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Originally Posted by Gotank
I understand that you're coming from a impact/popularity perspective, but you seem to stray into the musical quality of the song on more than one occasion.
And often, the popularity of the song is directly influenced by the quality of the series it accompanies.
Actually, it's rather difficult for a primarily western community to judge the impact of these songs; can we expand this discussion to include the quality of the songs too?
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The quality of the song does matter a lot in historical impact of the song, so I welcome you to discuss the quality of the songs, but also ask you to be civil when someone disagrees. People usually have different opinion about a song. I don't want to get into ugly situation where some people call a song a trash while others praise it like one of Schumann's Lieders, and then start fighting each other. Due to these reasons, expect me to be vague about the quality of the song for most of the songs. One aspect that does need to be explored in details is whether the quality of the music boosted the quality of its anime series significantly. Tori no Uta is a very good example where I honestly believe it was this song which raised the game and anime series's popularity up by a level or two.
The most telling sign of a impact of the song is if the songs that come after it mimics it in a way. There also is commercial and/or cultural ground breakers. Only difficult thing for western community to judge would be the cultural aspects, but the proliferation of internet has made it much less difficult to research this.