Manga Time Kirara Magika Vol.7 ~ contains Kajiura Yuki's interview

(click me to get to product page)

In case anyone is interested, Kirara Magika vol7 contains a 3 page interview with Kajiura Yuki.  The topics were naturally centred around Mahou Shoujo Madoka's music.  Some of the questions were about specific songs like "Hikari Furu", "magia (quattro mix) etc.



I do read this comic magazine. Okay... very slowly and I haven't caught up to this issue yet but I still will pick up the latest issue because when they go Out of Print... they stay Out of Print. So for those of you who may want to get it, don't hesitate for too long. CDJapan lists just 7 copies left.

BTW... I also shot a photo of some of the freebies that come with some of the previous issues of this comic. Each freebie is accompanied by the issue it came with. Enjoy. :)





Finally, I took advantage of the 50% CDJapan sale on Kalafina's Moonfesta recently and picked up the LE+DVD and now my Moonfesta single is complete. I have all versions of this single now.
I may do the unboxing for this on a later date... although the single was released a long time ago, I am still interested in doing a simple post...but we'll see...for now... time to sleep. :)

Good Smile 1/8th Scale Ultimate Madoka ~ CDJapan deep discount

I need to do clean my room and do some computer maintenance and backup etc stuff... so v short post.  I just wanted to alert anyone who may be interested in this very awesome figure that CDJapan is currently offering this at 40% off.

It's definitely worth considering.  I couldn't resist getting one when they were first released. :)  There are currently 3 2 on offer, so don't take too long. :)

Here is the direct link to the product page.  CLICK ME. (edit: for some reason, the actual product page doesn't show the discount... but it's there... CLICK ME to see the search page with the discount.)

Also, here is the link to some photos of this figure.  I shot these at the Good Smile booth at the AFA Malaysia last year. :)  CLICK ME.

K... I maybe have more unboxing posts popping up sometime this week... depends on work... we'll see.. for now... bye... need to get quite a few things done and try and not sleep too late. :)

Knk: Mirai Fukuin - Kalafina's single "Hallelujah" listed

 

 website: http://www.karanokyoukai.com/miraifukuin/index.html

CDJapan has a listing for Kalafina's theme song for the new Kara no Kyoukai movie.  The single is titled "Hallelujah". :)  Two editions, one RE and one LE and not two LEs like I originally thought.

Interesting that CDJapan lists the LE as the Anime Edition.  This makes me think that the RE will possibly have Kalafina's photo as the cover and the LE will have the anime's illustration as the cover.  If that's the case, I guess I will be getting both RE and LE. :)

As far as I know, no announce on 1st Press freebies yet.  I'm guessing possibly a postcard again.

If you can afford it... please buy these CDs and support Kajiura Yuki, Kalafina and the music industry.

Limited Edition (Anime Edition)
Regular Edition

K... gotta go back to work.... will check if there is more info after work... now I have run out of time. :P

Kalafina “Consolation” Special LIVE 2013 commemorative set - unboxing

I'm really really going to blast through this.  It's late, I'm really kind of tired and I have to do OT tomorrow... or rather later tonight... so.. basically... very little text... lots of photos. :)

I asked my friend to help me order this from the Spacecraft Website because I wanted the postcard.  HMV was also offering the same set but without the postcard. :)

K... here you go.... photos. :)

         

That's it... sorry it's a little later then I intended.  But it's done. :)  K... now for some sleep. :)  Good night!! :)

KnK: Mirai Fukuin ~ Kalafina - single released 2nd Oct / Mirai Fukuin Extra Chorus

Kalafinaニューシングル2013年10月2日(水)リリース決定!! 詳細はこちら!! http://t.co/NyO32un8SC
— Kalafina_Staff (@Kalafina_Staff) July 16, 2013

About an hour ago, Kalafina's twitter tweeted that the new single will be released on the 2nd Oct. :)  YAY!!!!  Kajiura Yuki herself also tweeted about it.:)

The theme song for the single will be titled "Alleluia"

There will be 2 limited editions which will come with a booklet. :)

More details will follow at a later date. :)

Also, the special site for Mirai Fukuin has been updated and it also has a new trailer... at least one I hadn't seen before.... and it sounds cool!!!  My kind of stuff. :) LINK

They also announced something else that will screen on the same day.  It's called Mirai Fukui ~ Extra Chorus.  LINK To tell you the truth, I don't really know what it is but Kajiura Yuki's name is in it... so YEAH!!! :P

Okay guys... when the time comes, if you can afford it... please do buy the CDs. :)

Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin ~ Kalafina to sing theme song!!

劇場版「空の境界 未来福音」主題歌がKalafinaに決定! 詳細はこちら!! http://t.co/NyO32un8SC
— Kalafina_Staff (@Kalafina_Staff) July 12, 2013

(Kara no Kyoukai's official website: http://www.karanokyoukai.com/)

Okay... I am double posting this because I am super happy about this announce.  I was blogging from my mobile phone in the earlier post.

While I think most of us fans were pretty sure that Kalafina will be involved in both the 3rd Mahou Shoujo Madoka movie and the Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin movie, still, as long as there was no official announce, there was always the chance that they wouldn't be.

I am both super happy and super relieved to know that Kalafina will continue to be involved in both projects.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the music for Kara no Kyoukai so am super happy it's Kajiura Yuki with Kalafina again. :)

I also really, really like the Kara no Kyoukai movies and am really looking forward to the release of this film.  If I read the Japanese correctly, it seems like the film will screen on the 28th Sept. :)

Kalafina to sing theme song for Kara no Kyoukai Mirai Fukuin

梶浦由記 Yuki Kajiura (@Fion0806) tweeted at 11:51 PM on Fri, Jul 12, 2013:
本編の他にも色々盛りだくさんの上映でありましたが、とりあえず。今秋公開になる「未来福音」の主題歌、Kalafinaが歌わせて頂いております(^_^)。作品とともに、皆様に聞いて頂くのが楽しみです。
(https://twitter.com/Fion0806/status/355701022846500867

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Did i read this correctly?? My Japanese isn't that good yet but if i read this correctly I think Kajiura Yuki just confirmed that Kalafina will sing the theme song for the upcoming Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin!!

Yay!! I was waiting for this announce!!!! :)

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Le Portrait de Petit Cossette ~ Blu-ray Release

「まどか」の原点ともいえる傑作OVA「コゼットの肖像」Blu-ray版が10月2日に発売！！ 新房監督＆梶浦由記さんの初タッグ、キャラデはまどかED担当の鈴木博文さんと関係も深いです。新編公開前にぜひ。 http://t.co/HavCVz2qAn #madoka_magica
— 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ (@madoka_magica) July 10, 2013

http://www.cossette.jp/

I read about the upcoming release of the 2004 anime Le Portrait de Petit Cossette from the Mahou Shoujo Madoka twitter account a day or two ago. I've always been curious about this anime but have yet to watch it.  Part of my interest is because Kajiura Yuki wrote the OST and theme song (Hoseki) for this anime and I really liked the music.

You may be wondering what the link to Mahou Shoujo Madoka is.  Well, one of the animes that served as Urobuchi Gen's inspiration when he was writing Mahou Shoujo Madoka was Petit Cosette.  Also, in one of the interviews he gave, he said that he wanted to work with Kajiura Yuki after listening to the OST for Petit Cosette.

Also, aside form sharing the same OST composer, Petit Cosette also shares the same director as Mahou Shoujo Madoka.  Akiyuki Shinbo directed both animes.

For those who may also be interested in getting this BD Release.  This is being sold as a Limited Edition.  So it comes with all 3 episodes of the OVA on the BD, a CD with the theme song Hoseki by Inoue Marina, and a booklet.  The BD's packaging will also be drawn by Suzuki Hirofum who was the character designer for the OVA.

I'm interested in getting this but we'll see... I don't like the horror genre and this looks creepy... so I don't know if I will pick it up.  I am thinking about it but I am a bit scared to buy it... hahahahaha... I think if anything I will try and buy the Kajiura Yuki Memorial Book first before I purchase this. :)

For those who are interested, the CD Japan's link is up already.  Here you go... click on the picture to jump to the product page.



K... time to sleep.  Good night!! :)

Lisani! Vol.13

edit 11th July:  if anyone is waiting for this Kalafina commemorative set's unboxing... just a heads up... I can't get to this today... worked OT today... I may not get to it till the weekend... possible OT tomorrow and day after too.  photos have been shot so... i think I will get it done by the latest sunday night. :)  For now...good night. :)

Originally I wanted to do the unboxing of the Kalafina“Consolation”Special LIVE 2013 commemorative set picture below... but I'm really tired today.  So I will leave that for either tomorrow or the day after.

For now, just a very quick post on Lisani Vol.13.  This particular volume of the anisong magazine contained a review of the Consolation album.  This is pretty much strictly for fans who can read Japanese.  It's a lot of text and has only one photo of the album art.  I had trouble with the Japanese, it was a little hard for me.  I mainly got this for Kalafina but I also like A Certain Scientific Railgun and plan on watching season 2.  This volume also had several pages devoted to the anisong group "angela" which I really like and I may do an unboxing of their latest album release.  There are also a few pages on T.M. Revolution and Nana Mizuki.  I like T.M. Revolution and had attended his Live at AFA12 in Singapore last year.

For Kalafina fans... here are the photos of all the pages devoted to Kalafina and the Consolation album. :)



For those who wish to get this volume of Lisani.  Here is the link to the product page. Click me.

That's it from me... I am off to bed. :)

Mahou Shoujo Madoka 3rd movie CM & BD release has English subs :)

There were several announcments made recently regarding the Mahou Shoujo Madoka franchise.  Anyone who is familiar with my blog will know that I am a pretty big Mahou Shoujo Madoka fan. :)  First up, in case anyone hasn't seen it yet, the CM for the 3rd movie began airing on TVs in Japan just this past weekend.

Here is the youtuble link... hope it stays up.  It's pretty short but I'm very excited about it. :)



Also, the official website for the new movie has also been updated. :)  Click me.



Also, I just noticed that the soon to be released BD of the First and Second movie has English subs.  I'm really happy about that!!!!!! :)  I pre-ordered this a long time ago and I don't think they announced that this release will have English, Japanese, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean.  Note that, at least according to the product pages on CDJapan, only the BD releases have subtitles.  Which means both the LE and RE editions of the blu-ray release has multiple language subs.  The DVD releases are Japanese only.



The CDJapan release comes with a deskmat which I like.  :)  I already own two Madoka deskmats and I don't mind owning a 3rd. :D

For those who are interested, there are currently only about 20+ first press releases of the LE edition and only 8 copies of the RE edition of the BDs.  So if you want the deskmat...better place and order soon.  Here  is the link to the product page for the BD LE edition... Click me.



Finally, for Madoka fans, there is another cool release and something to consider ordering.  A 1/10 scale Ultimate Madoka figure will be included as an extra to a magazine called Figure Japan.  I don't usually buy this mook but I have pre-ordered this this time because this first issue will focus on Madoka and will include this 1/10 scale figure. :)


Click the photo for the product page for this release.

Check mikatan's blog post for photos of the painted prototype and information about this new magazine.  This blog is in English.  Click me.

Alrighty... that's enough posts from me today... I have a few more Kalafina related postings, one of which is an unboxing... I'll see if I can get to that tomorrow night... for now... I need to sleep... I suddenly feel really tired again. :(

Fingers crossed that I can complete my final Kalafina unboxing post tomorrow... the photos have already been shot which would make things easier... for now... good night. :)

Kalafina Paper vol.2 ~ unboxing

This time it's the Kalafina Paper vol.2.  This was published for the Consolation Special Live in April of this year.  I asked one of my friends to help me purchase it from the Spacecraft Webstore and had another friend carry it back to Singapore for me a few weeks ago. :)

This is the 2nd time a Kalafina Paper has been published.  The first one was for the After Eden Special Live. Here is the link to that unboxing....click me.  I'm beginning to think that they are thinking of publishing a Kalafina Paper for every album release and coincide that release with the commemorative live for that album.  So...fingers crossed that there will be many more Kalafina Papers in the future. :)

As far as I can tell, they seem to be keeping to the same concept they had with the first Kalafina Paper.  So here we have something that in essence a "pamphlet" unlike most of the Live "pamphlets" that they release.  Those are really more like books than pamphlets.  I'm not complaining though.  I like the books as much as I like the pamphlets. :)

Kalafina Paper Vol.2 isn't quite as bright or "angelic" looking as Vol.1.  Vol.1's colour scheme was most white and blue and had a cooler color template than Vol.2.  With Vol.2, were are back to more earth tones which is really similar to the colors and concept they chose for the Consolation album.

Vol.2 is also more "complicated" than Vol.1 which was a few pages folded in halves and put together.  Vol.2 is folded in a more complicated way and unfolds to reveal a large poster.  Kinda cool, although I wish the poster wasn't an extreme long shot.  I would prefer to be able to see their faces better.

Anyway...let's cut to the chase...here are the rest of the photos. I shot photos of every page. :)



Here's the photo of the enter poster. It's not the best of photos but it was a little hard to shoot given the over head lights in my room. Also, I shot a close up of Keiko in that poster. :p



Okay...this is the end of this post...I may squeeze something else in. :)

Yuki Kajiura Live vol.10 Kaji Fes.goods ~ playing cards - unboxing

I think it was because I haven't been able to travel to Japan this year and haven't been able to attend any of Kajiura Yuki's or Kalafina's lives this year that I decided to make what some might think is a frivolous purchase. :)  Well, I am a crazy Kajiura Yuki fan so, nothing is a frivolous purchase to me. :P I would have bought the pouch with the candy too if I was at the concert venue itself but because I didn't want to trouble my friend too much, I decided just to get the playing cards. :)

This is a pretty simple post.  There really isn't much to say except that the cardboard has a glossy and smooth finish.  All the numbered cards, including the Ace, have no photos on them.  The photos are all printed on the Jack, King and Queen cards of each suit.  The one single photo of Kajiura Yuki at her piano and another one of just a piano on it's own are on the Jokers.  This is somewhat typically low key of Kajiura Yuki. :)  The main vocalists in the Kajiura Yuki family, Keiko, Wakana, Hikaru, Oda Kaori, Yuriko Kaida and Nanri Yuuka get two photos each.

Here are the photos of the playing cards. :)

        

That's pretty much it for this post. :)  Maybe I'll do another post in a bit. :)