Top Ten Pairings

Next up was going to be the top ten moments that have made me cry, but then I had a serious urge to write about my favorite pairings, so that won out. Totally normal for me—I really have a thing for romance.

Contrary to how I may seem, this list is not comprised totally of yaoi pairs. It's actually half-and-half between yaoi and straight, which amused me a bit when I was done making the list and counted. My experience with yuri is basically non-existent, so there aren't any of those included—sorry yuri fans!

Number Ten: Tamaki Suoh / Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran High School Host Club)

You know, this was a pairing that I only supported occasionally. It was a very on/off thing for me as I watched Ouran. I loved each character individually, but for the most part I was sitting there shipping the yaoi wholeheartedly (as will be seen in just a minute) throughout. Still, there were a few different times throughout episodes where I absolutely 100% had to want Haruhi and Tamaki as a couple.

It was especially when he was being ridiculously protective (as in the beach episode) and at the end...the very end of the anime when he was about to leave (because he was a giant dumbass) and she was going after him...at those sorta points, I definitely wanted them together. Besides, it'd be pretty cute, I imagine.

Number Nine: Tamaki Suoh / Kyouya Ootori (Ouran High School Host Club)

And here is the yaoi that I supported for 90% of the series. Yes, I also went for Hitachiin brothers twincest as well as Honey/Mori, but on the whole...Tamaki and Kyouya were my favorites and therefore I ship them the most. Besides, according to Tamaki they're the parents of the Host Club and they are best friends and...come on. I have to support them being together.

That's all there is to say for this one. Romance wasn't something I focused on much during Ouran, so my pairings are just vague things that I sorta love on the side, behind the excellent humor.

Number Eight: Mai Taniyama / Kazuya “Naru” Shibuya (Ghost Hunt)

These two have a great connection, a lot chemistry. In the first episode of the series, Mai breaks a camera and Naru says she has to work for him to pay it off, so she starts assisting at Shibuya Psychic Research. The two butt heads constantly, in basically every case, when Naru wants to do something that Mai doesn't consider appropriate (usually these things are dangerous for someone).

But really, inside, Mai is in love with him—no, she is not a tsundere. She's not all 'I hate boys', 'I hate you' angry person and then gushy lovey-dovey in the next minute. It's more that she stands up for herself and what she feels and if he doesn't like it, too damn bad.

I'm positive he had feelings for her as well, but sadly nothing is ever said in the anime regarding this romance other than Mai's thoughts. Very disappointing.

Number Seven: Yuzuru Otonashi / Hideki Hinata / Ayato Naoi (Angel Beats!)

And yes, a threesome. When the series started up I was leaning toward purely Yuzuru/Hideki, and then Ayato came in on the good side and it was like...well. I want him (Yuzuru) to be with both. Heck, all three of them can be together! It was kind of a first for me—I've never been much of a threesome person. If it's just for sex, then sure, why the heck not? But in a relationship, I want just the two people. This one on the other hand...well, I like the three of them together.

I think putting all of them in one relationship would create a really cool dynamic. Ayato is a little brat to Hideki, but he's all over Yuzuru. Hideki doesn't seem to dislike Ayato outright, but he's definitely into Yuzuru. And Yuzuru is perfectly great to both of them. So yeah, I'm keeping this one.

Number Six: Natsuno Yuuki / Tohru Mutou (Shiki)

Do I even have to justify this to anyone who watched the anime? Look, they're best friends in this town. In fact, Natsuno is an anti-social little asshole and yet he's always hanging out with Tohru because Tohru refused to leave him be. They're hanging out in Tohru's bedroom. Sometimes sitting on his bed. Natsuno spends the night at his house.

And after Tohru became a Shiki? He was fighting against biting Natsuno for awhile. They're so clearly gay it isn't even funny. But this, this is funny:

So yeah...Tohru/Natsuno all the way. (Which definitely explains why I'm cosplaying Natsuno and my personal flea is doing Tohru.)

Number Five: Shinra Kishitani / Celty Sturluson (Durarara!!)

Again, I shouldn't have to justify this. These two were actually together. As I said in my Top Ten Females post, I really love Celty because even though she's a supernatural creature who can't get hurt, she still acts like a normal woman—she feels fear, she feels caring, she has morals, and so on. And when she's scared, who does she go to? Shinra, of course. The guy she's known since he was a little kid.

It's made very clear throughout the series that Shinra is in love with her—which is pretty awesome, that he's in love with a woman who doesn't have a head. Still, it seems for a long part of the series as if she doesn't share his feelings. It's pretty clear by the end though, that she does, and they're 100% a couple.

I love them together—so much fanart to make me smile.

Number Four: Sakura Kinomoto / Li Syaoran (Card Captor Sakura)

I'm pretty sure I read Card Captor Sakura in sixth or seventh grade, and not only did I fall in love with Sakura as a character, and Li as a character, but I also love them as a couple. This one is no secret in the series—they very much have feelings for each other. It takes both of them a long time to realize it, but once they do...they're just so freaking cute!

One of my favorite scenes will always be when Sakura is rushing to follow the bus he's on (as he's going back to Hong Kong) and she gives him the bear she made for him and they make their promise. God it's adorable. And much as I don't really like when they change things for an anime, I also have to admit that I like the way they did the end of the second movie—how he remembered his feelings and they were together and against it was adorable.

Their romance is so innocent, so yeah, I love it.

Number Three: Tomoya Okazaki / Nagisa Furukawa (Clannad)

Another innocent one! I've acknowledged my love of both of these characters in the past. And when they're together...of course I'll love them all the more. I can't say much, because it's one of those things I can't explain too well. Prettymuch, I spent the series repeatedly wishing Tomoya would just ask her out and be done with it—obviously she'd say yes.

So when he finally—finally—asked her out at the end of the anime, I cried. I really, really cried. Not very hard, it was more just a gasp and some tearing up, but uh...both of them were crying as well, so I can honestly say I was crying along with some of my favorite characters.

And then they get married and have the most adorable little daughter in the world. Nothing not to love here.

Number Two: Yuuri Shibuya / Wolfram von Bielefeld (Kyou Kara Maou!)

These two have one of my favorite relationships ever in a series. The yaoi is canon—I love it when the yaoi is canon! And yet, unlike most actual yaoi, the series isn't focused on the relationship without having an actual plot. But anyway. These two get together through a huge accident—Yuuri was just transported to this world and he doesn't know their customs. So when Wolfram starts being a little brat (this is typical) and insults Yuuri's mom...well, the new guy gets up and slaps him across the face. Everyone tells him to take it back, but he won't and it turns out that he just proposed!

Wolfram is understandably pissed, but says it would dishonor him to turn it down. So they are a couple after that. What's hilarious is that despite Wolfram's initial anger, he starts getting jealous and going to sleep in Yuuri's bed and whatnot. So it's great. Plus, Wolf really does come to love the idiot king, and it's just so adorable. I really can't help but love them together.

Now if only they'd kissed on-screen...

Number One: Shizuo Heiwajima / Izaya Orihara (Durarara!!)

Anyone surprised by this does not know anything about me. I worship these two as a couple. I hold the right to not get into why other than...well come on! They have to be together. Especially when you look at a few facts:

1) Tsugaru (cover song Shizuo) and Psyche (OST cover Izaya) are basically a canon pairing. This is undeniable.

2) Hibiya (cover song Izaya) and Delic (OST cover Shizuo) are just as much of a canon pairing. Equally undeniable.

3) The creator of the Durarara!! light novels penned a Shizaya sex scene. (Anyone who wants the link, just ask.) And that, my friends, make it impossible to avoid—they became canon the minute that thing came into being. And I am not going to complain.

My current total for Shizaya pictures is settled at over 1000. I'm not done yet. (I refuse to be done.) I cosplay Shizuo, it got me my personal flea/husband, and I can't complain about that under any circumstances.

So yeah. That's all.

Top Ten Most Hated Characters

Well, I was going to do my review of Sister Princess today, but then I realized I took it off my laptop and need to put it back on in order to get my screenshots, so that gets to wait until at least tomorrow. What to replace it with? After skimming my top 10 lists, I figured why not talk about those people I hate more than anyone else from anime?

Seriously, I cannot guarantee a lack of spoilers in this post by any means, so if you haven't seen something and you plan to, I suggest skipping over my reasons for hating that character

Number Ten: Kadota Kyouhei/Dotachin (Durarara!!)

Kadota is an ex-Blue Square, currently a member of the Dollars. He's actually kind of cool.

Look. It is not Kadota's fault that I hate him. Throughout the course of the series, he didn't do a damn thing to me or anyone I cared about, which is why he's my least-hated of my most-hated. So if he didn't do anything to bring on my hatred, why the heck do I hate him enough to put him on this list at all?

For this, blame the other Durarara!! fans, the ones who decided that art of Kadota/Izaya was a good idea. It is not, in any way, a good idea. Especially when it's Izaya and Kadota kissing in a classroom with Shizuo sitting on the floor outside looking depressed as all hell. No, this is not okay. It's only a result of that piece of art and some others that I hate Kadota.

In fact, as a result of that, I hate basically any given couple if he is a part of it. I have lately come to accept (even love!) him and Chikage, a character who wasn't in the anime. But really...well my husband and I (or should I say my flea and I?) blame Kadota for everything.

Number Nine: Saki Mikajima (Durarara!!)

Saki is...Masaomi's ex-girlfriend re-girlfriend who is in the hospital for the duration of the series.

I don't even feel like justifying my hatred for this bitch. Prettymuch, all her crap with Masaomi? I dislike it. Intensely. The way she said he would always come back to her with that little smiley-smirk that kinda resembles Izaya's but is not nearly as sexy? I hate it. I hate her. I hate that Kida left with her at the end of the anime.

Fuck Saki.

Number Eight: Ash/Angela (Kuroshitsuji)

(As an incredibly random note, it's really hard to write about hating people when there is 'I Can Love You Like That' coming from my media player.)

Okay. First in the anime we got to experience Angela, who was supposed to be this rich dude's maid except she was really creepy and kinda powerful. Then we got Ash, who worked for the queen. I disliked Angela from the beginning, and I thought Ash was pretty hot. Well, then it turned out they were the same damn person and ugh.

I'm pretty sure my reasons for hating him/her/it are pretty obvious to anyone who has seen the series. It was its fault that Ciel's life went how it did, with his parents dying and the original house burning down and all. It was responsible for all of the shit everywhere, basically, minus the Jack the Ripper stuff. It kept switching genders and hitting on Sebastian, and that was probably one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen in my anime-watching existence, which is saying something, considering...well, anime. And also, at the end, it was its fault Pluto died.

Plenty of logical hatred there, I think.

Number Seven: Irato (Ghost Hunt)

First of all: 

 

Enough said, I think.

But okay, heard of Elizabeth Bathory, the crazy Hungarian countess from the 15-1600s, who thought that bathing herself in the blood of young virgin girls would keep her young forever? Well Irato is basically the anime version of that chick. He's actually dead at the time of the series, but he's like...refusing to actually go be a normal dead guy and pass on, instead having his two (also dead) servanty guys kidnap young people who come into his creepy-ass house (think Winchest Mansion) and kill them because, as he likes to say in his creepy dead voice, I don't want to die.

Lovely, isn't it?

Yeah, so, I hate him.

Number Six: Megumi Shimizu (Shiki)

For anyone who hasn't seen Shiki, Megumi is a girl who dies right away. I mean really, her corpse is the first thing you see, pre-OP and all. It's pretty awesome. Well, first it seems sad because you don't know anything about her. Then it goes back in time for a minute to before she died and you discover that she was really just a huge bitch. So her death is like woooooooo!!!!. Then Shiki decides to be an asshole, and she rises back to life as a Shiki herself.

So she can keep being a bitch.

And being in love with Natsuno. She kills Tohru because Natsuno is hanging out with him and how dare he be closer to Natsuno than I am. That about sums her up, right there. She spends the entire series being a bitch to quite literally everyone, until the end where she dies a glorious, painful-looking death that personally made me grin demonically.

Number Five: Sunako Kirishikiri (Shiki)

Sunako is the lead little vampire girl (as it is said, she has a mother-daughter relationship with Chizuru and Sunako is the mother) and she's the one who moves her little group to the tiny town and decides to start killing the people and whoever becomes a Shiki, so be it.

I get questioned about this a lot. Why hate Sunako? Well here's why I hate Sunako.

She moves her little group to the tiny town and decides to start killing the people and whoever becomes a Shiki, so be it. Yeah—okay, so you're going to kill the entire population of this town, 1300 people, destroy lives again and again, just so you can have a place to be yourself? Man, fuck you little girl, get a sense of perspective.

Now some people may use my own logic for other things against me—I refuse to hate characters like Kyubey (Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica) and Claude Faustus (Kuroshitsuji II) because I look at them as having a different set of morals, and doing the logical thing for their own kind. So wouldn't it be logical to think that a Shiki should know no other morals than doing what benefits herself? No, because she was a human before she was a Shiki.

So ha.

Number Four: Seishin Muroi (Shiki)

Muroi is the town priest in the series. He starts out as a pretty cool guy—in fact he was my favorite character for a little bit. Then he started socializing with the little girl and I sorta just expected him to die (I expected everyone to die).

Know what he did instead? Betrayed his best friend (the incredibly bad-ass town doctor, Ozaki) and fucking joined with the Shiki. And protected Sunako. And stopped Ookawa from killing the hell out of her. Then he went and lived.

God, I hated him so much at the end of the series.

Number Three: Soushu (Kyou Kara Maou!)

(Note: I couldn't find a picture of Soushu so this is just the Original King, who Soushu possesses. So just picture this being more purple, for some reason.)

The ultimate villain of the first two seasons (season three went an entirely different route and was not as good), Soushu. He'd been sealed in some boxes but he infected the Original King and there was this entire long situation that I'm not even going to try explaining here—if you want to know, go watch the series.

Suffice it to say, he caused some seriously bad stuff to go down at the end of season two, and it was really intense when you're as attached to the characters as I am, and as such I raged at him. I raged hard.

Number Two: Miyo Takano (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni/Kai)

Takano is the ultimate bitch. For the entirety of the first season, and part of the second, she seems like a normal nice, somewhat creepy (“you'll have to bury the body deeper than that” excuse me, what?) woman who just happens to die a lot. And everyone in Higurashi seems to die a lot, so it's not like it's anything exceptionally odd. Just happens.

So then you get to the truth and it turns out—this whole thing where everything in the town is repeating and poor like Rika has to suffer through it again and again, always dying, the entire town being wiped out? Oh yeah, that's Takano's fault, because she's a crazy evil bitch. It is not possible to like her. And I mean that—I ran a Higurasih panel at Ohayocon and did a show of hands for 'who hates Takano' and every single hand in that room went up. (Okay, one stayed down, but it was my friend who hasn't seen the series so it doesn't count.)

So for being a crazy, evil, causing-all-of-this-crap bitch, I honestly hate Takano with a horrible, powerful passion.

Number One: Near (Death Note)

Near is the detective (and I use that word in the loosest of ways) who takes up the task of hunting for Kira after L is killed. I've tried explaining my hatred of him to friends in the past and it never seems to go very well, because really, I hated him before I even knew much about him. Like—he showed up on the screen, with his stupid little toys and his stupid voice (watched the dub, for the record) and I was immediately all over that hatred.

Then he kept investigating, playing with those toys the entire time and generally being an annoying little brat, and by the way he hated L, whom I of course adore, and urgh. Probably the action I hated most was that he solved the case. Screw that—if L couldn't capture Light, this little bastard shouldn't have been able to capture Light. (And Mikumi was incredibly close to making this list for being a dumbasss and switching the Death Notes out when Light didn't tell him to do that.)

Seriously, Near...there is no one in the anime universe I hate more.

That's all.

Top Ten OST Tracks

Some random fact about Arianna Sterling: When I was younger, a little kid, I did not, under any circumstances, like listening to instrumentals. I wanted words, dammit. And if a song wasn't going to give me words, that song could just go straight to hell. Then when I got a bit older, I think around eleven or twelve, I discovered that some instrumentals (read: the ones by Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Savatage) weren't all that bad. Skip forward a little more to when I was thirteen, more instrumentals were welcome in my life, including classical stuff like Beethoven. I love Beethoven.

Then take me now, and I love a lot of instrumentals just as much as I love songs with words.

Granted, this list is not 100% instrumental. A number of the songs have those vague kinda vocalizations, and there are a few with actual words. But for the most part, they're wordless, so I figured I would just offer up this tidbit about myself.

And for the record, music is one of my greatest loves next to anime and writing. I'm always on the lookout for something new to listen to.

Moving on, my top ten OST/insert tracks.

Number Ten: Kokoro wo Shibaru Ai no Kotoba (Durarara!!)

Composer: Makoto Yoshimori

In general, I wasn't all that impressed by the DRRR!! OSTs, but I can go into detail on that when I review them, so I won't babble about that here. This is the one song that stuck with me when I gave it a listen and I kinda sorta love it. For anyone who doesn't know (most of you?) I'm a really morbid, sometimes creepy, obsessed-with-Poe sorta person. I mean, bodies make me happy.

So this song, with it's not-word vocals that sound like the musically enhanced moans of someone dying (it's not just me who hears that, is it?), or at least someone who has been stabbed by Saika, it appeals to me. It gets even better with the...whatever that is that comes in at about 0:50. Seriously, what is that? I don't know, but I love the hell out of it. And when both those aspects are combined...well. Let's just say it makes me smile.

Number Nine: Diva (Blood+)

Composer: Mark Mancina

The song opens up beautifully, and makes me think of dark theatres and single spotlights on girls in long black dresses. Which is interesting, considering the character who sang it did not wear long black dresses—I believe she wore white dresses, and also little sailor boy clothes (← that was kinda weird). Yes, this is in fact Diva's song from Blood+, so it was only played if the character was singing it herself. And as much as it's certainly beautiful when you don't know the context, it takes on an extreme creepy factor when you put it inside of its own story.

Usually people started turning into Chiropterans if they heard this in person. Great fun, turning people into horrible man-eating monsters. Well, despite that horrifying bit, the song is still lovely. I think the high point for me is around 2:20, when it's picking up, and then a number of seconds later when she hits that high point. Or 3:12-ish, which is also amazing. I have no clue who actually did the vocals for this, but I she has a beautiful voice. I suspect she was trained in opera.

Number Eight: Kage Futatsu (Clannad)

Artist: Riya

Studio Key, in most of their creations, seem to have a penchant for using songs performed by ladies with absolutely gorgeous voices. Clannad certainly wasn't an exception, and it was hard for me to choose which Clannad piece was my favorite, but Kage Futatsu won.

Riya does have a lovely voice, so I couldn't even complain that the song wasn't Lia, like so many songs Key uses are. I think part of what makes me love the song so much might just be that it was played during a scene that brought an enormous smile to my face, because it was something I'd been waiting on for awhile, but for the most part...how can someone not enjoy this song? It isn't the most masterful composition on this list by any means, it's just plain beautiful and really, that's all it needs.

Number Seven: Si Deus Me Relinquit (Kuroshitsuji)

Composer: Taku Iwasaki (I think)

The first time I heard this song it brought tears to my eyes and it had nothing to do with what was going on in the anime at the time. That voice...it's so pretty, so soft. And I have a weak spot for Latin in music (Carmina Burana anyone?). Then I looked up the lyrics translation and somehow that made it even better. Even just the first line:

If God has forsaken me, Then I shall forsake God, too

That's...wow. This is a heart-wrenching song in its own right. Throw Ciel's backstory in there and it's a recipe for disaster. In a good way. If that makes sense.

Besides the female vocalist, I also like how the male voices are tossed in the back. And the instrumental appeal is very high. And I just really love this song. It still makes me cry when I listen to it, and that tends to be somewhat often, as it also sort of perfectly fits every single main character in one of the novels I'm working on (very much not a happy novel).

Number Six: Day and Night (Shiki)

Composer: Yasuharu Takanashi

This song...I can't explain what makes it so good, it's kind of just a matter of, wow, this song is good. I love the way the music all works together—I feel like if I picked it apart, each separate sound would work fine on its own, but hearing them all right atop each other the way Takanashi did it lovely.

Oh, and the rain first heard at 1:27? I love those things. Plus the strings that enter right after—I have such a weakness to strings. The vocals that follow, are...how is this song not higher on my list? I'm not sure. But it ended up right here. I just love it so.

Especially how the strings trail off at the end.

Number Five: L's Theme B (Death Note)

Composer: Yoshihisa Hirano

L himself made my top guys ten list, as number two, as you may have seen. Well here's another thing about L that's pretty awesome: he also has amazing themes. In fact, just that he has two themes is pretty freaking awesome. His second theme gets to be number five on my list.

I can't for the life of me remember which L scenes used this song. But I love it. I spent spring break my junior year (last year, guys) listening mostly to the Death Note OST and mostly to this song and L's other theme. I love the rock-esque tone to this. It's not actually rock, and anyone who calls it such can feel free to argue with me.

This song represents L's badassery though. I can say that. Because you know that genius is a badass. How else could he have all those weirdo habits and still be taken so seriously? And probably my favorite part of this song is the series of notes first heard starting at 0:09 which play throughout the entire song (they change midway through and start taking breaks, but they're the same notes). While I love the entire combination of music, there's something about that specific sound that just draws me in every time—basically, if I turn this on and don't actually want to listen to it at first, I have to get out before those notes begin or I will listen to the entire song.

Number Four: Aozora (Air)

Artist: Lia

I mentioned Lia, didn't I? Well, of course she was going to make this list somewhere. I think she's also on another one somewhere, but that's beside the point. This song.

This song makes me cry every single time I listen to it. Now, I had heard it before watching Air. Or...okay, an amendment. I heard it after seeing one episode, because I went to download the songs, and of course, having seen one episode of Air, you still get to think it's a happy series. The soul-ripping comes later. So I figured, happy series with pretty music, very awesome.

Then I got to the part of the anime where they play this song. And I was already in tears at that part, so having the depressing combined with this pure beauty—that just made me cry harder. Thus why I cry whenever I hear this. But listen to it! It's beautiful. I can't stop listening.

Meaning really, I just can't win.

Number Three: L's Theme (Death Note)





Composer: Yoshihisa Hirano

Okay, walking into writing this list, I had a goal. I knew there was going to be something from Death Note in here, and I knew it was going to be L-related. And I know myself, so I knew it would be an L theme, and my goal was to only include one of those themes. Well, then I listened to them both and I tried so hard to pick just one to make the list. ...Obviously, I did not succeed. I'm too in love with both of them.

This one gets to be higher up on the list, my third favorite, because it plays during one of my absolute favorite scenes from that anime. In episode two, when L decides to send Lind L. Taylor on TV and see if he'll die, completely playing Light with that trick (where the thing was broadcasting), that is where I first started to love the crazy detective. And this song was playing for that duration. So I feel like this song completely just 100% really represents the essence of L, who he is and what he can do.

And that piano. God, I love that piano. (The piano and violin are my two favorite instruments.) Of course what amuses me in this song is that both of my parents have heard the beginning of it at different times, and both have assumed based on the piano at the beginning that it's Savatage. No guys, it's from an anime.

A really awesome anime.

Note: Numbers 1 & 2 were very hard choices. I love both of these songs obsessively.

Number Two: Eau de Vie (Shiki)

Composer: Yasuharu Takanashi

I couldn't help it, Shiki had to be on this list again. It has one of my favorite OSTs of all time, for sure. This song is so amazing it distracted the hell out of me during the series. It didn't matter if something was going down, if I was mourning over a recently lost character (much as I knew better than to get attached to anyone from the very beginning, there were still a few people I felt mildly sad over) this song...as soon as it started playing, I started fangirling.

If I tell this song to play, I have to get out very early, or I'll be trapped. And I mean I'll let it loop for awhile unless there's something else I really want to listen to.

My favorite aspects of this particular song are...well there are a few. I love the way it sounds around 0:10, how it's pretty but also sounds a bit like urgency. It is followed up by the rising of the strings at 0:22, in another beautiful melody. I adore both of those parts with all my heart. But what takes the cake for the track is the way the strings and the voice join forces around 0:56 and just keep going. I believe the first time it played in the series my jaw literally dropped for that part.

Such pretty music, I think, would mask the true manner of the series if you hearing it without context. As things stand, it's a little creepy, how beautiful it is.

Number One: Ake ni Somaru (Jigoku Shoujo)

Composer: Yasuharu Takanashi

First of all, notice something—there are three Yasuharu Takanashi compositions on this song. Clearly, he knows how to get to me.

From the start, watching Jigoku Shoujo, I adored this song. That little-girlish voice set to that tone of music, sounding that way, and in such a darkly themed anime...it sorta blew my mind. Then the rest of the music came in, along with the other sort of vocals this song gets, and my mind was blown all over again. Then it got strings and guess what happened? Yes. More mind-blowing.

It seems like every time I listen to this song, I locate a new portion of it to give my love to and worship and bow down to. The little girl 'la' thing coming back in, softer, combined with the music right there? Yes. All over that. The slow ending, drawn out with sort of the Silent Hill-static sound thrown in there just for good measure? Yes.

Am I in love with this song?

Oh hell yes.



So there's my top ten OSTs/insert tracks. That was fun.