A browser game soundtrack that has zero business sounding this polished. Touken Ranbu Online's first attendant song collection by Akiko Shikata and Haruki Mori gives every sword character a personal theme and the range is wild.
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Kashuu Kiyomitsu's track is sleek and stylish with a confident pulse. Mikazuki Munechika gets something ancient and unhurried, dripping with old-world elegance. Yamanbagiri Kunihiro's piece carries this weight of self-doubt that genuinely surprised me.
Then Heshikiri Hasebe snaps in all sharp and dutiful. Nineteen tracks, nineteen personalities, all from a free-to-play web game. If you play Touken Ranbu and haven't sat down with the attendant songs on their own you're seriously missing out.