After seeing the video for
＊Hello, Planet。, I can no longer make it through the song without crying. It's kind of a shame because the chiptune in the song is really well done, but I always press skip because I don't want to be depressed.
Sometimes I cry at the end of
Mahou Shoujo Saisen☆Reimu. That's because when I first heard it, I painted a scene in my head where cute little Reimu lives as a magical girl fighting unspeakable horrors (like, as the song mentions, tentacle monsters). The guitar solo is the backdrop of her greatest, most dangerous battle yet. The slow part after that is when she's dead under the rubble. It perks up again when she resurrects, and that's when I start crying, because I'm happy she's not dead.
Pray makes me cry too. Then I remember that the next song on the album is Border of Extacy and start laughing.
I cried a lot to
Change by Manic Drive the summer after I graduated high school, while I was working through some personal issues. It's such a melancholy song, with deep swells of bass like a swimming pool of sound. A vacant swimming pool at the end of a wasted August, with no direction or future.
As for Touhou,
Green-Eyed Jealousy probably comes closest because it makes me feel inadequate. It's the soundtrack to being a complete failure. The only thing I can do is beat Parsee as fast as possible and go party with Yuugi.
...It's weird looking over this list because I usually think of myself as unhealthily unemotional, but here I seem like a sobbing wreck. Just yesterday I was crying while listening to Saqwz's remix of
Dancing Stars on Me because it just made me feel so happy.
