Back for week 2 of Megami Tensei month and it's finally time for me to talk about Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE. It's one of my favourite RPGs on the Wii U/Switch and a real highlight in the series for me which is in no small part due to the music being exceptionally good even for a series that has notably great music as-is. Even though I don't really enjoy Fire Emblem, but the Fire Emblem stuff is more or less a bonus anyway, so I asked Nate from the 13 Sentinels episode to come back and provide some of the context for Fire Emblem that I am obviously missing. We also talk about Vagina Bones for a while because it's probably this game's biggest cultural legacy outside of the incredible JPop soundtrack.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Kazuaki Yamashita; Yoshino Nanjo - Reincarnation

00:03:51 Talk 01

00:15:00 Yoshiaki Fujisawa - Shibuya

00:17:45 Yoshiaki Fujisawa - Audition

00:19:54 Yoshiaki Fujisawa - Show Business!!!

00:22:08 Yoshiaki Fujisawa - Illusory Daitama

00:24:23 Yoshiaki Fujisawa - Illusory Shibuya

00:26:45 Talk 02

00:55:46 Kazuaki Yamashita; Inori Minase - Feel

00:59:51 Kazuaki Yamashita; Yoshimasa Hosoya - Black Rain

01:04:00 Cube Juice; Sumire Morohoshi - Beastie Game

01:07:15 Chikara Gonohe; Emotional KEY - Between You and Me

01:10:55 Talk 03

01:20:42 Yuichi Nakase; Yoshimasa Hosoya - Under the moon

01:24:44 Yoshino Nanjo; Inori Minase - She is...

01:28:43 KOH; Inori Minase; Ayane Sakura - Dream Catcher

01:32:59 Talk 04

01:39:26 Yoshiaki Fujisawa - SESSION !!!

01:41:48 Yoshiaki Fujisawa - Very Intimidating!

01:45:18 Yoshiaki Fujisawa - Through Destiny!

01:50:00 Talk 05

01:57:01 Hiroshi Yoshida; Yoshino Nanjo - The Labyrinth