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Every year since 2008, we at canta-per-me.net forum make a present for Yuki Kajiura’s Birthday that’s every August 6. From these years only 2008’s was open to the non-members, mainly for faster materialisation of the present.

This year, she celebrates her 20 years as professional composer, and we’ve decided to an Inspirational Book, where every participant can submit a number of landscape / scenery photos from his country. With this we are aiming to give Kajiura-san more inspiration from places all over the world 🙂 There will be also 2 drawings, 1 as coverart and 1 for the table of contents, as well as poems made from titles of jpop/ost songs Kajiura-san has made. In the first pages of the book, we are planning to feature a world wide map, showing all the locations of fans of Her music we know of [aiming to encourage her on a World Tour ;)], and since 29 people (the members that atm participate in the project) isnt enough for this map, we will need the help of the lurkers too 😀

To help us, you can write in the comments below this post, your username, continent, country, and city where you live (no need to specify exact location). If you have friends that like Yuki’s music, you can tell them to help too 🙂 The deadline for the submissions is 2 weeks prior to her birthday, July 24.

EDIT: In case lurkers want to participate in the rest of project, there are 3 things to remember:

1. Because there’s the danger of gathering too much stuff, we will accept photos only from countries that are not covered by some other member, or is covered by only 1. Check the participation log here. The pictures need to be taken by yourself or some relative/friend, and be landscape / scenery themed (nature -animals allowed-/buildings), you can also include short description of the photos in txt (microsoft’s notepad) file. Pictures from google wont be accepted.
2. As for the poems if you have inspiration you can send one, and if we have space we will include it, a poem will be considered “song title poem” if it has 6 or more titles of Kajiura-made jpop or ost track in, when sending please bold the song titles inside the poem.
3. You can send your stuff at: george(at)canta-per-me(dot)net

[EDIT December 26, 2013]
Here’s the present, sent for christmas instead 🙂

According to JVC’s web shop, as well as other online stores, Fields of Hope ~Retracks will be included in a 6 tracks maxi single along with the rearranged versions of 2 other Gundam Seed Destiny character songs, Quiet Night～Re-Tracks, and EMOTION ~ReTracks, and their respective Karaoke. The single will be titled Quiet Night～Re-Tracks (“Quiet Night C.E. 73” is an upbeat version of “Shizuka na Yoru ni”). From the credits listed in the webshop we can be almost sure that only “Fields of Hope ~Retracks” will be rearranged by Kajiura-san.

Quiet Night ～Re Tracks VTCL-35157 | July 24, 2013 Single (GUNDAM SEED DESTINY HD Remaster Insert) 6 Tracks [Pre-order] from CD Japan

In other news, the Madoka Magica movies website , as well as online stores, have updated with the coverart for the Limited and Regular Editions of the Blu-ray set, contaniing the 2 movies. Remember that the Original Soundtrack by Yuki Kajiura will be included only in the Limited Edition one as bonus disc, costing 11000 Yen. Click here to view our previous related newspost with more info on this release 🙂

Madoka Magica Hajimari no Monogatari & Eien no Monogatari Original Soundtrack ANZX-3131~3 | July 24, 2013 Soundtrack ?? Tracks [Pre-order] from CD Japan

[EDIT] Aniplex US will also release the movies for the other countries too. There will be Collector’s Edition and Standard Edition. The Collectors edition will come with Original Soundtrack CD, an English translation of the booklet and a postcard. Both editions will also include a Japanese language audio track and subtitles in Japanese, English, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. The films will be available to customers in the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Central and South America, and release date will be July 30, 2013 More info on ANN.

thanks to chrisgarci for the tip!

Aniplex US has announced that the Sword Art Online anime will be releases in US and Canada in 4 BD sets and 4 DVD ones, English & Spanish subtitled/English dubbed, with Japanese audio still available. The BD set 1 (Aincrad Part 1) and 3 (Fairyland part 1) will come with 1 Original Soundtrack CD each (OST 1, 2 by Yuki Kajiura). Each Blu-ray Box will retail for US$112.98 but will have a store price of US$89.98. Each DVD set will retail for US$49.98 but will have a store price of US$39.98. It was also announced that the series will start airing on Toonami block starting this August. More info on crunchyroll and Anime News Network.

In other news, the creators of the Eve no Jikan movie (for which Kalafina sung I have a dream) decided a BD release in US and Europe. The BD release will be region-free and will include “Time of Eve: The Movie” with English dub, multiple subtitles (English, French, Italian, German and Spanish), bonus video features such as interviews with the main cast and director Yasuhiro Yoshiura (with subtitles), a 40-page English-language art book, and eight postcards for those who purchase the film through the Kickstarter campaign. More info on Anime News Network

Last weekend (May 17 and 18, 2013) Kalafina were invited as Guests of Honor at Chicago’s “Anime Central” (ACen) anime convention, where they performed at Rosemont Theatre on May 17 and held a Kalafina panel and signing (autograph) session on May 18. A number of CPM members gone at the convention and reported back 🙂 Here’s the setlist:

Kalafina Chicago ACEN convention concert May 17-18, 2013 Kalafina Rosemont Theatre, Chicago, U.S.A 17 Songs

and the Reports:

• Decratic (1, 2)
• salvanos (1)
• jdcSeiken (1, 2)
• nataku00 (1, 2, 3)
• aki (1)
• SenXXi (1)
• Coral (1, 2, 3)
• Animexcel (1)
• Liana_Ilia (1)
• photos from the concert (1)

By the way, the previous newspost, about the Yuki Kajiura Live vol #10 has been updated with links to member reports 🙂

[EDIT]

• Kalafina concert review by Theron Martin (Anime News Network).
• Kalafina ACen Interview at Anime News Network

Kalafina blog’s ACen related blogposts

• Kalafina (group photo)
• Keiko’s | Translation (by jac177)
• Hikaru’s (includes short message in english ^^)

Yesterday the big concert happened. Yuki Kajiura, Kalafina, FictionJunction, Yuuka, Asuka, and guests Hanae Tomaru, Eri Itou, Yuri Kasahara, Emily Bindiger, Remi Tanaka, the musicians and guest accordionist Sato Yoshiaki and flutist Rie Akagi, filled a 5 hours concert performing 53 songs, most of them previously seen again but performed with awesome vocal combinations! CPM members Kugayama, Hatouchan, yuki.n, meerkat, Kagaribi no Hanabira were there and reported details on which singers sung each song, and more. It was reported that cameras were recording the concert, so we can start praying it comes out on BD 🙂

You can see the live’s setlist by clicking below!

20th Anniversary Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#10 “Kaji Fest. 2013” May 11, 2013 Kalafina, FJ & Guests Tokyo International Forum, Hall A, Tokyo, Japan 53 Songs

In other news, in this week’s GUNDAM SEED DESTINY HD REMASTER episode (7) was featured a “Re-tracks” ver of “Fields of Hope” by Rie Tanaka (composed by Yuki Kajiura), called Fields of hope ~ReTracks. We’re awaiting to see what will be the coupling song, if it will be released as single, like it happened with Anna ni issho datta no ni and Akatsuki no Kuruma.

Thanks to joel_jman for the fields of hope news!

[EDIT] Here are some Reports made by the forum members that attended the Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#10:

Hatouchan (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Kugayama (1, 2)

yuki.n (1, 2)

meerkat (1)

Yumi (1)

Kagaribi no Hanabira (1)

photos from the concert: (1, 2, 3)

Short Kajiura Yuki interview: Original Text | Translation (by jac177)