Continuing right where I left off in Part 1, choosing my personal "favorite" song from each anime I've seen.
Bakemonogatari
First, the actual version of this song seems to be unavailable, so I chose my personal favorite piano arrangement of it (and because this guy has Rilakkuma on his piano :D). I'd eagerly suggest searching around the internet for the real version, "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari" by supercell. Actually, better yet, just go watch Bakemonogatari. Anyway, what to say about this song? I don't know how they did it, but somehow they made a song I NEVER get sick of listening to, which is very significant in my eyes because I get tired of songs quickly. That's mainly why I chose this over Renai Circulation. I have yet to find many anime songs that I find as consistently awesome as this one.
Runners Up:
All 5 OPs for the show, seriously, go watch it.
Cardcaptor Sakura
Yoko Kanno and Maaya Sakamoto coming together to do a song? There are few greater things in the world :3 The last OP for my personal favorite anime, and a nice, more "serious" tone change which fits the tone change the show itself took. Sakura is growing up, having to mature to protect the people she cares about, and learning about the world.
Runners Up:
Clannad
Predictable :P I don't particularly have anything to say about this song that doesn't get said all the time. The first couple times you hear it, you think it's a weird, random, silly song. Then you find out why it's relevant to the show. Then you realize it is representative of the lives the characters are trying to have. Then you watch that happiness get torn away from them ;__; Then you go back to the happy messages of this song and scream "WHYYYYYYY?!?" Uh, anyway, the song gives a very wide spectrum of emotions, just like the show itself. Clannad has one of my favorite soundtracks, but despite how much I love every song, this was a pretty easy pick.
Runners Up (more like notable mentions):
Clannad: After Story
Oh man. This song truly makes me tear up every time I listen to it. Without spoilers, it takes place during what I would call the climax of the entire show. It starts out as a piano arrangement of "The Place Where Wishes Come True" and transitions into "Dango Daikazoku," or "Nagisa's Theme." Having only seen this episode twice, both at 1:55 in the video and at 2:27, I am completely taken back to the exact events that happen at those scenes, and all the emotion comes flooding back as well. Those strings are like a punch in the tear ducts for me :( Description of those events for those who have seen it so they can enjoy the music that went with it:
Runners Up:
Code Geass
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Only in the C's and Ali Project has won twice already? Whoops. Anyway, I wouldn't call this the "best" song from CG, but it's my favorite. It was a great tone setter for the first season. The show did have a pretty great soundtrack (other than that second OP, seriously wtf was that?) but due to lack of personal attachment to the show, I haven't spent really any time listening to it, so I don't have much to offer on soundtrack commentary.
Code Geass R2
Not much to say other than that it's a pretty song. Also, I have a really strong nostalgia attached to this song for some reason from when I watched the show last year. I always ate tapioca pudding while I watched it.... good memories actually.
Danshi Koukousei No Nichijou
Ah, Nichibros. This one was easy, this is such a fun song, not to mention another huge earworm. BA BA BA BA RI RA RI RA BA BA RA
Darker Than Black
It's really weird to choose a song from a Yoko Kanno sountrack-ed show that wasn't by Yoko Kanno :| Anyway, this song is what got me hooked on the show, actually. It's incredibly lovely :) Brings me back to 2 summers ago when I watched it, always staying up really late while the house was empty, and singing to this song when it came on.
Runner Up
Darker Than Black S2
Another song I weirdly rarely ever get sick of listening to. Oh, apologies for the transposed version here, looks like Youtube is taking this song down as well. This song was one of my favorite things about this season, lol.
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