And the winner of the "who is your favorite FictionJunction vocalist?"-poll is...drum rolls... FictionJunction Yuuka (Yuuka Nanri). How could it be otherwise? She is after all the first original FictionJunction vocalist and has worked on a lot of music with Yuki Kajiura-sama! She is also my favorite FictionJunction vocalist...Here's a short biography:Yuki Kajiura and Yuuka Nanri first met at Minami Aoyama Shōjo Kagekidan (South Aoyama Female Opera Group, also called Nanshō), a stage group for teenage girls where Kajiura wrote music for some of the plays and Nanri was a performer.Their first recording was "Akatsuki no Kuruma", an insert song in the popular mecha anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, though their debut single was the opening of Madlax, "Hitomi no Kakera" , released on May 8, 2004. On July 27, 2004, the ending theme to Madlax, "inside your heart", was released. In the same year, because of its popularity and the fact that it was Gundam SEED's one-year anniversary, "Akatsuki no Kuruma" was released as a single, which at its peak placed at #10 on the Oricon weekly rankings and sold over 19,481 copies on the first week.After a hiatus of exactly a year, "Honoh no Tobira", an insert song for Gundam SEED DESTINY, was released, becoming the first seiyū single to hit #1 on Oricon daily rankings.On November 23, 2005, the duo released their debut album, Destination which placed on the Oricon weekly rankings at #9.On May 10, 2006, FictionJunction YUUKA released their fifth single after approximately eight months. That year, they also recorded a song, "aikoi", for the Tsubasa Chronicle anime series, which was not released as a single but instead included in the anime's fourth original soundtrack. In November of that same year, they released the opening theme for Sunrise's Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto, "Kōya Ruten".FictionJunction YUUKA held their first live concert entitled Premium Live 2007 on February 8 and February 15 of 2007. A new album, Circus was announced and it was released on July 4 of the same year.. As Kajiura is handling the music for upcoming anime El Cazador de la Bruja, their seventh single, "romanesque", became the ending theme of the anime above. El Cazador de la Bruja was produced by Bee Train, whose anime productions FictionJunction YUUKA has also done songs for previously.Source10/10 My favorite FictionJunction YUUKA song is Nowhere from the Madlax anime. The first time I heard it, I was in a total state of shock. I don't know why, but this song just has an incredible energy to it. Maybe it's because it was so well used in the anime, especially in those violent scenes... You can download the full song here.<object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1W66Xka2U_o&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1W66Xka2U_o&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>
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