When Metroid Prime came out for the GameCube (which has actually been awhile now), I had to stop playing it after a certain point because it just got too hard. But even months afterward I thought of how cool the soundtrack was. Cool, but very creepy. But I couldn't find any sign of a OST! I couldn't even find any sort of ripped midis or mp3s. I gave up on it to be honest.

But the other day I was watching Samurai Jack on Toonami. Samurai Jack is probably the coolest cartoon to ever come out of America in a long long time. Parts of the music for that are actually very similar to Metroid Prime, so I was reminded of how much I had wanted there to be an OST. I took another look and although eBay, the online shopping mecha, turned up completely empty, Google found it for me! Of course it figures the soundtrack is a Japanese only thing.

Check out this awesome site, btw, for all sorts of game soundtracks that you might not be able to find anywhere else: CocoeBiz. I can highly recommend it!

The soundtrack IS as awesome as I'd imagine it to be. The tracks are all a bit short, but that's what auto-replay functionality is for, I suppose. Especially if you find one track in particular you want to have as ambiance. I also get to look forward to listening to the Metroid Fusion OST, since the two come bundled together.

Over the past several months, I've collected more and more production sketches from Fruits Basket. But I couldn't scan any of them in since I didn't have a scanner over here. But today I got an early Christmas present! (Or an on-time Winter Solstice present.)

So I'm very very excited to say that the sketches are now online! You can check out at my cel gallery, Cel Materia.