Kajiuras music quality is dropping?

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I think Yuki would be using "Kikan" as the title of her compositions.

Why don't modern composers use Opus Numbers.

Ex. Nocturne Pop Op.484 no.12
Divertimento Op.655 no.2
Symphony no.35

In case they would ran out of titles.
 
All I have to say is this. She might just be going through a phase where her music isn't all that good, like a writer's block or even an artist's block. Just be patient! 'Course, I could be wrong and it might just be what you guys say, that she needs to take a break!
 
Maybe I shouldn't express my opinion since I still haven't heard many of her works. I have decided that I will watch all the animes which have OST from Kajiura (and I have already played both Xenosagas). I am half-way in Noir, and have watched all Kara no Kyoukai. I watched one episode of .hack//Liminality and two of MADLAX. So, I'm going to give an opinion based on her work as composer.
She's as good as ever. Why do I say this?
While her work may have gotten a bit repetitive, she still manages to create immersive OSTs that work wonderfully in the shows. I do know that some people couldn't care less about the animations she works in, but let's be honest, she works as a composer, she has to create songs that fit in the situations presented to her and that's that. And that's exactly what she did in the KnK movies, for example. I still haven't heard a song so fitting and incredible in any Kajiura work as M41+42 (I hate this lack of a proper name for such a fantastic song :omg: ).
If Kajiura wants to take a break from creating new soundtracks, I have no problems with that. But, for me, she has not failed as a composer at all, and I think that is the most important thing.
 
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KP-X said:
... she works as a composer, she has to create songs that fit in the situations presented to her and that's that...

Does the title artist has its meaning behind that job?

I just want to hear her work along with Koichi Mashimo's once again. As I hope, he will let Kajiura go wild.
 
o_o What's going on. LMAO.

Let me just drop by like Berlin Airlift and say, "This whole reusing of sapphire in Kagayaku sora no shijima niwa and Haru wa kogane no yume no naka is just ridiculous. Furthermore, adore is a mimic of progressive + Kyrie + Hikari ni Yukue. So the whole single was a blast from the past. Her quality isn't dropping in my opinion, but listeners are getting tired."
 
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Kizuato* said:
Her quality isn't dropping in my opinion, but listeners are getting tired."
I would have to agree with you on this! Same here, I don't think the quality of her music is dropping either! Honestly, I get extremely excited whenever I hear or read about her making new music for a project and the such, because it gives me more new music to listen to! Plus it feels nice to find out what new melodies, rhythems, or beats are in store!
 
i don't think is dropping
it's just like yuki try to take her music a little bit into main stream. her music is easy to listen now. not like the first time i heard. i need a few month to like noir and Hack.
 
speaking of the break, no new works have been announced practically since Kagayaku, so it's possible Yuki is taking a break right now. :tea: And who would say she doesn't deserve it? :sparkleguy:
 
Yea, what ever happened to that mysterious feeling like from "Kioku no Mori" (the kajiuran in the intro freaked me out the first time i heard it i avoided that song at all cost whenever listening to "Everlasting Songs" XD)
 
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Nick Hunter said:
speaking of the break, no new works have been announced practically since Kagayaku, so it's possible Yuki is taking a break right now. :tea: And who would say she doesn't deserve it? :sparkleguy:

In twitter 2 days ago she she she would start composing again from that day , and that she will do her best.

that's the twit
さー、今日からまた書きだ!嬉し楽しく頑張るぞ〜!れっつ引き蘢り!
 
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
thanks george for the twit repost xD i dont check her twitter... i shud bookmark it ;)
 
Nope. Then again, I'm a pretty new fan and haven't listened to most of her discography yet so my opinion probably isn't worth much. :XD:
 
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george1234 said:
Even if the anime turns out to be boring, what i care more is the music.
That's what I always do! Well, I just get CDs and soundtracks that are composed by Yuki and don't really bother watching the anime itself. Just there for the music!
 
Well, Pandora Hearts was worth watching thanks to the plot, even if Xebec did its best to turn it into a circus.
There is actually one upcoming series I'd love to hear Yuki's music in. But as usual, reality is likely to disregasd it. :XD:
 
To be honest: in my personal opinion, I think it is.
But since I've listened to Kalafina and FictionJunction the most, I'll just write my thoughts about those two projects.
My opinions aren't meant to offend anyone; that's just my perspective of the way things are.

I haven't been a long-time listener of Yuki like some people here are, but what first got me hooked on her music was Kalafina's sprinter. I really, really liked the seventh heaven album, because I loved so many things about it- the atmosphere, the vocals, the melodies, the way everything was put together. To me, the songs were beautiful and I've listened to them many times over these past years.
But, I never truly loved anything Kalafina released after that; Lacrimosa and storia I was okay with, but I couldn't listen to progressive more than a few times. I tolerated Hikari no Senritsu, partly because while it still contained Yuki's style, it was different and bright and didn't have so much of the same sounds. (For B-sides, lirica was interesting, a twist on the darkness Yuki usually mixes into her songs. The rest I didn't really care for.)
And then along came Red Moon, and I didn't like a single one of the songs in it (with the exception of bits and pieces of the title song). I felt like Yuki was out of her element, attempting to put her trademarks on songs with tired melodies that should have been infused with real sitars instead of electronic violins and Arabic instead of Japanese. To be truthful, I found the whole listening experience sort of painful, and I don't plan on listening to the album in its entirety for a good while.
After listening to the latest Kalafina single, I found it to be typical Yuki- typical to the point that it was boring. I love Yuki's style, and I wouldn't have started to listen to her if I didn't love it. However, listening to the same sort of style over and over, regardless of the quality, made me extremely tired of the music. A good composer should be able to successfully make positive changes to his or her music while maintaining his or her unique qualities over time, and I think Yuki just hasn't managed to make a successful transition thus far.

FictionJunction: I got hooked on FJ after being introduced to Kalafina, and I enjoyed Parallel Hearts because it showcased each of the four girls. Toki no Mukou Maboroshi no Sora, however, sounded like a darker version of Parallel Hearts, with the same formula in terms of which girl was used where and the arrangement of the song. I thought Everlasting Songs was decent, but it didn't consist of new material; it contained covers by Yuki's vocalists of songs that she had composed at an earlier point in time. As for the lives, I adored vol. 2 and enjoyed a lot of the songs that were sung. But I soon got bored of the string of lives that followed- particularly because Yuki decided once again that repetition was the best policy, and insisted on reusing the same songs in different performances (Mezame, zodiacal sign, salva nos, etc.)

Yuki's music takes up a considerable chunk of my playlist, but I'm deciding whether to stop following her releases and projects, because I haven't been enjoying any of them for a long time.
 
not droping,she keeping the quality and we fans get tired,she need breakthrough,i think it will come.
 
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