Magic Knight RayEarth (2026) music will be composed by Yuki Kajiura, Takumi Ozawa and Shiho Terada

Hmm. From the music page on official site
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 <button class="tab">第1クール</button>
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 <button class="tab no">サウンドトラック</button> -->
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This could mean everything and nothing, so I don't know why I'm posting even, lol. Seemingly standalone soundtrack(s) coming at some point... unless they change their minds.
 
I'm a little occupied these days, so I don't think I'll be updating the sorting folder until Sundays.

Ep5 was another episode I did not enjoy. Think I'll only be skipping through it starting next week.

At least they played Joelle's PV track... but, even though it feels like it, I hope it's not the entirety of it, lol... not much to it...
 
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george1234 said:
Crunchyroll uploaded on Youtube the whole first episode, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL3ZY2cTsl0 it has option of many audio tracks, including japanese
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I watched the first episode and felt that the lack of music really sabotaged the emotional feel of the episode to me. I didn't make any real connection to any of the characters, even though the villains were more memorably drawn than the heroes as it often seems.
 
george1234 said:
Episode 2 on Crunchyroll's Youtube, i remind it has option for japanese audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzncql2NAYY
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I enjoyed the episode compared to the first because of the addition of music and the action from the main character "Hikaru" - red color scheme.

The new character "Presea" introduced at 17:00 has a really lovely soprano-laugh, so I'm curious about the voice actress, if she sings. I was taken aback when I heard her laugh and sound so clear up there.
 
No I've heard it performed in some anime as a kind of silly charaacter laugh. But hers was just so on point. Some of the ones in the video you sent are a bit more pushed but I think the second one sounded more "classical" as the top notes were clean. That's what I was referring to.

I asked Gemini and it said, "In the 2026 Magic Knight Rayearth remake, the master weaponsmith Presea is voiced by the popular veteran voice actress and singer Emiri Katō (加藤 英美里)"

Award-Winning Anime Hits: She was one of the lead vocalists for the legendary, chart-topping Lucky Star opening theme "Motteke! Sailor Fuku" (as her character Kagami Hiiragi), which won the Best Singing Award at the 2nd Seiyu Awards

Anyway my point has been made, she's a singer.
 
Updated the sorting folder.

From old files I renamed, hopefully it's not a snafu.
027->006 but it might be 011... either way, it wouldn't be a separate new one. ;p
017->013
040->035

Suggestions welcome, if anyone notices anything. I still don't like how quiet the music is most of the time compared to dialogue and obnoxiuosly loud sound effects.
 
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You know what... I think I give up on this show. I thought if I put in the weekly effort into it, I'd get more invested in the music but so far I'm just disappointed. I just can't get attached to any melody and it feels meandering (which sucks considering I was excited for it).

I'll wait for the soundtrack and hope for the best. Maybe February?
 
Same here. Once again Kajiura was put there for advertisement purposes and her contribution is minimal, the other two mostly made bland musics and the fact that the music is burried too much in the background to the point that you barely hear it, doesnt help either.
 
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Imagine if Kajiura wrote solely for the anime, the atmosphere that would already have been set for the mystery of the show, since it mixes magic with isekai and girls, and mech stuff, different genres for which Kajiura has written at least OP/ED and sometimes the entirety of the background music.
 
Considering what Kajiura did write for it so far, I wonder.

The Joelle track from the first PV in the way they played it in episode5 is nothingburger. The transformation theme with Kaon (in the 2 versions that we have) is nothingburger.
The few instrumental pieces that we assume are Kajiura are also meandering strings with some choir screeching that don't go anywhere and we'd heard many a times.

Maybe it would be different if she was the sole composer, who knows... but what's in here from her is not particularly memorable either.

At least based on what's in the show. Hopeful I change my mind in the future, with the OST.
 
I like the theme she wrote, Ray of Earth, but everything else I’ve heard has been meh

Tbh, the show itself is also pretty mediocre. The story, characters, and production values just aren’t gripping me at all
 
Sora said:
I like the theme she wrote, Ray of Earth, but everything else I’ve heard has been meh
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Epic background music could at least still slightly elevate a show with a limited quality in its storyline.

Sora said:
Tbh, the show itself is also pretty mediocre. The story, characters, and production values just aren’t gripping me at all
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You're not wrong about that. There's something a bit stiff about the animation except for some of the spells (especially Hikaru's in episode 2). The decision to go into chibi mode for comic relief in every scene is just tiring. Maybe that's how it was in the manga?
 
CloisteredFlame said:
Imagine if Kajiura wrote solely for the anime, the atmosphere that would already have been set for the mystery of the show, since it mixes magic with isekai and girls, and mech stuff, different genres for which Kajiura has written at least OP/ED and sometimes the entirety of the background music.
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Mai-Otome-Hime and Madoka are both Mahou shoujo types of anime yet they have totally different music on most parts, this one is also the same genre, but the reason we get samey music now is because she probably doesnt care much anymore or the director was ok with what she presented him.
 
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