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Given the situation, I guess I just want to let out some stuff...
Compared to many people around here, my relationship with Kalafina has been rather short, and yes, like many people, I found about them thanks to anisongs and, somehow, Yuki Kajiura previous works. (Feel free to skip the story)
Around the year two-thousand-something, one of the many animes I was watching back then was Noir. I didn’t pay to much attention to music, quality of the drawings, or anything. I was just a boy who liked anime. But the moment I heard “Canta per Me” for the first time, I fell for it. I had no idea why, but it just touched something deep inside me and it was absolutely wonderful...
Many years later, I ended up watching “Kuroshitsuji” by chance, and when I got to listen to “Lacrimosa” I just thought it was amazing. The voices, the drums, the whole atmosphere of the song was really captivating. That was the very first time I saw the magical word “Kalafina”.
I went to YouTube and looked for the song, and by curiosity, I listened to “Magia” too. I also liked it a lot. The music and the MV really got me. I was very amazed.
Again some years passed and in the middle of one of those nostalgic attacks some of us have while on YouTube, I listened again to Kalafina, and while the music was playing, I was reading some stuff about them. I found out that Yuki Kajiura was their producer, and the name rang the bell (no pun intended). You can’t imagine what I felt when I realised that the composer/producer of Kalafina was the same person behind “Canta per Me”. I was so amazed that the only thing I wanted to do was to listen to more music.
Every song I heard from them was more amazing than the other, the music and the voices were such an amazing combination. I was thrilled and I just got deeper on Kalafina’s world.
Then, I found a video of their “Far on the Water Live Tour”. I watched from start to finish and it was just magical.
The music, the singing, the staging, the performances and specially the MC’s, where I got to “know” for the first time the beautiful human beings behind those voices.
Even if I couldn’t understand a word of japanese, the kindness you could feel in every word, the sincerity in their smiles while they were singing or talking, the commitment and the joy reflected on their eyes... It was so heart warming... By the time the video finished, the only thing I could think about was that I had just experienced some sort of miracle.
Since then, they became an inspiration, a motivation, that “something” that reminded me how wonderful the world is.
Yes, might sound pretty cheesy, but it is the way it is. Kalafina and Yuki Kajiura’s music is something that I cannot filter. Is something that barely passes through my ears before going straight to my heart.
I watched interviews and videos, found out about @putschki1969‘s blog (a real gold mine!!) and the great Kala-community here on Tumblr, read @chibalein‘s amazing live reports... I enjoyed a lot listening to Kalafina’s music and getting to know each time a bit more about them.
As many of you, I was overwhelmed with excitement by their 10th anniversary. I thought how amazing that was and how much I would like to, some day, give them back some of the happiness they’ve given me by now.
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Now that this situation with Spacecraft has unfolded, as many of you, I can’t help feeling heartbroken. I don’t want this amazing dream, their amazing dream, to end. But I guess I’ll just trust and support them. No matter what, I think is the least I can do in exchange for all the wonderful things they’ve given me.
I don’t know what will happen from now on, but they will always have a special place in my heart and a big part of mine in theirs, even if they don’t know.
To finish this long post, I want to let you all know that I made a Facebook frame with the picture above in case you’re interested. Look for Kalafina on the add frame option and it should come up.
Thanks for reading, thanks for being such an amazing community and please don’t stop supporting the girls.
