This year we also sent a flower stand to the venue. Thank you @MushiMushi for her great artwork and @yumi for arranging the flowers
Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#22 ~precious pieces~ 4th July - 9th August 2026
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esteban82
I like Yuki
I am in my Kodama train back to Tôkyô (and then time to go back to Europe) so lot of time to write my thoughts now. Sorry for my mistakes, english is not my native language (french is)...
General impressions : Great show, singers' voices are wonderful. So seems to me that BR/DVD from fictionjunction are not so edited about it! Kaori and Emiko really have powerful voices, Yuuka so soft, Yuriko and Joëlle so crystal clear voices, Lino Leia seems to have found her perfect peak voice too!
The festival hall is a beautiful stage, the sound is pretty good (even with both music and voices are together). The balance was good too.
Agaki Rie so great to see her able to dance ! Emiko and Lino Leia seems to be very close (often together on stage during MCs on the right side of the scene).
The costumes was great, a mix of the ones for vol.16/vol.17/last costumes of Kalafina red/blue day 2015/last costumes of Consolation tour of Kalafina. For the main colours of the costumes : Joëlle-Yuriko Kaida/White-Light green, Yuuka-Lino Leia-Kaori/White and Black, Emiko/Black
silent moon (アカペラ) The 6 singers on the stage, with only a center white light only, in a half circle, to sing a cappella. Yuuka leads the song. Also, the first verse of the show was for Yuuka...
overture〜Crush All singers leave the scene, the scenery with light effects began (first very dark when the musicians came on the stage, then with a large predominance of red), Rie Akagi is on the top of the stage in a soldier/marching band suit (very cute by the way on her) playing the flute and dancing (and like I previously the audience was so happy to see her this way, she was the most applaused musician during one of the MCs). To be honest, she didn't dance like vol.#19/KajiFes 2023 but she seems to enjoy it so much!
Pandora hearts expanded
everytime you kissed me Song entirely in english with Kaori as the lead. And a perfect lead !
MC1 I can only understand a little bit japanese (I'm learning it but it seems to me easier to speak than to understand). But I understood that after the presentation of the singers that she was talking about Rayearth... That leads to...
レイアースのテーマ Rayearth no teema Great theme but I think the "Madoka Magica" new songs were far better
lighthouse Lino Leia is really a good fit to the song and she really has so much improved from vol.#19. I really like her voice now!
overture〜circus
aikoi Yuuka lead voice (of course) and Joelle/Lino Leia backing voices... OK I said I liked the version with Junna (and I still do it) but this version was way better of course... Yuuka's voices with Lino Leia and Joëlle was so great.
ひとみのちから Hitomi no Chikara A song that fit Yuuka's voice but not my favorite...
暁の車 Akatsuki no Kuruma The a cappella beginning is so wonderful. Yuuka didn't lose her voice at all...
MC2 Presentation of the works for the new Madoka Magica movie. Informations that the cd will be available september 2nd (they give us a flyer for it at the exit of the show, with the picture of Yuki Kajiura on the right of a piano). Then the best part for me began with first the "Madoka segment" and the songs after it... All this part was sooooo goood...
彼方 kanata Emiko/Lino Leia/Yuriko Kaido. Emiko leads the verse, Lino Leia the chorus (with Emiko but Emiko sang a bit softer and lower), Yuriko Kaida backing vocals. Beautiful song, very good fit for Madoka Magica OST. But for me, it was a little weird that it's not a Kalafina song because in fact, it's so a Kalafina song! Or maybe it's because for me songs in Madoka Magica = Kalafina. A version with Kalafina could be interesting too... But this one is really really good!
劇場 魔法少女まどか
︎マギカ ワルプルギスの廻天 M06 Like Kanata, so representative of a Madoka Magica OST!
Numquam vincar OK, no cover of Kalafina on the show but does this one count? I was so happy to hear it, it's my favourite OST (music theme I mean) of Madoka Magica... I didn't expect to hear it live! The band is so good. And the violin part, so wonderful... A great job by Hitoshi Konno... The guitar solo too...
black rose A really great version, similar to the one from the bluray vol 21, Emiko owns this song so much. The instrumentation of the beggining of the song was a little different and I really like this little difference. Emiko still danced a lot on it, played with Lino Leia but maybe she was a little quieter than the vol.21 last performance. But clearly the audience was her during the song.
from the edge Kaori is really pretty good on the lead! of course it's not Lisa but in a way, I prefer it (but maybe it's also because I really like Kaori).
MC3
stone cold The song I was waiting the most. My second favourite song of Yuki Kajiura (with Ongaku), my favourite from FictionJunction. It's was so great. It's s Kaori's song (with a really good Emiko too). Always the best. The first floor of the audience (first floor "japanese version") was almost entirely standing up, the second one -where I was- A quarter of the audience I guess. I couldn't see the third floor...
zodiacal sign with no stop between this song and Stone Cold so the public stayed standing up (and doing the "hand dance"... I'm not very good with it myself but I tried...
Encore
Parade Live version is so great, Joelle's voice was really good.
引き出しで発光している Hikidashide hakkoshiteiru A song with Kaori as lead that I really liked...
MC4 Very long MC this time!!! With Yuuka back on stage for the last song...
angel gate Great song but not my favorite. Maybe Parade was a better song as the last one but I guess Yuuka as to be on stage for the last song. Nowhere could be so good as last song too! Too bad I couldn't hear it!
The thanking/ending/salutations part was very funny because the first one to do it was Joëlle whom said "Thank you very much" (in english). And then, as a Joke, when Yuriko Kaida did it a similar way (trying to fit Joëlle's voice). The audience really like it so after it every singers said "Thank you very much". Even Rie Akagi (without a microphone but the audience understood it). And Yuki Kajiura herself said it as the last words of the show.
(oups, sorry I have posted it on the wrong thread, thanks to move it on the right thread)
General impressions : Great show, singers' voices are wonderful. So seems to me that BR/DVD from fictionjunction are not so edited about it! Kaori and Emiko really have powerful voices, Yuuka so soft, Yuriko and Joëlle so crystal clear voices, Lino Leia seems to have found her perfect peak voice too!
The festival hall is a beautiful stage, the sound is pretty good (even with both music and voices are together). The balance was good too.
Agaki Rie so great to see her able to dance ! Emiko and Lino Leia seems to be very close (often together on stage during MCs on the right side of the scene).
The costumes was great, a mix of the ones for vol.16/vol.17/last costumes of Kalafina red/blue day 2015/last costumes of Consolation tour of Kalafina. For the main colours of the costumes : Joëlle-Yuriko Kaida/White-Light green, Yuuka-Lino Leia-Kaori/White and Black, Emiko/Black
silent moon (アカペラ) The 6 singers on the stage, with only a center white light only, in a half circle, to sing a cappella. Yuuka leads the song. Also, the first verse of the show was for Yuuka...
overture〜Crush All singers leave the scene, the scenery with light effects began (first very dark when the musicians came on the stage, then with a large predominance of red), Rie Akagi is on the top of the stage in a soldier/marching band suit (very cute by the way on her) playing the flute and dancing (and like I previously the audience was so happy to see her this way, she was the most applaused musician during one of the MCs). To be honest, she didn't dance like vol.#19/KajiFes 2023 but she seems to enjoy it so much!
Pandora hearts expanded
everytime you kissed me Song entirely in english with Kaori as the lead. And a perfect lead !
MC1 I can only understand a little bit japanese (I'm learning it but it seems to me easier to speak than to understand). But I understood that after the presentation of the singers that she was talking about Rayearth... That leads to...
レイアースのテーマ Rayearth no teema Great theme but I think the "Madoka Magica" new songs were far better
lighthouse Lino Leia is really a good fit to the song and she really has so much improved from vol.#19. I really like her voice now!
overture〜circus
aikoi Yuuka lead voice (of course) and Joelle/Lino Leia backing voices... OK I said I liked the version with Junna (and I still do it) but this version was way better of course... Yuuka's voices with Lino Leia and Joëlle was so great.
ひとみのちから Hitomi no Chikara A song that fit Yuuka's voice but not my favorite...
暁の車 Akatsuki no Kuruma The a cappella beginning is so wonderful. Yuuka didn't lose her voice at all...
MC2 Presentation of the works for the new Madoka Magica movie. Informations that the cd will be available september 2nd (they give us a flyer for it at the exit of the show, with the picture of Yuki Kajiura on the right of a piano). Then the best part for me began with first the "Madoka segment" and the songs after it... All this part was sooooo goood...
彼方 kanata Emiko/Lino Leia/Yuriko Kaido. Emiko leads the verse, Lino Leia the chorus (with Emiko but Emiko sang a bit softer and lower), Yuriko Kaida backing vocals. Beautiful song, very good fit for Madoka Magica OST. But for me, it was a little weird that it's not a Kalafina song because in fact, it's so a Kalafina song! Or maybe it's because for me songs in Madoka Magica = Kalafina. A version with Kalafina could be interesting too... But this one is really really good!
劇場 魔法少女まどか
︎マギカ ワルプルギスの廻天 M06 Like Kanata, so representative of a Madoka Magica OST!Numquam vincar OK, no cover of Kalafina on the show but does this one count? I was so happy to hear it, it's my favourite OST (music theme I mean) of Madoka Magica... I didn't expect to hear it live! The band is so good. And the violin part, so wonderful... A great job by Hitoshi Konno... The guitar solo too...
black rose A really great version, similar to the one from the bluray vol 21, Emiko owns this song so much. The instrumentation of the beggining of the song was a little different and I really like this little difference. Emiko still danced a lot on it, played with Lino Leia but maybe she was a little quieter than the vol.21 last performance. But clearly the audience was her during the song.
from the edge Kaori is really pretty good on the lead! of course it's not Lisa but in a way, I prefer it (but maybe it's also because I really like Kaori).
MC3
stone cold The song I was waiting the most. My second favourite song of Yuki Kajiura (with Ongaku), my favourite from FictionJunction. It's was so great. It's s Kaori's song (with a really good Emiko too). Always the best. The first floor of the audience (first floor "japanese version") was almost entirely standing up, the second one -where I was- A quarter of the audience I guess. I couldn't see the third floor...
zodiacal sign with no stop between this song and Stone Cold so the public stayed standing up (and doing the "hand dance"... I'm not very good with it myself but I tried...
Encore
Parade Live version is so great, Joelle's voice was really good.
引き出しで発光している Hikidashide hakkoshiteiru A song with Kaori as lead that I really liked...
MC4 Very long MC this time!!! With Yuuka back on stage for the last song...
angel gate Great song but not my favorite. Maybe Parade was a better song as the last one but I guess Yuuka as to be on stage for the last song. Nowhere could be so good as last song too! Too bad I couldn't hear it!
The thanking/ending/salutations part was very funny because the first one to do it was Joëlle whom said "Thank you very much" (in english). And then, as a Joke, when Yuriko Kaida did it a similar way (trying to fit Joëlle's voice). The audience really like it so after it every singers said "Thank you very much". Even Rie Akagi (without a microphone but the audience understood it). And Yuki Kajiura herself said it as the last words of the show.
(oups, sorry I have posted it on the wrong thread, thanks to move it on the right thread)
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george1234
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For me Madoka Magica equals Kajiura music and as long as she does it with care it will sound good no matter who the singer is. Also Emiko = Keiko and Lino Leia = Wakana as in similarity of voices. Yuriko was an unofficial Kalafina member as she did background vocals for like half of their songs. If Rito was still in the team you'd have the Hikaru sound-like voice too.
esteban82
I like Yuki
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esteban82
I like Yuki
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