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It's here!

...I have to say, though, I expected better.


No time to recap now, but I'll do my best when the time comes. And it will. I've already got ideas...

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If you take a jaunt over to Kalafina's official site you'll fine, in a tiny little video window, a short preview of their PV for Symphonia. It features Kalafina standing around in a pretty setting and singing -- which is about par for a Kalafina PV. Not surprised, but I was hoping for something more exciting, after what they did for Magia's PV. But I could be wrong, the finished product may surprise me. Either way I'm sure I'll have fun dissecting it when the full PV comes in with my Limited Edition of the After Eden album...

And speaking of After Eden, images for the bonus mousepad that comes when you preorder the album (from any store, I believe Edit: Not all; the list includes CDJapan, Sony, HMV but not Play-Asia and YesAsia. *sobs*) were released...

Limited edition:


Regular edition:


How come the RE gets the prettier picture?!

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I swear, I'm capable of talking about subjects other than Madoka and Kalafina...I'll prove it at some point. I'm aware that right now this blog does little more than betray the depth of my obsessions with Madoka and Kalafina.

*coughhere!cough*

I've always thought that Kajiura (and whoever else was responsible for their image) took some cues from Visual Kei when creating the Kalafina project, consciously or otherwise. The dramatic nature of their songs was no more than what I had expected from Kajiura, but the elaborate costumes...I doubt this would be a popular theory (so many VK haters these days) and it doesn't really matter anyway. But it's just what I feel.

Anyway, when the 40-second preview for Magia PV came out, one of the first things I thought was "Visual Rock Kalafina!!!!111!!"

But after the full PV hit YouTube, and the focus on Hikaru became more apparent, another image began to take form in my mind. A commanding Hikaru with her smoldering gaze, in the forefront, flanked by the other two --




Dominatrix queen Hikaru and her handmaidens.

I know, I know, me and my crazy ideas.