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The Fate/Zero official site has updated with the details for the first Blu-ray Box set that will contain the 13 episodes of the first half of the series and various un-aired cut scenes will be included in them. The episodes will have subtitles in English and Japanese. The Original Soundtrack vol. 1, composed by Yuki Kajiura will be bundled as a Bonus CD. Other Bonuses include Fate/Zero Animation Material (Interviews, production notes, and concept artwork), Trailer Collection (Album Vol.1, 2nd promo video), TV SPOT (7 CMs), Non-Credit Opening and Ending, and a Drama CD.The Box will be drawn by Takashi Takeuchi. The package will retail at ¥39,900 (tax included), and will be released on March 7, 2012.

Title: Fate/Zero Blu-Ray Disc Box I
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Product code: ANZX9431 ~ 9437
Price: ¥39,900 (tax included)
Video: 16:9 / HD widescreen / 1920 × 1080p / MPEG-4 AVC
Sound: Linear PCM (stereo) 48KHz / 24bit
Subtitles:English, Japanese
Preorder: CDJapan

Additionally, the October issue of LisAni! magazine features an interview with Yuki Kajiura x Gen Urobuchi, on the topic of their collaboration for the Fate/Zero soundtrack. The magazine can be purchased at CDJapan for those who are interested. 5 copies remain as of this posting!

Thanks to grunty for the news.

According to Yuki Kajiura’s official site, she will compose the main theme for NHK’s 「Odoroki!Tikyuu!Great Nature」 documentary series, which will start airing on October 11, 2011. In the past Yuki had composed the main theme for another 3 episodes of the “Great Nature” series, for the “Taikan! Great Nature” documentary which aired last spring.

Additionally the Fate/Zero anime for which Yuki scores the music started airing last week with a 47mins length first episode with lots of new musics! You can watch it from nicovideo if you have an account (you can create one on their English site and use the pass to login in the japanese one). Every episode will be available on the site subtitled in English and 7 other languages for a week. It has also become known that the 2nd half of the series (14-25) will air in spring instead of winter.

In other news, Kalafina are invited to perform at “Festival of East Earthquake Reconstruction 2011 – For the Future of Children – ” a charity festival with drama and concerts to gather money for the children victims of the earthquake and tsunami of March 11. The event will have concerts in 2 days 28 and 29 October. Kalafina will perform at October 29, 2011 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium (2nd Gymnasium) Line up for October 29 apart fom Kalafina include Sphere, Faylan, Yui Makino, Yousei Teikoku, and Chihiro Yonekura. Click to visit the festival’s official site.

According to the official website of Anime Festival Asia 2011 (aka AFA 2011) (November 11-13) which this year will be held in Singapore, Kalafina are among the guests of the event! This is the first time that Kalafina will go at Singapore. They will perform on November 13th, at the SUNTEC Convention & Exhibition Hall,Singapore in the “I Love anisong” concert.

Event: Anime Festival Asia 2011
Location: SUNTEC Convention & Exhibition Hall, Singapore
Date: November 13th, 2011.
Tickets: Click here for more info (the paragraph before “Cool Japan Forum..”).
Click here to see Kalafina’s special page.

Other artists that are also invited are LiSA (will perform the OP theme for Fate/Zero), FLOW, May’n, Ichirou Mizuki, Hatsune Miku. There will be also invited the producer of Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Fate/Zero Atsuhiro Iwakami, as well as Chiwa Saitou voice actress of Akemi Homura.

In other news, a Korean version of Kalafina’s 3rd album After Eden has been spotted at yesasia. According to the site, it will be released in Korea at October 11, 2011, and is available for preorder (although it doesn’t seem to have anything different than the Japanese version.).

Additionally, we are still looking for an editor to create the brand new merchandise section of our site! It will deal with concert goods, books (like Kalafina Record), calendars, etc. If you’re interested in the position, leave a message on this post or email kerahna at canta-per-me.net. Click here for more details.

Thanks to Tatsuma for the news ~!

[EDIT] You can view Kawaii Girl Japan’s Kalafina interview part 4 here

A quick post to bring you the third part of Kawaii Girl Japan’s interview with Kalafina, promoting their new album. The video is English subbed. The first two videos can be seen in our earlier posts.

If you plan to order After Eden and haven’t done so yet, this is your last chance to do it before release!

Kalafina – After Eden SECL-1014 (LE: SECL-1012～3) September 21, 2011 Pre-order: Regular Ed. | Limited Ed. + DVD

Thanks to Mierin!

Today, Sony updated with samples for the songs of the 3rd Kalafina album After Eden, which is set for release in a week! Click here to listen to the samples.

Kalafina – After Eden SECL-1014 (L.E: SECL-1012～3) | September 21, 2011 Album 13 Tracks

Pre-order: Limited Edition (+DVD) | Regular Edition

Thanks to wlily for the tip!
And here’s another video from Kawaii Girl Japan XD

Additionally, we are looking for an editor to create the brand new merchandise section of our site! It will deal with concert goods, books (like Kalafina Record), calendars, etc. If you’re interested in the position, leave a message on this post or email kerahna at canta-per-me.net. Click here for more details.

[EDIT] A special page for After Eden has been opened in the Kalafina site. Click here to see it!