Mahou Shoujo Madoka key animation note vol.6

Ahhhh.... Kinokuniya in Singapore brought in vol.6 after all. It comes in a nice box too. Mine from cdjapan didn't come in this nice cardboard box.

I might have gotten it from Kino if i had known they were going to bring it in. At Sgd119.30 and with my Kino card, it would actually be very decently priced cuz shipping from Japan for this artbook was actually expensive. :(

Still... in the end, I was still lucky cuz my friend carried it back to Singapore for me so all things considered, I can do without that nice cardboard packaging if I save on shipping.

Now I just need to make time for the unboxing posts on vol.5 and vol.6.

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Kalafina ~ 5th Anniversary updates

 Kalafina's official website has seen a small update.  The front page now shows the above image with tiny pictures of the cover art.  You can click on this link to see a bigger picture of the cover art.

This is to inform all fans of the soon to be released new album from the vocal unit.  This new album will contain selections from several of their lives in their 5 years as Kalafina.

More details in this link.

Also, if you wish to pre-order these... here are the links.

This is the link to the Limited Edition. (2CD+BD+DVD+60page deluxe booklet ~ packed in a box)
This is the link to the Regular Edition. (2CDs)

Also, I found this image on Animate Online's website.

I wonder if this means that those who buy the photo book Kalafina History 5th from Animate will get this postcard of Kalafina.  I like this more than the one they are giving out for non-FJC members who buy it from Spacecraft website or from HMV's website.  Still waiting and hoping it'll show up on CDJapan.

K... I'm off to bed... getting late. :)

Good night and I think I'll have sweet dreams cuz I'm just happy that Kalafina will sing another end theme for the NHK docu Rekishi Hiwa Historia. :)

Kalafina ~ new Rekishi Hiwa Historia ending theme

More great news for Kalafina and Kajiura Yuki fans. :-)

Sony just announced that Kalafina will be singing a new ending theme for the NHK documentary series Rekishi Hiwa Historia. This will be the new ending theme from Jan 2013.

The new ending theme will be titled "夢の大地" (yume no daichi ~ I think that should be the correct romaji and I guess would be translated into something like "land of dreams" or something along those lines)

Kalafina's "storia" will be the opening theme.

Looks like Kajiura Yuki's involvement with this documentary series will continue on into 2013.  I'm hoping that there will be a 3rd soundtrack release. :)

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Merry Christmas :)

Been awfully busy lately but it's finally Christmas and the one week year end break has begun. :)

Yay!!!

Have a great Christmas everyone!!

p.s. the screen capture above is of the special Christmas monster the player can get after defeating the special Christmas Eve dungeon in the mobile game Puzzle and Dragons. :)

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Kalafina History 5th ~ available at HMV JP webstore

Kalafina History 5th is now available at HMV Japan.  Click me.

For more info on this photo book release... click this link, this is the post I wrote up about the photo book and it's contents.

Thanks Shangyou for alerting me to it. :)

The bonus postcard for those getting it from HMV Japan is this:



I'm still waiting and hoping that CDJapan will offer this since I usually prefer to order from them.

Alrighty... off to continue to clean up my very messy room. :)

Kalafina 5th Anniv LIVE SELECTION 2009-2012 ~ cover art

Ohhh.... here is the cover art for Kalafina 5th Anniv LIVE SELECTION 2009-2012 ... from Lisani!

NICE!!!!

I have to go.... at work... rushing shots.

Here are the CDJapan links again.  Please buy if you can afford it. :)

This is the link to the Limited Edition. (2CD+BD+DVD+60page deluxe booklet ~ packed in a box)
This is the link to the Regular Edition. (2CDs)

Christmas break next week... maybe I can get back to blogging more... meanwhile... back to work!!!! *sweat

Kalafina History 5th ~ photo book

Now that I've rested and had dinner, I am able to slowly work through all the information regarding this very exciting release. :)   Well... at least it's exciting for us Kajiura Yuki / Kalafina fans. :)

As previously announced, Kalafina's 5th anniversary since their formation is just around the corner in Jan 2013.  They've previously announced the release of a Kalafina 5th Anniversary LIVE SELECTION 2009-2012 CD which comes in two varieties... one RE and one LE.  By the way, CDJapan has updated its website to indicate that the 1st Press release bonus for this release will be a postcard which is similar to what you'll get if you purchase it from a brick and mortar store in Japan.

Links to the CDJapan product pages are here:
Limited Edition. (2CD+BD+DVD+60page deluxe booklet ~ packed in a box)
Regular Edition. (2CDs)

A two night concert called "oblivious" was also announced earlier.  One of those nights will be in Tokyo, the other which they added later, will be in Osaka.

AND NOW!!!! The Kalafina History 5th photo book. :)  According to the FictionJunction Club website, the cover of this photobook will look like this:



This release will cover all 5 years of Kalafina's journey since they were formed and the FJC's pdf announce is calling this a must-have bible for fans of the vocal unit.  There will be a lot of photos of the trio since their debut that have not yet been released.  These will be from photo shoots and photos from their Lives.  This photo book will be an all colour 236 page release. The photo book will also include long interviews, their biography and full set-lists etc.  This release will also include a lot of official photos of the trio at their overseas Lives.

This photo book will cost 4800 yen and will be released on the 23rd Jan 2013.  I'm thinking that they may also be selling this at the Live in January.

FJC club members who purchase this release through the Spacecraft webstore will get 2 postcards and 1 clear file.  They look like this:



The first picture is a picture of the clear folder.  The other two are of the postcards.

If you purchase this release from the Spacecraft webstore but you aren't a FJC member, you'll get a different postcard and that post card looks like this:



Personally, I like the bonus items that come with the FJC member order a lot more.  But I'm not a member. :(

Although the FJC website didn't state it (edit: actually it was on the FJC website... I just didn't see it :p) , Kalafina's official website listed quite a few places where this release can be purchased.  This means that it is likely that we will see this on CDJapan or other similar online stores.  And the pre-order bonus will probably be that non-member bonus postcard.

I can't wait... I'm definitely ordering this!! :)

Kalafina History 5th ~ commemorative book

Today, the FictionJunction Club website announced that they will be releasing a 236 page all colour book to commemorate Kalafina's 5th anniversary.

I'm sooooo busy at work today.... I will need to revisit this tonight after I get home.

For now... just a quick thing...

I don't know if any other site except for the Spacecraft store is offering these books yet but we may get lucky and CDJapan will offer it.

While the book itself is the same, it looks like the bonus items for FJC members and non-members will be different.  Members will get an additional 2 postcards and a clear file while non-members will get a postcard.  All 3 postcards are different.

announce link: http://www.spacecraft.co.jp/fjc/info.html

Spacecraft webstore with photos of the postcards etc.

member

non-member

Okay... will update tonight with pictures etc and will check the details etc... I am rushing shots now. :(

Just one last line: I WANT THIS!!!!!! :)

update:
Just a quick update before I head home. Looks like they will be offering this at other stores aside from the Spacecraft web store.  The announce on Kalafina's website mentioned quite a few stores including HMV and Tatsuya etc... so... the likelihood of seeing this on CDJapan has gone up by quite a bit. :)
K... I gotta go... v tired and I wanna head home earlier than usual for a change. :)  

Kalafina 5th Anniv LIVE SELECTION 2009-2012 ~ bonus item

Looks like the bonus item that will be given out with the 1st press release of Kalafina 5th Anniversary LIVE SELECTION 2009-2012 will be a postcard of a picture of the trio from one of their lives.

I'm not sure if and what folks who order from the online stores will get since so far the announce from the official Kalafina blog only states that there will be 4 different versions of this postcard available at different brick and mortar stores in Japan.

Usually, those who pick up the first press release from CDJapan will get a bonus item which is similar to one of the items released for online orders.  Although this announce is only for the brick and mortar stores, chances are those of us who order from one of the online stores will get a postcard too.

Once again, if you can afford it, please support Kajiura Yuki, Kalafina and the Japanese music industry by purchasing this release.  For your convenience, I have provided the following links from CDJapan.  Please use them if you like. :)

This is the link to the Limited Edition. (2CD+BD+DVD+60page deluxe booklet ~ packed in a box)
This is the link to the Regular Edition. (2CDs)

A few days ago, they also announced that they will be adding another day to the Kalafina 5th Anniversary LIVE "oblivious".  This will be on the 29th Jan 2013 at the umeda AKASO in Osaka.  Now if only they would announce a 5th Anniversary Live in Singapore.... wouldn't that be awesome? :D

K.... am working today... so have to get back to work... 頑張ります!! :)

CDJapan ~ Japanese ebooks for sale ~ YAY!!!

Rejoice!!!!  Finally, there is an easy way to purchase Japanese ebooks. :)  CDJapan has just launched their new ebook store and ebooks purchased from them can be read using an application which works on iphones, android phones, tablets and your desktop computer.

Go to CDJapan's ebook store to download the app.  Click me.  If you have a CDJapan account you can use that account.  If not, you'll have to sign up for one.

I tried the app on an Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy S2 and it worked perfectly.  On installing the app, it come with 2 free ebooks and a sample manga.  It's very intuitive to use and is pretty much a basic ebook reader app.  You can access the CDJapan store from this app where you'll be able to make purchases from the store through the app or download sample pages to read before making your purchasing decisions.

I downloaded the Mahou Shoujo Madoka vol.1 manga sample pages just to test it out.  I already own the physical version of the book so am hesitant to buy the ebook version.  But if I had the choice then I would have bought the ebook version to save space in my room and to save on shipping.



The most annoynig thing about it right now is that it doesn't yet run on Jellybean on the Android so I can't check this out on the Nexus 7. :(

I might try and make a purchase soon just to see how it works... but for now... I'll leave those who are interested to test out the service... I need to sleep soon. :)

Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#9 "Shibuko Special" ~ pre-order

http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/fj/

Yay!!!! Pre-orders available!! :) it's been very busy for me lately at work and I've been both sick and very tired lately, hence, I've been trying to restrict my time on the internet. But this... I have to write about. :)

I just checked my email and CDJapan has now updated its website and theYuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#9 "Shibuko Special" Blu-ray and DVD versions are now available for pre-order. I'm going to order my blu-ray version immediately after writing this post. :)

Here are the links for those who are interested in purchasing this release. The blu-ray and dvd versions are slated for a 20th Feb 2013 release. :)

Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#9 "Shibuko Special" Blu-ray (NOTE: includes the "making of" video clip which will not be on the dvd edition)
Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#9 "Shibuko Special" DVD

Buy it if you can afford it. :)

Scandal in Singapore ~ March 2013

SCANDAL (@scandal_band) tweeted at 0:02 PM on Mon, Dec 03, 2012:
SCANDAL、来年3月にインドネシア・シンガポール・タイの3カ国での東南アジアツアー決定しました！ 会場、日程などの詳細は追ってお知らせします！盛り上がろうぜ！

Luna Sea in Febuary, Scandal in March, Namie Amuro in April.... it is already looking like next year might be a good year for Japanese music fans. :) :)

Currently, it looks like I will probably try and go for the Scandal and Namie Amuro concerts. Likely to give Luna Sea a skip cuz my regular concert buddies are either not in town or not interested.

Yay!!! Hopefully we will see even more good acts next year. :)

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Kajiura Yuki vol.9 Live ~ twitter event maybe?

[梶浦由記 Yuki Kajiura (@Fion0806) tweeted at 8:21 PM on Sat, Dec 01, 2012:
あ、そうだライブ映像版出たら、またついったー上でいっせいのせ鑑賞会やりましょう〜ヽ(*^^*)ノ。
(https://twitter.com/Fion0806/status/274850676889239552)]

Ok....if i read this tweet correctly... Kajiura Yuki also tweeted about wanting to hold another online event. She likes to hold a tweeter event after the release of albums and live DVDs where everyone who participates presses play on their players at the same time. Everyone then watches or listens to the same thing together and talk about the music etc on twitter or something like that. I have yet to participate in one so I am not quite sure how it goes. But that's the impression I get.

I like it that she holds these events....I just wish my Japanese was better. Hopefully, in the future, my Japanese will be good enough to be able to participate fully in these events.

As for when this event will be...she didn't say but I think it is likely to happen and if so, it should be soon after the release of the DVD / blu-ray next year.

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Kajiura Yuki Live Vol.9 BD ~ making of

[梶浦由記 Yuki Kajiura (@Fion0806) tweeted at 7:15 PM on Sat, Dec 01, 2012:
来年発売のYuki Kajiura Live vol9 Blu-rayに入るメイキング映像の編集を見たのであります。こ……これは何と赤裸裸な……(*/∇＼*)ｷｬｰ（リハ的に）
(https://twitter.com/Fion0806/status/274834220432637952)]

Oh..... it looks like there will be a making of video in the Blu-ray release of the recently announced Kajiura Yuki vol.9 blu-ray release. :)

Kajiura Yuki is often quite cute when she tweets. Here she writes that the video is quite frank...then an emoticon and a "kya" onomatopoeia. Cute. :-)

happy!! :)

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EOY 2012 J-pop Live concert cancelled

I should have suspected something was up.  After the Perfume concert last Saturday, I was all fired up and quite keen to go to EOY 2012's concert which featured two anisong singers that I was interested in watching.  One was Haruna Luna who is very new to the anisong scene and the other is Sugawara Sayuri who has been active for a few years.  But a few days ago when I went to the EOY website to try and find information on the concerts, I couldn't find anything on the concert and the only thing I found was the Sistic page which was really odd.

After my 3 trips to Japan to see Kajiura Yuki and Kalafina live, one trip to Malaysia to see Kalafina live, the J-Live Vol.2 concerts and the Perfume concerts, I was feeling quite broke, so I had initially made the decision to skip the EOY 2012 concerts.  But after the Perfume concert, I really wanted just one more to wrap up the year and was in the midst of making plans with friends when the cancellation of the concert was announced. =(

Here is the link to the official announce of the cancellation.... click me.

Bummer!!!!! Not just for me and those who wanted to go but also for all the people who worked so hard to get this thing together and the singers and performers who were going to perform that day. =(  Hopefully, next year, EOY's concerts will go smoothly for them.

Kajiura Yuki Vol.9 Shibuya Special DVD/BD release

from the Stone Cold single

Now that I am actually fully awake and can digest all the tweets I read last night, I am finally able to fully comprehend exactly which Live they are releasing on DVD/BD. =)  This is the official announce from JVC Music's FictionJunction website... click me.

The concert that they are releasing is the 4th day in the series of concerts that Kajiura Yuki held in August/September.  This is the day that they tagged on at the end after the 3 Day Special concerts.

This makes sense.  The Shibuya Special concert were a mix of music which was performed during the 3 Day Special and would be the best concert to release on DVD/BD if one was to release one day only.

Moreover FJ Asuka who did not feature in the 3 Day Special, made an appearance at the Shibuya Special.  Too excited and probably too tired last night to make proper sense of the tweets and the FlyingDog announce. :p

This means a few things for me.  One is YAY... I'm still uber happy about the release but I'm kinda disappointed that the 3 Day concert was not release in its entirety.  I would pay top dollar to get these on BD because I went to Japan and still didn't make it in for Day 2 and 3 and was super disappointed about that.  In the end, the concert they streamed on ustream was the Day 1 concert which I attended but almost all my favourite songs are actually in Day 3.

In fact, if she released the Vol.8 live I would be extremely happy too.  I loved the Vol.8 live and if I could imprint that memory in my mind and experience in my heart, I would.  A DVD/BD of that Live would have been perfect.  Like the Kalafina's After Eden release which I attended and now have a record of, I would have a video record of my very first Kajiura Yuki live... an experience that was not topped by the Vol.9 live Day 1.

Still... this is really better than nothing.  I could not have made the Shibuya live anyway.  And Duran Shoukan, Sayonara Solitaire, Mezame Kaze no Michi e made it to this release.  I really like Everlasting Songs but unfortunately, I'm more a fan of the live FJ version than FJ Asuka's version.  It'll be interesting to see how the arrangement is now that FJ Asuka has been thrown into the mix but since I really love how Keiko always sounds in the opening stanza of Everlasting Songs... I'm wondering if I would be a little disappointed by that.

K... time to go... lots to do... and a big lesson learnt here... do not post excited blog posts in the middle of the night in the dark from my bed on a 7 inch tablet.... bound to get everything wrong.  Hahahahaha!!!!! :)

Kajiura Yuki vol.9 dvd /BD release ~ more info

梶浦由記 Yuki Kajiura (@Fion0806) tweeted at 11:30 PM on Fri, Nov 30, 2012:そうそう、Live BL&DVDの曲目などの詳細はこちらです。メイキングが気になる……一体どんな映像を撮られていたというのかかかかか！(-_-; http://t.co/GNI15Yjh(https://twitter.com/Fion0806/status/274535993124737025)

Well....now that I have read another tweet from Kajiura, I know that, like I suspected...it will be a selection of the songs performed during the vol.9 series of concerts. That's cool....it us much better than nothing. :-)

The tracklist has been announced on FictionJunction's JVC music page. I am most happy to see Sayonara Solitaire (yay Keiko!!! :-P ), Mezame, Kaze no Michi e, Durran Shoukan and Everlasting Songs (I have a soft spot for this song). Am disappointed that some of the Pandora Hearts songs didn't make it in...wasn't Itou Eri one of the guests too or maybe I remembered wrong. She's not listed as one of the artists appearing in this release which maybe why some of the Pandora Hearts songs like Bloody Rabbit didn't make it in. If I remembered correctly it was sung on Day 3. But I can't check now... in bed and on my Nexus 7 so it's a little inconvenient. I wished that more of Day 2 made it in too. I think Akagi Rise was a guest star too but she's not listed as one of the performers in this release.

Still.... I am really happy about this release. K.... Need to sleep now.

updated 1st Dec: read this post instead ~ contains corrections :) 

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Yuki Kajiura vol.9 live DVD / BD release announce

[梶浦由記 Yuki Kajiura (@Fion0806) tweeted at 6:53 PM on Fri, Nov 30, 2012:
さてさて、この度今年9/9に行なった「Yuki Kajiura Live vol9 渋公Special」の映像がBlu-ray、DVDにて発売される事となりました。2013/2/20のリリースでありまする。宜しければ是非ご覧下さいね！ヽ(*^^*)ノ
(https://twitter.com/Fion0806/status/274466224908410881)]

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been waiting and waiting for this announce. Ever since Kajiura Yuki announced that she would be holding a 3 day concert special, I kept thinking that it would be released.

I thought the announce would be at the concerts themselves but that never came. I was really disappointed since I could not get tickets to Day 2 and 3. Just when I thought that this was never going to get released.... here it is finally.... the announce from Kajiura herself. :-) :-) :-)

I can't even express how happy I am about this. I hope all the days make it on the release. But since she didn't write 3 day special, it might end up being a edited version of all the days plus the shibuya special.

Please please please be ALL the days!!! :-) :-)

I am so happy that I decided to check twitter before I go to sleep. Am typing this on my Nexus 7 in bed. :-)

updated 1st Dec: read this post instead ~ contains the correct info :) 

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