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It has just been announced that Kalafina will attend and perform at Anime Expo this year! They will join Vic Mignogna and Danny Choo as the Guests of Honor.

The live concert will be on July 2, the second day of the convention, at Club Nokia. They will also be holding a meet-and-greet, autograph session, and focus panel. Click here for more details on the event.

This is Kalafina’s second visit to the US (after Anime Boston in 2009), and first time at Anime Expo. For Yuki Kajiura, it will be her second time at Anime Expo, having performed there with Emily Bindiger in 2003 (it hasn’t been confirmed that Yuki is going, but we are going to assume she is!).

The convention will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, on July 1-4.
If anyone is planning to go this year, let us know in the forum!

Thanks iheartcurry and Kowz!

Yuki Kajiura just announced via her twitter that she will be composing for Type Moon’s Fate/Zero anime. The above info is now also confirmed by the official site’s staff page here.

The anime is produced by ufotable with: Director: Ei Aoki Original creator: Gen Urobuchi Original Character Design: Takashi Takeuchi Character Design: Atsushi Ikariya &Tomonori Sudou Aniplex is also involved. Click the links to visit the anime’s official site and the ANN page for the anime. Guess we can have high expectations for this project 😀 Thanks to Yuki88 for the news!

While we’re on the subject of Yuki’s twitter account, she also announced a twitter event for Fiction II, to be held on Saturday May 7 at 21:00 JST. At 21:00, everyone presses “play” and tweets their thoughts on the album, and there will be a one-hour Q&A session afterwards. Instructions

On a side note, we would like to correct some information we had posted in a previous news post about “Taikan! Great Nature!“. With a more careful read of the blog post entry, we found out that Yuki’s not composing the whole music for the documentary, but only the OP Theme.

Merchandise from Kalafina’s Magia tour are now available to order from CDJapan! These were previously only available at concerts and from the Space Craft site that shipped to Japan only. The CDJapan merchandise ships to anywhere in the world! Also available are charms from the Kagayaku and Red Moon tours.

Magia Photo Album
Magia Pamphlet
Magia face towel
Magia hand towel
Magia Eco Bag
Magia Tumbler
Red Moon tshirt-shaped charm (black)
Red Moon tshirt-shaped charm (white)
Red Moon tshirt-shaped charm (pink)
Kagayaku tshirt-shaped charm (black)
Kagayaku tshirt-shaped charm (white)
Magia tshirt-shaped charm (black)
Magia tshirt-shaped charm (white)

Only 2 days until the release of Fiction 2 and the fourth episode of Yuki Kajiura’s Fiction radio show is now up on the JVC Site for streaming!
The songs featured in this episode are E.G.O from Aquarian Age and maybe tomorrow from Xenosaga II, both rearranged old songs. (You can also click here to start the stream directly)

The songs played this week:

• forest
• E.G.O
• everytime you kissed me
• Maybe Tomorrow

Pre-order Fiction II: CDJapan • Play-Asia • YesAsia • Amazon.co.jp
For more information on the show, see our earlier post.

In other news, yesterday took place the first concert of the Kalafina Spring Tour 2011 “Magia” in Osaka. It has been announced that incomes from the Tour will be donated to the Japanese Red Cross for the aid of the victims of the Earthquake and Tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011. Here’s the setlist:

Kalafina Spring Tour 2011 “Magia” March 27, 2011 Kalafina Osaka NHK Hall, Osaka, Japan 22 Songs

If you want to Donate yourself: Red Cross

CDJapan has updated with the coverart of the upcoming Rekishi Hiwa Historia Original Soundtrack II 😀

Rekishi Hiwa Historia Original Soundtrack II SECL-962 | April 13, 2011 Soundtrack 26 Tracks Pre-order: CDJapan • YesAsia • Amazon.co.jp

In addition, we have recently updated the site with a new lyrics format, which allows us to feature Kanji in the songs with Japanese lyrics. 🙂 (thanks to Sudrien).
How to use: Click on “Kanji”, “Romaji” or “English” to arrange the columns the way you wish them to appear. The format is currently available for Cazador del amor, Akatsuki no Kuruma, Magia, snow falling and Gatherway. I (george1234) will be updating the pages daily (1-2 per day), and will post notifications via shoutbox and/or the site updates (twitter). I have also placed an explanation text at the top of the Lyrics & Song Info section. We hope you like it 😀