Nick Hunter
I have reached Yuki nirvana
Congrats on that.
Personally, I can't wait to know what Yuki is currently working on.
Personally, I can't wait to know what Yuki is currently working on.
I completely agree with you.Mint Truffles said:To be honest, I believe Kajiura's music started effing up after the Mai-Otome era. I use to anxiously await her new soundtracks and such but now I only download the songs she has composed for Kalafina and FJ. Hell, I even use to just watch certain anime because Kajiura was the composer of the soundtrack. I even bought the Petite Cossette OST before even watching the anime. After the Mai-Otome era, I think the best "kajiuran" song she has created is walk on your destiny. I find everything else to be repetitive and boring. Also, the songs she has created for Kalafina is just the same shit over and over again. Main Vocals: Wakana + Hikaru. Background: Keiko. She has this annoying ass mindset where sopranos are the pride and glory of the music world and altos should be there to support their wambulance sounding asses. And what the hell is up with her always using a violin? Violin solo after violin solo after violin solo. What the hell happened to the viola? Most of you call her creative but in my opinion, she now just fits in with the rest of the composers you try to set her a part from.
I miss the days of See-Saw. I miss the days of FICTION. I miss 2001 - 2005. If she composes another song like open your heart ~reprise~ I'd respect her again but that future looks bleak. o3o
YES! YURIKO KAIDA FOR KALAFINA.mi_feng said:I completely agree with you.Mint Truffles said:To be honest, I believe Kajiura's music started effing up after the Mai-Otome era. I use to anxiously await her new soundtracks and such but now I only download the songs she has composed for Kalafina and FJ. Hell, I even use to just watch certain anime because Kajiura was the composer of the soundtrack. I even bought the Petite Cossette OST before even watching the anime. After the Mai-Otome era, I think the best "kajiuran" song she has created is walk on your destiny. I find everything else to be repetitive and boring. Also, the songs she has created for Kalafina is just the same shit over and over again. Main Vocals: Wakana + Hikaru. Background: Keiko. She has this annoying ass mindset where sopranos are the pride and glory of the music world and altos should be there to support their wambulance sounding asses. And what the hell is up with her always using a violin? Violin solo after violin solo after violin solo. What the hell happened to the viola? Most of you call her creative but in my opinion, she now just fits in with the rest of the composers you try to set her a part from.
I miss the days of See-Saw. I miss the days of FICTION. I miss 2001 - 2005. If she composes another song like open your heart ~reprise~ I'd respect her again but that future looks bleak. o3o
This is why I like FJYuuka the best out of her ~jpop projects: the songs are more "emotional." For example, there's "futari" and "rokugatsu wa kimi no eien": they're both beautiful songs and they both make me feel the emotion in them. When I first heard them a couple of years ago, I had no idea what the lyrics meant, but I could still understand in a way because of the emotion.
To be honest, I cannot get this same emotion out of Kalafina songs. Yes, they are usually very well composed, but I can never be as engaged in their songs as FJ's.
And the weak usage of Keiko? Ughhh.
I'm sorry, but I'm tired of Wakana's voice (Hikaru too, but Wakana more). They both have lovely voices, but you can only hear so much after a while... Yuki has a whole other vocalist available within the group, but most of the parts she gives her are chorus.
If that's the case, why not make Yuriko a part of Kalafina too? I mean, she does some sort of chorus in 80% of Kalafina songs.
And the violin thing annoys me a bit as well. Yes, it's a rather versatile instrument which is why it fits in most songs, but there ARE other instruments out there that can be tried.
What I miss the most are her older osts. The styles of the older ones are certainly very different from the newer ones... I feel like they all generally have more depth.
I want more FJYuuka, and I want more old style kajiuran songs.
While I don't really agree with many things said here, what has been said here isn't that Wakana (or Hikaru) is the problem. It's Keiko (or more precisely, the lack of Keiko as main singer). Keiko has a wonderful voice that could lead to amazing songs with her as lead, but Kajiura doesn't do that because she simply doesn't want or because the kind of songs she is composing nowadays don't fit in Keiko's voice. And since Keiko herself presents herself in the interviews as having a support role in the trio, it is unlikely that this will change at all.Nick Hunter said:I feel more than alright with Wakana.
Thankfully, she does get to do a decent number of lead vocals in the lives. But yeah, I agree. And what's the deal with Nohara?!?!? Keiko's lead vocals get completely overpowered by Wakana and Kaori on chorus in the latter half of the song!!!KP-X said:Personally I would like Keiko to have more participation as lead vocal, but since I love her backs I don't have many problems with the current situation.
Yuki88 said:rather than "REPETITIVE", I'd like to suggest the term "DISTINCTIVE" to define Kajiura's music. Easily recognizable music doesn't necessarily mean it's bad, does it?