Kalafina & Ieiri Leo CDs & BD arrived today. :)

Ahhhh....this shipment finally arrived today at the office. I would like to open them up today but am pretty tired from work and am a little sick, so it is off to bed soon. :( Will hopefully get to them tomorrow. :)

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Kalafina, angela ~ another No Anison, No Life poster !! :)

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Oh... two of my favourite anisong artists in the same poster.  So cool... I want this poster too!! :P

Kalafina, angela ~ in another No Anison, No Life poster :)

アニサマ×タワレココラボ『NO ANISON, NO LIFE.』ポスター第3弾を8/11より掲出。atsuko[ angela]さん、いとうかなこさん、奥井雅美さん、Kalafinaのお三方によるエレガントな1枚! #anisama pic.twitter.com/co6zD9GbNQ
— タワーレコード アニメ (@TOWER_Anime) August 12, 2014

Tower Records Japan tweeted the 3rd poster in the series of posters in the Tower Records and the Animelo collaboration. :)  To see the other poster in this series. CLICK ME.

I like this poster!!! Arrrghhhh... I want it. :P 

Kalafina ~ Budokan tickets pre-sales

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Sorry guys... I'm really quite late with this.  SMEJ announced this on 1st Aug but I've really been very busy so I was unable to get to it earlier.

SMEJ announced that pre-sales of Kalafina's 2 day live at the Budokan will begin from the 1st Aug to 12th Aug!!  The home page at eplus is already up and running.  CLICK ME.  General sales will begin in Dec.

Yeah, you don't have a lot of time to try and get those pre-sales tickets.  Sorry, I hope anyone who's interested will be able to get them.

Unfortunately for overseas fans, there isn't an easy way to buy these tickets.  You either have to go through a friend in Japan or be in Japan to do it via Lawsons etc or get a proxy service to do it for you.

I'm very lucky, I have a friend who is a member of FJC and we have gotten our tickets to both days already. :)

I've never used a proxy to get tickets before.  I've used Celga to pick up stuff from Amazon Marketplace because I didn't always want to trouble my friends in Japan.  They also do buy concert tickets, so you can try them.

Celga

Or you can try these guys.  I've never tried them so I can't vouch for them but you can try them if you like.


Japan Concert Tickets

And there's also these guys.  One of my friends has bought concert tickets through them before.  So they are legit.

FDJP

You'll have to pay a free of course, unfortunately.  :(  To those who wish to go, good luck getting those tickets.

Okay... I have to go... have to do some studying and research now.  cheers!! :)

Kalafina ~ 2015 calendar listed :)

I've had a very very busy week and I'm glad it's slowed down a little.  There are still a ton of things I would like to do outside of work and blogging.  So I'll just keep this short for now.

I spotted this on CDJapan today so I thought I would alert fans who do pick up the calendars that CDJapan has this listed now.  Also, they are running a campaign on CDJapan that gives 13% extra bonus points on all 2015 calendars.  So now may be a good time to pick them up. :)

I have been picking up these calendars for the past few years, so I'll probably buy this too.  I'm not sure yet, if I'll order it from CDJapan or try and get a friend to pick it up when they go to Japan later in the year.  Sometimes they do come with postcards if they are picked up at Animate etc, so I may do that instead but it depends on when my friend travels.  She's not confirmed that yet.

My Kalafina single "heavenly blue" has shipped but have not arrived yet, so has my Ieiri Leo singles and BD.  I'll hopefully be able to get them sometime next week.  When they come, I'll do the un-boxing posts.  So keep an eye out. :)

For those who wish to pick up the Kalafina 2015 calendar from CDJapan.  CLICK ME. :)

And since this is the month of August, I leave you with a pretty photo of Keiko of Kalafina gracing the page for the month of August in their 2014 calendar. :)

There is one more post that I would like to write immediately after this but we'll see, I have some things I suddenly need to do first.  Trying... :)

Kalafina ~ misterioso acapella at Japan Expo and it's sugoi!! :)

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(small thanks to a friend for sending me the links :) )

I'm late with this bit about Kalafina at the Japan Expo.  Apparently there were fancam clips of Kalafina singing misterioso acapella at the Japan Expo floating around on streaming sites but I didn't watch any of them because I seldom check youtube unless I'm looking for something.  Someone sent me these links... thanks!!! :)  This, I think, is an officially released clip??  I'm not entirely certain but they seem to be using a good camera on a tripod and had the best shooting position, so I'm going with it being the official clip that they're releasing of them singing live on stage.  I must say they sounded really, really good.  I really liked it. :)

They shared time on this clip with moumoon which sang probably the song that I like best from them.  It's called "Sunshine Girl".  They sing a brand of music I think I would have been hugely in love with years ago when I was into bands like Frente! but I'm more into more dramatic and harder music these days... maybe I'm not so chill these days?? :P

Anyway, anyone who hasn't seen this clip, come take a look. Both Kalafina and moumoon are very enjoyable to watch in this clip.  After they both sing live, they play a quiz at the end, so if you're only interested in Kalafina, it's worth watching the clip to the end. :)

Also, here's another clip of Kalafina playing a drawing game at another stage at the expo.  It's kind of amusing to watch them and as usual Keiko is the most excitable of the three with Hikaru probably being the most zen.. :)



I'm off to bed early today... maybe I'll try and blog a bit more tomorrow.  Good night. :)

Kalafina ~ TBS "Ongaku no Hi" tweets a nice photo of the trio

歌の力を一つにする「 #音楽の日」、舞台裏をお届けします！ Kalafina @Kalafina_Staffさんと http://t.co/w8qbRqYhhx pic.twitter.com/HdzlZyzAR7
— TBSテレビ「音楽の日」 (@TBS_awards) August 2, 2014

I'm becoming such a fangirl these days. :P

Although they look tired, check out how happy Kalafina also looks in this photo.  I'm sure they're really happy to be appearing on Ongaku no Hi.  It's a big show with lots of mainstream acts.  Hopefully someone taped it and put it online somewhere.  That would be nice for us fans with no way of watch most Japanese telly live.

They must be quite seriously tired though because they've been doing a lot of promo stuff for THE BEST "Red" / "Blue" albums lately.

There's the "Heavenly Blue" single release that's coming up in 2 days.  It looks like a minor release for them since the song has already been released in the Blue album.  Hopefully, they'll be able to get a bit of rest soon before they'll surely have to being promo events for the Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works theme song, as well as more lives etc.

Ganbatte Kalafina!! :)

Also, my "Heavenly Blue" single has shipped.  To save money, I picked a slower mode of delivery.  So it is unlikely to reach me on the 6th Aug.  Hopefully, I'll get lucky and I won't have to wait a horribly long time and then I can do the un-boxing of the single.  Fingers crossed. :)