Bach arrangements sitting next to summer heat and teenage panic. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time has Kiyoshi Yoshida weaving Goldberg Variations into this delicate anime film score from 2006, and it works way better than it has any right to.
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"Summer Night ~Opening Theme~" immediately puts you in that humid, golden-hour headspace. Then "Wind-up Clock ~Time Leap" introduces this fragile mechanical tension that just tightens every time she jumps. "Memory of the Future" is the gut punch, so quiet it barely exists but it stays with you.
The way "Garnet" closes everything out. If you cried at this movie, the soundtrack will absolutely do it again.