Warm piano and soft acoustic guitars that sound like sunlight through a classroom window. Kimi ga Ita Kisetsu is a PC visual novel from 2011, and its soundtrack nails that gentle slice-of-life feeling without ever getting boring.
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"穏やかな日常" (Calm Everyday) is the kind of track that makes you stop scrolling and just listen. "全力サマー！" bursts in with this goofy summer energy that completely changes the pace. There are 29 tracks here and they cover a lot of emotional ground.
"傷心" hits with genuine sadness, quiet and restrained, while "Road to dream" picks things back up with careful optimism. The instrumental version of the title theme ties it all together. "Sweet moment" and "Macho angel" sit right next to each other on the tracklist and that contrast is kind of perfect.
Tender and ridiculous in the same breath. If you need background music for feeling nostalgic about a school year you never actually had, start here.