Bright, springtime energy bursting out of every track like cherry blossoms in fast forward. Koiharu Adolescence is a 2014 Windows VN, and its sound album covers the full spectrum of high school romance feelings. Spring Time Spring!
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opens with vocal pop that just radiates first-day-of-the-semester optimism. hopstepdance! is pure bouncy fun, the kind of track that plays when everything is going right. Close yet far slows things down into something aching and honest.
That distance between almost-together and actually-together. csikos post sneaks in there as a weirdly energetic classical reference. And then you get White Christmas ni Akogarete tucking in seasonal warmth near the end. For anyone who wants a VN soundtrack that captures every awkward, exciting, terrifying feeling of a first crush, this album has all of it.