What age were you when you started listening to Kajiura?

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47 (2011) - saw the video of the Minori Chihara / yozuca* / Savage Genius cover of "Nowhere" from Animelo Summer Live 2008 on youtube, then saw the FJY version from Animelo Summer Live 2009, then bought Red Moon blu-ray, saw Kalafina and Chiaki Ishikawa at Animelo Summer Live 2011...
 
I found out about Kalafina from Kuroshitsuji I watched some time in 2010.
Then, I started to listen to FJ, too.
At that time, I was 28 xD
 
I started out with Pandora Hearts, but I only watched that show after my sister's friend introduced it to me in mid 2011. That was when I was 14.

I fell in love with the music almost immediately. It was the first time I was even bothered to look up who composed the soundtrack because it was that good. I particularly liked the Lacie theme, and I wanted the full version, and then Yuki Kajiura popped up. I then wanted to find who sang the OP, and then I found FictionJunction.

However, I didn't know the two were related and I only listened to the PH OST and Parallel Hearts. After that, I didn't delve further into Kajiura's music - not until Kara no Kyoukai.

That same friend of my sister's got me heavily interested in Fate/Stay Night, which then led me to become a super TYPE-Moon fanatic. With that, I started watching Kara no Kyoukai in late 2011, and while I did fall asleep in the middle of the movie, I woke up in time for the glorious fight scene with it's breathtaking animation (the best I've seen at that time, and now still being one of the best) and the music. The OST. It fit so perfectly with the atmosphere that it made me want to continue watching it despite the pacing issues and the non-chronological order (which I quickly got over once I watched the 3rd movie).

And then, once the movie ended, the ending theme played. I will never forget how I felt when I listed to oblivious for the first time. I was just...blown away. Words aren't enough to describe that feeling. It's unlike anything I've ever heard before in my life, and it made me just sit there in front of my TV just to soak in the sheer beauty of the song.

I then proceeded to marathon the whole KnK series in one sitting. Best decision ever. Kimi ga Hikari left me in tears. Kizuato made me smile a lot. ARIA was mesmerizing. sprinter was eargasms all around. fairytale was very soothing and just beautiful. And seventh heaven was the highlight of everything - the perfect song to end one of the best movie series I've watched - in both anime and live-action mediums.

The day after that, I immediately scrambled to download the whole OST. "Oh," I thought, "it's Yuki Kajiura again." And listening to the OST made me remember all those moments from KnK. And when I watched Kalafina's live performances, I was hooked. There was no going back.
 
I watched Noir back in 2004-5 in that hazy post-graduation time following university. I was familiar with Yoko Kanno at that point so had already started paying attention to OST composers and making a mental note of who wrote what...plus I was into Lacuna Coil in a big way back then so the female vocals with a vaguely gothic rock vibe clicked with me straight away.

If the bug hadn't bit me then, it would certainly have done when I picked up Cossette on DVD in '08 (around the same time that @Seasonreaper must've done!).
 
I was 14 when .hack//SIGN began here in America and I bought the second DVD volume which included the second OST. That was 2004 about a year later I bought Fiction and then Madlax and the rest is history.
 
I was 12 when I accidentally clicked on To the beginning's PV on YouTube. Now I'm 13, turning 14 in a few months (why can't October get here sooner :comeback:)
 
HimeWakana said:
I had 18 years!! oh my XDD
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As far as I can remember, I think I was 18 too, in 2008, when I for the first time had been suggested to listen to Sprinter while chatting on MSN Messenger (does anyone remember? :XD:). At that time, I was more on Mandarin Pop, I only had a few Japanese tracks on my PC... Now I'm 25 and totally devoted to J-Pop/Rock ~
 
15, 2009. My father showed me Himeboshi and Mezame from Vol. 2 and I fell in love :love:
 
This says .hack//SIGN aired here in 2003, so I must've been... 11-ish? I was really into that anime, and I loved the soundtrack and revisited it from time to time throughout the years.

but I didn't really become a "Kajiura fan" until after I watched Madoka, so I was probably more like 19.
 
PopSock said:
This says .hack//SIGN aired here in 2003, so I must've been... 11-ish? I was really into that anime, and I loved the soundtrack and revisited it from time to time throughout the years.

but I didn't really become a "Kajiura fan" until after I watched Madoka, so I was probably more like 19.
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Ah you're right it was 2003, lol my bad! But I think it was maybe 2004 when I bought the DVD with the second OST and Fiction, 2005 at the latest. 2005-2006-ish probably about the time I saw Noir (which I didn't finish to much later) and MADLAX which I bought everything as it came out.
 
13 I think? I started playing Luminous Arc, the theme for which, 'Brilliant World', was sung by Kaori Oda. From there, I found Kajiura's 'A Song of Storm and Fire' and 'Mezame'. When I found the live performances, I found FictionJunction, and realized I'd gone full circle in returning to Kaori. Finally, from FictionJunction, I found Kalafina's 'Aria', and I've been hooked on all Yuki's music since :)
 
I think I was 17. I started watching Anime when I was 13. And it was a few years after that when I found out about and watched Noir, which I believe is the 1st Anime I watched that had soundtrack by Yuki Kajiura in it. I'm 22 now so that makes about 5 years of listening to Yuki's music.
 
I watched ./hack Sign in 2013 and loved the anime and the music but I never discovered the composer had her own band.
2 months ago I saw for the first time FictionJunction on Youtube. It was on the sidebar from A Stray Child.
I'm 25 at the moment.
 
I think I must've been 12 or 13 when I first listened to the .hack OSTs and fell in love with See-Saw. I didn't find out about Kalafina until much later, probably in 2010 when Red Moon was released and lots of people were raving about it everywhere. When I found out it was Kajiura who produced them I was very intrigued, and then I heard Natsu no Ringo and fell in love with Hikaru's voice forever <3
 
I have some otaku cousin who are way older than me who also would go to my house and gather there either watching animes or playing games.

I think I was too young to be le to remember when it was, might be 2001. As a child I could scream when they play some indecent songs aloud, I tend to like classics or other relaxing songs. But when they played something Yuki Kajiura's I didn't complained at all and just sleep.
From what I heard since I asked, I got into animes some 3 years later when I'm capable enough to read and they made me play some games. And well even dragged me to watch some animes with them. Well they were around 13-16 at the time (maybe). I'm now. . . Even younger than my aunt's dog.

Gundam, .hack//SIGN, Xenosaga's OSTs
I think those are my firsts.
 
When I were 16 years old, which means 5 years ago...
The best memory ever.. I began my journey with "Ensei"...
My heart was pounding so hard when I listened to it for the first time... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
 
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