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. :)

Kalafina - Hikari Furu - big cover art

I've finally feeling well enough to come online for a bit and am happy to see that CDJapan has updated their website with the larger versions of the covers of the upcoming Hikari Furu single release. :)

Here you go:



The covers are in this order.  The Blu-ray LE, the DVD LE, the RE and the Anime LE.  Click on each picture to enlarge them.

I really like all the photos and this is making my want to buy all versions of the Kalafina ones simply because they look so lovely in them... but that would be nuts.  :)  So... I'm still sticking to my Blu-ray LE and Anime LE order... but arrrrgghhhh... would so love to own the other two versions, especially the RE since that is the mid-shot of all three of them.... must resist..... :)

And yes, I know I keep posting the CDJapan links up... sorry for being such a bore... and you are welcome to use them or use any other website you prefer.  But, if you can afford it, please support not just Kalafina and Kajiura Yuki but also the industry.

Hikari Furu [w/ Blu-ray, Limited Edition / Type-B]

Hikari Furu [w/ DVD, Limited Pressing (Anime Edition)]

Hikari Furu [Regular Edition] 

Hikari Furu [w/ DVD, Limited Edition / Type-A]

As for me... now it's time to go to sleep again.... being sick is so not fun. :(  Oyasumi... 

Kalafina - Hikari Furu - more promo photos

Very short post... sick today... on 2 day medical leave and the medication is making me drowsy... so need to sleep soon...

But here are some even cooler photos of the trio in their new image for the up coming Hikari Furu single release.

If you go to the mobile website version of their official website, you'll be able to see these mobile versions of the photos.  These are closer shots than the photos on the internet site and the profile photos are MCUs as opposed to MSs on the internet site.... so now you can get a closer look at their faces... cool!!! :)  Also, there is a new background image behind the information pages, this is also from the new image for Hikari Furu.

Here are the photos... and that's it for today. :)



 Lastly, here are the CDJapan order links again for your convenience and also because I do believe in showing support if you can afford it.

Hikari Furu [w/ Blu-ray, Limited Edition / Type-B]

Hikari Furu [w/ DVD, Limited Pressing (Anime Edition)]

Hikari Furu [Regular Edition] 

Hikari Furu [w/ DVD, Limited Edition / Type-A]

.... k... time for bed... :)