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Pan wo Nameru na! Fanmade Soundtracks's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Composing Quality | #8 | 4.077 | 4.077 |
| Overall Uniqueness/Creativity | #10 | 3.846 | 3.846 |
| Overall | #10 | 3.846 | 3.846 |
| Execution | #11 | 3.846 | 3.846 |
| Listenability | #14 | 3.846 | 3.846 |
| Correlation to Project Description | #20 | 3.615 | 3.615 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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https://play.reelcrafter.com/Andy_Lin/Pan-wo-Nameruna-Fanmade-Soundtracks
Description
This was something I wanted to do for awhile and that was to create music for a manga, pretending the manga is getting an Anime adaptation and drawing up a music list from the manga to compose to.
HUGE disclaimer, all soundtracks were created by me, HOWEVER, I am NOT in charge of the soundtracks for when the manga gets an Anime adaptation nor do I have anything planned out with anyone. I have no direct contact or relations with the manga’s author/artist nor their agency.
The manga and art (including this cover art) is drawn by Ryuuichi Sadamatsu, I do not own nor did I help Sadamastu draw the manga or art, I simply took the art off the internet. Please go support him by reading the manga and following his Twitter.
Ryuuichi Sadamatsu's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryuichizzz
When reading the manga, the instrumentation that comes to mind for me was definitely not full orchestral. So writing the music was somewhat uncomfortable since I mostly compose using orchestral instruments and the manga gave me guitar, drum kit, electric guitar, piano, etc instrumentation vibes. and that the overall style or genre is not something I compose a lot of. So mixing these instruments I was mostly going by how it sounds and by my gut feeling.
During the composition process, I pretended that I am composing this for an Anime adaptation, as such, I tried to structure my music in a way that is easy for the Sound Director to conform, whether I achieved that I am still unsure.
Soundtracks I struggled composing: Honestly they were all pretty difficult for me but if I have to pick, "Intense Nervous" was the one I struggled the most to create. Both the instrumentation and the overall genre or mood is something I was unfamiliar with, so it was difficult for me to even make something mediocre.
Screenshot of DAW
Sorry, I didn't want to post about 10 screenshots of my DAW so I posted a screenshot of my project folder containing the Cubase projects.
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Comments
That's an interesting set. Very enjoyable to listen in general, but as a long time band member I have a few comments on some of your choices.
Square - I'd go with a little bit more "breaking" guitar sound, not really distorted but not perfectly clean either. Your clean guitar feels a bit cheap. Listen to "If I could be a constellation" (Bocchi the Rock) or "Crow Song" (Angel Beats) for some inspiration on that sound. Drums line is quite boring. Try to use more variety in bass drum part and don't be afraid to accent more with crash cymbals. "Jesus of Suburbia" by Green Day comes to mind for some nice execution of that.
Pigtail Bread - The flute seems a bit piercing to my ears. Other than that, pretty cool track.
Intense Nerves - This one really needs some dynamic variation in the drums. When you play long lines on toms or snare you usually do accents and ghost notes a lot, it's kinda like those action drums in trailers. On the guitar side, here I would actually rollback the gain but use fuller chords. Anime music use min7 and maj7 a lot, but high gain power chords are rather out of place.
all Bread Talks and Just a Normal Day - really great background music, tame enough not to take attention from whatever could be happening on the screen, but interesting enough to be listened to on their own. A difficult ballance to make, good job.
The Holy Bread - Vocals sound kinda dry, I'd prefer there to be some decent reverb. There's a reason why most choirs are singing in churches - good reverb blends voices well, and takes away some harshness. Also, it's a HOLY bread - I'd use the most cheesy, stereotypical church reverb for that :D
Stone Blue Fox - I REALLY like this one, very interesting changes, probably my favourite of the bunch.
Cheery - a great, chill outro piece :)
Either way, those are really nice compositions. For figuring stuff out with drums, study some paradiddle excercises to learn interesting places to accent drum parts. It was a great tip from my drummer friend and it's really worth the hassle if you want to up your game in writing for modern drums.
Very fun album, the mix on most of the tracks is in the mid - low mid I think you just need to balance those and it will help a lot. First track is also I think played a bit too robotically. I think the holy bread is great but the vocal synths is too much in your face and it shows, when you have the budget hire a real vocalist it would be much much better but for the meantime we deal with what we have and its perfectly acceptable.
Apart from thats its a nice mix of texture and different composition, good job.
Don't be too offended by the feedback I went all in since its unranked :)
I'm kind of known as the weirdball around here so my bias is when something is -so- well done it's too straight down the middle. But everything about this set of tracks (and a fine effort putting so -many- tracks into a system like this) is consistent with a top-notch console adaptation of an Anime. I felt right at home listening to this when I have sampled countless JRPG things.
Love all of these tracks! Very cozy and fun-sounding.
great job!