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The only revisit to classic material that made sense to rearrange were the Hitokiri and New Style/peaceful themes. It's kind of weird when The Final's flashback gets to use a completely new and heart-wrenching theme for the second scar scene (even if the film version weirdly omits the female singer, only leaving it in the ending track's variant), but the actual depiction of the event in The Beginning just rehashes the music for when Kaoru disappears from the hospital and is near the beach in The Legend Ends. This winds up coming across as less like making good use of leitmotifs to complement the narrative, and more like trying to reference multiple past scores for the sake of it. Even though all the OSTs have some repetition to them (both because of the frequent use of the same stems/samples and because every rendition of the leitmotifs he use don't really differ that much from each other), it's particularly glaring in The Beginning due to all the rehashing done for certain cues.Ī handful of cues are rearranged pieces from earlier scores (with one track even being a combination of two other pieces) for moments that don't have much of a thematic connection with the original scenes they were initially utilized in (one example being the rearrangement of Shishio's burning piece for the Ikedaya incident, where the only connective tissue is that something's on fire). What I would've preferred is Naoki Sato just making a better score featuring more fresh material. I saw some attempt at making rescored edits on youtube using the OVA music, and it just feels off because of that.
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They also wouldn't necessarily fit well, due to how a fair bit of T&B's music was scored-to-picture (matching specific imagery on-screen), making the reuse of it all difficult to pull off. I think a subtle allusion or a hint to a motif from those scores would be neat (kinda like how one of the last few cues of The Final's score sounds akin to the reoccurring theme heard in The Motion picture's OST), but outright reusing the old music entirely for a completely new adaptation would come across as cheap and a total missed opportunity to do something new and more appropriate for Otomo's vision.