Ni No Kuni 2 Revenant Kingdom has 31 Songbook Locations. Finding the Songbooks will unlock the Music Buff trophy or achievement. The Songbook pages unlock soundtracks which you can listen to in the Evermore Symphonium.
None of the Songbooks are missable! You can still get them after the story in free-roam.
Songbooks are acquired in three ways: from Side Quests, from Tainted Monsters, found in Treasure Chests in the open world.
To see how many you have found, go to Library > Vital Statistics > Number of Songbooks Collected. For the “Music Buff” trophy you need only 30 of 31. So there is one more than you need.
Many places are unreachable until you unlock the Zippelin (start of Chapter 7). Better wait until you have beaten the story. You can then go back to every place in the game.
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Songbook Locations
- 01: Reward for Side Quest 048
- 02: Reward for Side Quest 161
- 03: Found in Nogo Plateau – Outdoors Region –> North of Rolling Hills (Blue Treasure Chest)
- 04: Found on Starboard Isle – Outdoors Region (Treasure Chest behind Tainted Monster #10), requires Boat/Zeppelin
- 05: Found in Upheer Plain – Outdoors Region (Treasure Chest), requires Zippelin to get there
- 06: Reward for Side Quest 170
- 07: Reward for Side Quest 034
- 08: Reward for Side Quest 062
- 09: Reward for Side Quest 092
- 10: Reward for Side Quest 152
- 11: Reward for Side Quest 129
- 12: Found in Ding Dong Dell, Old Well – Indoors Region –> in the in the section between Downstream Tunnels & Abandoned Chamber, just in front of the Slums Entrance (Treasure Chest)
- 13: Found in Cloudcoil Canyon – Indoors Region (Treasure Chest)
- 14: Found in Forest of Niall, Hard Woods area – Indoors Region (Treasure Chest)
- 15: Found in Abyss, 3000 Fathoms Deep – Indoors Region (Treasure Chest)
- 16: Found in Broadleaf, Dynafloor No. 3 – Indoors Region (Treasure Chest)
- 17: Reward for Side Quest 168
- 18: Found in Rubby Ruins – Outside Area (Blue Treasure Chest in north-east of region)
- 19: Found in Snaketooth Ridge – Outdoors Region (Treasure Chest)
- 20: Defeat Tainted Monster #27 “Skyrch”
- 21: Defeat Tainted Monster #30 “Swellhorn”
- 22: Defeat Tainted Monster #48 “Starless Knight”
- 23: Defeat Tainted Monster #49 “Ziggy”
- 24: Automatically during Side Quest 106, you will have to buy it from Morgan during this quest, which is an unmissable quest-step.
- 25: Reward for Side Quest 144
- 26: Reward for Side Quest 164
- 27: Reward for Side Quest 060
- 28: Reward for Side Quest 155
- 29: Reward for Side Quest 066
- 30: Reward for Side Quest 087
- 31: Reward for Side Quest 022
Those were all 31 Songbook Locations in Ni No Kuni 2 – “Music Buff” trophy unlocked!
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Just an observation: the songbooks you have found appear in your key items list, but after you speak with the bard, they are removed from that list.
I thought I was missing 9 cause I had 21 on my key items list, then got one more and the trophy popped up. I thought for a minute that it was probably bugged. Went to Evermore and spoke with the bard, and then noticed all of them were removed from my list.
Songbook 13 is located at the most far left side of Sidewinder Gorge (looks like an imperfect circle on the map. It’s the area where you fought Incinerator (large dragon) in the main story. The chest can be a bit hard to spot, but you’ll see it if you hug the walls in that area – it’s located at little to the left, near the bottom of the aforementioned, circle-shaped area.
Rubbly Ruins*