Computer Entertainment released PlayStation 2 game, July 6, 2006. Soundtracks On July 24, 1996, Avex Trax released a soundtrack of Brave Story, sung by TRF using the lyrics of Tetsuya Komuro. July 5, 2006, Sony Music Entertainment released an animation soundtrack CD for Brave Story; Juno Reactor composed the songs. November 29, 2006, Avex Trax released a Brave Story soundtrack, which featured lyrics by Tetsuya Komuro and Takahiro Maeda, and sung by TRF. Universal Music released another soundtrack CD of Brave Story September 3, 2008, with lyrics by Yuki Sakurai and sung by Rice. Reception Brave Story: New Traveler was generally well received by critics earning aggregated scores of 76% from Metacritic and 79% from GameRankings. The Brave Story film was nominated for "Animation of the Year" at the 2007 Japanese Academy Awards. John Li from MovieXclusive commends the film for its animation, saying "pleasing soft pastel colors and the occasional computer animation is still refreshing and pleasant to look at". Mark Schilling of The Japan Times compares Wataru to Doraemon'''s Nobita. He compares "the "quest for five jewels" motif" to the Dragon Ball series and The Chronicles of Narnia. John Smith from Impuse Gamer commends the film for its "beautiful animation techniques and some great sound sequences". Mania.com's Chris Beveridge commends the Blu-ray Disc version of Brave Story for being "very expansive in its use of the surround channels during some of the action sequences". He also commends the film for its visual quality saying, "on our 50" set at 720p, the only "problems" I could find was that I had to be six inches (152 mm) from the screen and looking at the pixels to see some of the shiftiness in the animation in the scenes where dark blues and blacks mix". Mania.com's Dani Moure compares the film's "old-fashioned" character designs to Studio Ghibli's. Anime News Network's Brian Hanson criticises the film as "being one of the worst-looking big-budget anime films of recent memory, the story is a mash of bizarre coincidences held together haphazardly by forced and annoying bouts of exposition, with irritating and one-dimensional characters chirping throughout". Erkael of the french website Manga News gave the anime film 18 out of 20, and describes it as "Brave Story is a real phenomenon in Japan, in addition to the film which required more than four long years of work, This superb film, from the Gonzo studio, in