Sora wa Takaku Kaze wa Utau - Fate/Zero ED 2 - Luna Haruna (Piano Cover)

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Here it is. My favorite Fate/Zero ED and my favorite arrangement that I’ve written so far.

All the Fate/Zero OPs and EDs are bangers in their own right, but this one just hits different. The dense arrangement, Luna Haruna’s smooth voice, and the absolute tragedy in the story all add up to create this heavy song.

There is such a pervasive melancholy in this song. Perhaps in the verses because of chord progression, the song doesn’t feel quite so sorrowful as you’d expect from a song written in minor; there’s even a sense of hope as the melody climbs and falls. But even then, the lyrics spell a different reality: “I wonder why the skies are this blue/Like they know nothing of sadness”.

All pretenses are dropped once we get to the chorus. The line “sora ha takaku” unveils a world of torment and suffering that painfully swells and crests with driving bitterness. Yet, even now, like in the verses, there remains a vestige of hope as we pass through some darkly colored major measures in the middle of the chorus before transitioning into a heart-wrenching diminished chord that unleashes a darker despair than before. And yet still, even then, “I’ll stay beside you/Passing through the frozen woods./I wish your eyes didn’t get lost/In the grief of the world”.

This song just perfectly encapsulates Kiritsugu’s relationship with Irisviel. Throughout the series she’s the only one who understands him and supports him with that understanding to the fullest. Does she support his ideals because she shares them? Only because she cares about him so much that she brings herself to like-mindedness. Even though she’s never seen the world outside of what Kiritsugu’s shown her. Even though she was created with autonomy and a sense of self-preservation only to be a tool. Even though in the end she knew that Kiritsugu would have to sacrifice everything, including those he loved.

And that’s what makes this so emotional.

If you haven’t listened to the Drama CD with Kiritsugu and Irisviel’s initial interactions, I’d highly recommend that you do so. All the images in the ED make even more sense and it gives the series that much more depth when you see their interactions.

As for arranging this, it took a few months because I wasn’t super motivated at first and it was a bit difficult. One of the elements that stand out to me in the original is the movement of the piano in the chorus, but replicating that verbatim is borderline impossible without significantly shifting the melody into registers that it doesn’t belong in. So instead, I compensated with a lot of movement, and I think it provides a similar energy.

The second verse was also fun to write as well. It took a lot of trial and error before I finally found something that sounded nice and was playable as well.

Execution was actually a bit tougher than I originally expected, not because the piece is extremely technical, but the technical difficulty definitely spikes a few times throughout, and hitting them consistently in recording was difficult. Even more difficult was getting the proper phrasing and voicing with so much going on.

I first recorded this over the summer in August, but each take that I got largely sounded like I was just trying to survive and play the right notes in the right sections. Now, recording this in January (a very recent recording compared to the rest of the stuff I still haven’t put out lol), it felt like there was so much more room to breathe and emote. Everything just clicked better.

And of course, the delicacy of the ending is sublime. Sure, it’s almost an exact transposition of the original, but it was truly a section that needed no adjustment to sound beautiful.

Fate/Zero is one of my favorite series of all time, and I’m going to cover all the OPs and EDs! Now that Season 2 is almost done (I still have the insert “Manten”), I’ll work on finishing up the Season 1 songs, so look forward to those!

Anyways, I’m glad I got to share this with you guys and I hope you enjoyed my rendition!

Until next time,
Watt

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