While I'm here,
@Abomination said his favorite on the album was the 1st song. It's called Hoshi Akari. I talked about it a bit when I rambled about her live but it's a remix/arrange of Starlight, the song she released for her 4th anniversary 2 years ago. Starlight is a song dedicated to 2nd gen and their journey together. When she sang it for her 5th anniversary last year, she realized that Starlight was really about
her inner, ideal version of 2nd gen. She talked about this after Aqua's graduation, but basically she wanted 2nd Gen to be united and do stuff like original songs, streams and eventually concerts together. Starlight was about that desire to go on together.
So with Hoshi Akari, Subaru and the director knew that it wasn't an "answer" to Starlight, but wanted it to be about Subaru's resolution and drive to push onward. She didn't say this directly, but more specifically imo, it was to push past that sadness of Aqua and 2nd gen leaving her behind. The theme for Hoshi Akari and her 6th anniversary live in general is reaching a conclusion and then starting over again so she can keep going. It was the "Resolution Song" Subaru reached after everything that happened last year. This song, Hoshikakeru Sora e and the other songs she chose were all done to reach the conclusion of "Keep moving forward." It was also her 2025 new years resolution which is why it all hit like an emotional nuke during her live.
Somehow I rambled again but yeah duck love. She put so much heart into her album and her live
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