![Yuki Kajiura - Dream of the lost days [ Sword Art Online: Alicization ] @EpicAnimeOST](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ggZiUd14t4M/sddefault.jpg)
Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Its a very sweet, melodious and an ambient~ish track.
I really like those xylophone~ish tunes (I don't exactly know if its a xylophone or not) with soft piano in the background. There is also a very calm sound in the background apart from those xylophone~ish and piano sounds which adds a little ambient theme to this track. Sometimes it just feels like there is a vocal choir in that theme. The tune itself is quite nice to hear, with a little touch of emotions. There isn't much going on in this track and it sticks to one set theme and tune, but still is a fairly nice track to hear in my opinion.
There are quite a few uploads from Alicization I have to do so this series will be there for around a month on this channel (PS: I am keeping the next best track for me in SAO as the last upload)
When it comes to these type of tracks in SAO, for me "Gracefully" from SAO Season 1 still stands at the top.
Our rating of this track : 7.5/10
Overall rating of this anime in terms of its background music : 10/10
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Text file containing soundtrack name and timestamp from the show : pastebin.com/u9PfvB3H
Its a very sweet, melodious and an ambient~ish track.
I really like those xylophone~ish tunes (I don't exactly know if its a xylophone or not) with soft piano in the background. There is also a very calm sound in the background apart from those xylophone~ish and piano sounds which adds a little ambient theme to this track. Sometimes it just feels like there is a vocal choir in that theme. The tune itself is quite nice to hear, with a little touch of emotions. There isn't much going on in this track and it sticks to one set theme and tune, but still is a fairly nice track to hear in my opinion.
There are quite a few uploads from Alicization I have to do so this series will be there for around a month on this channel (PS: I am keeping the next best track for me in SAO as the last upload)
When it comes to these type of tracks in SAO, for me "Gracefully" from SAO Season 1 still stands at the top.
Our rating of this track : 7.5/10
Overall rating of this anime in terms of its background music : 10/10
Discord : discord.gg/DUybwmF
Background: tinyurl.com/yxlyux4g
Text file containing soundtrack name and timestamp from the show : pastebin.com/u9PfvB3H
![Yuki Kajiura - Dream of the lost days [ Sword Art Online: Alicization ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ggZiUd14t4M/mqdefault.jpg "Yuki Kajiura - Dream of the lost days [ Sword Art Online: Alicization ]
Its a very sweet, melodious and an ambient~ish track.
I really like those xylophone~ish tunes (I dont exactly know if its a xylophone or not) with soft piano in the background. There is also a very calm sound in the background apart from those xylophone~ish and piano sounds which adds a little ambient theme to this track. Sometimes it just feels like there is a vocal choir in that theme. The tune itself is quite nice to hear, with a little touch of emotions. There isnt much going on in this track and it sticks to one set theme and tune, but still is a fairly nice track to hear in my opinion.
There are quite a few uploads from Alicization I have to do so this series will be there for around a month on this channel (PS: I am keeping the next best track for me in SAO as the last upload)
When it comes to these type of tracks in SAO, for me Gracefully from SAO Season 1 still stands at the top.
Our rating of this track : 7.5/10
Overall rating of this anime in terms of its background music : 10/10
Discord : https://discord.gg/DUybwmF
Background: https://tinyurl.com/yxlyux4g
Text file containing soundtrack name and timestamp from the show : https://pastebin.com/u9PfvB3H")
![Yuki Kajiura - Climbing up the wall [ Sword Art Online: Alicization ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/h1DyKPQ85OQ/mqdefault.jpg "Yuki Kajiura - Climbing up the wall [ Sword Art Online: Alicization ]
I instantly became a fan of this track the first time I heard this in episode 10 (a different unreleased version of this track played in that part).
The melody of this track (start at the end) just sounds very good in my opinion. The track is slow, calm and has kind of an Adventure type of feeling to it, at least in the main tunes of this track. The flutes form the main melody and I believe the cello along with drums (with little harp) form a nice background with the same tune overall. My favourite part from this track will always be how that main tune completes itself. The part I am talking about can be heard at 0:17, 0:40 etc. While stirctly only listening to these parts might not give a nice feel, but how these parts bring an end to the previous music genuinely sounds really great.
The middle part of this track (from 0:48) plays a modified version of Swordland track from original SAO, which well at this point basically stands as sort of main theme for all SAO shows that have come and will be coming in future. It would be nice to see how that theme is modified for coming SAOs (if any). Its so nice to see that they used the same instruments that play the main parts of this track for the swordland part as well (Cello flute drums and harp).
(Extra notes)
Choosing the background was really hard for this track, I had some thoughts of using the alice background where she was sitting under the tree, but overall that just did not sit right with me. Then another thought was again revolving around alice and taking the scene when this track was played in episode 10, and well the camera angle was either top down and too zoomed in on alices face. Ended up with this one, with a little photoshop. Not super satisfied or anything, but I felt this one was better in combination with track than the other ones I was aiming for.
Also Ill update the text file for previous shows after the next upload (which is the last of main uploads from SAO:A).
Our rating of this track : 9/10
Overall rating of this anime in terms of its background music : 10/10
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Text file containing soundtrack name and timestamp from the show : https://pastebin.com/u9PfvB3H")
![Shin Hashimoto - Confrontation [ Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/h3Zjh0Ih3x0/mqdefault.jpg "Shin Hashimoto - Confrontation [ Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These ]
This time, an ambient track.
I really like the original Legend of galactic heroes show (the 110 episodes one), and this one just refreshed the memory nicely, along with great animation and awesome CG spacefights.
I like this track for the kind of in a pinch atmosphere it creates. Its a really nice theme that sounds good and goes well with all those brainstorming as well as plotting schemes type of scenes in the show. The rapid piano notes add a troublesomeness to the atmosphere and then later when the low bass and (I think) cello hits, they add additional intensity, which really in total make nice theme.
Its a fairly simple track without any extra elements and different tunes, it follows a single melody, which is what most ambient tracks are made of. Its just how well that tune fits the theme and sounds is what sometimes make ambient tracks like these worth the notice.
Our rating of this track : 7/10
Overall rating of this anime in terms of its background music : 8.5/10
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Discord : https://discord.gg/DUybwmF")
![Yutaka Yamada - Flashpoint / 火種 [ Vinland Saga ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hId6eByjTO0/mqdefault.jpg "Yutaka Yamada - Flashpoint / 火種 [ Vinland Saga ]
Following up what I announced last week, I took a few hours (around 3~) out today and tried to search for vinland tracks I marked, only to find that few of them are unreleased. Sigh~
A lot of vinland tracks are extremely long, going upto 6 minutes. It leads me to believe that the entire tracks were never really used in the episodes, only snippets and sometimes even those snippets were edited for tv versions. The tracks itself are really amazing and the orchestral composition is nothing short of masterpiece, however it really gave me huge problem to find tracks since its very hard to find the exact piece of tune that caught you attention in the episode in such a long track.
Anyway, I am fairly sure about what I have marked so here is the first of total two (maybe 3) that I wanted to upload.
First thing, in the initial half of this track I was getting extreme vibes of Shenzhou track from the movie called Gravity, especially at the 1:49 with the way those violin notes change. But yeah, I would not say its a copy, its just that small snippet for me matched quite a bit with that track.
The composition itself is really nice, it starts off slowly with those piano notes, and then slowly violins and cellos come in. There is also a nice constant drum snare like sound (not drum snare exactly) starting from 0:28 which is pretty nice. I like how the parts are kind of divided by the drums. A drum snare comes in and then the track adds more stuff to itself like at 0:56. After 0:56, the horns come in with those soft piano and violins making a great pre-war and filled with emotions kind of atmosphere. It continues till 2:08 where first half of the track reaches its conclusion.
The track again slows down, with a little ambient atmosphere made by piano I think. The tune again starts to pick up around 2:25 with I believe two phases of violin (or either cello or violin or something like that). One plays a continuous tune and the other produces rapid notes in the background. I am always a huge fan of these type of rapid notes, they just add so much in the track for me. The track fully picks up at around 3:05 with drums this time and a little modified tune than first half. The really amazing part is at 3:33, where if you listen closely you can hear a violin tune in the background playing different notes fast. The way there are different layers of instruments in this track is genuinely amazing to hear, and it took me quite some time to notice all this. I am pretty sure there is much more, and there are some instruments which I do not know but I just wanted to talk a bit about what I really liked in this track.
PS: Yeah the text files for a lot of shows is still pending, Ill upload them definitely, when is the question that I do not know the answer myself, but soon XD. If you are really looking for that, feel free to head to my discord server and drop me a PM.
Our rating of this track : 8/10
Overall rating of this anime in terms of its background music : 8/10
Discord : https://discord.gg/DUybwmF
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Text file containing soundtrack name and timestamp from the show : https://pastebin.com/LBP2xbKM")
![Hiroaki Tsutsumi - Samurai in the sky [ Kuromukuro ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hRO2SCesBX8/mqdefault.jpg "Hiroaki Tsutsumi - Samurai in the sky [ Kuromukuro ]
Kuromukuro had a few tracks that I marked, but the main part which I really liked in all of them was directly related to the main theme, and the other parts did not really stand out.
This track I consider to be the main action theme, and decided Ill only be going with this as the main weekly upload, others may follow in the SP series (Some time lol).
I decided to trim the 20~ish second intro of this track because I just feel it to be disconnected from the rest of the track. Sure the overall theme of the intro is still representative of how this shows tracks are in general, but still it didnt really connect to the theme of this track.
Definitely the 0:02 to 1:25 stands as the highlight of this track, as is also my favourite. The theme is really pumpy and follows a really awesome tune that is great to hear. Apart from the main highlight, the 2:12 reproduction of the same part is really great as well. I really loved the melody when I first heard it in the show ( I actually noticed it in the 17th episode, dont really remember it playing before that but I really think It just might have skipped my notice initially).
The track has a really strong and amazing buildup at 0:02 which really is pretty hyping. And then the main theme kicks in at 0:32, the theme is really amazing to hear. The tune is really catchy, especially the tune at 0:32 to 0:56. The violins, trumpets, horns, and most importantly the background vocals. I really like this track overall.
Our rating of this track : 810
Overall rating of this anime in terms of its background music : 8/10
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Discord : https://discord.gg/DUybwmF
Text file with soundtrack and episode timestamps: https://pastebin.com/p1AkjfDM")
![Yoshiaki Dewa - Uroko Sama no Monogatari [ Nagi no Asukara ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hmySh8rmbbk/mqdefault.jpg "Yoshiaki Dewa - Uroko Sama no Monogatari [ Nagi no Asukara ]
This is definitely my favourite track from the entire show, and surprisingly, it was a track that I almost did not notice in the show if I had not gone back to rewatch the scene.
It was just total luck that I actually went back to the scene to read the subtitles again and I noticed this track. The scene itself was extremely amazing and I was so engrossed in the show that I never noticed anything else that might have been going on.
Soon as I noticed this track, at first I was like this is a fair track. I and probably many other people could hear a resemblance between this tracks first half and witcher 3s track called kaer morhen. However the second half of the track was so good, I genuinely got goosebumps at the second half with that piano tune. While this track also has a fair contrast between the first and second half, this time however I feel a sense of continuity in the track which does not make it seem like two different tracks. The overall atmosphere is very well maintained throughout the first half, the middle transition and the second half.
The track starts off with some really nice and melodious guitar notes, with I think some Chinese string instrument ( I guess pipa ) supporting it in the background. Both go really well together and make a really nice sort of a medieval theme which goes really nice with the story being told at the time it was played in the show (especially in the last episode where the background of this video is also from). The tune is very soothing and quite straightforward with no sort of over the top complexities. Just a simple and very calming and melodious tune.
At 0:44, another instrument is added to the same tune adding a different sort of variation to the tune. I think its from the xylophone family, i am guessing a marimba but not sure.
This new instrument only comes in for a short while upto 1:09 and then the track shifts into a sort of a middle part or as I like to call it a transition phase. The track still has that acoustic guitar in the background, but this time very much dampened and muffled. Also piano is added in this part, which is why I call it a transition part as it has the elements of the previous tune, as well as the tune after it playing together in a really nice and soft manner. The tune however is different from both the first part and the coming part, but in no way incoherent. Its very subtle and complements the atmosphere really nicely.
This transition part ends at 1:37 and oh boy the actual best part of the track starts off at this time. I genuinely have no words how much I absolutely loved this part of the track in that scene in the last episode. This was also the reason I never probably noticed the track was because the first half of the track was something that was nice but not really that grabbing for me. The scene in the show was so grabbing that I probably never really got to notice the change in the track in background. I genuinely wholeheartedly love this second half of the track so much. The guitar plays the prelude to the main tune of the second half extremely well not to mention those very very soft and almost quiet violins in the background that complement the guitar and the entire second half.
I absolutely love these sort of small parts of tune being placed out apart from each other. What I mean by this is from 1:37 you can see the music come, and then it takes a pause for a second, and then the tune continues again. Its like sort small bursts of guitar where it plays the small section, then pauses for a second, then continues. I absolutely fell for this.
Not to mention when the track goes into the main tune of the second half at 2:01, absolutely marvelous. The piano tune is so soft and soothing and very emotional. The guitar in the background is so amazing and if you notice it more, you will realize the guitars are actually playing the tune they played in the first half. Absolutely no words for those soft violins complementing the emotional atmosphere so well. Definitely the piano tune will be the highlight, but I can definitely say all the instruments in this main part have an equally important role and absolutely nothing feels out of place.
That very small transition from the prelude of the second half to the main tune from 1:58 to 2:01 was also really really nice with that piano taking it up from that time and going into the main theme. Whats even better is how the track goes up a notch at 2:25 with that piano run from high to low notes. And at last, if listened closely, there is also another instrument, very very faint in the background with a sort of sound that I am not sure is out of which instrument, but its kind of rapid and probably can be heard at little more clearly 2:46 onwards before the closing piano.
I absolutely love this track.
This tracks rating: 9.5/10
Animes BGM rating : 9.5/10
Background : https://bit.ly/3hKW31N / https://bit.ly/3hJ8Z8p (First one is used in vid, second is just something i tried)")
![Hiroyuki Sawano - Koutetsujou no Kabaneri mix [SP]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hulco3L4TLM/mqdefault.jpg "Hiroyuki Sawano - Koutetsujou no Kabaneri mix [SP]
Well almost 2 days late compared to the date I promised this upload will be on.
Got a bit of work since I had to shift my OS to a new Hard drive.
But I digress.
This is more like a Grenzlinie/Ninelie instrumental mix. The entire video contains 3 tracks, 2 of which are from the outtracks disc and one is from the main soundtrack disc.
The one from the main soundtrack disc is an insert song, so theres that.
Btw this video is blocked in Japan so sorry for that.
I kind liked the Piano version of Icon/ninelie (the first track). It gets a bit too plain sometimes, but is still good to hear occasionally.
The second track, is I believe a modified version of noname. noname is one of my all time favourites and I highly rate that track. So it is given that the modified version had to be here. Pretty awesome version.
Well I kind screwed up on naming this (It is not Grenzlinie ~Piano ver~).Definitely not piano version lol. My mistake.
To be honest, I had to do like 5 renders to get this correct. Sometimes AE was not being configured properly, other times I did mistake on keyframing which I noticed after render was complete. After like 5 tries, I was so exhausted that I really just could not fix the issues anymore. Sorry for this. Ill just use annotation to fix that.
The third track, well if its good or not, Ill leave the decision to you.
Its in this video because I like it, but since its an insert track, its not to everyones liking.
No rating for this since there are multiple tracks.
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Discord : https://discord.gg/DUybwmF
Overall rating of this anime in terms of its background music : 8.5/10
[ All rights remain with Hiroyuki Sawano and other respective owners ]")
![Hiroyuki Sawano - Comeback (Short ver.) [ Koutetsujou no Kabaneri ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i7MtPbJrP2I/mqdefault.jpg "Hiroyuki Sawano - Comeback (Short ver.) [ Koutetsujou no Kabaneri ]
Sorry for the particle issue at the start and at the end. Forgot to change the flowrate, yet again ~.
Been busy these 2 weeks, project submissions and what not.
Was a bit free in the evening was worked at this video, otherwise this was supposed to be delayed :p
Anyways, coming to the track.
This was the track I first noticed in Kabaneri of the iron fortress, and trust me when i say this, I was desperately trying to control myself from finding the track before finishing the series.
This track is so amazingly good, especially the part in the start from 0:18 . If I only had to rate that part, this track would have been in EP series. This part creates such a tense and on the edge environment, I have no words. It is like the perfect track for when the main character tries to do some hardcore stuff and struggles his way through.
After that part, the track goes down and becomes a more conclusive(cant find right word)/ambient type mix. At around 1:24
And at the end, this track again picks itself up with a really good mix of instruments at around 3:26. Those damn amazing violins and piano tune(i think piano is kinda modified by some studio tools). Especially those short and rapidly changing violin notes in the background, really amazing. Kinda have to hear it closely to hear them.
Kabaneri is like a gold mine of amazing tracks, and hiroyuki sawano is just a god. People do call him right, Hans Zimmer of Japan.
Our rating of this track : 9.5/10
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Discord : https://discord.gg/bqhPN
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![Hiroyuki Sawano - XL-TT (Short ver.) [ Attack on Titan ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i98HYxL7fVY/mqdefault.jpg "Hiroyuki Sawano - XL-TT (Short ver.) [ Attack on Titan ]
In the past, I have never really uploaded many tracks from attack on titan, at least from the first season.I do value the tracks highly, but the reason for it was because the show was fairly popular and anything I would have uploaded would most likely be something people would have already listened. Back then, I had a plethora of other, more less popular but quite good tracks to upload and due to that, I decided that I would only just stick to very few attack on titan uploads.
I was just going through what to upload the last few weekdays and realized that fair amount of AOT tracks are pending. Since I am just doing many filler uploads now-a-days anyway, I thought it might be a good chance to get these ones out as well.
Coming to the track, this track has a mix of different emotions in different parts. For example, the first part from the start of the track with those heavy drums, choir, church bells, and violins represent feeling of urgency and sense of danger quite nice. If I remember correctly, this part played when the female titan was chasing the scouts in the second half of first season. And to be honest, this first part is my favourite in the entire track. On top of it being very fitting for the background music, the beats are also quite catchy with that choir.
The small variations in the same tune are quite nice and really enhance the overall atmosphere this track generates. Like at 0:22 those violins picks up their pace, and the beats slow down a little in the background, and then beats come back but pace of violins remain the same. These sort of variations really fit the changing scenes where this track plays. Its like, even with the Sense of danger kind of feeling this track gives, there are different levels of that feeling that different parts of this track portray. Some are higher level, other are lower level.
For some reason, there is some sort of, well, at least unique tune in the middle of the this first part. I am not sure if Id say its nice. It just feels..different..disjointed. But since its small, its fine i guess~
The first part, Id say takes a break at 1:37 and another tune takes its place for a short time, which is more on the emotional side of the track. Its quite short, so it doesnt fit right to call it a part, but it again represents those variations that I talked about. The track doesnt stay static at one type throughout and keeps giving different themes. This thing is nice, but as with many tracks from Sawano, the entire track is usually many tracks combined as I have said in the past in many of his tracks I have uploaded lol. Its rare to find a track that one can actually call one track when listening to his music. So many tracks do need some cropping.
Anyway, after that small break in the middle, the track goes back to its original theme and continues on for a few more seconds. The ending of this track is, something I would call fair. Not my favourite, but not bad either.
Our rating of this soundtrack : 8/10
Overall rating of this anime in terms of its background music : 10/10 (Shouldnt be a surprise :p)
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![MOSAIC.WAV - Fight for a shining tomorrow [ Gakkou Gurashi! ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/isi8fb7CpIQ/mqdefault.jpg "MOSAIC.WAV - Fight for a shining tomorrow [ Gakkou Gurashi! ]
Gakkou gurashi! was not something which I enjoyed watching a lot. The first episode had one hell of a twist, but after that, I just didnt feel the story much. Except the ending maybe, end was pretty emotional and heartbreaking, but a good one none the less.
As for the tracks, only this track really piqued my interest. And by this, I mean I liked this track on a pretty extreme level. This track, overflows with the emotions of desperation and helplessness.
The name of the track itself just gives away its feel. One of the best track names(official) Ive seen so far.
So damn amazing. 1:54 part is so great to hear. I only wish the anime was a bit better.
My opinion about the anime might not go with the consensus this time because I am really not into this type of anime of school girls. Especially kids, I am not comfortable watching them haha.
The start of the track also really creates a nice, dark, atmosphere, which really enhances the overall quality of the track.
Having a track, which can easily depict the emotions of a scene or an anime as a whole, I believe there is nothing greater than that. This track, is just marvelous.
PS : I really like this background. Decided to use this way back when I just finished this anime.
I finished this anime around 1 year back. So you guys (the regular watchers) should get an idea about how much backlog I have there which is yet to be posted on the channel XD.
Our rating of this track : 9/10
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Discord : https://discord.gg/p6eeutt
Overall rating of this anime in terms of its background music : 6/10
[ All rights remain with MOSAIC.WAV group, Susumu Kayamori and other respective owners. ]")
![Kevin Penkin - OhKami [ Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j3sTllwpoaM/mqdefault.jpg "Kevin Penkin - OhKami [ Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari ]
This video might be a little bit lower in quality compared to other of my videos. This is not because of my rendering options, but because I had to add little noise to the video for hiding compression artifacts in the background which in turn requires higher bitrate to preserve the quality. This is somewhat higher than the bitrate youtube uses for videos.
Anyways, lets come to the track. I am fairly sure most of you would have guessed that this would be the final track Id be covering when I mentioned that this week would be the last upload for this series. I really liked this track right when I first heard it. The filolial queen part was really a solid arc for this show. The scene was absolutely amazing, and combined with this track really made a badass atmosphere.
I really like this track a lot, but what I am about to say might not be in agreement with many of you. The track starts off really solid and those fast paced piano notes with drums rapidly intensified the atmosphere. The 0:14 part is even better than the start, I really like how the piano tune in the start still faintly repeats in the background (I think it does upon listening to it countless times, but I cannot say 100%) along with fast and short violin strings. The overall atmosphere these two parts create is really just amazing to hear in my opinion. This great part continues upto the middle of the track, around 1:25. However I am not really a fan of the saxophone. I dont mean to say it doesnt sound right, its just, I feel it to be kinda disjointed when it first arrives around 1:26. But I fairly like it at 2:17. Id say the middle part was not really the best in my opinion, but it wasnt bad either.
For me the start of this track just takes away the cake, with the rest being a nice followup with a great end to the track as well.
Our rating of this track : 9/10
Overall rating of this anime in terms of its background music : 10/10
Discord : https://discord.gg/DUybwmF
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Text file with soundtrack and episode timestamps: https://pastebin.com/6AMNrXjm")
