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It has been announced by the Kalafina official site that in commemoration of the Madoka Magica Movie screening there will be streamed a studio live, interview, and Hikari Furu PV screening via nicovideo!
The Hikari Furu PV will be aired for the first time on this program, so be sure to not miss it! Kalafina will also perform it live!

To watch the streaming you can create an account on the English version of nicovideo and login with it in the japanese site. You can also reserve the streaming for later in case you cant watch it live, instruction here

Title: Madoka Magica Movies Public Commemoration ~Kalafina Studio Live & Interview~
Date: October 13 (Sat)
Time: 21:00 – 22:00 (JST)
URL: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv109250007

In other news it has been confirmed that Hikari Furu single’s b-side Mirai, which is a Kalafina version of the kajiurago song “Credens Justitiam”, has been used as insert song in the first Madoka movie! [EDIT] Click here to listen to the song out of Kalafina’s radio show! (thanks to HimeWakana)

Thanks to Keiri for the live news!

According to Anime News Network, Yuki Kajiura has received the “Best Soundtrack” award for the Fate/Zero soundtrack in the 2nd Newtype Annual Anime Awards. This is indeed an exceptional moment, even if it’s by a magazine and not an Oscar or Cannes scale 😀 CONGRATULATIONS Kajiura-san!!

Kadokawa Shoten’s Monthly Newtype magazine established the annual award contest in 2011, and any anime released between October 2011 and July 2012 was eligible. Visitors to Newtype’s site could vote for the different categories. The awards were presented during a ceremony at the Machi Asobi Vol. 9 event in Tokushima on Sunday. Click here to see the rest of the winners.

On a video probably from a Japanese anime related show, there are shown various scenes from the new Madoka movies (which will premiere worldwide in 18 cities of 8 countries and Japan) , and during it you can hear sample of the new ClariS song “Luminous”, brand new BGMs, Kalafina version of Credens Justitiam (probably “Mirai”) as well as a new sample of Magia [quattro]!! Enjoy!

thanks to grunty for the news!

[EDIT] Furthermore you can listen to a Magia [quattro] sample – out of Kalafina Club radio show – here (found in this blog)

thanks to Yurika-Chan !

Not really news but I think a bunch of you might be interested: if you haven’t already picked it up, there’s some good stuff available for 30% off!

• Moonfesta LE (DVD) ¥1429 ¥1000
• Moonfesta LE (Blu-ray) ¥1619 ¥1133
• After Eden Special Live 2011 (DVD) ¥5300 ¥3710

Thanks FxMacCobra!

SonyMusic shop has update with the coverarts of the new single (You can click on the discography for larger size) and the Kalafina website and blog with their new profile photos!

Kalafina – Hikari Furu SECL-1204 (Reg), SECL-1200 (LE+DVD), SECL-1202 (LE+BD), SECL-1205 (AnE+DVD) | October 24, 2012 Single (Theme song of P.M.Madoka Magica ~ Eien no Monogatari ~) 4 Tracks (RE&LEs) 6 (An.E)

In other news, there was recently announced via the official site that Kalafina will do 2 Christmas Acoustic lives in Osaka and Tokyo titled 「X’mas Premium LIVE 2012 “Kalafina with Strings”」 accompanied by piano (Sakurada Yasuhiro) and Hitoshi Konno’s Strings Quartet :D.

• Date: December 21, 2012 (Fri)
  Venue: Sankei Hall Breeze (Osaka)
  Doors Open/ Show starts: 18:15 / 19:00
• Date: December 22, 2012 (Sat)
  Venue: Mozart Hall, Katsushika Symphony Hills (Tokyo)
  Doors Open/ Show starts: 16:15 / 17:00

On a sidenote, the ACG Guangzhou 2012 exhibition in China in which Kalafina was invited, has been postponed for a later date, due to the crisis in the Sino-Japanese relationships.

Thanks to elcazador for the coverart and to Keiri for the lives info!