Yuki Kajiura vol.12 Live ~ goods - stamp set

Been really busy and quite tired lately.  Work's getting quite interesting but at the same time quite stressful.  Another very steep learning curve, perhaps the steepest I've faced yet in this company.  It's a really good opportunity but it means that I have to work very hard to try and keep up.  It also means, I'm super tired after work.  Still, the job situation is a good thing. :)  I'll just have to slowly chip away at the blog then. :)

This is an easy post for me. :p  Because it's pretty much just about the stamp set that was offered as part of the Yuki Kajiura vol.12 Live goods.  I did hesitate over buying it but then Kajiura Yuki loves these stamp sets and said during the live that she has tons of stamps.  Also, I've always loved these stamp illustrations that are peppered all over some of her previous pamphlets for her previous lives. So I decided to get these over the key chains which I also was considering.

Kalafina ~ B-PASS - [Kalafina My Code] column

These last two days or so there have been several announces made my Kalafina.  Two of them are about them appearing at two different events, both of which I have no hope of attending. :(  BUT there was another announce that did interest me.

雑誌「B-PASS」にて短期連載決定! コーナータイトルは「Kalafina My Code」。 是非チェックしてみてください! 雑誌「B-PASS」 発売日：6月27日(土)

— Kalafina_Staff (@Kalafina_Staff) June 25, 2015

Hmmmmm..... I wasn't completely sure what it meant at first but I checked with a friend who's Japanese is way stronger than mine and she told me that it looks like there will be a column about Kalafina in the B-PASS magazine titled "Kalafina My Code".  The interesting thing about this is that this "corner" isn't a one-off interview.  It's actually a short series about Kalafina.  They didn't specify how long this column will run and they weren't clear, or at least, I'm not sure if they write the column themselves or if its a series of articles about them written by someone else.

Yuki Kajiura vol.12 Live ~ goods - wooden spoon

Back to blogging again, finally. :P  I was on holiday in Hokkaido after the series of six Yuki Kajiura vol.12 Live concerts in Tokyo and because access to Wifi was spotty or non-existent, I decided not to blog.

We didn't really do that much in Hokkaido.  Mostly ate a lot and went to a few places, maybe when I have time, I'll do those posts after I do a series of Kajura Yuki related posts.  There will be quite a few of them and I decided to rush one out before work this morning because I wanted to kickstart it ASAP before I get too busy and lazy. :P

So first up, the wooden spoons. I think I have put up photos of the spoons on twitter and on some of the earlier concert posts while I was in Japan.  But this is the one which will have the more detailed photos.

While I did set up a small table-top studio in part to aid in shooting the unboxing posts that I like to do, I did forget about color temperature.  So the lights in those lamps I use to light up the objects is too warm and most of the photos have a yellowish tinge, sometimes even if I use auto white balance on the camera in my phone, it still doesn't color correct properly. :(  As I don't really have the time to post process all the time, like in this instance, please do bear that in mind.

Photos below.... :)

Kalafina ~ One Light - Arslan Senki new ending theme

Last week, Kalafina announced that they will be doing the new ending theme for the anime series Arslan Senki. I couldn't talk about it then and only wrote a quick post urging fans who are interested to pre-order at the very least the vinyl record version first.  The "ring your bell" LP sold out really fast and looks like "One Light"'s LP version is sold out everywhere too. Only resellers have stock now. :(

I ordered mine as soon as possible of course because as usual, I try and order all versions of their releases.  Except for albums, and concert video releases etc.  Then I only order the LE or the BD versions.

Kalafina ~ LIVE THE BEST 2015 “Red Day”&“Blue Day” in Budokan PHOTO BOOK

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A few days ago, one of my friends told me that they will also be releasing a photo book for Kalafina at their Budokan lives this year.  So far it doesn't seem like there's a lot of information on it.  A quick search only turned up an entry on the Animate store and there were no official announces from Kalafina or SMEJ.

If this is coming via Animate only, then it's a bit of a bummer for International fans because Animate doesn't ship internationally.

Kalafina ~ Live The Best 2015 'Red Day' / 'Blue Day' At Nippon Budokan - tokuten

Kalafina made several announces while I was in Japan and it was hard for me to keep up with them on the blog because I was travelling and didn't have WiFi for most of the first half of the trip. That meant that everything had to be painstakingly done on the phone which was a little hard.  Now that this new hotel we checked into yesterday has WiFi, I can break out the Surface Pro 3 and try and catch up on the blog. :)  It helps that my travel companions are still sound asleep. :)

First up, the first press bonuses for Kalafina's soon to be released Live The Best 2015 'Red Day' / 'Blue Day' At Nippon Budokan BDs / DVDs have been announced.

I'll run through them quickly.

Animate as usual has one of the nicest tokutens.  This time it's a box to hold your BDs.  Note that this is only if you purchase the BDs and you have to purchase both BDs for "Red Day" and "Blue Day".

Yuki Kajiura vol.12 Lives ~ Day 1 - 5

Ahhhhhh.... it is so nice to have a WiFi and a proper connection to the internet again.  Soon after the final Yuki Kajiura vol.12 live at the Tokyo International Forum on Sunday night, I had to dash off to meet some friends for dinner and then leave with two of my friends to Hokkaido where we travelled around for a bit.  My connection was pretty unstable then on the prepaid mobile data SIM that I was using and we didn't have any free WiFi at the places we were staying at till now.

It's been several days since that live and I am still incredible happy that I managed to attend all 6 lives.  I won't attempt to say much about the Japanese Sealed live on Day 5. I'm sure lots of people have talked about it already and I really can't say much except that despite some minor hiccups, it was once again a very amazing live for me.

Yuki Kajiura Live Vol.12 ~ Day 4 - Japanese Only Special - comments

The gods must really have been smiling on me when they allocated seats for the Vol.12 lives. :)  I managed to score 1st Floor, 2nd Row on the far right favouring Kaori and Keiko.  OMG, Keiko!! :P  My favourite vocalist in the YK family.  Actually, I like Kaori a lot too, she and Wakana take turns to be my 2nd favourite.  Although I have my favourites, I really do love all of them. I would not want any of the members to be different at all.

Part of this live's awesomeness for me was that they were really, really, really close.  I could see all their expressions.  The musicians, sadly though, were a little obscured from me at times because we were quite close and they were further back on stage.  And also, we were far-right, pretty much at the end of the row so it was hard to see Sato Kyoichi and Takashi “Jr” Tomoharu at times.  Luckily my soundtrack day, row 6 ticket was favouring them and Kajiura Yuki so I got a really clear look at them on Day 3.

Yuki Kajiura Live Vol.12 ~ Day 4 - Soundtrack SP - comments

Soundtrack SP was once again VERY awesome.  The special vocalist this time wasn't Itoh Eri but Kasahara Yuri.  So it did make things quite different but still really good.  It was nice to be able to see both Itoh Eri and Kasahara Yuri at the Vol.12 lives because originally I thought that I would not be able to see the both of them and that they would only appear at the Orchard lives in July.  So it made me happy that I did see both of them.

Seriously, I love Kajiura Yuki's music.  All of it was just spellbinding for me.  Loved it all on Day 3 and still loving it on Day 4.  The Hanako to An songs were really interesting because I have all the OSTs and so have heard all the songs before but the live version will always be different and with Kajiura Yuki, her live version is often better than her studio version.  No exception here.  The live versions are superb.  This is also the first time we have Nakajima Obawo on percussion and Nakahara Naomi on uilleann pipes too. These are new to Kajiura Yuki's lives and they really added to the live a lot.

Yuki Kajiura Live vol.12 ~ Day 3 - part 2

So far the vol.12 lives have been spectacular for me. Day 3's lives were no different.  I have never been to any of her soundtrack lives. I tried to get tickets for Day 2 and 3 for vol.9 but failed. So vol.12's Japanese Sealed and Soundtrack lives are new for me and they are all gold!!

I got back late after dinner and I am so tired so I have no intention of being detailed at all. I will just write a general impression thing which is likely to have spelling errors and grammar errors because I am tired. So please forgive those. (Actually, I ended up falling asleep while writing this post LOL. I won't write a lot I think because I don't think I have that much time.)

Yuki Kajiura vol.12 Live ~ Day 3 - part 1

I am chilling right now. I had a really busy day dashing around Tokyo accompanying a friend get stuff done.

I went to the goods counter again to pick up some stuff and get my day stamp. :)

Here are photos of the T-shirt and today's goods display. :)

Yuki Kajiura Live vol.12 ~ Day 2 - part 2

It was another awesome live from Kajiura Yuki. I loved it again. Seriously, in my opinion, the only way to truly appreciate her work is to hear it live. It always amazes me just how magical it all sounds.

The night opened with Sword Art Online songs which shouldn't be a surprise since Remi is one of the guest stars. I thought it was a nice and powerful opening.

Yuki Kajiura Live vol.12 ~ Day 2 - part 1

I bought my goods for today already. :) I didn't get much this time. Just a T-shirt and the blue umbrella. :)

I did take photos of the goods table for those who want to take a look.

I got the red shirt. :)

OK. That's it for now. I am going to go eat or something. :)

Yuki Kajiura Live vol.12 Day 1 part 2

That is a photo of photos of Kajiura Yuki from the pamphlet that I bought at the live. :)

I will keep this pretty short because I know that there are other people who can write and will probably write better about the live.

Yuki Kajiura Live vol.12 Day 1 part 1

I just finished buying goods at the live. :)

I can't do unboxings now because I am on the move again.

But I will put up some photos that I took at the location. :)

Kalafina ~ One Light - order links up

Links for Kalafina's latest single One Light are already up.

I am on the move all day. So updating this blog without a photo which I usually like to do bec it takes too long to upload to blogger sometimes.

Reason why I am in a hurry to write this is because....for fans who want the analog version, don't take too long to order. These sell out fast. Even Amazon Japan has a limit of one per customer.

Here is the link to CDJapan's page for the analog version. You can use this link or web store if u like. But other web stores that ship internationally will also have them.

Kalafina ~ One Light (analog)

I have ordered the analog. Will order the others later when I can do it without feeling rushed. :P

Cheers

Japan Trip ~ June 2015 - Day 3.1

Today is the first day of Yuki Kajiura Live vol.12.  I haven't decided what to buy yet at the live. But I did burn a little money buying used games in Book Off yesterday. :P

But while I ponder and wait for the goods queue to open, I have breakfast first. Today I tried McDonald's new muffin. The vegetable chicken muffin. It isn't half bad but I am generally not that fussy. So...Hahaha...not much of a food review. But I have photos. :) I will only upload one because I am mobile blogging. :)

Since I am not staying at a hotel till Saturday, updating the blog has been tricky because my mobile data SIM has trouble uploading photos to blogspot. So I will try and update here and there but maybe I will only really be able to write more only from Saturday night onwards. Maybe I will tweet more...we'll see. :)

Japan ~ June trip - Day 2.1

It was a really eventful day today. After I touched down at Narita, I got my mobile SIM card settled and then rushed to Tokyo Station to put my luggage into the locker before heading to Machida to meet two Singaporean friends for lunch. It was kind of amusing for us because we hardly meet in Singapore and here we were having lunch together in Machida. :)

I had gyoza for lunch in Machida. Pretty tasty. The food on Singapore Airline was pretty tasty too. They had this chicken satay in a wrap thing for a late night snack. I really liked that. :)

I would like to write about the new Kalafina single First Light. But on the move a lot now.

Hopefully later if I have a chance. :)

Japan ~ June Trip - Day 1

I  am now at the airport waiting to board my flight to Japan. :)

This time it is to attend Yuki Kajiura Live vol.12 in Tokyo and also to travel a little in Japan.

I actually found the Butterfly Garden in the transit area this time. :) But as it was at night, I couldn't see most of the butterflies. I did see one though. He was so still, I wondered if he was still alive. LOL.

Okay, that's it for now. Will attempt to blog more after I get to Japan. :)

Kajiura Yuki Live vol.12 goods announce

Kaijiura Yuki started tweeting about the vol.12 goods last night already but I my internet connection was so unstable, I wasn't able to finish my post. And now that the official announce is out, I decided not to finish last night's post and just talk about the goods. But as you can tell from the time stamp, it's really late and I'm super tired. It's been a very long week and I'm super tired. :( Hence, I'll have to keep this short because I while I really wanna blog about stuff, I really must sleep. I need to go to work tomorrow too. And I have a ton of errands I need to run etc. So here goes, picture first. These are from the FictionJunction Club website. (Source)

    

WOW!!!! That's a lot of goods and I want a lot of them. :P