Yuki Kajiura vol.12 Live ~ goods - stamp set

Been really busy and quite tired lately.  Work's getting quite interesting but at the same time quite stressful.  Another very steep learning curve, perhaps the steepest I've faced yet in this company.  It's a really good opportunity but it means that I have to work very hard to try and keep up.  It also means, I'm super tired after work.  Still, the job situation is a good thing. :)  I'll just have to slowly chip away at the blog then. :)

This is an easy post for me. :p  Because it's pretty much just about the stamp set that was offered as part of the Yuki Kajiura vol.12 Live goods.  I did hesitate over buying it but then Kajiura Yuki loves these stamp sets and said during the live that she has tons of stamps.  Also, I've always loved these stamp illustrations that are peppered all over some of her previous pamphlets for her previous lives. So I decided to get these over the key chains which I also was considering.

Kalafina ~ B-PASS - [Kalafina My Code] column

These last two days or so there have been several announces made my Kalafina.  Two of them are about them appearing at two different events, both of which I have no hope of attending. :(  BUT there was another announce that did interest me.

雑誌「B-PASS」にて短期連載決定! コーナータイトルは「Kalafina My Code」。 是非チェックしてみてください! 雑誌「B-PASS」 発売日：6月27日(土)

— Kalafina_Staff (@Kalafina_Staff) June 25, 2015

Hmmmmm..... I wasn't completely sure what it meant at first but I checked with a friend who's Japanese is way stronger than mine and she told me that it looks like there will be a column about Kalafina in the B-PASS magazine titled "Kalafina My Code".  The interesting thing about this is that this "corner" isn't a one-off interview.  It's actually a short series about Kalafina.  They didn't specify how long this column will run and they weren't clear, or at least, I'm not sure if they write the column themselves or if its a series of articles about them written by someone else.

Yuki Kajiura vol.12 Live ~ goods - wooden spoon

Back to blogging again, finally. :P  I was on holiday in Hokkaido after the series of six Yuki Kajiura vol.12 Live concerts in Tokyo and because access to Wifi was spotty or non-existent, I decided not to blog.

We didn't really do that much in Hokkaido.  Mostly ate a lot and went to a few places, maybe when I have time, I'll do those posts after I do a series of Kajura Yuki related posts.  There will be quite a few of them and I decided to rush one out before work this morning because I wanted to kickstart it ASAP before I get too busy and lazy. :P

So first up, the wooden spoons. I think I have put up photos of the spoons on twitter and on some of the earlier concert posts while I was in Japan.  But this is the one which will have the more detailed photos.

While I did set up a small table-top studio in part to aid in shooting the unboxing posts that I like to do, I did forget about color temperature.  So the lights in those lamps I use to light up the objects is too warm and most of the photos have a yellowish tinge, sometimes even if I use auto white balance on the camera in my phone, it still doesn't color correct properly. :(  As I don't really have the time to post process all the time, like in this instance, please do bear that in mind.

Photos below.... :)

Kalafina ~ One Light - Arslan Senki new ending theme

Last week, Kalafina announced that they will be doing the new ending theme for the anime series Arslan Senki. I couldn't talk about it then and only wrote a quick post urging fans who are interested to pre-order at the very least the vinyl record version first.  The "ring your bell" LP sold out really fast and looks like "One Light"'s LP version is sold out everywhere too. Only resellers have stock now. :(

I ordered mine as soon as possible of course because as usual, I try and order all versions of their releases.  Except for albums, and concert video releases etc.  Then I only order the LE or the BD versions.

Kalafina ~ LIVE THE BEST 2015 “Red Day”&“Blue Day” in Budokan PHOTO BOOK

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A few days ago, one of my friends told me that they will also be releasing a photo book for Kalafina at their Budokan lives this year.  So far it doesn't seem like there's a lot of information on it.  A quick search only turned up an entry on the Animate store and there were no official announces from Kalafina or SMEJ.

If this is coming via Animate only, then it's a bit of a bummer for International fans because Animate doesn't ship internationally.

Kalafina ~ Live The Best 2015 'Red Day' / 'Blue Day' At Nippon Budokan - tokuten

Kalafina made several announces while I was in Japan and it was hard for me to keep up with them on the blog because I was travelling and didn't have WiFi for most of the first half of the trip. That meant that everything had to be painstakingly done on the phone which was a little hard.  Now that this new hotel we checked into yesterday has WiFi, I can break out the Surface Pro 3 and try and catch up on the blog. :)  It helps that my travel companions are still sound asleep. :)

First up, the first press bonuses for Kalafina's soon to be released Live The Best 2015 'Red Day' / 'Blue Day' At Nippon Budokan BDs / DVDs have been announced.

I'll run through them quickly.

Animate as usual has one of the nicest tokutens.  This time it's a box to hold your BDs.  Note that this is only if you purchase the BDs and you have to purchase both BDs for "Red Day" and "Blue Day".

Yuki Kajiura vol.12 Lives ~ Day 1 - 5

Ahhhhhh.... it is so nice to have a WiFi and a proper connection to the internet again.  Soon after the final Yuki Kajiura vol.12 live at the Tokyo International Forum on Sunday night, I had to dash off to meet some friends for dinner and then leave with two of my friends to Hokkaido where we travelled around for a bit.  My connection was pretty unstable then on the prepaid mobile data SIM that I was using and we didn't have any free WiFi at the places we were staying at till now.

It's been several days since that live and I am still incredible happy that I managed to attend all 6 lives.  I won't attempt to say much about the Japanese Sealed live on Day 5. I'm sure lots of people have talked about it already and I really can't say much except that despite some minor hiccups, it was once again a very amazing live for me.