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001, 002, 003, 004, 005, 006, 007

Score: 6.5 of 10
     Recently released in the United States, this soundtrack covers the material you hear in the first arc of the series. The CD preserves the veering between light-hearted humor and dark dramatics that marks the Seitokai arc, and since the tracks are mostly in order of appearance, they evolve from the most cheerful and fun tracks to the darker tracks. There's something for everyone here, and if it seems like the perkier tracks dominate, it's because they're all in the front, and they're just very overpowering songs.

    Frankly, the background music on this disc doesn't move me. "Legend: The God's Name is Abraxas"' is my favorite of the background music offered here, and it's no mistake it's also the most dramatic, foreboding track—it's the music played during the student council meetings. Another classic on the CD is the first track: "Revolutionary Girl Overture", that has a gorgeous opening that I prayed would last forever. Luckily, it does on "The Rose Bride" on soundtrack five. Many of the tracks are somewhere in between cute and dark, like "Duelists", which manages to be perkily dramatic. The following track, "Pray to Dios" is only played once in the show that I recall, and yet is one of my favorites here; it's a slow jam head-bobbing thing you just don't see much of on the soundtracks. The background music is ultimately an afterthought on this CD, though—it's all about the opening theme, "Rinbu Revolution", the closing theme "Truth", and the duel choruses crammed way in the back. Everybody likes "Rinbu Revolution", and everyone likes at least one of the duel choruses on this CD. The choruses fit the arcs they belong to: there's the brief and frantic chaos of the Black Rose duels and the finalizingly dramatic tunes of the Akio Arc. Here, there's a sense of confusion about the tracks, and the impression you get of them is from the rush of physical action they accompany, as opposed to emotions that weigh progressively heavier on the choruses as the series goes by.

     I never have anything bad to say about duel choruses, and I've got no complaints here. My favorites are "Paleozoic Within the Body", "Angelic Creation, Namely, Light", and "No One Has Anything to Tell"; Saionji's second duel, Juri's, and Touga's second. Fans of any of these duel choruses would do well to check out soundtrack four, where several are rerecorded and remixed into the chorus sound you hear in the Akio arc, which I personally prefer to these recordings.