Today (19/7) LiSA’s new song Zankoku no Yoru ni Kagayake for Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle anime film part 1, composed by Yuki Kajiura, comes out in digital form with physical single releasing on July 23, 2025. Enjoy the song with LiSA and (kajiurago) chorus by Utabito Zanmai Samadi!
LiSA – Zankoku no Yoru ni Kagayake 『残酷な夜に輝け』
VVCL 2753 (Regular), VVCL 2754-2755 (LE+BD)
July 19 (digital), 23 (CD), 2025
Single (Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle anime film part 1 Insert song)
2 Tracks
Today the fictionjuction website updated with details about the new song “black rose” thats set to release on July 26 (digitally)! Firs the cover artwork is quite unique for FJ coverarts, even if it doesn’t go along with the title of the song. Second, the song according to the announcement (machine translation) is “Featuring Emiko Suzuki, who will participate in Yuki Kajiura LIVE for the first time, (and) “black rose” has a somewhat exotic atmosphere and is a four-paced dance number that is perfect for opening the tour with a bang.”. Also the musicians were listed (click below) . You can listen to the song from here when it becomes available.
In other news on Tuesday, Aniplex released after a stream, a new trailer (and a new key visual) for the anime movie Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica: Walpurgis no Kaiten that was delayed for a whole year, and it was announced in this trailer that it will start screening on Japanese theaters on February 2026.
On June 28 came out the full trailer for the first film in the Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle anime film trilogy. The trailer announced that both Aimer and LiSA are contributing theme songs for the first film. Aimer will be performing the song “Taiyō ga Noboranai Sekai” (“A World Where the Sun Never Rises”), and LiSA will be performing the song “Zankoku no Yoru ni Kagayake” (“Shine in the Cruel Night”).
LiSA’s song will be composed by Yuki Kajiura and will have both a CD release, and a digital release!
Digital distribution of both songs will begin at midnight on July 19 (Sat.).
■Aimer『太陽が昇らない世界』 Taiyō ga Noboranai Sekai Lyrics: Hikaru Kondo (Ufotable) Composition: Go Shiina
■LiSA『残酷な夜に輝け』Zankoku no Yoru ni Kagayake Lyrics: Yuki Kajiura Composition: Yuki Kajiura
■24th Single Zankoku no Yoru ni Kagayake「残酷な夜に輝け」 CD Release date: July 23, 2025 (Wed.) CD pre-order: https://lisa.lnk.to/0723PKG Privilege information: https://www.lxixsxa.com/info/archive/?id=575069
Normal Edition (CD) Price: 1,430 yen (tax included) Product Code: VVCL 2753
[CD (RE and LE)]
1. Zankoku no Yoru ni Kagayake 残酷な夜に輝け
2. Zankoku no Yoru ni Kagayake 残酷な夜に輝け -Instrumental-
[Blu-ray (LE only)]
1. Zankoku no Yoru ni Kagayake 残酷な夜に輝け -MUSiC CLiP-
In other news, a new trailer for Eizen Flugel has finally came out after years of no new (sadly new bgm yet)!
Also the credits in the trailer have been updated and the Sound Director is Masafumi Mima, who also did the sound direction for Mai-Hime and Otome!
Last but not least, Yuki Kajiura has confirmed she has recorded a few new songs, and one of them, titled “black rose” will be performed at the upcoming Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#21～60 Songs starting on July 26, and on the same day it will be also released on the music platforms (apple music, spotify etc).
thanks to Lorde-Kowz and grunty and Azokad for the news !
Today the Magia Exedra game websiteupdated with various news, among them is the news that the theme song of the game, lighthouse, will be released as digital single on May 2nd (in 3 days). The announcement specifies all the vocalists of the song: Theme song “lighthouse” Release: May 2, 2025 (Digital single) Artist: FictionJunction feat. LINO LEIA
Lyrics, Composition, Arrangement: Yuki Kajiura Vocal:
feat. LINO LEIA
KAORI YURIKO KAIDA EMIKO
The 2nd interesting news is that, the site natalie.mu will publish an interview with Yuki Kajiura, probably about “lighthouse”, on May 2nd too.
The 2nd episode of Aru majo ga shinu made anime aired today, which means the TV size of ED Theme song 「花咲く道で」 ”Hana saku michi de” by Aoi Teshima, composed by Yuki Kajiura, also aired! Kadokawa uploaded the creditless version of the ED sequence on their YouTube channel. The song will be released digitally on April 10, 2025.
