Listening to the new El Cazador soundtrack reminds me how Yuki Kajiura can hit left and feint right. But after doing it so many times, I no longer care about the feinting as much as how she does it. And oddly enough she only impressed me once since Aquarian Age TV, in Mai-Hime. I still don't quite get why people get so riled up about her .Hack or Xenosaga, for praise or scorn.
But listening to Naoki Satou? It's totally like a 10yr old listening to John William for the first time. And so far, every time. It's not that he does anything really original or anything like that, but ever since I first heard him through X TV's soundtracks, it feels at first so powerful, that like Kajiura's earlier works, the music drives the imagery by itself. We don't need anime or animation to tell a story, if it's going to be like that.
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