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Originally Posted by Zeke.
What also kind of sucks is that, although Ayu has had many winter ballads, this is her first attempt at a blatant Christmas tune, and predecessors like Kumi and Kana have both done it better (Kana with "Christmas Love" and Kumi with "Winter Bell"). Although, I might classify as Close to you being even more Christmasy than Winter diary.
Funny thing; I kept wondering what certain aspects of Winter diary reminded me of. Finally I was able to dig it out of my brain. The winter theme from Harvest Moon 64!
The Harvest Moon theme appears to be in minor and Ayu's winter diary in major? I don't know a ton about music theory but that's my initial thoughts. But is not the chord progression similar? I'm still learning so forgive me if I'm wrong about the technical aspects.
OT, I always adored the winter themes from the Harvest Moon series. I used to just let the game roll when it became winter so I could listen to the music. (And it probably is partially why I developed such a strong love for J-winter ballads later in life - my brain stored those songs as templates, going off of what I discovered in my research paper)
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UGH I freakin love you right now for bringing up Harvest Moon, it is like...my life! XD A Wonderful Life though had some other simply wonderful background music, IMO.
Here's my favorite Harvest Moon winter song...
But you're totally right about that comparison.