Warm strings and piano hitting harder than a fantasy anime score has any right to. Kyou kara Maou's original 2004 soundtrack sets up every character theme that would carry the series forward. Seishun gives Yuri this hopeful melody that sticks for days.
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Keikai lays down Wolfram's theme with an edge, a little prickly, a little proud. Hateshinaku Tooi Sora ni opens and closes the album, vocal then instrumental, and both land. Battle tracks like Sentou and Hadou bring intensity without losing the emotional thread.
Seisou gives Conrad a composed, noble feel while Youen makes Cecilie sound exactly as glamorous as she is. The character work here is so specific. For when you want anime score music that makes you care about fictional people at unreasonable hours.