Kyoukai no Kanata OP
Kyoukai no Kanata IN
Tracklist:
1. Kyoukai no Kanata
2. NO LINE
3. Kyoukai no Kanata (Instrumental)
4. NO LINE (Instrumental)
1. Kyoukai no Kanata
Minori's calm, serene voice opens to an acoustic piano background, soon gaining a strong drum tempo and unraveling into a cheerful, laid-back arrangement. Including a violin in the chorus as well, which is actually the most active element of the instrumentation, it becomes usual anison with an added guitar solo near the end of the track. Unfortunately, except for the intro and outro, Minori's vocals are constantly under filters and with background, surprisingly varying in colour between soaring and powerful to cute and nasal, as they are not really the main representative point of the whole track. After quite an uncreative middle eight section with a very simple bridge, the final chorus is accomplished only by repeating the intro melody once again, with a prolonged ending annoyingly present, like in her previous single.
Rating: 7
2. NO LINE
A powerful pace suddenly appears, struggling to subdue the guitars and Minori under techno filters, until it explodes into the main melody. With barely anything else present, forceful, sometimes distorted guitars and drums are dominant, although the verse is calmer in terms of raw power, while the chorus is intensive, catchy and quite Faylan-like. Sadly, the second verse and chorus, with its many inappropriate and uninspired variations feel unfit, and even the vocals seem worse and untrained after hearing the short version so many times. Opening the middle eight are alternating, distorted chords with Minori's vocals filtered up to obscurity, although, the only high point of it is another great guitar solo, until the song finishes off with yet another completely uncalled for elongation.
Rating: 6
A few mistakes here and there are allowed, but Minori's team lately seems to be continually (and intentionally?) making them, with either the songs getting too strained or too dull, constant excessive snippets in the songs at their end, and, overall making bad composure decisions and ruining a good song, as we can see in NO LINE.
My overall rating is: 6 ½
Will I return for an another listen: Maybe.
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