Yuki Kajiura - The Blue Rose Sword Battle [ Sword Art Online: Alicization ] [ EP ] @EpicAnimeOST
Yuki Kajiura - The Blue Rose Sword Battle [ Sword Art Online: Alicization ] [ EP ]  @EpicAnimeOST
Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This track instantly stunned me from its melody when I heard it in the show, especially in the first enhance armament part.
(This upload is a bit different from my normal uploads and I'll cover the reason in the later part of this description)

For me, this is hands down "the best track" in the entire show. I really don't think any new track, if any was introduced in season 2, would even be able to come close to this. The music, the tune is just mind blowingly amazing and intense. This track was on solid repeat for me once I finished the show, I was just mesmerized by the tune a lot. Probably this is the reason the reason that I spent the highest amount of time I have ever spent on making a video in this one.

Based on the context of its usage in the show, I honestly thought the first minute of this track was a separate track altogether. The first few minutes were very rarely used in conjunction with the second half of the track (I can't remember any instance of them coming in order*). One instance I remember is when the second half played first and then first half followed after that, this was in the bath area fight (those who have seen the show know what part I am talking about).

Coming to the track, this has a very very soft start. The piano tune is just on point, absolutely perfect in my opinion. It really translates the main music into piano really really well. Like even when hearing at 00:00 to 00:03, its so great to hear so many small piano notes being introduced for adding a little variation to the start of the main tune. The main tune at 0:59 starts with plain notes, not with the notes that vibrate, or change rapidly up and down (idk what its called), but the piano tune adds a little variation to that in the start by many small notes which just sounds amazing in my opinion. Idk if I was able to get this point across clearly or not, I just hope you get what I am talking about. Usually there would only be a one sligly longer note for a plain violin tune, instead of many small ones which are also different from each other.
Its either a violin or cello (or both?) that accompany the piano in the first half really really nicely and sounds great. I also really like how this track goes silent and introduces the chilling wind sound right before the main part kicks in.It fits the sword's power so well ~!

Now for the main part of the track, 0:59 part and oh boy doesn't it sound good. Honestly I am always so captivated by the first few seconds of the start of this tune. Its so filled with intensity as well as emotion, its hard to describe this part in just one feeling. It has all the feelings of struggle, desperation, emotion, intensity, loss. The drums especially add a lot more intensity to this. The tune on top of it is kind of catchy is as well. The flute part in the middle from 1:43 really adds a good touch and nice variation to the track.

And now before closing the description, I'll talk about the change in video format for this video. My plan to make this small animation has been there ever since I finished alicization. I knew this track had to be in my EP series, and I just wanted to do something different for this. Usually I make a wallpaper and add stuff to go along with this, but this time I made something from scratch. You all are used to seeing my audio bar and I had doubts if I really should exclude that but as I started progressing with this animation, I just kept thinking more and more that the audio bar will not go well with this, and hence why this time I decided to shift from my regular format of videos. I hope it doesn't irk the regular watchers a lot. I had my sole focus on creating the "enhance armament" animation of the sword.

PS: Also sorry for this video not being in pure 1080p. Doing everything from scratch in 1080p was hard for me due to my monitor resolution constraints. Moving the composition a lot would lead to unintended errors which I wanted to avoid, not to mention it already took me more than 12 hours to get this completed.

Our rating of this track : 10/10
Overall rating of this anime in terms of its background music : 10/10
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