FictionJunction Club ~ I'm a member now!!! :D

Okay, this will be the final post for tonight because I really don't want to sleep too late.  Need to catch up on more rest from the strain of the last two weeks at work and also because tomorrow, I have a full day out.  I'm not sure if I will be able to blog tomorrow night.  I hope so but for now, please enjoy this final post for the day. :)

Yes.... I can now finally stand up and be counted as one of the proud members of the FictionJunction Club!!!!! :)  I'm really happy and excited about it for some silly reason. :P

The truth is, I have hesitated long and hard over this membership.  I don't actually need it because the biggest advantage this membership gives me is the member pre-general-sales lottery for the lives and my Japanese friend, who is also a fan and who is in the FJC, already helps me with the tickets.  Even with this membership, I will probably still approach her for help because it's very inconvenient and impossible to handle the ticketing thing outside of Japan if you do not have a friend or if you do not use a proxy to help you.

Yuki Kajiura vol.12 Live ~ pin badge tokuten / Pandora Hearts OST 01 unboxing

One of the things that I do want to eventually do is to try and buy as many of Kajiura Yuki's CDs as possible. I mean the ones that I have missing in my collection of course.  To be perfectly honest, I came across a lot of her music via the internet and now that I am a huge fan and I can afford it, I do try and support as much of her work as possible by purchasing them.

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Kalafina ~ ring your bell - postcard tokuten FULL SET :)

I'm slowly working my way through a ton of planned blog posts.  It may take me a while to finish them all and hopefully I abandon none... I have abandoned quite a few posts before because I just had no time to deal... :(

Anyway, this one's a short one and it's not really current any more but I want to write it anyway because it took me quite a bit of effort to get this done. :P

Yeah, I wanna show off a bit because I had to buy ring your bell from four separate online shops and ship these four orders to my poor long suffering friend in Japan.  Then pick them up from her when I visited Japan and then trade one of the extra postcards I got with someone else so that I could get the FULL set of tokuten postcards for this release.

Kalafina ~ far on the water - album rumours :)

Okay, this isn't an official announce yet but it looks like according to some websites, the fifth Kalafina album will be released on 16th September, before their Japan tour in Oct. :)  A friend messaged me about it [thanks! :) ] and said rumours have been flying and at least this website has details of the release. :)

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I'm thinking that these rumours are most likely true and this is an early leak. :) No prizes for guessing that the album will supposedly be called far on the water.  I think most of us were already guessing that there will be a new album this year and that it will be called far on the water. Given the general pattern of their releases, it made no sense to call the tour "far on the water" and not have an album of the same title.

Ieiri Leo ~ Kimi ga Kureta Natsu - short live PV

Less anyone forgets that I also rather like Ieiri Leo :P , here's a post about her soon to be released single.

Yesterday, her record label posted a video featuring her singing a short portion of her soon to be released song Kimi ga Kureta Natsu which translates into something like The Summer that you gave me.



I really, really do like her music and one of the things on my bucket list is to one day attend one of her lives.  It's just that Kajiura Yuki, FictionJunction and Kalafina always take priority for me since I really am a huge fan of their work.  And unfortunately, Ieiri's lives don't quite coincide or can't fit into my schedule when I am in Japan for Kajiura Yuki's and Kalafina's lives. :(

Kalafina ~ One Light - tv size - first impressions

The first episode of the new season of Arslan Senki just aired and so I've been able to listen to the tv size version of One Light. :)

First, as always, I am pleased to hear a new song from Kalafina and Kajiura Yuki. :)

When I saw the 15 sec CM, I rather liked the chorus bit they played and after watching the 1:30 min version, I still like that chorus.

Initial impressions.....

Kalafina ~ One Light - Arslan Senki ending theme- cover art released

Gosh sooooo busy since I returned from Japan. :(  This came out yesterday afternoon but I really couldn't spare any time or energy to get to this earlier. :(

Short post since I have to start work soon.  But I really wanna post these up and talk about them since it's Kalafina and I'm crazy about them and Kajiura Yuki and FictionJunction. :P

First the covers. :)

Limited Edition A with DVD