Kalafina on the way to Singapore (AFA11) / Mahou Shoujo Madoka movie

I've been wanting to post more lately but have been so busy, it's been pretty near impossible to do anything too meaningful online.  Returned home late from work and just woke up from a 2hr snooze after dinner and now am able to write my response to what I read on the train 3 and half hours earlier.  Keiko left a message on their blog that the trio were at the airport and were about to leave to come to Singapore at approx 10pm Tokyo time.  This means they'll be in Singapore approx 6 1/2 to 7 or so hours later. YAY!!!

My friend initially thought they might fly in on late Thursday night and asked if I would like to go to the airport and see if we could catch them as they exited customs... I thought sure, why not, if we went there after work, I wouldn't mind just doing something goofy and fun just for the heck of it but... since it'll be early tomorrow morning when they arrive... that is no longer something I will be able to do.  I have to be at work and am in the middle of working on my first stereo 3D clean up shot, so am both stressed and excited about it... and not even the prospect of seeing Kalafina in the flesh at the airport will detract me from going to work tomorrow. =D

Also... super happy news to report... this afternoon, I really wanted to shout it out on the blog but work, unfortunately, must come first... so now at 1 plus AM in the morning... I would like to go YIPPEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!  I was one of the lucky winners in the autograph session draw for the Kalafina autograph session to be held this Sunday at the Anime Festival Asia 2011.  I almost couldn't believe it and kept checking again and again that that was my number in the list... I even got my boyfriend to check it.  His ticket, unfortunately, wasn't selected for the Kalafina autograph session.  He got Angela.  I suppose it's cool too since I like Angela too and I think he's unlikely to want to keep that autographed poster, so I'll get one autographed Kalafina poster and one autographed Angela poster. :p

Also for those of you who can read Japanese, Kalafina was interviewed for an article in the Animyu! (Autumn Issue) magazine.  I might get this magazine.  After hunting around for information on the nature of these interview, to see if the magazine was worth getting, I found out from oh-news that this isn't just a blurp, so I'm now more interested in purchasing the magazine... but we'll see... I haven't really made up my mind yet.

Another magazine I'm really interested in getting is the December issue of Newtype. A few days ago, the internet was abuzz with news of a Mahou Shoujo Madoka movie.  At that point in time, there was no official announce from Shaft, hence, there was speculation that it was just a rumour... although, that would be strange since the news comes from Newtype which is hardly the type of magazine to make things up.

Just a while ago, I read a twitter message from the production team for Mahou Shoujo Madoka and this is what they wrote:
いよいよ正式告知でございます。皆様の応援のおかげで、劇場プロジェクトを始動させていただくこととなりました。詳細は本日発売、まどかが表紙のニュータイプ12月号に掲載されます。 引き続きよろしくお願いします！ 公式HPもプチリニューアルしております。

That's the official announce that  there will be a Mahou Shoujo Madoka movie and that more details will be in the Newtype magazine December issue.  Also, if I read that tweet correctly, they say they have re-vamped their website as part of the publicity for the movie.

Also, I just found out that there is now a Mahou Shoujo USA website and they have announced special blu-ray boxsets of the anime... and.... ARRRGGGHHHH.... they are way cheaper than the Japanese blu-ray sets.  There will be 3 Limited edition boxsets and each of them will come with one extra CD, which would be Vol. 1-3 of Kajiura Yuki's OST.  They will also come with English subtitles and other freebies like posters and stickers etc... all of which were not in the original Japanese releases.  Grrrrrrr..... I will of course not be getting these since I already have the 6 volume Japan releases but for those of you would are interested here is the link to the website.

K... that's it from me... I need to sleep... it's 2am and although I had a short nap before I started writing this post.... I'm tiring fast... so time to go... not going to proof read... ... .... .... zzzzzz :)