Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#21 - 60 Songs (July 26 - August 24, 2025)

Kenjikun said:
I do try to understand her, but I also think she's old enough and has been in the industry for long enough as well to behave like this. As her fan, it is quite disappointing to see this level of immaturity and egos. I think she should be over all of these things, because she's been long enough working in this industry and she knows the game quite well by now.


I do believe the situation with Kalafina reunion was not well managed in the girls side, but Kajiura cannot intend to keep everything under her control. I think she could have understood better Keiko's wishes, also because they have been working for long enough. I do think Keiko owes more to Kajiura than the opposite, but I also think Kajiura should be a bit more grateful towards Keiko and try to understand her. Like, come on, even unfollowing them on twitter? It seems very childish, to be fully honest. I think there might still be a live concert Bray to be released where Keiko still participated... it feels all so wrong.


Honestly I feel quite sad about all of these situations lately. Since she left SC and has been working on her own, I have the feeling her performance has been mostly focused on doing lives and try to squeeze as much money as possible. I don't think she's released many memorable songs / albums since then. We all thought it would be for the better, but at least regarding her work... it feels mostly uninspired? With some exceptions, of course.

Maybe she's happier like this, and we should be happy for her but to be honest, my loyalty as fan is also fading away, as my interest on her as an artist.
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Being old doesn't mean she don't have feelings.
I hope people stop calling Kajiura petty, she has the right to feel whatever she felt.

Anyways I'm done mourning and now I'm looking forward to the new Fictionjunction 🫡 (but I still hope she give rito a place...I like her lol)
 
So I'm looking at this ykl21 logo... Does anyone else feel like the 0 in the 60 is actually a capital o? Hurr... 6O Songs... Just me? -_-
 
grunty said:
So I'm looking at this ykl21 logo... Does anyone else feel like the 0 in the 60 is actually a capital o? Hurr... 6O Songs... Just me? -_-
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Eh I guess you're right. Why using capital o? Is it for 'old' which means she's 60y/o 😆
 
Curious to know if the people who call Yuki petty also consider Keiko & Hikaru's seeming lack of informing Yuki of the Kalafina reunion to also be petty? Because if that did happen, I consider that abhorrently disrespectful and ungrateful. I'm assuming that SpaceCraft probably required Keiko & Hikaru keep it secret from Yuki, so it may not have been directly their choice, but they still went along with it and in doing so disrespected the person who propelled their career, and made them a part of many hit songs.

I think it's beyond appropriate and rather badass for Yuki to have cut them out. The Yuki Kajiura lives are just that: Yuki Kajiura. The beauty is that the talent is there to serve her compositions. Her compositions are not reliant on any of the specific talents. The talents are interchangeable and the work still shines. When you are an artist presenting a creative work to the world, it is a very personal, vulnerable thing; and any negative energy does not and cannot belong there, or it will weigh down the process.

It may also be the case that Keiko & Hikaru signed some kind of exclusive contracts with Spacecraft, making it not possible to participate with Yuki during the time of the contract. I wouldn't be surprised if this was more why this has happened. I also think rejoining Kalafina was a better career move for both Keiko and Hikaru, because both of them took a mostly backseat in the Yuki Kajiura lives especially over the past 10 years. I just think it's beyond unthinkable for them all to have kept Yuki in the dark about it. That's a purposeful choice that represents animosity and bad blood toward Yuki -- and again, I'm very sure that bad blood comes from the executives at Spacecraft, but I would like to think that Keiko's and Hikaru's gratitude towards Yuki would have come first. But I tend to doubt it was their choice.
 
I didn’t say much on the Kalafina Reunion Drama. It was news that I was both so excited for and devastated by. I had made my peace with Kalafina disbanding because, in my mind, their output concluded in the best possible way. Their Winter Acoustic album was a perfect sendoff for their album releases, Hyakka Ryouran’s tracks serve as a melancholic but inevitable conclusion, and their Tenth Anniversary live was so beautiful to end on. The management drama was unfortunate, yes, but I could somewhat manage to ignore that in favor of their phenomenal work. The only thing I wanted was to see the others publicly interact with Wakana again (and, okay, maybe I also kinda wanted a temporary reunion for Madoka. But tbh I knew that wouldn’t happen.)

After finding out that Kajiura would not be involved, and wasn’t even contacted on the matter, I genuinely felt sick to my stomach. All of the peace I had thought I had regarding the end of Kalafina shattered in an instant, and it honestly disturbed me how invested I was in all of this. It’s part of why I decided to take a bit of a break from the site after a while, though that would imply I ever had much of a consistent post schedule to begin with.

But I made my peace. I’m not entirely sure how, but I did. And as soon as it happened, this news came to light.

I’m not going to comment much on the primary drama at hand, because all of it is just depressing and hypothetical. I didn’t want for anything like this to go down, and I definitely agree with those saddened by the news.

I probably won’t be engaging with FJ lives in the future, not out of any kind of anger but just general disinterest. Wakana’s absence was hard to fill, and Keiko’s will be even harder. Hikaru was at least always a guest, so while that stings, it’s easier to process. And I think the last live I bothered watching was Vol. 18 (the one with Keiko in the black and white dress), so the distance has kind of already happened for me.

Yuki Kajiura will always remain my favorite composer, and Kalafina my favorite band. I’m definitely going to keep listening to their output, and none of this conflict bothers my opinion on the music itself. It’s unfortunate, but it is what it is.

And whatever happens, those 85 Kalafina songs aren’t going anywhere.

(Also, LINO LEIA? Really? Listen, I will love Yuuka’s voice until the day I die, but Lino Leia’s voice is unimpressive at best and obnoxious at worst. If she’s a FJ mainstay at this point, then I just have to shake my head)
 
charmikarma said:
Hi, this is my first time posting here but I have a question about this concert series and I imagine this is the best place to ask it.

Next summer I am planning to be in Japan around the time of the first few concerts, and I'd like to attend one. Probably one of the ones in Osaka in July. Does anyone have experience buying concert tickets in Japan or have any advice to offer? Anything is appreciated. Thanks!
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I recommend you join FictionJunction Station fansclub. You can then enter the lottery for live tickets via the link in the fansclub page. It will forward you to a designated Lawson ticket page. Just follow the instructions to log on. Choose the date of concert and number of ticket. Choose paper tickets (digital ticket only for Japanese mobile) and credit card payment. Then wait for the results, if you win the ticket, the ticket price and Lawson fee will deduct from your credit card. Collect your paper ticket from Lawson outlets when you are in Japan.
 
They're really using an O but in the text is written "60". An aesthetic decision...

TRal55 said:
It may also be the case that Keiko & Hikaru signed some kind of exclusive contracts with Spacecraft, making it not possible to participate with Yuki during the time of the contract. I wouldn't be surprised if this was more why this has happened.
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I don't believe in this anymore. Keiko is not that silly (her wish was to be on FJ and Kalafina). It's simpler, it was a power clash. That's all.

What I would like to know is what's going to happen with their profile on FictionJunction Station:
https://fictionjunctionstation.com/keiko/contents/fj_board
https://fictionjunctionstation.com/hikaru/contents/fj_board

My bet, of course: shashay, away
 
TRal55 said:
Curious to know if the people who call Yuki petty also consider Keiko & Hikaru's seeming lack of informing Yuki of the Kalafina reunion to also be petty?
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🤣no

The response here is relatively balanced, probably because our little community post-SpaceCraft is primarily Kajiura fans (while still liking certain performers more than others). But if you go out there where they care more for the singers... oh boy... there's some wild stories Re:situation & wild adjectives being thrown around Re:YK. Frankly, I recommend not seeking it out.

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Just to make it extra clear, this is about some international communities. No idea what the situation might be in Japan.
 
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Btw the choir Kajira has on vol#21 are the same group we saw at the Heaven's Feel / UBW concert https://x.com/utabitosamady

@TRal55: Singers are always more popular than the other credits of the songs because its them who go on stage and have the spotlight on them, its them on the album covers, the promo material etc. See beetles, 1D, Rolling Stones etc, everyone remembers who sings, rarely the composer even if he/she is producing hit songs.
 
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wat11 said:
She doesn't have the uniqueness of Keiko's voice but would cover Keiko's range well methinks.
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Interesting. The range is very important.
wat11 said:
but excited to hear new vocals ooohhhh!!
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I'm finding myself being excited as well. The same way I was for rito and LINO LEIA when they came in, changing up the dynamics a bit.
Nightmare said:
When I heard the new vocalist I first thought "Why I feel like she fits Sawano type of vocals" then lo and behold XD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxH4aMnlGSk
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Seems this lady is a stronger vocalist than rito/LINO LEIA from this YouTube video. I also enjoyed the harmony work in the vocals so if she worked that out herself it's a good sign for her harmony chops in an FJ context (though those harmonic melodies are already fixed for the pre-existing songs).
TRal55 said:
It may also be the case that Keiko & Hikaru signed some kind of exclusive contracts with Spacecraft, making it not possible to participate with Yuki during the time of the contract. I wouldn't be surprised if this was more why this has happened.
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Who knows?
TRal55 said:
The Yuki Kajiura lives are just that: Yuki Kajiura.
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This is true. Always has been. If we really look at it, she's been working with a whole lot of vocalists before settling on the four regulars in 2007/2008. The lives created a structure (and put consistent faces/voices/personalities - W/YK/K/K) around her music since then forward, also seemingly influencing her composition/arrangement (with the 4 in mind).

I was watching a British composer on YouTube talking about reinventing yourself as a mature composer (he's in his 60s) after having gone through a long phase of creating comfortable (and predictable) works for decades for the sake of delivering projects and being able to put things together within tight deadlines. He talked about listening outside of your familiar tropes for new and different inspiration.
Decretum said:
And whatever happens, those 85 Kalafina songs aren’t going anywhere.
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This is also true. They exist and are borne from Kajiura's soul and creative mind. It is her music and will continue to be enjoyed wherever it is performed.
grunty said:
But if you go out there where they care more for the singers... oh boy... there's some wild stories Re:situation & wild adjectives being thrown around Re:YK. Frankly, I recommend not seeking it out.
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It is true that this site is more of Kajiura-specific fans, which is why we tend to look at any singer, from any generation/period, that works with her objectively and focus on the music and its quality (and of course support/discuss their solo non-Kajiura work as well).

I started with my intense, magical love for Kalafina first (having had no idea who Kajiura even was), but with time I've grown to more fully imbibe the Kajiura-wide appreciation.

Maybe that's why for me (and maybe others), Kalafina is a subset of Kajiura. The music, anyways.
 
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This is a new (to me) Kaori photo. She's looking different from her usual cute posing for solo photos. More "serious". Not sure if that's the right word.
 
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