「Kalafina Anniversary LIVE 2025」15th January Tokyo Garden Theater (NO KAJIURA INVOLVEMENT)

The old logo was fine and that f on the old logo resembles the forte symbol


ngl, if they're going to change the logo... They should've have chosen a better font tho
 
CloisteredFlame said:
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Wish someone could translate what they wrote...

On the webpage (thanks @grunty) the arrangement of the pictures was in the order: Hikaru, Keiko, and Wakana (the order on stage from left to right), but the text went in the opposite order: Wakana, Keiko, and Hikaru (the order from right to left). Does this reflect the sense of importance in the eyes of the singers by writers (and maybe much of the audience as well)?
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On an Android phone, enlarge the picture, press and hold the rounded square at the bottom centre and select translate.

First text:

久しぶりの Kalafinat-7 あんなことやこんなこと たくさんお話し しました♪

Hikaru

(Google translation:

Long time no see

Kalafina - We talked about this and that and lots of other things♪)

Second text:

3人の音楽

のように

アニソンあいが 詰まった時間が 最高に楽しかったです♪ ・・にぽっ

(Google translation:

3 people's music

like

The time filled with anime songs was the best fun ever♪)

Third text:

アニメと音楽のお話を たくさんできて、すごくすごく!!! 楽しかったです!!! Kalafinaの音楽についても、 たくさん掘り下げていただき、 本当にありがとうございました!!

Kalafina *Wakana*

(Google translation:

We had so much fun talking about anime and music!!! Thank you so much for digging deep into Kalafina's music as well!!


Kalafina *Wakana*)
 
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Kugayama said:
On an Android phone, enlarge the picture, press and hold the rounded square at the bottom centre and select translate.

First text:

久しぶりの Kalafinat-7 あんなことやこんなこと たくさんお話し しました♪

Hikaru

(Google translation:

Long time no see

Kalafina - We talked about this and that and lots of other things♪)

Second text:

3人の音楽

のように

アニソンあいが 詰まった時間が 最高に楽しかったです♪ ・・にぽっ

(Google translation:

3 people's music

like

The time filled with anime songs was the best fun ever♪)

Third text:

アニメと音楽のお話を たくさんできて、すごくすごく!!! 楽しかったです!!! Kalafinaの音楽についても、 たくさん掘り下げていただき、 本当にありがとうございました!!

Kalafina *Wakana*

(Google translation:

We had so much fun talking about anime and music!!! Thank you so much for digging deep into Kalafina's music as well!!


Kalafina *Wakana*)
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Thanks @Kugayama !
 
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Seeing them together is so cruel. I mean, they're Kalafina again but at the same is not Kalafina :(
They didn't even made a reference to Yuki Kajiura in the interview...
 
Nightmare said:
Well it's done...Kajiura's personal account unfollowed both Hikaru and Keiko in x(twitter), although y.k staff still following them lol. It's so over...
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She probably disliked the new logo lol

Meanwhile Kajiura;s message talking about 2024,

https://x.com/Fion0806/status/1874076991697412313
she says that "we made music" but i think there wasnt much of it :waa:

if we exclude all the anniversary releases, the new musics were: Sarigiwa no Romanics (1 song), the new KnY ED, AntiHero OST (5 bgms) the GARO song, and those filler KnY bgms. probably record of less productive Kajiura year ever, but maybe she has some health issue so it guess its ok
 
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Constant ? It wasnt constant if you compare to pre 2018 time. She had 1 tour in the summer and a few more lives in the November (Gap of 2 months between Aug and Nov). But i guess we should also count in the rehearsals.
 
george1234 said:
Constant ? It wasnt constant if you compare to pre 2018 time. She had 1 tour in the summer and a few more lives in the November (Gap of 2 months between Aug and Nov). But i guess we should also count in the rehearsals.
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You forget that she's independent now. That comes with a metric ton more paperwork and administration (just to name a few, making sure musicians and staff are paid, organising rehearsals, booking studios, meeting with other producers, negotiating contract fees, planning live venues, scheduling, marketing, PR, etc). This is on top of the actual composing, arranging, recording, producing and directing the music. Plus she's almost 60 years old - the retiring age in lots of other countries. The energy to essentially run your own business and make sure everyone involved is paid and be hands-on, neck-deep in this dwindles as you grow older. I'm not even half her age and I don't have the energy to do even a third of this all by myself.
 
Nightmare said:
Well it's done...Kajiura's personal account unfollowed both Hikaru and Keiko in x(twitter), although y.k staff still following them lol. It's so over...
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Oops, I didn't read this...
So yes, it's over. I'm so tired of this sh*t.
Kajiura got me mad. Losing KEIKO will hit hard...
 
Nothing has to be confirmed, we’ve been living in this kind of drama since 2018 and we have enough years to know that she’s looking for a Keiko replacement.
I’m being dramatic? Maybe. But im tired of Kajiura’s bad decisions, IMO, because she is in her prime and she is not taking advantage of it: A complet mess with her vocalists, no promotion for her FJ album, no singles, no soundtracks… Just LIVE music because that is what she loves now, and its ok, its her life, but I’m not here for that. So let me be dramatic because I don’t like this Kajiura from the recent years.
 
I'm not stopping you. I'm just saying you are. ;)

Sadly, I cannot relate to your issues ATM - maybe I would have back in the middle of 2010s. :-)

For so long I've wanted Kajiura to stop working with Koiwa on mixing, I've wanted her to stop working with Chinone on mastering (granted, that's on Sony not YK), I've wanted her to stop working with FBM so much so she could get her own keyboard-and-synth-fu juices flowing.

I personally do not need Keiko at all. Heck, I think I'll survive if YK stops working with Yuriko and I am a Yuriko stan - YK would find someone to fill that gap or would have to get creative - whether I'd like it as much as having Yuriko I do not know! We had Kaori Nishina back in the day next to Yuriko; I guess we now have Joelle alongside Yuriko, considering she's doing both BGM and sometimes backing vocals on songs - nocturne, English Fena songs... Heck, I'm sure both you and I would be thrilled if Kajiura started releasing music with her own vocals.

I'm also sure not everything is up to her. Even the amount of work she does. Delays or cancellations are not her fault. Maybe Kajiura isn't actually welcome in the anime space now? Maybe they can't afford her? If there's noone on a project production team to actually want Kajiura then what is she to do? Change her own standards? Completely change her sound?

We went through so many metas. "Kajiura peaked in 2000s"; "Kajiura peaked with Kalafina"; you're proposing "Kajiura is in her prime now but not taking advantage of it".

Back in the Alicization thread I remember saying that it managed to revitalize me for another 10 years of MEH projects. Happily, it's been going slowly but steadily since then. At least for me. I'm sorry you did not like Fena. I'm sorry you did not like Vanitas. I'm sorry you did not like Kaze yo Arashi yo. I'm sorry you did not like ANTI-HERO (though I seem to remember you liking it). I'm sorry y'all don't like (m)any of the new Aimer, LiSA, JUNNA, whatever singer or FJ songs.

Not everything hits as hard as I would like but I happen to like a lot of her output even now. It is amazing to me that after 20+ years, even with bumps along the road, I still get projects (or significant parts of projects) of hers that I enjoy.

I hope that Kajiura does something you like again, too.
Happy New Year!

Love,
grunty
 
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