japanese composer and music producer
This article is about the japanese musician, composer, and record producer. For the japanese football midfielder, see Yuki Kajiura ( football player )
musical artist

Yuki Kajiura ( 梶浦 由記, Kajiura Yuki, bear August 6, 1965 ) is a japanese musician, composer and commemorate producer. She has provided the music for several popular zanzibar copal series, such as the final Kimagure Orange Road movie, Noir, .hack//Sign, Aquarian Age, Madlax, My-HiME, My-Otome, Pandora Hearts, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero, Sword Art Online, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and the Kara no Kyoukai movies ( amongst others ). She besides assisted Toshihiko Sahashi with Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. Kajiura has besides composed for video games, including the cutscene music for Xenosaga II and the entire Xenosaga III plot soundtrack. She composed the music for NHK ‘s April 2014 dawn play ( asadora ) Hanako to Anne. [ 1 ]

biography [edit ]

She was born on August 6, 1965, in Tokyo, Japan. She has been into music since 1972 and accompanying her church father on the piano. Her family later moved to West Germany because of her beget ‘s sour. Kajiura wrote her first composition when she was seven years old titled “ Thank you, Good-bye ” as a farewell for her grandma before leaving Japan. Kajiura moved back to Japan when she was in middle school and later graduated from college. She began working as a systems engineering program until 1992 that she decided to focus more on music. [ 2 ] In 2002, See-Saw participated in another Mashimo ‘s stick out, .hack//Sign During the product of the series, Kajiura met Emily Bindiger and impressed by her vocals, offered her to perform over 10 of the series ‘ insert songs. She has besides facetiously called Bindiger “ her english teacher ” at Anime Expo 2003. [ 3 ] One of Kajiura ‘s solo projects includes FictionJunction. The stick out involves collaboration with artists such as Yuuka Nanri, Asuka Kato, and Kaori Oda. FictionJunction Yuuka, with Nanri as the singer, is the most fecund of these collaborations. In 2004, the duet produced the unfold and ending songs for Kōichi Mashimo ‘s Madlax and in the next year, published their first collaborative album, Destination. In October 2007, it was announced that Yuki Kajiura would be attending the performances of the Eminence Orchestra ‘s concert, ‘A Night in Fantasia 2007 – Symphonic Anime Edition ‘, as a limited guest. [ 4 ] The 2014 series Aldnoah.Zero ‘s open theme “ Heavenly Blue ” was composed by Kajiura and was performed by Kalafina. [ 5 ]

In July 2016, Aniplex of America announced that the “ Yuki Kajiura LIVE ~featuring SWORD ART ONLINE~ ” concert that took place in March 2016 in Japan would be having an extra date on January 14, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, but was subsequently canceled due to visa issues. [ 6 ] In December 2017, a informant reported to a news site, Sponchi Annex that Kajiura was planning to leave her agency, Spacecraft Produce, over abridge disputes. In February 2018, Kajiura herself confirmed via her chirrup that she has formally left her agency. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Kajiura has performed internationally at diverse anime conventions including Anime Expo 2003, Anime Boston 2009 ( with Kalafina ), Anime Expo 2012 ( with FictionJunction ), and Anime Expo 2018 ( as separate of Anisong World Matsuri ). [ 10 ] On February 22, 2018, her contract ended with SpaceCraft Produce after being a talent for 25 years. [ 11 ] She is now represented by FictionJunction Music, a talent agency she founded herself .

discography [edit ]

zanzibar copal soundtracks [edit ]

movie soundtracks [edit ]

game soundtracks [edit ]

Musicals [edit ]

Title Year of release
Sakura-Wars 1998
Fine 1998
Funk-a-Step 1998
Funk-a-Step II 1999
Christmas Juliette 1999–2000
High-School Revolution 2000
Christmas Juliette 2000
Shooting-Star Lullaby 2001
Love’s Labour’s Lost/Set 2002
Angel Gate 2006

solo albums [edit ]

Title Year of release
Fiction 2003
Fiction II 2011

Produced albums [edit ]

Title Artist Year of release
I have a dream See-Saw 1993
See-Saw See-Saw 1994
Early Best See-Saw 2003
Dream Field See-Saw 2003
melody Saeko Chiba 2003
everything Saeko Chiba 2004
Destination FictionJunction Yuuka 2004
Circus FictionJunction Yuuka 2007
Re/oblivious Kalafina 2008
Everlasting Songs FictionJunction 2009
Seventh Heaven Kalafina 2009
Red Moon Kalafina 2010
After Eden Kalafina 2011
Consolation Kalafina 2013
Elemental FictionJunction 2014
far on the water Kalafina 2015

compilation albums [edit ]

Title Year of release
The Works for Soundtrack 2011

other involvements [edit ]

References [edit ]