Five episodes of voice drama capped off by one vocal track that hits way harder than it has any right to. This is the drama CD tie-in for Circus's SUIKA, the Dreamcast visual novel about overlapping summer stories, and the vocal version of "Natsu no Owari ni" carries this bittersweet end-of-summer ache that lingers.
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The drama episodes themselves play out like audio theater, each chapter building on the last with the cast bouncing off each other in this beach trip storyline. Very much a companion piece rather than a standalone listen.
That final vocal track though. If SUIKA's summer melancholy ever got under your skin, this is the epilogue you didn't know you needed.