Glad you enjoyed reading through my thoughts on this!

I’ll agree with the rest of your review, which is very good BTW

Still, if you’re finding this stuff to be your kind of thing, do give the soundtrack a shot then. It could be that you’re just hearing something that I’m not.

But yeah, jazz in anime works well usually. Fuck yeah Baccano!

@Yi
It’s not music anyone should be putting more than half a brain cell into. Committing any more resources than that, and you’re bound to have a disappointing experience, not to mention a waste of time.

Note the lack of the entry “music”

@Karisu
You shouldn’t have tempted me, but yes, it didn’t make me angry enough. I guess I was being nice mostly because the jazz tracks were sorta good if they didn’t play it like it was supposed to be looped. I probably should have talked more about how some pieces sounded like other pieces with very few changes to make them differentiable.

And I think your statement about the diversity and not making very awesometastic versions of those genres is right on the money.

The reason the soundtrack never bothered me while watching the show (and what can I say, I like to watch my fair share of terrible shows at times!) was most likely because of it’s repetitive background noise nature. It’s dull and not very memorable.

While my initial comments might ultimately be more harsh than it deserved, as it is possible to find some pleasant and listenable melodies, the music just does not hold up to multiple listens. Personally, it didn’t hold up to even one full run through before I started to get bored with it. Things only got worse as I continued.

Its diverseness plays like a bullet list. As though they created a catalog of styles and genres and made sure to compose the most generic version of each possible.

Still, ultimately you liked the album a bit more than I did, and I can’t fault you for it, because admittedly there are some moments in there where it seems it might shine, if only briefly.

These BGM tracks sound like they come from a third-rate RPG. I didn’t expect much from the OST considering that it’s Kampfer we’re talking about here.

@Yu
Yeah, it’s definitely a show to avoid, both on the music and viewing front because yeah… it’s not a show that exudes much in the way of quality.

As for “Koigokoro,” I do have an inkling about its genericness, though I guess I was taking what I can get so it were.

@Artee
Well, not revealing what I’m reviewing gives me the flexibility to drop it if I suddenly find it too hard to think about what to say. But I think I’ll be touching on Gundam Unicorn soon enough, come hell or high water. As for the others, you’ll have to wait and see!

mmm… Why don’t you tease us a little by revealing some of those to-be-reviewed titles? ^_^

Generally, dramatic yuri-themed anime yield beautiful music (ex, Kannazuki no Miko, Strawberry Panic) to promote the heart-wrenching mood. However, once I read that Kampfer was about a guy who becomes a girl stuck in a typical shallow harem, I had more than just suspicions that the soundtrack would be terrible (That being said, I don’t think I’ll be watching it soon, either).

@Fabrice
That’s the problem with a lot of these tracks. The music starts out really good, but the theme repeats itself and that gets old pretty fast when you realize what it is they’re doing. It’s like a piece starts out with.

“La la dee daa” and you hope that they’ll add to that further by going in a “dee dee dum dum doo” except they don’t and repeat the first line once more. Had their been more variety within the track itself, I’d like it a lot better.

@Taka
That’s about the only piece I care to listen to

@Artee
Sure, why not. I’ll add that in after I run through some of the soundtracks currently on my to-review list.

the piano was nice.