A mobile game about fishing in space and the soundtrack actually sells that concept. Sora to Umi no Aida's fifth soundtrack CD, composed by Yasushi Asada and Ryo Shirasawa, leans into this playful adventurous tone that matches the absurdity of catching cosmic sea creatures with guardian deities.
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"Space Fishery" has this bouncy momentum that makes you feel like you're actually reeling something in from orbit. "Approaching A Big Thing!" ramps up the tension perfectly. "Hope" opens with something earnest and warm. The track names alone tell a story.
Short collection, eleven tracks, but it captures that cheerful mobile game loop where you keep telling yourself just one more cast before the game shut down in 2019.