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Well, there definitely are some very appealing lyrics in that translation:

There's no salvation here
Hurry up and come back
[...]
A perfect performance and a perfect life
Nobody knows how my childhood was

But it's still pretty easily the weakest vocal performance of her three songs I listened to, so I'm not sure exactly how much it helps.... I'd probably raise the score to something like "56.9001" giving it a bit of a boost, but arguably not as much as one would expect from the lyrics.

And Ken is definitely very good at what he does and that's certainly a far more popular style of lyrics than what I tend to be drawn to, so I'm not really judging on an objective level.

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Five more songs from this section of the list before I take a little break. I need to take care of this week's Rank the Tracks tomorrow because I may be very busy on Wednesday; will be back either Thursday or Friday, most likely.

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Ikikae Rururu - Change!! (composer: Namba Ken):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX0Z8B9c6KA

Estimated Score: 87.00

Hmm... well, I don't care for the intro with its record skipping like effect that keeps playing the same little bit over and over. The choruses are also a bit too happy, though I do like them. But I really love the verses... to a point that I'm seriously considering giving a full 90 points anyway. But, I think I'll start the score at 87; enough to be in provisional third place, but just a bit below that tier.

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Sesera Shikino - Yakusoku no Sora. (composer: Namba Ken):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOT8puBkpN4

Estimated Score: 55.46

The lyrics are sweet. Lots of holding hands, hugging, and traveling together. Very sweet and I think they work well. Unfortunately, i'm not really a fan of hers... her voice feels kinda weak and distant. It's not exactly bad, and it's possible that I'm undervaluing her because she has the misfortune of following the current third place song, but I feel like "kinda like" is as much as I want to say about it right now. Though, I would look forward to listening to it in context of other songs at that tier, as there definitely have been a lot of songs that I've underscored due to the greatness of the track that immediately preceded them & I'd want to make sure that's not the case here before definitively sticking it at this tier.

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Phil (amp_movie) - colors (composer: Namba Ken):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AHathB5FPU

Estimated Score: 53.26

It's fine.

I want to cast a spell and dye everything
In my own color
Pastel pink dream

I kinda like that part of the lyrics, but... well, it's one of those "fine enough" songs.

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Pleiades - Magical Party Night. (composer: Namba Ken):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIt09tLnM9s

Estimated Score: 77.28

Always weird when I try to Google a song and get directed back to this topic. Also, I prefer AIM's old jingle over this new one. I'm not factoring that into the score, I just really liked the old one and I'm kinda sad I didn't get to hear it this time. Moving on to the actual song:

I actually like this song quite a bit. Dancing and partying aren't exactly my things, but I like the smoothness of the groove here. It's very mellow in a way that's very relaxing... I don't like the break in the song where everyone is rapidly talking over the instrumental, it's way too busy for how chill the rest of the song is. But it's short enough and the voices quiet enough that it doesn't hold things back too much. Well done song here.

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Shimanaga Ena - Futari. (composer: Namba Ken):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEtv_KCbfcU

Estimated Score: 64.03

Pleasingly sad.

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