Kalafina and angela live in Thailand for Anime Festival Asia Thailand 2015 :)

Rejoice Thai fans of Kalafina and angela !!! Anime Festival Asia has just announced that Kalafina will be attending the first AFA Thailand.



I kinda suspected that Kalafina would go because so far they've been to all the countries that AFA's been to once, including the one and only time there was AFAMY so far.

OMG I sooooooo want to go..... but I don't know if I can get leave and whether I have the money to go.

Arrrgggh.... back to work.... so busy. :(

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Anime Festival Asia 2015 survey

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Hi guys, please do take some time out to do the AFA survey if you hope to see your favourite artists in Singapore.

I already did it.  As usual, I asked for Kajiura Yuki, FictionJunction, Kalafina, angela and Ieiri Leo. :)  This time I added Kondo Hikaru from ufotable.  And I also asked for Nanri Yuuka.  And I asked once again for Honda Takako even though I know that there is no chance they'll invite her to come... still... I had to ask. :)

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Merry Christmas Everyone! And a little anisong themed video fr. Aniplus :)

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Here's a little Merry Christmas video from Aniplus HD. :)  One of my favourites, angela, is in there too!! And there's Kitamura Eri whom I completely approve of once I found out that she likes metal music too. :P

Back to work... so hard to work during the hols. :P

Anime Festival Asia 2014

OMG .... I am beyond tired. Now on the train heading home..... So tired but so happy. This has been one of the best AFAs for me ever and the only reason why it isn't perfect is that Kajiura Yuki, FictionJunction and Kalafina didn't come this year. :p

For me though, it was two autograph sessions with angela, the Titan gear try-out, the Aniplus HD Psycho Pass booth, the Niconico Kunikaigi area....and of course, the Anisong Lives!!!!!!!!!

angela was reallllllllly awesome on Day 1. Super super super high that night. They sang so many good songs like, Shangri-la, boku ja nai, asu e no brilliant road etc and the awesome Sidonia of course. People were so pumped up and singing along etc....really awesome!! I still hope that one day they will sing End of the World live. It really is still my favourite angela song.

Anime Festival Asia 2014 ~ getting excited! :)

I have to admit that when I first heard the lineup of the artistes that were coming down for the I Love Anisong concert that year, I was quite disappointed.  I guess every year that Kalafina or Kajiura Yuki  / FictionJunction's name doesn't show up, I go through a few weeks of moping. :'(  So this year, no Kalafina again and we've yet to see Kajiura Yuki and/or FictionJunction grace our shores. :'(

The biggest thing that helped me get over that huge disappointment was that angela is coming down, YAY!!!, and I think the likelihood of them singing "Sidonia", the theme song for "Knights of Sidonia" is extremely high.  And there is a good reason why I say that. :)  One of the featured animes for this year is "Knights of Sidonia".  I haven't finished the series yet but I like what I've watched so far and I LOVE angela's theme song for the anime.

Anime Festival Asia 2014 (Singapore) ~ 2nd wave of anisong artist, 25th Sept announce

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AFA's facebook page posted this announce yesterday. Fingers crossed for my favourites.... Kajiura Yuki, FictionJunction, Kalafina and angela. If Ieiri Leo comes it would be epic too but she's only sung one anime theme song and it's for Dragonball Z Kai so I don't think she'll get an invite. :( Still... fingers crossed!! :)

Anime Festival Asia 2014 (Singapore) ~ first phase of artistes announce today (updated)

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Oh.... I almost forgot about this. :P  They're going fancy this year and doing the announce via a live stream on youtube. :)

The stream isn't live yet but you can gaze at the countdown clock if you like. :D

This year's festival will be the biggest yet, I think.  They booked up the whole fourth floor at the convention centre at Suntec and if I'm not wrong, it'll be 3 full days. :)  I actually already applied for leave on Friday already so I'll most likely be going on Friday and Saturday.  Am still not sure if I'll go on Sunday.

The announcements will begin at 7pm.  Check it out if you guys have the time.  You can click on that YouTube window below  Unfortunately, I will be on the move at 7pm so I'll only be checking twitter and FB etc. :(





I have my fingers crossed for Kajiura Yuki / FictionJunction and Kalafina of course.  And I would love it too if angela returns again. :)


Lunch is over... back to work... :'(

EDIT 13th Sept 2014, 1247am

I'm back home now and resting... so tired but I have already watched the video and I know who'll be at this year's AFA. :)  So it's not a live stream as I thought, it's a video clip that they scheduled to only be made public at 7pm last night.  Still, it's a pretty cool way to make the announce for an anisong event. :)  You get to hear the performers as you find out who'll be coming.

Unfortunately for me, no Kajiura Yuki / FictionJunction and no Kalafina in this first wave of names. But I'm not really that surprised.  I never expect them to come.  Kajiura Yuki and FictionJunction have never come to Singapore and Kalafina's only been to AFA Singapore once.  So it's not like they are regular features in AFA.  So I will always hope but I don't expect anything.  There is still the next wave of announcements and as usual, I will hope but not expect anything. :P

I'm really not sure if I'll go for anisong this year.  Unless they add more people I really want to watch, The only one I quite like is Flow but even then, I don't consider myself a fan.  I only really like the Railgun songs from fripSide.  I'm curious to see Eir Aoi live and while I'm not a big fan of LiSA's music, I do think she's very entertaining live.

Still.... I may skip anisong this year.  Don't get me wrong, I think this is a pretty good list of artistes but while I listen widely and am accepting of a lot of genres of music, I'm only really a fan of a handful of artistes.  And the biggest reasons why I may skip anisong this year is because I'll be going to Japan next year.  I'm hoping to go twice, so I'll really need to think about putting away some real money if I am to achieve that.

Anyway, I think it isn't a bad list.  So if you are in town and you can afford it and especially if you've never been to an anisong live, I think you should get  ticket and experience it at least one. Meanwhile, I'll talk to my concert going buddies and if everyone wants to go, I may too.... we'll see. :)

For now... I am off to bed... I am exhausted... this has been a v busy week.... it's been another good week at work but I'm really tired and I was taking twice the time to do my work today... that's really not good... I think I really need to sleep... rambling now... .... ... good night. :P

Lisani! vol.15 ~ Mahou Shoujo Madoka / Kajiura Yuki / Kalafina

Most of the time, if I buy the Lisani! magazine, it is because Kajiura Yuki, FictionJunction or Kalafina is featured in the magazine.  This time, it's no exception.  Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika's 3rd movie opened on the 26th October and Lisani! did a feature on the music that's used in the series and the films.  I wanted to pick it up while I was in Japan but I could not find a bookshop when I was in Yamansahi and the bookshop in Haneda Airport did not carry it.

So I waited till the Anime Festival Asia 2013 to see if Lisani! will open a booth there.  If they had a booth there and this magazine was available, I would pick it up.  If not, I would order it from CDJapan.  Happily for me, it was available so I bought it on the spot. :)

The two lead mahou shoujos in the Mahou Shoujo Madoka anime are featured on the cover of vol.15 of this magazine that is devoted to anisong music.  It comes packed with a freed CD from GARNiDELiA but I haven't listened to it yet, nor did I shoot a photo of it because it's not my primary interest for getting this volume.  Lisani!'s website has a few pages which preview the contents of this volume... click me to see them.

The Mahou Shoujo Madoka material is from page 6 to 29 which is a good 23 pages long.  That's not bad.

  

this is from Lisani

The first few pages give an overview of all the music that was used in the series and has picture of of each of the items that were released with the music, including unreleased items like the Limited Edition Blu-ray boxset of the Madoka anime...



.... and the music collection of all the music that was released with the LE single disc releases of the series two years ago.



If I didn't already have all the music that I care about in the above music collection, I would definitely pick this music collection up.

There is a section on Claris and the composer of the song.  Followed by a 6 page spread on Kalafina. :)

this is from Lisani

  

And of course I had to shoot a closer shot of Keiko's solo photo. :P  But I also included Wakana's and Hikaru's because of my fellow Kalafina fan friends, one likes Wakana best, the other Hikaru best. :)

After which there is another 6 page spread devoted to the soundtrack and Kajiura Yuki, the composer, and Tsuruoka Yota the sound director.  No photos of either of them but the article is peppered with art from the anime.



For those who wish to purchase this volume... here is the link to the product page on CDJapan.  Click me.

The Japanese used in the Lisani! magazine is hard.  Someday, I hope to be able to read it with ease.  And when I can, I will attempt to do simple translations of them.  But that's a long way off... now I must get ready for classes. :P  Ganbarimasu!! :)

Anime Festival Asia 2013

This is a photo of my loot from this year's AFA in Singapore. I would like to write a fuller post but we'll see. :)

For now I will just write something short to mark the occasion and also to test out how well my Samsung Galaxy S2 is doing. It is suddenly working again and has stopped restarting constantly. As mobile blogging is something i do on the phone, i thought i should test it out.

This year Kalafina went to AFA Indonesia so I knew the chances of them coming to Singapore for AFA was next to none. Needless to say, while I was happy for Indonesian fans, i was deeply disappointed that they did not return to Singapore. :(

Lucky for me, this year angela came back to AFA and angela coupled with TM Revolution's return made this year's anisong concert worth going. Both of them were so awesome live last night!! :)

I also won angela's autograph poster and got to meet them again, like two years when they were here for AFA too. My friend K was not able to make it down to Suntec in time and I ended up going for the autograph session for TM Revolution in place of K. I was really happy about that too :p cuz last year we all tried to win TMR's autograph but failed. :(

I also bought a angela's cd single so that I could attend the autograph session and so I got to meet them another time....it was awesome. atsuko also sang Shangri La acapella at the autograph session and she was incredibly amazing!!! :)

Yeah...more later hopefully...for now I am going to wash up and rest...i will probably sleep early tonight...i think i might be falling ill so i should sleep early in case.

Tomorrow night i will try and blog again...maybe about something Kajiura Yuki related or continue my account of our trip to Japan.

For now I leave u with a photo of angela's newest single containing the songs from the Coppelion anime. :)

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AFA Channel ~ Kalafina

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Oh... before I go get ready for bed.... check out the new AFA Channel page.... in their gallery they have photos of Kalafina at AFAMY and I really love this one.... Keiko looks so lovely in it and what a great smile. :-)

click me for the bigger resolution and please visit the AFA Channel site too for more. :)

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Anime Festival Asia 2012 ~ S'pore ~ my haul part 1

Unfortunately, even though tomorrow is a public holiday in Singapore, I have to return to the studio to put in a day's worth of worth.  Ah well... it's okay... I'll get paid and that money will go into my "save money for Japan" bank account which is looking quite pathetic right now unfortunately. :(

Anyway, here is a photo of my haul from this year's AFA.  It's not as much as previous years and I didn't buy the t-shirts this year.  I was really trying not to over spend this year because I really do need to put some money away for now and I already have several pre-orders pending.  Most of them are Mahou Shoujo Madoka related. :) I'll definitely be using that lanyard, the One Piece lanyard that I use for my work pass is looking quite sad these days which is why I wanted the Mahou Shoujo Madoka lanyard. :)

I also wanted a earphone jack accessory for my phone and I would have loved the one of Kyubey but in order to get that, I had to buy these trading figure type boxes and I decided that I'll just get the one of Wooser from Good Smile instead.

I'm thinking that I'll probably also use the Hello Kitty - TM Revolution cross-over accessory too.  Not sure yet I'll I'll use the Madoka neck strap and the pen.  The neck strap will probably be used with my Vita.  As for the pen, I guess I'll just use it at home for now.

I did some unboxing photos which I'll put up in another post.  I will probably work on more AFA2012 posts with photos tomorrow night after I get back from work.  Today, I didn't feel like blogging for too long because I have to be up bright and early for work tomorrow.  So that's it for today. :) Oyasumi. :)

Anime Festival Asia 2012 ~ Singapore - comments part 1

(photo courtesy AFA)

I would like to write a longer post about my experience at the AFA2012 this year.  I have tons I would like to write about and photos that I would like to put up.  But I am truly tired and I have to work tomorrow so I really would like to try and get to bed by 11pm or so.  Hence, first up, an over view of my experience.

In general, I really did enjoy myself at this year's AFA.  I have several regrets but these regrets are actually not really negatives.  In my opinion, the organisers for the AFA are going in the right direction... sort of.  Okay, there is room for improvement but then, there always is.  That said, I really would like to give credit where credit is due.

In spite of some organizational mistakes, some of them quite monumental too, this year's AFA was really pretty good.  It was packed to the brim with so much stuff, much of it free too, that it would be wrong of us fans not to acknowledge just how much effort that must have taken.  The festival has gone from something I easily completed in a few hours in a day last year to one where there were so many things going on, I had to make very difficult choices.  Last year, I walked the festival and attended the stage events and did everything I wanted so quickly, that I didn't even think that it was worth coming back for the 3rd day of the festival except that I had free tickets to the festival and stage events and Kalafina was singing that night.

I was lamenting to my friend after AFA2011 last year that the so called festival exclusives were all available online shops at one point in time in Japan.  This year, however, there were items at the Sword Art Online booth, the Mahou Shoujo Madoka booth and the 009 Re:Cyborg booth (I think) that are usually only available at events and online auction sites in Japan.

It's regrettable that I didn't get to do everything that I wanted to do... I still wish I managed to get Watanabe Shinichi's autograph and I wish that I could have gotten into the Sword Art Online booth but even so, I am happy.  I am happy that the AFA is becoming the kind of festival really worth going to for 2 full days.

Yes, things could have been done better but if you've ever done any kind of production work or event production work of some scale, you'll know that things always go wrong even for the most experienced of teams.  That's not making excuses for them but it's just me acknowledging just how horrid this job can be sometimes and me just wanting to encourage the organizers rather then simply tearing them down.

I would like to write more about the fun stuff that I managed to attend, the fun stuff that I missed :( and some of the not fun stuff that happened for everyone but all that will come in a later post.  For now... let's leave it at... AFA2012 was really quite good and I hope that next year's will be even better.  Otsukaresamadeshita guys!!! Good job and I hope that all the experience gained this year will be put to good use for next year's event... and bring in Kalafina and/or Kajiura Yuki (with FictionJunction & the Front Band Members) to SINGAPORE please!!!! :D

Arrrrggghhhh... it's past 11pm.... bedtime now. :)

Anime Festival Asia 2012 ~ S'pore ~ Day 3 Part 2

The Mahou Shoujo Madoka movie 2 was awesome... they screened the trailer at the end.... can't wait for movie 3. :)

Hikaru Furu is actually the end theme of the movie. Lovely song... wish the sound system was better.

K.... gotta dash... later. :)

(photos later)

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Anime Festival Asia 2012 ~ S'pore ~ Day 3 Part 1

I need to make this quick... have to shower and then get going for the 2nd Madoka movie screening at the Expo later.

Lots to write about... I hope I have time to do it.  The concert was fun yesterday.... I still missed seeing Kalafina there... but it was still great. :)

Am giving tonight's concerts a miss.... all I'm doing today is just watching the movie.  That's it for now. :) p.s. blogspot is being annoying with the photos upload... even tho' my photo is clearly within the free upload dimensions... it still wouldn't let me upload it... I'll have to sort this out tonight. :(

(photos later)

Anime Festival Asia 2012 ~ S'pore ~ Day 2 Part 3

Resting during a lull period at tonight's anisong concert. so far it has been fun. :) cool!!

I would like to write a fuller over view of the concerts and the festival on another post.  In general, I really enjoyed this AFA... there were a few hiccups during the concerts and there was no Kalafina or Kajiura Yuki :P... but it was fun for me in general. :)

Updated with photos and edited some of the text. I had trouble posting photos via mobile blogging.

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Anime Festival Asia 2012 ~ S'pore ~ Day 2 Part 2

Woah!!!! Huge crowd today. Good thing my friend picked up our Mahou Shoujo Madoka tickets and collectibles early. It's a bit mad now.... am inside and it is crazy crowded!!!

Updated with photos and edited some of the text. I had trouble posting photos via mobile blogging.

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Anime Festival Asia 2012 ~ S'pore ~ Day 2 Part 1

I am about to meet up with one of my friends to go down to the festival to watch the Mahou Shoujo Madoka movies.

I didn't buy the tickets for these movies. Another one of my friends bought the tickets online for us, so he has to go pick them up early. This new ticketing procedure by the AFA organizers is so no ideal. After last night's ticket pickup debacle at the AFA, I hope he has no problems picking it up. I could have picked them up yesterday but I needed a copy of his ID, the letter of confirmation and a letter of authorization.... wah!!! So much documentation just to pick up the tickets at the venue itself.

I also found out yesterday that I have exceeded my picassa storage limit which means all the photos i upload from now must be 800x800 or less. This makes mobile blogging a bit of a pain too because I have to edit each photo before i upload it. :(

Anywayz.... that's it for now.... hope today we have loads of fun. :)

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Anime Festival Asia 2012 ~ S'pore ~ Day 1 Part 4

Woah!! So fun!!! :) I like T.M.Revolution!!! The ticket redemption was kind of sucky for people I think because I think a lot of people were still redeeming tickets when the concert started. Good thing I took half a day off from work to pick up tickets. :)

The above photo is of the concert venue as we were about to leave from a side exit.  This venue feels bigger than the Suntec Convention Centre venue.  I think so far, I prefer the Expo to Suntec.  Our seats were on the far right of the stage, 9th row.  It was a little hard to see T.M.R. from where we were seated but when I was able to see him through the sea of heads, we were close enough for me to see his face quite clearly.

The sound system was deafening where we were cuz the large speakers were really blasting away.  Our seats aren't optimum so there was some muffling of the sound as well and I couldn't really hear what T.M. was saying most of the time... so we just cheered at whatever he was saying. :)

The concert was really fun and I jumped and danced so much I got really hungry after the concert and had to get something to eat. :P



The truth is I don't know all the songs but I know his Seventh Heaven album quite well. Its a funny story for me. Before I was a huge Kalafina fan, I was checking out their music when I chanced upon TM's Seventh Heaven album because I thought it was Kalafina's Seventh Heaven album. I ended up really liking T.M.'s Seventh Heaven album.   Hahahaha... I just can't seem to get away from Kajiura Yuki and Kalafina. :)

Anyway, when they announced that T.M.Revolution was coming for AFA, I was quite excited and happy.  The only VIP tickets we bought for this year's AFA was to T.M.Revolution's concert.

We were so high after the concert, bought some merchandise too. :P The Hello Kitty cross over is so cute. The towel is nice too.  The small Hello Kitty is cute and it is mine. :)



They are setting up for tomorrow's festival. :) Can't  wait for tomorrow's Madoka movie screening.
K.... going to go now!!! Got to make my way home

Anime Festival Asia 2012 ~ S'pore ~ Day 1 Part 3

We are outside the halls right now.... lots of people waiting to redeem their tickets and to buy tickets. Good thing we picked our tickets up earlier. :)

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Anime Festival Asia 2012 ~ S'pore ~ Day 1 Part 2

We collected the tickets... no problems there. :)

Now am just chilling at a cafe with my friend while we wait for the concert to begin tonight. :)

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