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In today’s “FJC Annivesary Live “Best 20″~3rd Aniversary,Live & Special~” fanclub event, Yuki Kajiura announced that she’s going to release a new solo album on March 30, 2011 !!!

Her first one, Fiction, was release in 2003.

thanks to shunchan (and Tou) for the info!!

[EDIT] JVC officially announced the album!!

The album is tentatively titled Fiction II and will contain songs from:

• Xenosaga
• El cazador de la Bruja
• Pandora Hearts
• 5 new songs
• and 1 unreleased song

The album will contain 13 songs in total.

Furthermore, leading vocalists and musicians from Japan and New York will be hired for the recording (among them, Emily Bindiger :D).

JVC is going to announce more details in the future.

In other news, Kaori Oda announced in her blog that she will provide vocals for the new background music that will be used in the upcoming season of Rekishi Hiwa Historia (starts airing January 3).

Sony Music Shop (click here, and here) has announced the final tracklist for the upcoming Kalafina single Magia that will come out February 16, 2011 🙂 The c/w song won’t be symphonia as we thought, but snow falling. As mentioned in past news posts, the tracklist of the regular and limited versions will differ from the anime version. The anime edition will be available until March 31, 2010.

Tracklist (Regular & Limited Edition)

1. Magia
2. snow falling
3. Magia (Instrumental)

Tracklist (Anime Edition)

1. Magia
2. Magia (Magic Mix)
3. Magia (TV-Version)
4. Magia (Instrumental)

Limited Edition DVD

1. Magia PV

There is also a rumor[NOW CONFIRMED] about a 2-Disc Kara no Kyokai “best of” OST. According to the rumor the release will include:

• Jacket Illustration Sticker
• Best & Rearranged tracks (rearrangements of previously releasd knk music)
• New tracks that were used as BGM in the Kara no Kyoukai Epilogue

Also its said it will come of March 2, 2011.

The Kara no Kyoukai epilogue, titled “Kara no Kyoukai : Shousho” comes out in DVD and in the Blue ray box in February 2, 2011)

Thanks to elcazador!

[EDIT 23/12/2010] The rumor was confirmed, by the Kara no Kyoukai official site!!!

Title: the Garden of sinners – The Movie “Kara no Kyoukai” Music Collection –
Price: 3,675 yen (tax included)
Product Code: SVWC-7749 ~ 7750
The jacket will be drawn/designed by Takashi Takeuchi , and the first press edition will contain a sticker of the jacket illustration.

Also, according to Yuki Kajiura’s message hosted in the kara no kyoukai site [(click the button that’s right at the right of the button “BD-BOX * DVD * CD”, at the bottom of the page, and then click 梶浦由記) or just click here ] Magia single’s c/w song snow falling will be a Kalafina cover of one of the Kara no Kyoukai bgm themes, and will be in Japanese.

Yuki Kajiura will be hosting a Q&A Session this Friday in celebration of the release of The Works for Soundtrack. It’s a rare chance for you to ask a question to her directly and have it answered! She will be answering questions about herself and about the newly released album, with a few guidelines:

1. Keep your questions short and simple (Twitter-sized!).
2. Refer to the album as “WFS“, and use hashtag #kajiwfs
3. Avoid asking questions about the vocalists (FJ, Kalafina, etc), and about songs not on the album
4. She will accept questions in English, but will provide answers in Japanese

Yuki sounds a little anxious about the volume of questions to be received, so I would also suggest that before asking, make sure your question hasn’t already been answered in a previous interview! An (incomplete) list of interviews can be viewed here. If you are still unsure, fans in this thread should be able to review your question and let you know! You can also take a look at questions other fans are preparing to ask.

To send Yuki a question, sent a tweet to @Fion0806, and end it with #kajiwfs at the time of the Q&A session:

Friday Dec 17 2010, 22:00 – 24:00 Japanese time (UTC+9).
Do not tweet her early! She may not see it.

If you want to send in your question early, you can use the mail form on her site, making sure to include your twitter username if you have one.

We will do our best to provide a complete translation of the interview as soon as possible!

Official announcement at www.fictionjunction.com.
Thanks to yuki.n and kurobara for translation of the details!

The official site of the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica just updated with a redesign. It now contains a video page with a new CM of the anime, featuring all four girls accompanied by background music samples of first, the OP song 「Connect」 performed by ClariS, and secondly the ED song, 「Magia」 performed by Kalafina. You can watch it by clicking here (CM8).
Note: It loads slowly so be patient!

Furthermore, both the Kalafina, and the Madoka sites have officially confirmed Kalafina’s Magia single release, which is set for February 16, 2011.

You can listen to the rip of the sample that’s featured in the video here (if the video doesn’t load for you).

thanks to Yuki88 for the info, and chrismellody for ripping the audio!

[EDIT] 10/11/2010
Via Sony Music shop we have learned that unlike in Kagayaku sora no shijima ni wa single, The original and Anime editions will differ in content:

Title: Magia

Regular edition:

1. Magia
2. (new track)
3. Magia (instrumental)

Price: ￥1223
Product code: SECL-941

Limited CD+DVD: Same CD as Regular edition, + DVD
Price: ￥1575
Product code: SECL-939

Limited Anime edition:

1. Magia
2. Magia TV version
3. Magia (remix)

Price: ￥1300
Product code: SECL-942

The anime edition will be available until March 31, 2010, and will have 2 digipak anime related pictures, and anime cover art.

thanks to grunty for the info!

[EDIT 2] Yuki just metioned in her twitter account (1, 2, 3) that in the new season of Rekishi Hiwa Historia (for which she’s composing a new score, and will air in January 2011) there will be a new Kalafina song, titled 「symphonia」 used for the ending. We suspect that it’s possible that it will be the c/w song of the Magia single. But who knows? ^_^

thanks to Yuki88 and yuki_n!

Further to the rumors from yesterday, more information has been released on the new Kalafina single: Magia! Apparently, it will actually be the ending theme of Madoka, rather than the opening theme. Like their last single, there will be three editions printed at release: a regular edition, a limited edition with DVD, and an anime edition. The release date is set for February 16, 2011.

Artist: Kalafina
Title: Magia
Release: February 16, 2011
Catalog Number: SECL-939 (LE + DVD), SECL-941 (RE), and SECL-942 (Anime Ed.)

An accompanying tour was announced last week to fanclub members with a tentative title of “Spring TOUR 2011”, and recently confirmed to be a promotional tour for the new single,Magia.

Kalafina LIVE Spring TOUR 2011 “Magia”
Artist: Kalafina
March 27, 2011 at NHK Hall Osaka
April 8, 2011 at Nagoya Shi geijutsu souzou center
April 15, 2011 at NHK Hall Tokyo

Ticketing pages have appeared on the venue sites, though Sony has yet to release an official official announcement for the single.
Thanks to elcazador, grunty, and shunchan!