#梶浦由記 #KajiuraYuki #ufotable ~ Kimetsu no Yaiba 1st trailer released

ufotable's Facebook page posted a video of the first trailer for #鬼滅の刃 #KimetsuNoYaiba.  Kajiura Yuki is collaborating with #ShiinaGo #椎名豪  on the soundtrack of this anime series that's due to air in April of 2019.

The music on the trailer does sound quite Kajiura-ish which is the kind of music I like.  The style and look of the animation looks quite ufotable which I also generally like.  I'm not sure how the collaboration for the music will work and I'm not sure if I'll enjoy the story.  But since both Kajiura Yuki and ufotable are involved, then I'll definitely be checking it out.



I'm looking forward to this and am curious to hear new music from Kajiura Yuki next year. :)

Okay, I'm off to bed.  It's been a long day.  Good night. :)

Unboxing ~ Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower [Limited Edition]

I actually received the #ufotable #fatestayhf box-set months and months ago but I didn't do an unboxing post then because there were just too many things happening in my life and there was so much OT at work it was virtually impossible to do anything outside of work.  At first I thought that I wouldn't do the unboxing since it's been too long but I have decided to do it for two reasons.  Firstly, the Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly will be screening soon so its seems appropriate.  Secondly, I keep getting distracted from my review of Sun Li's Happiness as Flowers (幸福像花儿一样) drama because Legend of Condor Heroes 2017 (射雕英雄传) is so much better than I expected that I can't concentrate on the review. Hahaha!!  So I decided to do something easier.  This will be one of those photo heavy unboxing posts and I won't be doing any reviews or commentaries on the anime film or on Kajiura Yuki's (梶浦由記) soundtrack this time.

This is a truly beautiful release.  Few do such beautiful packaging as Japanese companies.  I ordered this from CDJapan and as usual they packed it nicely.

#KajiuraYuki #梶浦由記 - announces: will work on OST for Kimetsu no Yaiba

Kajiura Yuki will be collaborating with Shiina Go on the OST of a ufotable produced anime called Kimetsu no Yaiba. (official website link)  This anime is scheduled to go on air in April 2019.

2019年4月より放映開始予定のTVアニメ「鬼滅の刃」の音楽を椎名豪さんと作らせて頂きます。原作がマジヤバイ面白さであるのに加えてアニメの演出作画目を見張るほど凄まじい！関わらせて頂けて光栄です。放映を楽しみにしております！！https://t.co/Wx9Ht975iv

— 梶浦由記 Yuki Kajiura (@Fion0806) November 25, 2018

As all fans of Kajiura-sensei will surely know, she's worked on ufotable's projects numerous times, including the very awesome Kara no Kyoukai.

I'm not that familiar with Shiina Go but if I got it correct he's worked on ufotables God Eater projects.

This might be interesting.  I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this.

#梶浦由記 #KajiuraYuki ~ Fate/Zero Original Soundtrack - unboxing

This will actually be a very simple unboxing of this release.  I'll only be putting up the photos and won't be writing any lengthy commentary.  This is not because I don't like this release.  I like it very much.  I like the Fate/Zero OST a lot and felt that it really added to the whole atmosphere and feel of the anime series.  However, I need to try and catch up with my unboxing releases because the next one I need to do is the Princess Principal OST and I won't have too much time to do it.  That's because the Kubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to Zaregotozukai Sound Collection and the Kalafina 9+one at Tokyo International Forum Hall A BD will arrive sometime next week, if all goes as planned.

Also, this release isn't exactly new.  Most of the tracks have been released as bonus CDs on DVD / BD boxsets when the anime series was released years ago and I've heard them many times before. This new release collects all the tracks from those releases and adds studio versions of the live performances of some of these tracks, hence why we have members of FictionJunction credited in this release.  They were not participants in the original OST tracks but did perform them at the lives.  This is commonly the case when Kajiura Yuki performs her OST songs live.  The live versions of these renditions have been released previously, so what they did this time was to record these live versions in a studio and release them as part of a sort of bonus of sorts for this collection.

So here you go, photos...

#Kalafina - Hyakka Ryouran - unboxing + comments

Actually this single was released in August and I received it that very week itself.  Normally, I would not wait so long to unbox a Kalafina single.  I usually do it almost immediately but I am SUPER late this time.  :(

I was in the middle of a major crunch at work in August and was working very long hours including weekends for days on end.  In some ways, the work was exciting but in some ways it was exhausting both physically and emotionally so I think I still have mixed feelings about it right now. Haha! :)

Although crunch has ended a few weeks ago, it's taken me that long to recover.  Basically, I just didn't want to do ANYTHING at all and that included blogging.  Yes, even a much delayed Kalafina single couldn't move me.  Funnily enough, it wasn't music that made me finally move my butt to get back to blogging. :P It was actually Japanese dramas that did it.  I decided that I was just going to watch dramas and no tutorials because my brain just didn't want to work.  And one of the dramas I watched was Code Blue Season 3.  OMG!!! I forgot how much I liked Toda Erika till I watched her again in Code Blue.  I completely loved her performance and her character, Hiyama sensei.  That set me on another one of my obsessive quests and this time it was to watch everything she had ever done.  Well, for starters I re-watched SPEC, Liar Game and Shotenin Michiru no Mi no Uebanashi. And it filled me with a HUGE desire to write about them.  BUT BUT BUT, I can't because I need to do my Kalafina Hyakka Ryouran unboxing first. :P

#Kalafina #ufotable ~ Katsugeki / Touken Ranbu 『活撃 刀剣乱舞』剣戟アクション紹介映像

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By now it's all over Twitter and Kalafina and Sony have also made their official announces. Kalafina will be singing the end theme song for Katsugeki / Touken Ranbu. I have three reasons to try this and it's very simple. 1) ufotable 2) Kalafina and 3) ufotable x Kalafina. LOL

Ever since Kara no Kyoukai, everytime ufotable and Kajiura Yuki and/or Kalafina are mentioned in the same sentence, I just get excited.  :P

The animated storyboards in the PV clip above look cool too and ufotable often has pretty nicely choreographed fight / action scenes. So I'm looking forward to that too.

AND thank you for not IP-locking this.  The previous two PVs for Katsugeki / Touken Ranbu were IP-locked to JP.  Please don't neglect your international fans Japan!! :)

#KajiuraYuki #梶浦由記 ~ Fate/Zero 3 CD soundtrack release announced

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For those of us who are also Kajiura Yuki fans.  This has just been announced.  The OST for Fate/Zero is slated for a 20th Sept 2017 release.  This is a 3 CD release which will contain 56 tracks. It will not only include the OST tracks from the 25 episode Fate/Zero anime series, it will also include new tracks.

If I'm not wrong, this announce was made about an hour to two ago at the ufotable stage event at Anime Japan.  They also announced the release of a standard edition BD boxset of all 25 episodes of the anime series and the dates for the "Heaven's Feel" roadshow.

『Fate/Grand Order』×『空の境界』コラボCM

ufotable released a CM announcing the Fate/Grand Order x Kara no Kyoukai collaboration today.  Man!!! Shiki looks sooooooo badass in this video. :)

Fate/Grand is a mobile game which isn't available in the Android Play Store for Singapore.  Although there are ways and means to get it to work on an Android phone which isn't tied to the Japan Play Store, my mobile phone won't run it properly so I've never played it.  From what I can tell, it seems that Shiki will be available as one of the servants in the Assassin class.

ufotable ~ Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Background Art Book ~ unboxing

As promised to someone who left a message on the blog, I'll be doing this "unboxing" first. :)

This is the Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Background Art Book which was a book I did not wait to order at all.  I actually rather like background art and I often like it more than the character design actually which is probably a little unusual.  Most anime fans probably prefer character design, even if they really liked background art, they still tend to prefer character design.

Not quite back, but working on it. :)

Hello!!! I hope that the new year began well for everyone. :)  Well, I'm not quite back yet since I'm not actually gonna do any of my planned posts etc. :)

Just thought I'll write a short one to slowly get back into the habit of posting again. :)

I'm not sure how much blogging I'll do this year.  I really do have other projects I would like to really get serious about, so I'm not sure how much time I'll have left for the blog.  But I am still deeply in love with Kajiura Yuki and Kalafina's music so I would still like to talk about their stuff as much as possible.  And I still love Ieiri Leo and Suiyoubi no Campenella and lives etc etc.  So I'm not ready to retire the blog just yet. :)  Also..... this is the blog's 10th Anniversary year.  Woohooo!!! Okay, not that it really means that much.  There were some years I I didn't write very much at all. :)

I've taken photos of the Ieiri Leo 20 ~ 4th live tour BD which I receive last Dec.  It's a pretty standard release, so I should be able to breeze through this one if I don't get distracted. :)

I have some loot from the Kalafina Christmas live that I would like to share.  :D

Kalafina ~ ring your bell - vinyl record version - unboxing

I finally got the LP version of Kalafina's ring your bell single in the mail on Monday.  This completes my collection of all the versions for this release. :P  Unfortunately, I don't have a way of playing this LP because I don't own a turntable. :(  So fingers crossed that this sells so well that Sony will grant ufotable's founder Kondo Hikaru's wish that they will release a LP containing all of Kalafina's Kara no Kyoukai songs.  I will totally buy it in a heartbeat, that's for sure.  Then maybe if they keep releasing LPs I'll have a reason to actually buy a turntable. :D

I'll keep this post relatively short too because there isn't really that much to say and also because I've been putting in quite a bit of OT at the office recently and I think I'm falling ill again, so I should sleep soon if I can.

First up, photos. :)

Kalafina ~ ring your bell - unboxing

Okay, its seems that Starhub is now working and I seem to be getting normal service again. :) Yay!!  For a while there I thought I may need to abandon my plan to finish the ring your bell unboxings tonight because I couldn't go online for about an hour. :(

I'll make this quick because I would like to go to bed soon.  It was a very long day today at work and I suspect the entire week will most likely be the same.  Hence, I want to zip through this. Photos heavy. :)

I bought all versions as usual.  However, currently, I am still missing the vinyl record version because that one is being sent from Amazon Japan.  I couldn't get it via CDJapan because, by the time I went to make my order, it was all sold out.  It sold out VERY fast on most major online retailers. :(  Luckily, I managed to get 3 copies from two online retailers at cost price. :)  The one from Amazon should come by Friday or Saturday.  Depending on when it arrives, I will either do it over the weekend or next Monday night. :)

For now... photos!!

Kalafina ~ ring your bell - Kondo Hikaru tweets about possible KnK vinyl

I'm suppose to try and squeeze in some homework before I watch tonight's episode of Fate/stay night [UBW].  But first this. :)

Kondo Hikaru, from ufotable, tweeted photos of the analog version of the ring your bell single today. :)  Check them out!! :)

Kalafinaさん「Fate/staynight」2ndシーズンエンディングテーマ「ring your bell」のアナログ盤を頂戴しました。 レコードです、最高！ これは買いですよ！ #ufotable pic.twitter.com/2KhHDr7Eud

— 近藤光（ufotable） (@hikaruufo) May 9, 2015

ALSO, check this second tweet out.

Kalafina ~ ring your bell (in the silence) -- nice!!! :)

I'm a ufotable fan and I actively take part in Fate/tweet night and have done so since S1 of FSN [UBW].  I actually pay for a premium Niconico account so that I can attempt to get as best a quality as possible even though I go through a free VPN which doesn't always give me the best result.  I do this because I like taking part in Fate/tweet night as the stream plays.

But tonight, aside from wanting to take part in Fate/tweet night, I was up this late because I was waiting to hear Kalafina's ring your bell (in the silence).  The first three episodes of S2 premièred in the cinema in Japan and in the US.  We never get that kind of special treatment in Singapore and I don't think we ever will.... SEA just doesn't seem to be that important a market to the Japanese it seems.  :'(

Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] PV previews Kalafina's "ring your bell"

I'm awfully busy today but thought I'll pop in just to share with you guys the latest PV that ufotable has released for FSN.

Aside from the fact that I love ufotable's work and think this PV just makes the new season look so exciting, this PV also previews Kalafina's soon to be released ending theme for S2 of this anime.

Kalafina ~ ring your bell - tokuten information

Kalafina has released the information on the tokutens they'll be giving out with the first press release for their upcoming single "ring your bell".  As usual, it's postcards. :)  Finally... I have time to write about them... ultra busy today. :)

Okay... here goes, I'll be quick. :)  Everyone will get two postcards with each purchase.  First let me go through the various shops.

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Kalafina ~ ring your bell - cover art released

Kalafina has released the cover artwork for their soon to be released single "ring your bell", the ending theme for Fate/stay night [UBW].  The cover art for the anime version and the analog version were released earlier.  These is the cover art for the Regular Edition, the Limited Edition (DVD) and the Limited Edition (BD) :)  CLICK ME to view the cover art for the anime and analog versions.

They all look nice! :)  My favourite is the Regular Edition cover because I think Keiko looks really cool in that photo. :P

Now I'm just waiting for tokuten infomation. :)

If you wish to purchase these singles, I usually get mine from CDJapan and you are welcome to use these links if you wish.

Here are the versions (source SMEJ):

Kara no Kyoukai Fukan Fuukei 3D BD ~ Ryougi Shiki - more photos

This is just a short post because there have not released any new info. BUT the animate website released some nicer photos of the prototype of the Ryougi Shiki figure.  Check them out below.



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This may turn out to be a nice figure. But I am bias because I'm a big KnK fan. :P

For my original post about this release. CLICK ME.

Kalafina ~ ring your bell - anime / analog LE covers released

Kalafina released three new visuals today.  The covers for the Regular Edition, Limited Edition + DVD and Limited Edition + BD have not been released.

They did release a new promo image of the trio and the Anime LE and Analog LE covers.

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Kara no Kyoukai: Fukan Fuukei 3D Blu-ray & new Ryougi Shiki figure ~ tease

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This looks like interesting news for the Kara no Kyoukai fan! :)

#アニプラ[展示情報]こちらは初出し！ 劇場版 「空の境界」俯瞰風景3Dより両義式の原型です！Blu-rayバンドル企画として進行中。詳細については後日お知らせします！http://t.co/IFiwXxkzNt #anx_aj pic.twitter.com/BcBVsh4iph
— アニプレックスプラス (@aniplex_plus) March 21, 2015