george1234
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^ Mizuki isnt just a seiyuu she also has very good voice, love her songs for Nanoha, and heart-shaped love too.
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「Kalafina Anniversary LIVE 2025」15th January Tokyo Garden Theater (NO KAJIURA INVOLVEMENT)
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I despise her voice but her fame precedes her. Concerts are always in arena stadiums and have very high budgets from what little I've seen.
My point is, Kalafina is a niche group with very little mainstream success, and yet was still a commercially successful group with a tenure longer than many, many other groups, and with the same members for those years (Maya was a one-off, I know some of you will nitpick this). That's an achievement even FictionJunction doesn't carry because "FictionJunction" went from YK + artist collabs, to an actual group with the same name, then essentially back to YK + artist collab and FJ doing backup vocals. Not to mention Kalafina being far more successful with sales than FictionJunction in 2009-2014.
GirlDeMo was a good start but Lisa's career didn't truly take off into the stratosphere until Kimetsu no Yaiba. The first OP, Gurenge, is garbage and oh so generic, but it's very popular and people love it - that's how you know you've become a very successful artist.
ritarudandoo
Yuki is my reason for existence
realistically speaking she was actually done after seventh heaven but their popularity exceeded her (and probably Spacecraft's) expectation that they decided to continue with the project lmao. I think even Lacrimosa was a special request from Kuroshitsuji's author because she's a huge Kalafina fan.
LiSA consistently has a much higher album sales than Kalafina even before KnY. She held her first Budokan concert in 2014 and Yokohama Arena in 2017. Yes KnY propelled her name to be one of the most popular artists in the country but realistically and statistically speaking she has always been more popular than Kalafina. She even "truly" debuted later than Kalafina and achieved higher popularity sooner than them.
Agreed with your point about Kalafina though.
True, Lisa has always been more popular, but my god compared to her popularity now, her songs are so much worse yet so much more popular with the mainstream audience - though I could really say the same thing for the Kimetsu no Yaiba songs Kajiura composed for Lisa and Aimer. I'm left wondering if Kajiura really did have ideas for a Kalafina comeback, because the quality of her recent songs hasn't really been much to write home about. I've mentioned it before, but the actually good songs are very far and few in between (Hibari, Kimi ga Yume no Monogatari, I beg you, Koto no Hoka Yawarakai). I'm quite literally trying to think of any but I'm drawing a big blank.
I just remembered that Kajiura is self-published now. That changes the conversation a lot because everyone knows it's the record companies that make the most from artists - if Kalafina was published under FictionJunction Music, then we know the real reason why she might be so salty, especially if she would still be writing, composing and producing. The royalties $$$$$.
Wanted to say, Girls Dead Monster is still one of my projects of all time, though I prefer Marina/Iwasawa for vocals by far.
ritarudandoo
Yuki is my reason for existence
I've said it and I'm saying it again: no matter what our opinions are about Wakana, her voice more often than not brought the best out of Kajiura lol. Me saying shit about her live vocals doesn't change that fact. Wakana seems like she's far more comfortable after Kajiura though so I get why she chose to leave Kajiura and doesn't come back.
Is FictionJunction Music even a label/recording company? As far as I know, FictionJunction Music is her own management company (different than recording label). Now she releases her projects mostly under the recording label SACRA MUSIC. Though to be honest, if Kalafina does come back to her and they're represented by FictionJunction Music she's gonna get those bags too. Not from royalty but from Kalafina's future activities (concerts and merchandise).
george1234
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Idk but if FJM is management company then what does highway start do ?
I think FJM is holder of the intelectual property stuff, HWS is artist management (in place of Spacecraft), Sacra is the record label.
tsubasa
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SpaceCraft's New Kalafina HP: http://www.spacecraft.co.jp/kalafina/
george1234
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@yuki.n noticed that they have Kaori instead of Hikaru on the link's preview, probably due to spacecraft era of FJ lineup ""Fiction Juction is Wakana Keiko Kaori Yuriko"
Αlso another thing that was noticed is that there is another event on same venue on 25/1 https://www.shopping-sumitomo-rd.com/tokyo_garden_theater/schedule/
Αlso another thing that was noticed is that there is another event on same venue on 25/1 https://www.shopping-sumitomo-rd.com/tokyo_garden_theater/schedule/
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Lorde-Kowz
I have reached Yuki nirvana
Perhaps after reuniting with Keiko in 2019, and then with Hikaru (as guest) in... 2020? they made a plan to reunite someday like she said in her message, but the ladies decided to do it now instead of waiting for Kajiura.
Also, Spacecraft Kalafina site? What was the point of leaving SC right after Kajiura then?
Nightmare
Yuki is lord of heaven and earth
Realistically speaking, and harsh it may seems, Kalafina fans only needed these three to sing and harmonize together and they will pay whatever they release. They really don't care who's in charge of who as long as they feel the three are "happy". 
Pretty sure spacecraft side has already counterargument from this mess too but I'm surprised Takebe Satoshi https://x.com/takebesatoshi is replying to every hate posts that is now deleted I'm sad cause some are spicy answers from him fk I should have saved it.....
Pretty sure spacecraft side has already counterargument from this mess too but I'm surprised Takebe Satoshi https://x.com/takebesatoshi is replying to every hate posts that is now deleted I'm sad cause some are spicy answers from him fk I should have saved it.....
george1234
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^ its not that they re not happy, but Kalafina was a far more productive cow than their solo projects (for SC too) thats why they come back together.
I think main reason Kajiura left was because she was sick of being ordered to compose a new single every 3 months, album every year. What she does now is the rate that she likes.
I think main reason Kajiura left was because she was sick of being ordered to compose a new single every 3 months, album every year. What she does now is the rate that she likes.
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Wasn’t there also drama with one of the new executives or something?
Either way, Kajiura’s career during that time was crazy. She was in franchise hell and writing at least one new soundtrack every year. All that on top of Kalafina.
george1234
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Yes probably the drama was due to the composing rates and the two disagreeing on that.
ritarudandoo
Yuki is my reason for existence
the Kalafina one is said to be scheduled on the 15th, not the 25th.