Mid-2000s visual novel music with surprisingly warm compositions tucked inside a silly premise. Sengoku no Imouto is exactly what it sounds like, seven little sisters in the Sengoku era, but the soundtrack actually commits.
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Spring Garden Music opens with this gentle, pastoral melody that feels like sunlight through shoji screens. War Paragraph and Ken fuu doudou shift into more serious territory with traditional instruments and driving rhythms that sell the wartime setting.
Scattering Blossoms is bittersweet in that quiet way Japanese VN soundtracks do so well. Seven Younger Sisters Gagaku closes things out with actual gagaku court music arrangements and it's kind of wonderful. Together with an Elder Brother is just...
tender. If you play niche Japanese PC games and appreciate when a small soundtrack punches way above its budget, give this a spin.