Omg I totally agree what you said with the new myu songs. I think there are many songs there that are more like sung out dialogue than actual musical songs. It sometimes gave it the feeling that they were like “oh yeah, this was supposed to be a musical, umm, let’s make them sing this part instead of just talk.”

Yeah, I almost feel like the new myu had a script written out and then they looked to see what they could make songs, while the old myus feel like they had an outline that was mostly songs as the major points, and then they looked at how they could write scenes to make the songs work.

I think that’s why a lot the the new myu’s strongest songs are villain songs– that’s the easiest way to bring their motivations to the audience, and there’s no waffling over if they really want a song there.