Ten tracks of late-90s Dreamcast whimsy from a game that barely made a ripple outside Japan. Manamoon's 1999 soundtrack has the kind of offbeat creative energy that only the Dreamcast era could foster, with track names like "Octopus Daughter" and "My Love, Marshmallow" signaling a game that exists in its own reality.
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"Spiral Da-Hi!" opens with an exclamation mark for a reason, bringing peppy energy right out of the gate. "Time Is Flowing Slowly" and "Looking Up The Blue Sky" pull back into contemplative territory, while the self-titled "Manamoon" anchors the whole thing as the thematic centerpiece.
"A Huge Pocket In Space" suggests cosmic ambitions despite the game's modest profile. At just ten tracks, there's no filler here. "Which One Of The Twins" and "No.128" add mystery, and "Fifteen Seconds" feels like a countdown to something you can't quite name.
A compact, quirky Dreamcast curiosity that's worth tracking down for anyone who collects obscure late-90s Japanese game music.