Kalafina Post-Kajiura thread (Upd:「Kalafina Anniversary LIVE 2026」Jan 14-19 2026)

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#Kalafina Anniversary LIVE 2026

We have successfully concluded all 3 performances!!

To everyone who came to the venue and to everyone who sent us their feelings from afar, truly, truly thank you so much✨

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Their dresses look cute - all white. The stage also looks really nice, like transporting to another place.
 
I mean, it seems fine? (I'm going to assume others take the lead too at other points.)
I won't be running to the store for the full version but happy for fans who wanted a new recording of the trio.
 
Hmmm.

Most were just plain to me. The only ones that stood out were :

- Number 2. What was that, country?
- Number 3. The mature vocal waa better than most.
- The one before Kalafina had a vibe.
- Kalafina had a more robust production but Wakana's voice was so low then with Hikaru and Keiko harmonizing below her pitch, Wakana's brighter overtones were missing. It was a quite dark take. I would hope there was an upward modulation at some point...
- The last track had a fuller, "better?" production.

Yeah, so like grunty I'd not be in the market for this, as a whole, but there are some bright spots.
 
Lúa said:
I think it boils down more to the arrangement than anything. It is clear we are not in Kajiura territory. It is not a bad thing, but I think it is clear this happened under a different direction.
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I agree that it’s down to arrangement

I actually came to detest the three of them being assigned to rigid roles across the latter 7 years of their career— in fact they were all much more versatile during seventh heaven era.

2013 onwards Wakana basically became lead in everything - except blaze… (still my fav) and they became kind of type cast in a way.

Wakana’s debut concert “voice” was a reflection of her finally finding her own voice and she started singing in lower registers, which I LOVE (the one time in Kalafina I can recall where she goes low is “Mune no Yukue”).

Hikaru’s solo career is by far my favorite, demonstrating to me that she’s the strongest vocally (debatable).

Keiko’s had the most potential but man, bored me to death. Horrible songs imo idk just me?

I digress.

Anyways yeah Kalafina without Kajiura is like Yuuka Nanri post-FJYUUKA to me.

Honestly Kalafina shoulda just been called “FictionJunction KALAFINA”.
 
Atlas Star said:
2013 onwards Wakana basically became lead in everything - except blaze… (still my fav) and they became kind of type cast in a way.
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Honestly, I don't think it was a case of being typecast, per se. It was a matter of what was available from the 3 singers and the songs written for them.

Wakana was the lead because she was the only one that could take that soprano range consistently and she had that tone. That's where them being in FJ showed that range-wise Kaori (and Yuriko, later Joelle) could take that soprano lead but Wakana though was a lyric voice (or soprano) which Kajiura prefers for her classical-leaning songs (Yuuka Nanri, REMI, etc.). Hikaru leading changes a song to be more pop/rock, which Kajiura only required for fewer songs. Yuriko's tracked voice also only worked right above Wakana's in harmony. Kalafina was firmly in the classical/ pop/ anisong fantasy realm, so more Wakana's forte.
Atlas Star said:
Hikaru’s solo career is by far my favorite, demonstrating to me that she’s the strongest vocally (debatable).
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More like Hikaru's the most experimental and adventurous with her voice, not the "strongest" in technique or range. She's the most dramatic vocally and expressively, especially when I'm hearing her songs with lower darker range, or covering some of Ado's music with some of that edge on her YouTube channel (both Wakana and Keiko don't have the voices for that).
Atlas Star said:
Keiko’s had the most potential but man, bored me to death.
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I have come to have a different idea of Keiko's potential, having listened to her songs in different genres (anisong, ballad, house, pop rock, etc.) and covers of Japanese classics on her channel, and also Kajiura-style "Yuyami no Uta". She's not really strong in the high range for extended notes. Her strength is in the middle and low range, as long as she controls herself to not yell for forced belts or going too dark (and so more swallowed/quieter) for really low notes . There are times I've heard her sing more open with vibrato, but it's intermittent.

The use of mask/nasal resonance is something I wish she picked more from Kaori. Emiko has that. If not for Hikaru losing her upper range, (and her technique issues) I would now say that she had the greatest potential.
Atlas Star said:
Honestly Kalafina shoulda just been called “FictionJunction KALAFINA”.
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Yeah. Maybe if other parties weren't involved in the group's creation. I feel if Kajiura had a second lyric soprano in there as a balance to Wakana, we would have kept her voice health and had a variety in tone.
 
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