The two discs I picked up at C91 finally arrived. One is the 11th single from the Primary circle, 《イノセンス / Depressing》, and the other is a new single from FROZON QUALIA, 《ARIA》.

Meis Clauson dropped another disc, but this time he ditched Yuiko and teamed up with Rita, released under his own circle “The Root of heads”. I preordered it. Originally I was going to order through Toranoana, but they’re a pain about proxy shipping — they wanted my real name in kanji. So I write my Chinese name, and they tell me the kanji in my name don’t exist in Japanese. Bruh. Ended up going with Melonbooks instead.

Sometimes I feel like I’m a “eroge music player” first and a person second, because I really, really love eroge music. Listen to enough of it, though, and you start to notice that what makes a song good isn’t just the singer — composition and arrangement are the biggest factors. Japan has a ton of composers, and they have a distinct trait: their styles are vivid. As for how “vivid,” I think even a Bilibili-addled middle schooler who’s heard too much Yuki Kajiura gets it. Lots of people latch onto certain composers’ signatures, and it’s kind of a micro-segmented hobbyist thing. You rarely see Kajiura change her sweeping style, and you rarely see Hiroyuki Sawano stop chasing that big, in-your-face sonic impact. If we’re talking anime alone, I prefer composers with more variety in their scores — people like Taku Iwasaki and Tatsuya Kato. But today I’m not here to talk about them. Today I’m here to talk about Meis Clauson.