よいお年を！Bye bye 2015, hello 2016!

Ahhhhhh.... lately I haven't been blogging much.  To be honest, I was really tired and thought that it would be good to take a break from everything and really do as little as possible for a while.  So although there were many things that happened that I used to enjoy rambling on and on about on the blog, I decided not too.

I think I'm about ready to return to blogging again. :)  The new year is fast approaching and I have managed to get a lot of rest in.  It's time to say good bye to what has been a very eventful and at times tumultuous year and welcome the new year which would, hopefully, be more peaceful

On a personal level, this was a pretty good year.  I went to Japan three times, got to be part of the historic two day Kalafina at the Budokan lives and share that emotional moment with both Kalafina and 1000s of other fans :) :) , I also attended all six Yuki Kajiura vol.12 lives which were incredible and further cemented my respect and love for her as a composer & musician and, I also made it to the opening two days of Kalafina's far on the water lives.

Kajiura Yuki ~ Madoka Magica - new concept movie - BGM announce

There's also another piece of news that should excite Kajiura Yuki fans and MadoMagi fans too. :)

Japanese anime news sites are announcing that there will be a Madoka Magica concept movie that will screen at the "Shaft 40th Anniversary MADOGATARI Exhibition".  The same team of people that made the MadoMagi movies also made this concept movie. This includes Shinbo Akiyuki, Aoki Ume and Urobuchi Gen.

It seems that they are working towards a continuation of the series. :)  As far as I can tell, they didn't actually announce a new series / movie but they did write "新作に向けて打ち合わせを続けてきました". Okay, my Japanese isn't that strong but I THINK that means something along the lines of them continuing to work towards a new piece of work. :)  And the article also wrote "この映像は、『魔法少女まどか☆マギカ』新作のヒントとも呼べる要素がふんだんに盛り込まれた、新たな物語の扉を開く“コンセプトムービー”。" Which I THINK means something like the this concept film can be called a strong hint that there will be a new piece of work and that the concept movie opens the door to a new story.  I'm a MadoMagi fan so this makes me HAPPY because it looks very likely that they will announce a sequel to the franchise.

Kajiura Yuki does the music for the concept movie. YES!!!!!! Her music for the entire MadoMagi franchise is stellar. Loved it!!

sources: AnimateTV, Moca New, Anme Anime,

Kajiura Yuki ~ "boku dake ga inai machi" anime BGM announce

2016年1月から放映開始のTVアニメーション、「僕だけがいない街」のBGMを担当させて頂いております(^_^)。音楽はもう一通りは作り終え、私も放映をわくわくと！楽しみに待っております……。

— 梶浦由記 Yuki Kajiura (@Fion0806) November 26, 2015

OH!!! Joy joy joy!!!! Kajiura Yuki just announced a little while ago on twitter that she wrote the BGM music for "Boku dake ga inai machi".  It's been a while since she announced that she's doing the OST for an anime.

The anime is scheduled to air in Jan 2016 in FujiTV's Noitamina slot.

In a series of subsequent tweets, Kajiura wrote that she was a fan of the manga even before she was asked to write the BGM for it and was very pleased that she was asked to write the music for it. :)

I can't wait!! :)

Kalafina ~ far on the water - Mexico live announced

Wow! Lucky Mexico and fans in the area. Kalafina is going to hold a one man live in Mexico.

Pretty cool for Kalafina too. :)

But the selfish part of me is sad. :'(
Still waiting for Kalafina's first one-man live in Singapore.

Although we are luckier than some, so it is hard to complain. They came for AFA in 2011 in Singapore and 2012 to AFA Malaysia, both of which I was able to attend. Then there was AFA Indonesia and Thailand which I couldn't go. :'( But SEA has yet to see a one-man Kalafina live....if that ever happens, I selfishly hope it will be in Singapore. :P

Meanwhile, I am off to mope. :'(

Kalafina 8th Anniversary Special products The Live Album「Kalafina LIVE TOUR 2014」 ~ cover art released

Small update. :)

source: Amazon

The cover art for this release was released sometime today I think.  That's pretty quick. :)

And again... if you can afford it, please do buy the album. :)

 For those who usually get it from CDJapan.  CLICK ME, for those who usually get their stuff from Amazon Japan. CLICK ME.  And those who get theirs from HMV Japan.  CLICK ME.

cheers :)

Kalafina 8th Anniversary Special products The Live Album「Kalafina LIVE TOUR 2014」 ~ placeholder image released

Small update.  The placeholder image for this release has been released.

CDJapan's links are also up, this is for those who are like me, and generally order from CDJapan.  CLICK ME

For those who usually get from Amazon Japan. CLICK ME.  And those who get theirs from HMV Japan.  CLICK ME.

cheers
p.s. Don't forget to buy if you can afford it. :)

Kalafina 8th Anniversary Special products The Live Album「Kalafina LIVE TOUR 2014」 ~ album announced

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I woke up to some pretty happy news. :)  Yay!!!

Yuki Kajiura Vol.12 pamphlet

I forgot that I never did a proper "unboxing" of this pamphlet.  I never really got around to it because I had been posting bits and pieces of it on the blog and on twitter when I was in Japan.  When I returned to Singapore, it seemed like enough of the pages have been floating around that it didn't really seem necessary anymore.

However, someone left me a comment on the blog asking me if I could shed some light on this release so I decided to do a really quick post of it.  I re-shot photos of it because I don't know where the previous photos are since I was randomly posting them up.

Kalafina ~ far on the water - HK only live goods

Hello, it's been a while.  Super busy and tired but I really wanna try and squeeze this in before I go off to work.

So Kalafina just recently concluded the Hong Kong leg of their far on the water tour over the weekend.  Let me just take a short moment to shed a few tears that their tour did not include Singapore. :'( :'( :'(   I could not afford the time or the money to go since I already planned to be in Japan for the fotw special tour lives that end the tour so even though HK is nearer and cheaper than Japan and there are autograph opportunities....  sigh.... no go for me. :(

STILL.... some friends of mine went. :)  And they helped me to get the HK only live good which is this Thermo mug.  So I decided to take a couple photos and share it with anyone else who's interested. :)

Not the best photos but I was in a real hurry this morning, so these will have to do.  Oh... I also asked my friend to buy me a wristband but that's not a HK only good.  I'll do that in another post tonight, along with the Yuki Kajiura vol.12 pamphlet someone else asked me about. :)

Looking forward to Jan/Feb 2016

So tired and frustrated at work today. And I really wanted to go home for dinner today and not have to eat the crappy dinner at the company again. Okay....maybe it isn't that crappy and it is free....but if I am eating that dinner...it means OT again. And I am really really really tired today. :( :( :(

I am really struggling to hold on to good thoughts right now. So am gonna try and think of Jan/ Feb 2016 because I am going back to Japan again! :)

Yay!!!! Happy thoughts happy thoughts!!! I have pretty much secured tickets to four lives in Jan / Feb. I will attend my first FictionJunction Club members only live on the 23rd Jan. That's the 8th Anniversary Kalafina live. My first Kalafina Anniversary live! Yeah!!

Yuki Kajiura ~ Poetics of Fiction making (Eureka Nov 2015 magazine)

I've been kind of busy lately again so a quick post again.  I know there are a few replies in the comment section. Thank you for the replies, I'll answer them another day. :)

When I first heard from a friend that there will be a mook on Kajiura Yuki that will be released, I was pretty excited and decided that I will get it and so it went into pre-order ages ago.  I did finally receive this along with the B-PASS with AAA on the cover that keeps getting sold out.  I want that for Kalafina's column of course. :P. Well, I do like AAA.  One of the few groups that sing dance music that I like but my favourite still remains Kajiura Yuki's music. :)

Kalafina ~ far on the water - Animate tokuten postcard

This is the last of my newly acquired Kalafina tokuten postcards.  I just received this from friends who helped me to purchase the analog version of far on the water from Animate.  I didn't try for all the tokuten postcards this time, just like I didn't try to do it with One Light too.  I only managed that feat with ring your bell.  Still, whatever I managed to get makes me happy. :)

Kalafina Museum ~ Budokan tote bag & Animate postcard

I didn't bring much to Japan with me on this trip.  Usually on a longer trip, I might pack my large duffel bag in my much smaller cabin size suitcase.  But this time, since it was only a 4 day 3 night trip and I was trying out a new hotel in an unfamiliar place, I didn't want to be burdened by a lot of luggage.

The biggest thing on my mind was that skateboard that I had bought. :P  I got a standard size street skateboard because I only own a nickel and I wanted a bigger board this time to try and do some simple tricks. :P

And those r my Vans shoes w/out the Keiko
produced shoelaces. Don't want to mess
those shoelaces up. :P

[WANT TO SELL] Kalafina ~ One Light - RE & LE+BD (sealed & unopened)

WANT TO SELL
RE -- SOLD
(thank you)

24th Oct:  LE+BD -- SOLD
(thank you)

[WANT TO SELL] Kalafina ~ far on the water - LE + DVD (sealed and unopened)

WANT TO SELL
current status 24rd Oct: SOLD
(thank you)

Hi guys, I have a few Kalafina CDs that I would like to sell.  This is just one of them.

It's not because I don't want them but because I already have them and I got these because I wanted the tokuten that came with them. :P

I currently own the LE+BD edition of far on the water album with Keiko's solo picture no less. :P Actually, the LE+BD comes with Wakana's.  But since I also purchased the RE to get the Kalafina towel from HMV, I swapped out the insert booklets so that my LE+BD would have Keiko's solo picture.  The RE version with Wakana's solo picture, I gave it to a friend whom I've been slowly "poisoning" with Kalafina's music. :D

Kalafina ~ far on the water - tour live goods table.

#Kalafina far on the water live goods. I want them all! :P pic.twitter.com/PliDkci7TQ

— SharonApple (@SharonApple2000) October 10, 2015

Ah... I forgot to upload this photo in one of the goods post so I thought I'll just post it up in a post on it's own.  :)

Kalafina ~ far on the water - tour live goods - part 2

This is a continuation of my Kalafina ~ far on the water - tour live goods post.  The first post just got too long so I decided to split it up. :)

So first up is the microfibre hand towel.

  

There were two available at the Tokyo lives. One for monochrome and the other was for into the water.  These hand towels will change at every location that they go to except for HK and Taiwan. I'm not sure which ones will be available at Osaka.  Maybe they will be the next two on the tracklist on the album.  That would be Gogatsu no Mahou and ring your bell.

Kalafina ~ far on the water - tour live goods - part 1

I was on medical leave today and now that I feel loads better, I thought I'll try and finish up the live goods post at one go because I didn't buy that much this time. :P  BUT... the post started to get really long, so I'll just do a part 1 now and a part 2 will follow.

I think I didn't go as crazy as I did at the Budokan lives or at Yuki Kajiura Live vol.12.  I didn't buy as many things this time.  Not because I didn't want to but because I thought I should be a little more controlled in my spending since I will be travelling to Japan again to see Kalafina live again in Jan at the far on the water final lives. I'll need money to do that and then there is a planned March trip to Japan to attend a friend's wedding.  Moreover, I didn't bring a very big luggage bag this time and didn't bring along my large duffel bag because I intended to carry back a skateboard from Japan as well. :P

The full list of goods that will be available can be see from the FJC website.  Click me.

So this time this is my damage:

1x t-shirt
1x pamphlet
1x vocal score
1x postcard set
1x B4 size poster set
1x mineral water
1x microfibre hand towel (monochrome)
3x Keiko produced shoelaces (one of them not for me)
1x Hikaru produced wall pocket (also not for me)

So here goes...

First up.... postcard set. :)

Kalafina Calendar 2016 ~ unboxing + FJC postcards

I honestly thought I would blog more in Japan on this trip because I was pretty much travelling on my own this time.  But in the end, I had appointments for virtually every meal with friends.  It was a good trip, good live, good food and good company.  I even managed to get in some rest even though I didn't sleep as much as I should have. :P  Still, it was a good escape from work and I needed that. :)

I actually took photos of pretty much everything Kalafina related that I got at the far on the water live in the hotel on this trip.  I had intended to do the unboxings in Japan but never got around to doing it.  So let me squeeze one in now.  This is the Kalafina Calendar. 2016.  The calendar isn't actually released yet.  That will happen two days from now.  Early released copies were made available from the goods table at the live in Tokyo on the 10th & 11th Oct.  I picked up my copy from the FictionJunction Club table on the 10th because they come with special FJC postcards.  There is also one tokuten postcard available with the regular release but I don't have a photo of it.

Kalafina ~ far on the water - holy water :P

I got me some Kalafina holy mineral water. :P

Splurged a little. :P

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Japan Trip 2015 Oct ~ Day 2.1

Good morning from Tokyo, Japan!!! :)  I'm really not planning to do much during this trip.  My only plans were to attend Kalafina's far on the water lives, buy a skateboard, meet friends and eat, try and buy a Mario Kart DS cartridge and just rest.

I don't want this to be a stressful trip at all.  It's like my escape from reality trip that I made several years ago to Japan.  Watch a live, go to Disney Sea and do NOTHING was my plan then. LOL.

Japan Trip 2015 Oct ~ Day 1.2

I'm about to fall asleep in my hotel room now. :)

I was thinking I might tweet or mobile blog more today but I had some trouble getting a mobile SIM card and then had trouble getting it to work. By the time that was done it was time to meet my friend for dinner.

I ate at one of my favourite places to eat burgers in Tokyo, although I went for the steak today. :)

Japan Trip 2015 Oct ~ Day 1.1

I am waiting for my flight to Tokyo right now. So glad for a short break from work. :)

This time it's only going to be a short trip. It is pretty much just a concert run to catch the opening two lives for Kalafina's "far on the water" lives. :)

Okay....gonna chill for a bit...it is too early in the morning. :)

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Ieiri Leo " 20 - 4th Live Tour ~ " BD & DVD release & 2016 lives announce

Oh... looks like those of us who are Ieiri Leo fans will be happy with this announce. :)  They will be releasing  her "20 ~ 4th live tour ~" on BD and DVD.  Yay for me! :)  I'll be picking up the BD for sure.

(source)

As usual, Ieiri's management company released the cover art for the release on the day of the announce.  It's their usual practice.  The BD and DVD covers look vastly different. LOL.

This is the BD cover art.

Kalafina ~ far on the water - Analog / Vinyl - unboxing + comments / review on the tracks

As you can tell from the lack of updates on the blog, I've been pretty busy & tired lately.  But this came in the mail today and it's too pretty not to try and get a quick unboxing out. :)

So here you go....

Kalafina ~ far on the water - debuts at 2nd on weekly Oricon chart

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Oh!!!! Omedetou!!! Kalafina has achieved their highest position yet on the weekly Oricon chart, they debuted at 2nd on the weekly album sales chart for their latest album far on the water. :)

The Oricon website hasn't been updated yet but at least one news sites is already reporting it.  I'm not surprised actually because I have been following the progress of the album on the charts for the whole week and I was thinking if it's not 2nd, it has to be at least 3rd.  They ranked in the Top 5 everyday and only dropped to 4th on one of the days.

Kalafina ~ far on the water - Regular Edition + Loppi HMV LE towel - unboxing

The turmoil at work continues so I'm really glad I made this impulse buy.  Getting this in the mail today, made my so far pretty crappy week a bit better.  There'll be a lot of changes in the coming months, so there is only so much that impulse buying can help but at least for today, it made my day much better. :)

Support Shop Tokuten postcard (HMV / CDJapan etc)
I forgot to post it up in the previous unboxing post for the
LE+BD edition. :P

This time, in order to get the Kalafina towel that only HMV was offering, I decided to buy another copy of far on the water.  At that point in time, I thought I'll give this copy to a friend who's slowly getting poisoned by me to like Kalafina. :P  I already gave her a copy of Kalafina's first single Oblivious, so maybe an album would be good too. :P  Of course, I'll keep the towel :D and I'll open it to take photos. :D  But now I'm having 2nd thoughts and I'll tell you why in a bit. :)

Kalafina ~ far on the water - Limited Edition Blu-ray - unboxing

To be honest, today was a terrible day at the office. It wasn't just a bad day for me, it was a bad day for pretty much everyone.  The only thing that made today better was the arrival of Kalafina's far on the water album which was good thing.  I needed something that would make the day a lot better than it started. Getting anything Kalafina usually brightens my day. :) The fact that I liked all the new songs and particularly enjoyed several of them also made the day feel better. :)

This is going to be a picture heavy post for sure.  I'm not sure how much I'll write right now. When the album was "in shipping process", I thought I might write a more than I've been doing in recent album unboxings, maybe talk about the music a little.  But I'm completely exhausted by the turmoil at work today. So I think I won't write a lot.

Madoka Magica denim jeans

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After agonising for some time, I decided to use up all my points in CDJapan to get this pair of jeans. If Kalafina or Kajiura Yuki or Ieiri Leo etc release any more singles and albums etc this year, I'll probably  have to put out some serious money to buy the various versions. *sweat

But I really wanted these jeans because they look so cool. And also because I try and save as much as possible for the trips and lives in Japan, I don't shop for clothes very often.  The last pair of jeans that I bought was one year ago and I blew all my points on that pair too.  Before that, I hadn't bought a pair of jeans or pants for two years. I guess one pair of jeans every year or two, is okay. :P

Kalafina Calendar 2016 ~ cover image released

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The cover image for Kalafina's calendar for 2016 has been released. :)  They look lovely!!! I'm going to get it of course.  I've been getting them for years.

I was trying to decide if I should as my friend to pre-order it for me from the FictionJunction Club webstore or get it from CDJapan or wait to find out if they'll be doing pre-release sales at the opening lives of their far on the water tour in Japan.

Kalafina Club 9/8/2015 ~ far on the water - song previews - comments

Today on Kalafina Club, we got monochrome and identity.   I must say WOW!  Kajiura Yuki and Kalafina seems to be going in yet another different direction with this album.  When Kajiura sensei tweeted in a tweet a week or so ago, she mentioned that far on the water will be Kalafina's "highest tension" album to date, she wasn't kidding either.  These two songs are very fast pace and quite different from what I expected, especially having been lulled into a pleasant quiet mood with Musunde Hiraku and Sorairo no Isu from last week.

But then again, each Kalafina album since Red Moon has had quite a few surprises.  I almost feel that Kajiura Yuki can't really stray too far with their opening and ending songs for anime etc but she really does seem to have the most fun when she writes songs for them that aren't tie-ins, it seems to  give her more freedom to play around.  It's not just monochorome and identify.  Just recently, we also had Samidare ga Sugita Koro ni which isn't a very typical Kalafina song, at least not one that jumps to mind when people think of Kalafina.

Kalafina ~ far on the water - short PV

Kalafina updated their website yesterday to reflect the imminent release of their newest album far on the water. :)  Sadly, as usual, international IP addresses are locked out of viewing the video clip.  And this is something I really don't understand. :(  It's a PV = promotional video.  They should be using these PVs to drive sales and recognition worldwide, not just limiting it to Japan.  Of course there are ways and means to watch it but I would like to be able to happily share this video with fans and non-fans alike without wondering when YouTube or some other streaming service is gonna pull the plug. :(

I won't be providing links to the video clip for you, I think if you know where to look, you can find it.  :)  You could also always use VPN to watch the clip.

Kalafina Club 9/1/2015 ~ far on the water - song previews - comments

Starting this week, Kalafina Club will be previewing songs from their soon to be released album far on the water.  I managed to listen to the program with the help of a friend, thanks! :)

Today they previewed むすんでひらく (Musunde Hiraku).  Most of the approx 1 min clip had Hikaru and Wakana taking turns to lead with Keiko doing mostly harmonising.  Keiko gets one clear line in there.  The clip is taken from somewhere in the middle of the song.  It's not bad, lots of Kalafina harmonising but it's not exactly a huge departure from their usual stuff.  Those of us who like their usual stuff will probably be okay with it.  Those who like their songs to sound different all the time, a bit like how angela can get, then maybe it won't be instant love...maybe never even a like... maybe?  I don't know.

Kalafina ~ far on the water - tokuten information released.

Oh.... Kalafina just released information and images for the tokutens for their soon to be released album far on the water.

Since it's a lot easier to share to the blog using their new LINE blog webpage, I'll just be embedding the post in my blogpost and help them drive traffic to their blog.  Please visit their website for the rest of the photos.  :)  Click on the photo below.




I'll just put one photo here because of Google+, so it'll look nice on Google+ :P

It's all postcards this time.

Ieiri Leo ~ Kimi ga Kureta Natsu ~ regular edition - WANT TO SELL

EDIT: SOLD!!! Thank you for your interest.

Yup, I would like to sell this Ieiri Leo CD.   I already have the Limited Edition with the DVD and I intend to keep that.

However, I also bought the Limited Edition with the goods and I would like to keep the goods but sell the CD that came with it.

The CD that came with the LE+Goods edition is actually the Regular Edition.  The packaging and the tracklist is exactly the same.

Ieiri Leo ~ Kimi ga Kureta Natsu - unboxing

It's no secret that aside from being a huge Kajiura Yuki, FictionJunction and Kalafina fan, I also really like Ieiri Leo, angela and Suiyoubi no Campanella.  I've fallen behind on my Ieiri unboxings and sadly, I'm not even keeping up with my Kajiura Yuki / FictionJunction and Kalafina unboxings. :(  And I would also like to do one for Suiyoubi no Campenella.  But not enough time!!!  時間が足りないよ！:(

So since this is the latest thing that I've received in the mail, I've decided that I'll do it first even though I have yet to do Kajiura Yuki's FictionJunction 2010-2013 The BEST of Yuki Kajiura LIVE 2 and also Kalafina's Budokan lives BDs, Suiyoubi no Campanella's latest album and Ieiri Leo's 20 album and the miss you single.  That's a lot. :(  And Kalafina's newest album far on the water will be released in the middle of this month.... I better chop chop and get as many of these things out of the way as possible... provided work isn't too crazy.

Anyway... enough of that... back to the main reason why I started writing this post. :P

Yes, this is the unboxing post for two editions of the Ieiri Leo's latest single Kimi ga Kureta Natsu.

FictionJunction Club ~ my first newsletter

Well, technically it's not in my hands yet because it's with my friend in Japan. :P  But I have finally sorted out my email and mail address problems and am now receiving FJC email and the newsletter.  I need to write to them later today to thank them for their help.  My Japanese is really not great yet, so I'm really glad that I managed to write to them and they understood me.  I hope I wasn't rude in anyway, although I'm sure I wrote very awkward nihongo. :P

So yeah, sorry for the tease.  You'll only see the envelope. I don't intend to put photos of the newsletter online even after I receive the physical copy from my friend.  It's an FJC exclusive which you get by entering the fan club so I don't feel it's right to post it all over the internet.  I just wanted to write this post because I'm SOOOOOOO happy that I got my first FJC newsletter.  After so many years of devotedly following Kajiura Yuki, FictionJunction and Kalafina, I made the decision to finally join the FJC this year in June and be counted as one of their official fans.  So I'm commemorating that decision and this moment with a blog post. :D

Kalafina ~ Line blog sharing test

I really rather like it that Kalafina has moved their blog to the LINE blog.

They announced it today (26th Aug 2015) that they are moving over from their old blog which was hosted on oricon.jp to the blog that is hosted on LINE... the new url is http://lineblog.me/kalafina
I'm not sure if they'll retain their current landing page which is http://www.kalafina.jp/ and then drive traffic from there to their new blog.  We'll see what happens when they change their artwork etc to promote the far on the water album.  That should be soon.

The new blog really makes sharing stuff from their blog a lot simpler and visually more attractive  now.  Next time, when I want to share stuff, I don't have to do screen captures and put a source link etc.

I can do this:



or this:

Kalafina ~ far on the water - nico nico live announce

Nice!!! Kalafina's just announced on their radio programme Kalafina Club, as well as their blog that there will be a nico nico live to commemorate the release of far on the water. :)

The full title is quite a mouthful. :)  The title of the programme is Kalafina Original New Album "far on the water" commemorative special Kalafina niconico club with lisani!

The programme is scheduled to stream online on nico nico's website on the 16th Sept 2015 at 2100hrs JST.  That's the day of the release of their new album. :)

I'm mighty pleased about this. :)  Here's the link to the programme page.  :)  http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv230752324

I time-shifted it, in case I'm not able to be back in time to catch it.  I hope I will be home in time for it, then I can take part in the comments too. :)

Also, I've got to start trying to listen to Kalafina Club live too.  Hopefully no crazy OT. A friend who was listening to it today said that the trio announced that they will start to play songs from the new album starting from next week's Kalafina Club. :)

Kalafina ~ far on the water - album art (larger version)

I managed to locate larger versions of the key visual and the jacket covers for the CDs and analog editions of Kalafina's soon to be released album, far on the water.

I'll just put up the photos, more info is in the post below this one, CLICK ME.

Just one more additional information. The Limited Editions CDs will also come with a 60 page photo booklet. :)

Kalafina ~ Far on the Water - album art released

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OHHHHH.... the cover art for the soon to be released album from Kalafina has been released.

I'm at work and am stealing time to write this.  So it will be v short. :D

Singapore Night Festival 2015

Last night I went to the Singapore Night Festival and it was really fun.  This isn't my first time at the eight year old festival.  I went last year too which was also very cool.  I usually don't like crowds and I will only go join one at events which I really, really, really want to attend like concerts, anime festivals etc.

So last year, I finally went to the festival and it was really cool.  Best part about it was that it's all free which is even cooler. LOL. :P

Anyway, I need to try and do some homework before class.  I'll just do a short write up, post up a few photos and an animated gif I made.  I partly want to test out how animated gif works in blogger too. :P

This is the animated gif I made.  It's the first one I've ever made too, so it's nothing fancy.  Just something I threw together from a couple of photos.  This is the light projection display on the National History Museum, This is Anooki Celebrate Singapore.  I didn't shoot video so there isn't any sound.  The music and the audio is really cute too.  I totally loved it. :)

Oh... looks like it's working quite well.  So... all one has to do is upload an animated gif directly to blogger and it'll just work. Okay lah... I'm quite swaku about these things. :P

Kalafina ~ One Light - Anime (Arslan Senki) version - unboxing

Ah.... it turned to be a relatively relaxing day at work after all.  Some of the things we needed to proceed with weren't in place yet so I could leave more or less on time which is cool because that means I can write this blog post, maybe play a bit of Zelda on my 3DS and then sleep early. :)

The Anime edition of Kalafina's singles release is almost always digipaks.  This is no exception.  The art of Arslan Senki is nice.  I like it.  It's different from the ufotable art style which I am very fond of but Arslan Senki's is nice too.

Here are the photos first. :)

Kalafina ~ One Light - RE & LE CDs unboxing

Ahhhhhhhhhh.... you have no idea how less stress I feel now that one portion of my work has been completed and delivered.  I delivered it at 4am last night so have only slept 3 hours and am still feeling kind of a delirious high one gets when you body compensates for the lack of sleep by pumping you full of strange chemicals. :P  I was barely surviving for the last 2 to 3 weeks.  I really couldn't deal with very much else except work for a while.  There's still a lot of work to be done and this week will probably see more OT.  But the days of working till 3 to 4 am should be over for now. :)

So although I prefer to blog at night rather than before work, I do have a little time to blog since I decided not to do my morning exercise routine in favour of extra sleep so since there is a window of opportunity, I'll take it. :)

It'll be picture heavy again since I do have to go to work in a bit. :)

First up Regular Edition photos.

Kalafina ~ One Light - Vinyl / analog unboxing

I decided to try and do this in parts since the likelihood of me working on the weekend is high.  We might have to work on both days too and I don't want to let it wait for too long since it might become like the Yuki Kajiura Best Live vol.2 and Ieiri Leo releases which I have yet to do.

As usual, I bought all copies but I'll only do the vinyl release in this post.  It'll also be picture heavy and text light because I have to prepare to go to work very soon after writing this post.

Kalafina ~ One Light ~

My package has arrived!! As usual I bought all the versions. :)



This is just a short post while I wait for a long render at work. I hope I don't get out too late again. A lot of work lately...realistically speaking I don't think I can do this unboxing till sometime on Saturday. But I may have to work the weekend again....so we'll see.

Okay...render looks like it might be done soon.

Cheers :)

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Kalafina ~ One Light - audio samples released

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I just heard the audio samples for the other tracks on the soon to be released One Light single from Kalafina.  And I must say I'm really, really, really looking forward to the release of this single and hearing the B-side singles in full now. :)  If you want to listen to them too, CLICK ME.

Those who follow my blog will know that I like Keiko the best of the three vocalists in Kalafina and I was a little disappointed that Keiko was mixed under by a lot in One Light.  Well, at least in the tv size version of that track I could only really hear her clearly in two lines then she was mixed really under even in the harmony.  That doesn't mean that I didn't like the song at all because of that reason.  I actually am really in love with that chorus even though it's mostly Hikaru and Wakana who lead in that chorus. :)

Kalafina ~ Kalafina Museum - Animate postcards

The tokuten that Animate was giving out for the purchase of the Kalafina The Best Red Day / Blue Day Budokan Lives BDs was a nice case to slot these BDs in.  And yes... I actually haven't done that unboxing yet. :(  I really did to get on with it because One Light will ship soon enough so there will be more unboxings to deal with. *sweat

Anyway.... I digress... :P

I had the opportunity to purchase these BDs from Animate with the help of a very kind friend (thank you!) and so I decided to take that opportunity.  What made this even sweeter for me is that the purchase of these items coincided with one of the promotional events for the release of these BDs & DVDs.  That was the Kalafina Museum.  That's when they display some of the costumes that Kalafina wears during the lives, put up a bunch of photographs and sell you some merchandise. I think that Kalafina Museum is usually at one of the branches at Animate.  I went to one a few years ago and it was at Animate too.

Kalafina ~ Budokan Lives BDs ~ CDJapan poster tokuten

I'm really busy lately.  Work has been really interesting and my skills are improving everyday with each new task I have been getting lately.  So that's great and all but the blog and my personal life has slowed down quite a bit.  But I really don't want to stop blogging for too long.  I do enjoy it.  I find it relaxing. :)

So just to keep at it... here's two short posts. :)  I intended to do these much much earlier but I've been so busy and also very tired.  So after I shoot of these two very short posts, I will go brush my teeth and go to sleep.

So, here's the first one.

For those of you who pre-ordered these:

Kalafina LIVE THE BEST 2015 Red Day BD or DVD
Kalafina LIVE THE BEST 2015 Blue Day BD or DVD

You should have received this poster.   It's quite a nice poster and is one of the nicer tokutens that CDJapan has given out for the purchase of a Kalafina item. :)

For those of you who didn't purchase these items from CDJapan, I shot a few photos for your viewing pleasure. :)

 

Kalafina ~ far on the water tour - HK & Taiwan legs

Wow... Hong Kong is so lucky. :(  Kalafina is going there again.  This time as part of the far on the water tour.  And this time they are also going to Taiwan.

Okay... I am a little depressed now.  So close yet so far. :(

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I cannot do HK and Taiwan.  I'm already going to far on the water's Tokyo lives in October and also going to the lives in Tokyo in Jan 2016.  I'm going to be so broke. :(

I tried to fit HK in because I know that there will probably be autograph opportunities unlike their lives in Japan.  But it's too hard.  I have given that up.