It gets extra points from me for doing so much of the stuff I really, really love in horror scores: ominous chanting choirs (but not in the over-the-top way that Death Note ruined for all future anime), atonal piano and string flourishes, and punctuated low-string ostinatos. What a debut it was! Tokyo Ghoul has a richly varied score, servicing the show’s many tones from the gentle slice-of-life scenes in the Anteiku café to, of course, its gory battles. Tokyo Ghoul’s composer seems like a newcomer to the anime-scoring biz, only 25 years old and with no other credits to his name in the ANN encyclopedia apart from this one and its sequel.
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And it was fantastic enough times to earn its place on this list at number 5. Overall, though, I don’t remember many truly bad music choices in this series, and it always paid the close attention to musical placement that you’d expect from a Shinichiro Watanabe series. Others are…well, there was that weird “High School Musical” episode.
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Some musical moments in Space Dandy are truly sublime, like those scored by the ever-reliable Yoko Kanno (who shows up again a little higher on this list), or any embracing the show’s love of all things funky.
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The show was an anthology series in the truest sense, with the creative vision changing from piece to piece, and that included sonically. Space Dandy was a hard anime to place here, because it had such a huge team of people handling its music, to wildly varying results. As the long-awaited follow-up to the first post, here are my top five favorite musical soundtracks of all the anime I saw in 2014.