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Baldr Heart - Innocence and Emptiness

Today's day is brought to you by... 4 waifus vs. 1.

Match-up analysis:

If this was a site-wide Character Battle, this would be the Legends Bracket: The beginning of the definitive overall results at an extraordinary level of power and quality compositions.

...For the most part (you know, you'll almost always have a character there that you think shouldn't be there, but maybe you also agree that most of the popular characters there are just... extremely cool). Maybe I got a little carried away with this obvious comparison, but at least that's the kind of hype I was getting by just listening to Innocence and Emptiness building up in my head while writing this.

Speaking of which, I&E has a kind of uninteresting first quarter IMO, but it also serves as a pretty good build-up for what comes next, which I think helps it way more than it hurts it. It gets progressively more and more accommodated, as well as sounding more "complete" in a way as time goes on and the melody blasts at full power. It may have been a rather overlooked piece from my part in the past rounds, maybe for the context in which it was in (you aren't hyped enough like in later rounds), but listening to it now, carefully and with more attention, really makes me appreciate it a lot more. It gives you a "look, there's a huge battle coming at just around the corner, but take heart - you have the power of us, your friends, behind you; we will beat this thing together!!" kind of vibe.

Contrast it with Douwa Kairou, which is a pretty good and solid rock song by itself, but lacks a lot of charm and emotion behind it. There's actually nothing wrong with it (musically speaking, it's great), but that's simply not enough at this point of the round if you want to get away with victory. There's also not much excuse to make it so short if we're taking into account that the song itself literally has percussions, guitar riffs and bass lines everywhere. It makes it seem like it has also a lack of direction, which is actually a huge deal considering that its rival literally has a build-up greater than 2 minutes to make up for an amazing 7-minute song (when normally, as I've said many times in previous write-ups, it's really dangerous to make a song longer than 4:30 without a loop since a long duration can actually hinder the overall quality of the song [but hey, don't take my word as a musical expert, 'cause that's not my intention; it's just a personal observation I've come to realize lately]).

Now, I'm not saying that you have to follow I&E's steps specifically to make up for an amazing song. Blasting off like Douwa Kairou does is great in its own regard; it's just a matter of perception (and, of course, taste).

Oh, and... the girl with purple hair at the left is too attractive, so...

Un-Guiltiness and Un-Fullness >> Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru
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