Kalafina / Kajiura Yuki ~ AJ Girls vol.1 / B-Pass Vol. 6 / Lisani vol. 21

I know that I said that my next post will be about the Daruma factory visit but it's been a very busy week and I've been putting in some OT which has left me too tired to do too much at night.

But meanwhile, I have been keeping track on what magazines, Kalafina and Kajiura Yuki will appear in and trying to decide if I should get them.

Yesterday, a friend sent me a link about AJ Girls vol.1.  I looked into that magazine when it was first announce but because I knew a TON of people will be included in this magazine and Kalafina is just one among the many, I didn't immediately order it.

In that video, they only show one photo of Kalafina but I must say, that's a very nice photo indeed.  Apparently, according to my friend, they are giving out prizes, so.... we wondered if that means it would be a decent feature.  There is no content page provided from the publishers so I think until people buy it and talk about it, we don't really know how many pages Kalafina will get.

I screen captured the photo of Kalafina from the YouTube video.  I won't bother to embed the video here since the rest of the names in the magazine doesn't interest me at all.  Here is the picture of Kalafina.

Nanri Yuuka ~ 3DS home theme / new album

There isn't much news on Kalafina now because I think both Keiko and Wakana are busy preparing for the Yuki Kajiura vol.12 lives in June.  Kajiura Yuki's been tweeting about the lives as well and I'm getting pretty excited about them.  No real juicy bits or anything, just that she'll be playing some Hanako to An tracks and that she'd written a song... although, I'm not sure if that song is for the vol.12 lives or something else.

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Anyway...meanwhile Nanri Yuuka has released a new album called one day.  As part of the promotions for this release, the marketing team behind Nanri Yuuka made a 3DS home theme available for purchase on the 3DS.

angela ~ Kishi Koshin Kyoku - (Knights of Sidonia theme songs) CD release

Continuing from my blog post below about angela's Soukyuu no Fafner releases, angela also has two more upcoming releases.

There is the Kishi Koshin Kyoku single release.  This will contain the two new theme songs from the Knights of Sidonia anime franchise.  angela also sang the first theme song, for Season 1 of the anime.  That was an awesome song.  For those of you who may not know the song Sidonia, you might want to check out the YouTube video of the short version of the PV below.



I have this single but haven't shot photos of it for the blog because my in autographed and it's a personalized autographed with my name too and I would still like to maintain a level of privacy online, so yeah... no photo of that autograph. :)  I got it last year at Anime Festival Asia 2014 in Singapore.  I bought two CDs so that I would be able to attend two autograph sessions with angela. :D

Anyway, back to Kishi Koshin Kyoku.

angela ~ Soukyuu no Fafner "exist" / "Complete Best Album" -- un-boxings

Finally, I have a little time to blog tonight. :)  I had to put in a little OT tonight but it wasn't too late and I'm not too tired, so I will write at least one post tonight. :)  This post will be picture heavy and hopefully text light. :)

FINALLY.... my un-boxing posts on two angela releases.  Both these releases aren't really that new any more.  They were both released on the 11th Febuary, but I didn't have time to do it then and I would like to do it because I like angela. :)

Yuki Kajiura Live vol.12 Pamphlet ~ questionnaire

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I've known about this for a little while now but have been too busy to write about it and kept putting it off.  However, the deadline for this questionnaire is really drawing near and so I think I should just quickly talk about it.  I think most Kajiura Yuki fans should know about it by now but just in case, I'll just go through it here.

Kajiura sensei is asking for fans who have attended her previous lives to answer two simple questions.  The answers to these two questions may be printed in the pamphlet that they will be producing for the Vol.12 lives.

Stefanie Sun Yanzi ~ "Radio" single - un-boxing

I was waiting for Niconico to begin streaming Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] last night because I wanted to participate in Fate/tweet night and listen to Kalafina's ring your bell (in the silence) as soon as possible.  So I stopped writing this post and switched to FSN last night and after watching the very engrossing EP15 and listening to Kalafina's song, I just had to write a post about it. :P

So now.... here it is finally, after sitting in draft waiting for me to complete it....My Stefanie Sun Yanzi Radio single un-boxing post. :)


One of the things I like about how they market Stefanie Sun is that a lot of her MVs, if not all of them, are not region locked unlike Kalafina's :'(

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.  :'(