Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#22 ~precious pieces~ July 4 - Aug 23 2026 & Asia Tour (Oct 31-Nov 27)

[Nguyen Trong]

I'm confused. Does it mean it's postponed? Or does this "scheduled to air in December" mean a rebroadcasting date?

 

[grunty]

It aired. It's on bili.

 

[Nguyen Trong]

Lancer and assassin took me out. <3
Aihara is a goddess. Utabito should be recurring guests xd.
MATERIALISE..... ughhhhhh I'm gonna cry

 

[grunty]

So literally nothing was announced with this airing? Not a bluray, not an album, no nothing?

Audio on the bili upload sucks on that first one. The two more recent uploads have better audio so please use others than BV1DU436pEhL.
Still hope a TS appears...

PS. I didn't care that much for the soloist from Utabito after first listen.

Oh they called the Rayearth theme "ray of earth", not on JASRAC, so guess those were not final titles or there's more tracks. Seems it's the lower key guitarz version, not the one with flute from events. Not much of a live track IMHO.

lol kaori and emiko getting heated in from the edge.

Yea... I don't particularly care for this soloist from Utabito after first listen... but there's moments I like so here's hoping for the future. Also hope for the next time, they all get enough time to sing from memory.

 

[toshiroukajiura]

The live was amazing. As a musician, composer and in a band, they did soooooo well. Thanks for inspiring me more and more Kajiura-san.
Might drop my thoughts later.

 

[george1234]

It aired. It's on bili.

i cant find anything by searching with the live's title

 

[grunty]

i cant find anything by searching with the live's title

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The audio on these two seems okay. The one that was uploaded before these was unfortunately horrible.
Kudos to uploaders.

Sucks that a .ts wasn't posted (at least not that I could find now) when there's no bluray announced... (Maybe they will release a bundle after ykl23... or maybe a triple threat with ykl17...) If there's any consolation for me on not having it in the best quality, is that I didn't particularly enjoy this recording very much.

 

[george1234]

thanks! Its weird cause i literary tried the same words at the titles of those you menthioned on bili but i the search only returned older lives.

 

[grunty]

Kay, some shit from me, hopefully a little more positive than the impressions I was giving before:

Spoiler

- silent moon was cute, just not my favorite song
- Crush flute was great, but I never found this an enjoyable live track
- lancer and assassin, I liked the soloist high note at the end of the first solo, but like I said before I'm not yet sold on the singer - with that said it's an improvement on Remi for me; don't think it was ever my favorite track though;
- ray of earth, other than the ending bit, it's a nothing burger; I prefer the flute version of this theme, but it's still not much of a track particularly for a live;
- hikidashide, I love the song (fav of 2025 releases) but for some reason I'm not sold on it during lives (same thing happened in ykl21);
- lighthouse, I know it may be an unpopular opinion but I really like the song (og and live); LL not squeezing her voice out like in ykl17 is so inspiring to see/hear; still don't care for Kaori butting in;
- circus, love; LL doing lower harmonies in lives is always great for some reason; Joelle's color works great in these choruses;
- aikoi, love, but I still wish they used a song they haven't peformed recently;
- madlax x2, always love;
- akatsuki no kuruma, love having the live cello during 2nd verse and I think they could've featured it even more prominently instead of violin, but I heard this song too many times anyways XD
- Kanata, perfectly fine;
- walpurgisnacht bgm; meh; loved it in the first PV, I don't yet have an opinion on the movie version, but this live has no untz and is a playback stringfest; so that's a meh from me; some color in the lights at least;
- Numquam vincar, never particularly cared for this in lives and I still don't, but Konno was doing some funny things solo and I gots to listen to the studio version or previous lives to check if it was always like this, lol;
- black rose, great but also ykl21 feels like it was just yesterday; at least the lights were doing something in this song; guitar felt different which was nice; Konno's earpiece hanging for its life, lol;
- from the edge, I feel it's a nice fit for Kaori & Emiko but not sure if they needed to put that much grit in some places, maybe that's my personal take; I'm glad they are performing this (and that they recorded it); Emiko doing the ending bit was much better than Joelle for me;
- MATERIALISE, again... the vocals are no Yuri Kasahara so it will take some getting used to, but I'm also not sold on the live instrumentation compared to the og untz;
- zodiacal sign, skipped but then I remembered about the trumpet; it was okay; the only saving grace of this overplayed staple;
- LORD, perfectly fine, great it's with choir; weird choice for the ending of the main setlist; PS: Han Hong's improv is still playing in my head during the instrumental bridge, lol;
- Parade, perfectly fine;
- stone cold, perfectly fine; that pre-solo guitar was weird, lol;
- heigen, I got bored to be honest;

There's some stuff to like here, but the entire recording feels kind of bland; maybe coming off the heat of ykl21 Iunno, or maybe I was not in the mood today. I thought the chorus using scores for choirs was fine, but doing solos the same way threw me off soooo... in future performances, I hope that's changed...

 

[george1234]

- Yuuka still looks (except few wrinkles) sounds and acts same as she did back in vol#4 <3
- In circus and aikoi i still hear Yuriko or Nishina instead of Joelle - LL who supposedly do the chorus, so maybe these have playback chorus ?
- I liked Eleonore not sure if we got in on video before ?
- I still miss the accoustic guitar from Akatsuki. They need to get a guitarist just for this or Korenaga bring his own.
- The Madoka Welpurgis BGM is cool, too bad the OST ver isnt like this (unlike the trailer) but Yuriko's vocals are way in the background.
- Badass black rose intro :D I still love the song.
- From the Edge with KAORI - EMIKO is pretty interesting as it doesnt have LiSA's screams, it sounds really good, and little bit darker too.
- The Utabito Samadi Soprano Satomi Aihara is very good, maybe she should join Kajiura's soprano team as a soloist too, love the touch with the tenor singing part of MATERIALISE too.
- Skipping Zodical for now, im tired of it, going to LORD theme (LMAO they typed "L.O.A.D" instead on the title)
- Joelle has been sidelined to chorus provider for this live and probably the LORD theme and Parade at the only songs she gets to be main vocals. I like her performance on the LORD theme, but i don't like Parade as melody (boring) even if it has beautiful lyrics.
- Also skipping stone cold for same reason as Zodical.
- Heigen: The do have the finish guy vocals as playback. Vocals of girls sound good.

 

[Saber]

*begin rant*

I'll be honest. I did not like the addition of the chorus. They didn't add much when they were present, they stole focus (especially the soprano, Aihara, who had MORE FUCKING SOLOS THAN YURIKO) and heigen was a big flop because it's my favourite YK song of all time and it was butchered by having a male chorus (they really sounded out of place) and they didn't even sing the studio male parts live...when they had a tenor right there.

Aihara is a great singer. She would've been a great guest. She didn't need to be just "on chorus". Can you tell I'm salty about this because Yuriko exists and is right THERE? Like, you don't need a soprano on chorus when the main FictionJunction vocal lineup has FOUR SOPRANOS already.

*rant over*

I love that Yuuka is back. Madlax is love, madlax is life Aikoi was great as usual, but it felt a tad low energy for my liking and I preferred the 2014 live for the Yuuka songs.

The whole concert was really low energy until Black Rose. Thank god for Emiko here who finally brought some life back to it. For most of the concert before Black Rose, it honestly felt like watching an orchestra perform live (aka really boring).

I'm not a fan of the direction of YKL lives recently, because as much as I still love YK's music, I'm also here to watch FictionJunction perform too, and it feels like we're focusing more and more on YK's music rather than FictionJunction the band.

 

[george1234]

^ Well its Yuki Kajiura live not FictionJuction the Band live, and the band doesnt have much songs so this kind of mixing is to be expected. Do you want them to perform only the album exclusive songs ? And what if they give the soprano parts to Aihara because the FJ ladies have issues performing these parts ? There is a reason why we didnt get Materialise on video until now for the 18 years Kajiura is doing her lives. I prefer this setup over more drama of the kind "X singer cant sing" or having the vocals on playback *cough*Wakana*cought*.

The setlist is here https://canta-per-me.net/live-events/2026-yk22-6
They did:
FJ Songs: silent moon, Hikidashite, lighthouse, kanata, black rose, from the edge (actually cover of LISA's) , Parade, Stone cold (8 tracks)
FJY songs: silent moon, circus, aikoi, akatsuki, (4 tracks)
Kajiura bgms: Crush, Rayearth Theme, Elenore, Madlax Mix, Welpurgis M6, Numquam Vincar, Materialise, Zodical Sign. LORD Theme, heigen (10 tracks)

 

[CloisteredFlame]

It aired. It's on bili.

I'm at work now.

I'll watch it as soon at possible.

 

[CloisteredFlame]

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The audio on these two seems okay. The one that was uploaded before these was unfortunately horrible.
Kudos to uploaders.

Sucks that a .ts wasn't posted (at least not that I could find now) when there's no bluray announced... (Maybe they will release a bundle after ykl23... or maybe a triple threat with ykl17...) If there's any consolation for me on not having it in the best quality, is that I didn't particularly enjoy this recording very much.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Saber]

^ Well its Yuki Kajiura live not FictionJuction the Band live, and the band doesnt have much songs so this kind of mixing is to be expected. Do you want them to perform only the album exclusive songs ? And what if they give the soprano parts to Aihara because the FJ ladies have issues performing these parts ? There is a reason why we didnt get Materialise on video until now for the 18 years Kajiura is doing her lives. I prefer this setup over more drama of the kind "X singer cant sing" or having the vocals on playback *cough*Wakana*cought*.

>Do you want them to perform only the album exclusive songs ?
I have never said that. Please do not try and put words in my mouth.

Having a chrous in studio versions has never previously stopped Kajiura from doing them live without backtrack or a chrous. Certainly not during her earlier live days when the goal was never to "emulate the studio version in a live setting". It was simply to perform those songs in a live setting, and rearrange the score to work with fewer vocalists and different instruments. "Capturing those same emotions" was the goal, not a perfect recreation.

The highest note in Materialise is a C6. Any competent soprano (for which Joelle and Yuriko certainly are) should be able to hit this note with minimal to no issues. The C6 isn't even a sustained note either.

You could make the argument for Materialise, but what about Lancer and Assassin? Which Yuriko has performed many times in the past with no issues whatsoever?

I'm personally just not a fan of the direction YK lives are going. I like Yuriko and want to hear more of her, sue me.

 

[george1234]

^ I see, Nothing we can do about it though. I like Yuriko too but like Keiko she is mostly doing backing vocals n chorus. Im begging for years to see Gensou Rakuen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmQvRIyz4AI from noir performed by her but we never get to have it so far. No cover of Shinkai no Kodoku either, which i love.
Perhaps you could message Kajiura about it on her site's message board or on twitter ?

Maybe the reason the always release the lives where they have choir n guest vocalists is to advertise that watching it will be rich experience as opposed to just the girls doing the vocals (see vol#1 reprise) ? Btw the other tour dates didnt have choir it was just the FJ singers and Yuuka.

 

[CloisteredFlame]

Thank god for Emiko here who finally brought some life back to it. For most of the concert before Black Rose, it honestly felt like watching an orchestra perform live (aka really boring).

Haven't watched it yet but any vote for Emiko I'm always here for.

She's a significant plus to FJ and brings a unique skillset and performance capacity that enhances what is already available.