Nov 12, 2025
To:Mara
here you go!
Bright New Day
- Standard JPop idol
Rock Bottom
- Just her crying and singing a capella
No More Crying
- Julien Baker : Go Home
- Leona Lewis : My Hands
- ReoNa : Runaway
Melody
- Radwimps w Toko Miura : Grand Escape
- Driveways: A Few Good Dreams
- Carmella Girls : Melody
All We Had Is Gone
- Saviour : Rose (not the screaming bits but the female vocals and the somber music notes)
- Utada : Sanctuary (ending version)
- Paramore : When it Rains
- Paramore : My Heart
Better Days
- Radwimps: Sparkle
- ReoNa: 生命線
- ReoNa: 虹の彼方に
- This was more just another a capella song, with gentle buildup
Stay Running (Melody Revisited)
Just intense drums and her screaming
Rebirth
- Clarity : Zedd, Foxes
- Nemure : Creepy Nuts (I absolutely love the opening of this song. The intense drums, strings, and voices humming are 100% what I had in mind for the song opening, just a longer version for Rebirth)
- Anima : ReoNa
- Mika Nakashima : Kiss of Death
- Synthion : Aurora
- Also, from an instrument standpoint, I loved how digital yet familiar Final Fantasy XIII’s soundtrack is, so songs like Blinded by Lighy and The Promise and Saber’s Edge are great music references. Also Scarlet Nexus’s music, so like the main theme or Opposed Viewpoint
Unbroken
- Lorna Shore : Pain Remains pt 3
- Lorna Shore : Apotheosis
- Motionless in white : Count Choculitis
- Nika : Ms. Hellfire
- Spiritbox: Holy Roller
- The Browning : No Man Can Become A God, and End of Existence
Deflowered
- Lithe : Fall Back
- Nieah : Not Me
- Limi : Summertime
- I never found something exactly like I imagined in my head, but the bass and cadence of these songs was in line with what I imagine. Lyrics not really, but the intensity was right
From Rock Bottom
- Again, ReoNa’s music worked really well here as inspiration but there was no direct inspiration. It would build as soft, melancholy, then big bursts of choruses
- Especially ReoNa : 怪物の詩
- Ichigo : Main Dish (not a good sound match especially since this is closer to rapping, but her tone and vibe was a good match for how I thought the song would start
