodies right out of early 2000s PC visual novels. Karen is a 2003 Windows title and this soundtrack carries that era's specific brand of earnest emotion. "Summer Rainbow" opens things up with this hopeful, colorful tone that immediately sets the mood.
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"Let's Go To School!" is exactly the upbeat daily life track you'd expect, bouncy and wholesome. Then you get to "Poem of the Century's End" and suddenly things feel way heavier. There's real weight in that title alone. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" sits in this dreamy middle ground between romance and melancholy.
The whole OST has that early 2000s MIDI-adjacent warmth that modern production sometimes loses. If you're chasing that specific nostalgic feeling of mid-2000s PC games, start here.