Mahou Shoujo Madoka movies at AFA12 - confirmed

 Yay!!! Really quick post for now... I have several things I need to get done before I go to bed tonight... but I wanted to write this real quick because I'm really happy about it.

The organisers for the Anime Festival Asia confirmed via Facebook and on their website that the Mahou Shoujo Madoka movies will screen at the AFA12. :)

I've already bought tickets to both days of the festival because I have anisong concert tickets for anisong day1 and anisong day2 which means I have tix to the festival and stage events for AFA day2 and day3. :)  I'm hoping that the screening timings won't be too horrible and that I will be able to get in to watch these movies as I think these screenings would be quite popular.  Hopefully they'll screen them in the theatres too, then if I can't get in at the festival, I can still try and catch them at the theatre. :)

Perfume in Singapore - got my tix :)

Yay!!!  We managed to secure our VIP tickets to Perfume's first live performance in Singapore. :)  This was by no means an easy feat as we actually started queuing on Saturday afternoon and two of my friends queued over-night at Scape to get us these tickets.  It was worth it in the end because the line kept building and building and sometime in the early part of the morning, some people in the queue were reporting on FB that there was something like 40 people in the queue.

Given that each person can only buy 3 tickets and only a limited number of tickets were available at the AFA shop at Scape itself, 40 people in the queue is quite a significant number for those who hope to be in the first group of 50 that will enter the Warehouse on the day of the concert.  The Warehouse at Scape is not a big venue at all.  The official maximum capacity for the Warehouse @Scape is 500 sitting and 700 standing.

J-Live announced weeks ago that only 50% of these tickets will be available for purchase on the 14th Oct at the AFA Shop.  The other 50% will go on sale online only on Monday 15th Oct at their website.  Hence, this would mean that only 350 tickets, at the very most, would have been available this morning, since the Perfume live is a standing only live.  Of that 350 or less tickets, no one really knows how many of them are VIP tickets and how many of them are GA tickets.

I think by 9am or so this morning, the queue reached the Gongcha bubble tea stall at Scape.  I'm not sure how many people that is but I figure maybe at least a 100 to 150 people by then?  In any case, J-Live announced that all the tickets available for sale were sold out in 2 hours and someone of the J-Live FB page said that VIP tix sold out by 1130am and GA tickets sold out a short time after that.

WOW!!!!  I'm really new to all this.  The first time I lined up for hours to get into a concert venue was for the J-Live A-Sketch Special Vol.2 live with Weaver and flumpool.  This is only the second time that I've queued for so long.  Lucky for me, I didn't have to stay overnight.  Luckily for me, only six of us wanted tickets so I didn't have to stay but I was in line for ages and ages too but this time, I had a little more experience and it wasn't as bad as the first time when we queued.  Of course, I wouldn't want to do this for every concert.  If Kajiura Yuki, FictionJunction and Kalafina should ever hold a solo concert in Singapore, I hope they would sing at the Esplanade concert hall or maybe at the new auditorium at Star Vista.  Those are bigger halls which means it'll be less crazy trying to get hold of those tickets because if they came down and I didn't manage to get a ticket... I think I'll cry... :*(

K... time to go to bed... tomorrow... or more likely the day after... I hope to talk a little bit about Kalfina's appearance on Niconico Live.  I couldn't watch the live stream because I was still on my way home from queuing for the Perfume tickets but I did make a booking to watch a delayed telecast which I finished watching tonight. :)

I rather like "Hikari Furu". :)  I would have tried to talk about it today but ended up discussing Kajiura Yuki, her OSTs and Keiko's "Kaze no Machi e" on FB with a friend so.... I've run out of time.... this whole week, I will be doing Prep shots at work so I will need to sleep at reasonably early times... at least reasonable for me. :D

I hope I have time to get to everything I want to do on the blog this week so that I can move on to some personal projects that are non-music, non-anime and non-blog related... for now tho'..... oyasumi :)

edit 16th Oct:

Hmmmm... Perfume's latest single is selling at a 20% discount at CDJapan... first press still available... comes with a B2 poster.... hmmmm.... I wonder if I should get it for a friend who's a big fan of Perfume.

Perfume in Singapore

Sales for Perfume's live in Singapore begin today at 10am at Scape. Lots of people are already in line and quite a few people camped over night too.

I was there with two of my friends yesterday waiting in line to buy these tix. One of my friends got there in the afternoon, then two of us joined him later in the afternoon into the night before another of our friends came later at night and two of us went hone for the night.

We only need 6 tickets so we only need two people in queue as one person can buy 3 tickets. Am now hoping the queue will be orderly and people in front of us will be considerate and not let a large group of their friends show up at 930 to join them in the queue and push us back in line.

Scape is such a small location for a group like Perfume. Seems like lots of people want these tickets and as there are limited numbers available for physical sales there is a certain amount of anxiety and hype regarding this live.

I am lucky.... I am one of those who got to go home to sleep.... two of my friends stayed overnight. Thank you guys!!! Fingers crossed that we get our tickets without a hitch. :)

TYPE-MOON Fes. - 10th Anniversary Blu-ray Box

A new release email popped up in my email today and it's more Kajiura Yuki music, yay!!! :)

This is a 3 blu-ray + 1 CD limited edition boxset release is in celebration of Type-Moon's 10th Anniversary.  Earlier in the year, Type-Moon held a festival in celebration of it's 10th Anniversary where they had exhibitions and a mini-musical thing where Kalafina was one of the invited guests and where Kajiura Yuki performed as a secret guest.

This boxset includes footage from the concerts which would mean Kalafina should be one of the artist included, I'm thinking... even though CDJapan's description doesn't include them.  The description does include Kajiura Yuki's performance of the Fate/Zero bgms though and that's made me super excited. :)

Aside from the blu-rays, the boxset also includes and episode of "Carnival Phantasm", the "Kara no Kyoukai Mirai Fukuin Movie" PV, the opening videos of 10 years worth of Type-Moon games, a drama CD and an original 36 page booklet.  CDJapan lists the running time at 480mins!!!  That's pretty good!!!

This won't come cheap.  The cost of this set is 9333yen. But considering how much they are packing into this release, I think the cost is pretty reasonable.

I'm think I will most likely get this release.  I'm delaying the purchase of the Mahou Shoujo Madoka Key Animation Note Vol.6 artbooks till the end of the year or most likely the beginning of next year.  I just can't afford that and this release at the same time.  For those who would like to pick up this release too... here is the link from CDJapan.

Alrighty... sigining off for now... need sleep... maybe I'll finally get around to doing vol4 and vol5 of the Mahou Shoujo Madoka Key Animation Note by this weekend.... .... .... of ... to... bed.... oyasumi....

p.s.
Anonymous if you read this post... thanks for giving me the link to listen to a recording of "Mirai" off Kalafina Club.  I enjoyed it. :)

p.p.s
What am I talking about... too tired to think... this release is due to be released on 2013/01/16.... so next year Jan.... I can still by Vol.6 at the end of this year, as was my original intention, and won't have to wait till Jan 2013 to do that.:)

Kalafina's "mirai" - insert song for Mahou Shoujo Madoka film

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Oh..... if I understand this correctly... it looks like the b-side song for the soon to be released "Hikaru Furu" single was used as an insert song for the Mahou Shoujo Madoka film 1.

Either that or they intend to do a new audio track with "mirai" as an insert song some point in the film.

Hmmmmm... they kept that really quiet since the announce is dated 7th Oct and the film screened on the 6th in Japan.

Ah well.... I am not complaining. :)  K... gotta go back to work. :)

Anime Festival Asia 2012 & Mahou Shoujo Madoka

Sadly for me, there will be no Kajiura Yuki, Kalafina or FictionJunction at this year's AFA in Singapore in November.  I know... I know... I am greedy.  Kalafina was in Singapore for AFA11 and I saw them last year twice in November (once at the AFA11 and once in Tokyo) and saw again in June 2012 at the AFAMY and again in July 2012 in Tokyo... I also saw Kajiura Yuki & FictionJunction live twice this year... once in March and once more in August, which isn't very long ago.... so I SHOULD BE satisfied, right?  But NOooooo.... no fan could possibly be satisfied. :)  Yes... I was being dramatic but I can't help it.  I was massively disappointed that Kajiura Yuki, FictionJunction or Kalafina were not in the list of performers and was thinking of abandoning AFA12 altogether until two things happened.

First Thing:
T.M. Revolution, which I actually quite like, gets one whole day to himself and since I felt he was the only reason why I would be interested in going to the anisong events this year, it made me happy and in the mood for more music.  So, once again, as a show of support for more Japanese music concerts in Singapore, I have just completed a purchase for a VIP ticket to T.M. Revolution's concert on the 9th of Nov and also a Standard ticket to the anisong concert on Saturday, mainly because I like Flow and am curious about Babymetal.  And since I'm not too interested in May'n's music, I decided not to go for day 3's concert.  Now.... here's hoping that AFA will bring Kajiura Yuki, FictionJunction and the Front Band Members down for a solo concert at the AFA next year... and please, please, please let it be the Singapore leg... I am not suppose to do any more travelling till I save enough for my big trip to Japan next year.

The 3rd  round of TV Spots for the films was made available for viewing on the official Mahou Shoujo Madoka website on the 4th Oct, but the bgm still does not feature Hikari Furu. click me to view

Second Thing:
The other thing that revived my interest in AFA12 Singapore is that Mahou Shoujo Madoka is one of the featured animes at this year's festival.  Since the announce that the films will also screen in Singapore, I have been scanning the cinemas' websites to see if the films will pop up in the "upcoming movies" list but so far nothing.  So.... it seems like this screening at the AFA maybe the screening that they were talking about?

There might still be a theatrical screening at a proper movie theatre.  The AFA folks brought in Afterschool Midnighters which had two special invite-only screening sessions with the director of the film in attendance and the film also screened for one day (I think ) where it was open to the public.  I think it's also the same for the Tiger and Bunny film, as in,  I think it's the AFA organisers who brought the film in for a limited run in the theatre.  So hopefully, Mahou Shoujo Madoka will get a proper theatrical run in Singapore too, even if it's a limited run.  Fingers crossed for Evangelion 3.33 to make it to our shores too. :)

If these films are screened at the Festival, like I suspect they would be, then I would try and watch them then. :)  For now... am off to bed. :)  Night... :)

Kalafina Calendar 2013 - more info

Hello... it's been a while since I've written anything.  I've been rather tired lately and have had a lot on my mind and I needed some time to work things out in my head.  But I think I'm done with that now.  Yay!! :)

Anywayz... I'm not sure when this info was posted on the FictionJunction Club website but I just saw it today so I thought I'll talk about it for a bit. :)

The Kalafina Calender 2013 has been up for pre-order at various websites for a while.  I've ordered mine from CDJapan... here is link to the product page.

Initially, I thought that the above image was going to be the cover image for the calendar since that's what all the online web-stores are using, but it looks like that will most likely not be the case.  The FictionJunction Club website posted this pdf file on their website with photos of the cover, a sample of the month of August as well as postcards freebies that FJC club members will get if they order from the SpaceCraft webshop.

The calendar with be the size of an LP (60x30cm) and will have 28 pages.  According to this pdf file...

The cover will be this:

The inside of the calendar will look like this:

And FJC club members who purchase the calendar through the SpaceCraft webstore will get 2 postcards.  And the postcards look like this:

I kind of like the new cover because Keiko's got such a lovely smile on the cover. :)  But it is kind of odd that she's the only one not shown singing on that cover and the only one who's face isn't a side profile.  But I'm not complaining. :)

Alrightly, that's it for this short post... I might post something else up in a bit... but we'll see... if it gets too late, I'll probably go to bed.  I'm off for now. :)