mars is good and definitely the best shade song in the contest alice schach is good and definitely the best alice schach in the contest (please keep adding more alice schach songs to contests thanks) this was a tough match to decide in my favourites bracket so it's not a huge surprise that i nearly flipped on it here. rooting for both
there are specific things move me does and has that elevates the song for me a good deal beyond many other ridge racer songs so i'm glad to see it back on the other hand, this genshin song is not exactly one that i go and say "yes!!! this is the best genshin impact hoyoverse song i've heard in my life" but that doesn't really matter because genshin is just super consistent no matter where you look. glad it's here too another tough match, was a liiiittle bit easier after relistens but sheesh
i've already said this before but this xmen song is like, a ketsui song but with some... i think battle garegga, night slave and cattle mutilation attached to it, which is an impressive vibe to achieve in just one minute especially considering none of those games existed then lol. also it's still kind of funny to me that like, i was thinking about picking a technouchi song from cotton rock n roll since, of all the composers in it, i didn't really expect anyone to nominate anything else from him at all, and then... this not only got nominated but is also in good song. unexpectedly felt a bit pokemon dp? a little while in. even for toby, it impresses me that he was able to make such a memorable ending theme-esque song without even making it an ending theme lol easiest decision of the day for me mostly since the xmen song manages to pack as many things i like (if not more) into its significantly shorter runtime, but i still like cyber's world a lot. i haven't seen votes so this is coming out of my ass but i also feel like it's going to win pretty easily, though i don't mind at all tbh
overall great day, i had ratings but i feel like i still underrated half of them and they should all be around at least 8 tbh
i still want to try that other technouchi song again next year though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlNB-74TbHY