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The official Madoka Magica website has announced that the two upcoming Madoka films will premiere worldwide in 18 cities of 8 countries starting next month! Featuring music by Yuki Kajiura and Kalafina, each international release is accompanied with key visuals for that country (such as the Statue of Liberty for the American release). There appear to also be special merchandise and gifts available with ticket purchase!

[Click on the country name for location and show times] USA – LA, NYC, SF, Chicago, Houston France – Paris Italy San Marino South Korea Taiwan Hong Kong (China) Singapore I don’t have all the links to ticket sales in all the countries yet, so please help me out if you find any and post them in the comments. Thanks to Hatouchan for the news!

In addition, Kalafina has been announced as one of the performers at LisAni live 2013 at the Nippon Budokan in January! The event is expected to be broadcasted so look forward to more details.

According to the Kalafina official site the group is invited at the ACG (Anime Cartoon Games) 2012 Exhibition taking place at Guangzhou Jinhan Exhibition Centre in China!

The exhibition will last from September 30 – October 4, 2012. Kalafina will be doing a (free) Mini-Live on October 3rd, and an autograph session at October 4.

The will also do a one-man live on October 5th, 2012 at Ren Min Bei Lu, Yue Xiu Qu, Guangzhou, China with tickets pricing at 8500Yen and for the VIPs at 9800Yen. This will be the first Kalafina visit to China after the “Red Moon” Hong Kong live in 2010! ACG 2012 official site (not loading)

In other news, CD Japan has updated with the full tracklist for Kalafina’s new single Hikari Furu!. It turns out that the Anime Edition will include instrumentals for all 3 tracks of the single! (finally!^^). Click on the discography entry below to view the full tracklist!

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)

Last but not least, a few days ago was announced on the FJC official site, that between January 5-6 of 2013 will be held 2 live events exclusively for the members of the FictionJunction CLUB. Details with application and other information will be included in the newsletter to FJC members and mailed around September 20.

• January 5, 2013 at Namba Hatch (Osaka)
• January 6, 2013 at Zepp Tokyo (Odaiba, Tokyo)

Vocalists: YUUKA, KAORI, WAKANA, KEIKO, YURIKO KAIDA, HIKARU
Musicians: FRONT BAND MEMBERS

The Kalafina 2013 Calendar is now available for pre-order. It will be 60cm x 30cm in size, 28 pages in length, and set for release on September 29, 2012. No sample images are available yet, but we’ll post any updates we find :).

HMV.jp has updated with the tracklist of the recently announced new Kalafina single releasing on October 24, 2012 (check the previous newspost for more info and preorder links). However, this time there was an unexpected surprise: In all editions will be also included a Magia remix (probably Magia [quattro]) and in the CD of the Anime Edition the instrumental of the b-side song too!!

On a side note, Hikari Furu is confirmed that is a ballad.

Tracklist (Regular & Limited Editions)

1. Hikari Furu
2. [B-side]
3. Hikari Furu (instrumental)
4. Magia Remix

Tracklist (Anime Edition)

1. Hikari Furu
2. [B-side]
3. Hikari Furu (instrumental)
4. Magia Remix
5. [B-side] (instrumental)

Limited Edition DVD/BD

1. Hikari Furu PV

Anime Edition DVD

1. Madoka movie music video

thanks to elcazador for the news!!

The Kalafina official site has confirmed the rumour that was circulating the past few days. Kalafina will perform the Theme song of the 2nd Madoka Magica movie entitled Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica ~ Eien no Monogatari ~ which summarize the events of the 2nd half of the anime series, and will premier on October 13, 2012. The new song will be titled 「ひかりふる」 Hikari Furu (Light Falling) and the single release is set for October 24, 2012!.

There will be 4 version of the single:

In addition, a remix of Kalafina’s song “Magia” that was used as Ending Theme of the anime series, has come to light with a new trailer for the movies. The new Magia is titled Magia [quattro] and seems to have strings addition. Also ClariS, the duo that performed the OP “Connect” for the TV series, will sing the theme song “Luminous” for the first movie “Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica ~Hajimari no Monogatari~”.

Below you can watch a trailer with 15sec and 30 sec samples of both Luminous and Magia [quattro]:

Thanks to Keiri, elcazador and Kowz for the news!