[6] Jedd Beaudoin of PopMatters noted in an interview that Kanenobu was "considered the first woman to play guitar and sing folk music in Japan."
[2] In 2019, Adriane Pontecorvo of PopMatters gave the album eight out of 10 stars and wrote, "She paints romantic portraits of nature, taps into wells of human emotion, and often ties the two together in beautiful ways."
Pontecorvo praised "Falcon and I" as having "catchy verses joined together by slow, psychedelic stretches of hauntingly emotive singing and strumming.
The writer also stated, "Imaginative, emotional and informed by a singular vision, Misora would not have been an easy album to follow in the immediate".
[6] Jonathan Frahm of PopMatters argues that Kanenobu "successfully [explores] a variety of musical avenues throughout the LP.