Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#21 - 60 Songs (Jul 26 - Aug 24, 2025) (BD on Jan 21, 2026)

[grunty]

Way to take something funny and make it a downer. Let it go.

 

[CloisteredFlame]

For accidental Konno with Frog powerup.

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I didn't understand the reference.

Though, Emiko looks lovely as ever.

 

[esteban82]

For accidental Konno with Frog powerup.

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Not from the last show recorded right? A footage from another live last year?

 

[grunty]

Not from the last show recorded right? A footage from another live last year?

It's screengrabs from the Long Interview extra on ykl21 bluray, which has a few seconds of footage from the soundtrack lives (no audio).

 

[esteban82]

OK, I haven't buy it yet!

 

[aki]

after a week in customs jail, my copy finally arrived! now to see if I can borrow someone's blu-ray player....(forgot mine was broken)

 

[george1234]

Or you can buy a PS3 slim on secondhand market, or buy an external disc reader for your laptop.

 

[CloisteredFlame]

Or you can buy a PS3 slim on secondhand market, or but an external disc reader for your laptop.

Best to watch on a bigger screen, yeah?

 

[aki]

or buy an external disc reader for your laptop

I do have one but it requires booting up the partition on my old macbook that’s still running windows 7

 

[grunty]

ykl21 Honoh no Tobira
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1oV6yBXE9e/

kudos to bili uploader

 

[CloisteredFlame]

ykl21 Honoh no Tobira
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1oV6yBXE9e/

kudos to bili uploader

OK, so I watched it...

- The start was gripping to me, like inviting into a story. The blend with Kaori worked well (Kaori controlled her power) throughout. I liked the emotion here.
- 2:19 The blend on "watashi" when Kaori joined Joelle was beautiful. They even blended vowels, like how they said what sounded like "whuh-tashi" rather than "wa-tashi".
- 2:26 On the "uru" her breath/tone were inconsistent. It felt like she was out of breath. Her powered long note with heavy vibrato at the end, just no. This was not the song for all that. It was supposed to be more wilty.
- After the middle violin solo, Joelle went much more dramatic/theatrical, which was distracting/attention grabbing, and I gotta say not the right feel for the song, though I don't know the lyrics at that point, so I am not sure if it was an interpretation of the meaning from her.
- I didn't really enjoy the soundscape with the addition of Yuriko's voice for the counterpoint of the kajiurago against Joelle's lead. The voices didn't gel well to me for that section, only until 3:49 ntil the end, especially the last note with their vibratos blending beautifully (a highlight for me).

Conclusion: She sang more open-throated and free rather than controlled/constrained (use of mask) and sensitive as Yuuka demonstrated and maybe the song required (It's basically the Fena Pirate Princess from YKL#17 that she's given the tone I felt would better fit (although those were acoustic and gentler songs).

Voice characteristics played a part to me in defining the quality of Joelle's take. More energy/dynamic variation in Joelle's vocal generally. There was also more halted breathing and use of cry effects; lots of short breaths, really. Essentially not properly legato. It was also missing the fragility of the original, though it was her take on the lyrics/emotion of the lyrics.

I would have been curious about LINO LEIA maybe taking the song. Kaori could also take it as long as she doesn't go full power, since she has the ability to go controlled in her tone.

 

[grunty]

Yea, listening to it a week later I'm still not feeling it. I don't know if belting it out was Joelle's call, or Kajiura's, or maybe Joelle got provoked by the instrumental to march it out - she should've just kept switching to her head voice, which she is great at (even if it would've possibly come across as more melodramatic)... I'm like 99.9% sure Joelle would've been switching to her head voice IF they had chosen to do the hearty edition instead of the original... hence me wondering if she got provoked by the active og arrange to treat it as a song to belt... Too bad.

 

[CloisteredFlame]

I don't know if belting it out was Joelle's call, or Kajiura's, or maybe Joelle got provoked by the instrumental to march it out

The way from the start she was bouncing to the beat from foot to foot, I suspect it was the latter. Joelle seemed to get carried by the music.

she should've just kept switching to her head voice, which she is great at (even if it would've possibly come across as more melodramatic)

I agree with this.

hearty edition instead of the original

"Hearty"? What's that?

 

[grunty]

"Hearty"? What's that?

https://forum.canta-per-me.net/thre...ultiple-versions-as-of-2024.14342/post-338366

 

[CloisteredFlame]

https://forum.canta-per-me.net/thre...ultiple-versions-as-of-2024.14342/post-338366

https://forum.canta-per-me.net/thre...ultiple-versions-as-of-2024.14342/post-338366

But that's Kalafina's "Yami no Uta" right? Not "Honoh to Tobira"?

I am little confused.

 

[grunty]

I am little confused.

You shouldn't be since you commented on it in that thread but I guess all of our memories is shite.

Go through your post again in that thread. Or search that page. :p

Edit:
The URL in my post got turned into an embed and it only showed the top of the linked post. I tried editing it quickly but I guess you saw it faster.

 

[CloisteredFlame]

You shouldn't be since you commented on it in that thread but I guess all of our memories is shite.

Go through your post again in that thread. Or search that page. :p

Edit:
The URL in my post got turned into an embed and it only showed the top of the linked post. I tried editing it quickly but I guess you saw it faster.

Now I understand. Thanks.

I didn't see the link. Listened to the "Hearty version" again and Joelle could sing that more appropriately. She would still be melodramatic at points for the emotional impact, but it would be a less jarring situation.