Their debut single oblivious, which contained the first three Kara no Kyoukai themes, was released on January 23, 2008. Re/oblivious, a remix mini-album, followed exactly three months later. Kalafina’s second single and first double A-side sprinter / ARIA consisted of the fifth and fourth Kara no Kyoukai theme songs, respectively, along with an instrumental version of oblivious. Their third single fairytale includes the sixth Kara no Kyoukai theme, a non-anime tie-in song, serenato, and an instrumental version of sprinter. Their first album, entitled Seventh Heaven, consisted of 13 tracks featuring the seven Kara no Kyoukai theme songs and was released in March of 2009 along with their fourth single Lacrimosa (Kuroshitsuji ED2 Theme). Their fifth single, storia, the theme song for NHK show Rekishi Hiwa Historia, was released in July of 2009. Their sixth single, entitled progressive, was released on October 28, 2009. They have released four full albums to date: Seventh Heaven (2009), Red Moon (2010), After Eden (2011), and Consolation (2013). Their next single will be featured in the third Madoka Magica movie.
In addition to their numerous Japan tours, Kalafina has begun performing internationally, primarily as guests of honor at anime conventions. So far they have held concerts and panel discussions in the United States (Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago), Hong Kong, Germany, and Malaysia, and will be performing in Indonesia this summer.
They officialy disbanded in 2019.
満天
Kalafina Lyrics
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星たちの散り逝く空
届かぬ祈りが
天と地を満たしてた
細い枝に光るのは
咲き忘れた未来
まだ名残惜しそうに蕾を落とした
ほら、もう時は満ちて
実る黄金の果実
その手で摘み取るだけで
世界は終わるから
穢れぬものとして降る雪の白さは
温もりを知れば消えてしまうの
奇麗な夢だけが貴方を切り裂いた
冷たい瞳の優しさと真実
激しく瞬く星たちは天に背いて
仇なす祈りが
この空を墜とすまで
私を弔う為の
花束はいらない
心が潰えぬうちに願いを叶えて
見届けてみたい
人の望みが
燦々と光に満ちる時を
翼を欲しがって誰もが泣いていた
命が奏でる
満天のコーラス
焼け焦げた願いが
空を抉じ開ける頃に
懐かしい故郷は
きっと花の盛りでしょう
激しく瞬く星たちの夢の跡
安らぎのあると人の言う
最果てまで
月影優しく
行く路を教えてよ
静かに瞬く星たちの
祈りの空
貴方の叫びで
この夢が終わるまで
The lyrics of Kalafina’s song "Manatsu" paint a picturesque and contemplative image of the night sky. The first verse describes the twinkling stars in the vast sky, amidst which unfulfilled prayers linger, filling up both the heavens and the earth. The second verse compares the barren branches of a tree to an unrealized future, still holding on to its buds despite unfortunately not blooming. The chorus urges the listener to seize the moment when the time is ripe and the “golden fruits” of life are ready to be harvested. However, such a pursuit ultimately leads to the end of the world, as symbolized by the falling snow that disappears upon contact with warmth.
The second half of the song delves deeper into the theme of loss and grief. The violent meteor shower that defies the heavens represents the suppressed feelings of anger and revenge. The singer mourns the loss of herself and wishes to fulfill her desires before her heart is broken. The bridge insinuates the tragedy that comes along with one’s dreams: having only good-looking dreams that lead you astray in life. The ending of the song offers a calm solution to this hopelessness, where the night sky is a canvas of unfulfilled wishes waiting to be granted.
Line by Line Meaning
静かに瞬く
星たちの散り逝く空
The sky where the stars quietly sparkle signifies the fleeting nature of things and the inevitability of change.
届かぬ祈りが
天と地を満たしてた
Even unfulfilled wishes and prayers fill up the world around us.
細い枝に光るのは
咲き忘れた未来
まだ名残惜しそうに蕾を落とした
There is hope in the dim light of a forgotten flower, which may seem reluctant to bloom again.
ほら、もう時は満ちて
実る黄金の果実
その手で摘み取るだけで
世界は終わるから
The time has come for everything to bear fruit, but one must be careful in seizing it, for with one mistake the world as we know it could end.
穢れぬものとして降る雪の白さは
温もりを知れば消えてしまうの
奇麗な夢だけが貴方を切り裂いた
冷たい瞳の優しさと真実
The purity of snow, more often than not, fades away with familiarity. Dreams can be beautiful, but they can also be harsh reminders of the ugly nature of reality.
激しく瞬く星たちは天に背いて
仇なす祈りが
この空を墜とすまで
The stars that flicker violently in the sky symbolize the defiance of fate and the persistence of revengeful prayers that seek to tear down the very fabric of existence.
私を弔う為の
花束はいらない
心が潰えぬうちに願いを叶えて
Rather than flowers for mourning, one should fulfill their wishes while they are still alive and have the chance to do so.
見届けてみたい
人の望みが
燦々と光に満ちる時を
It would be a beautiful sight to see the moment when the collective wishes of humanity are finally fulfilled with radiant light.
翼を欲しがって誰もが泣いていた
命が奏でる
満天のコーラス
Everyone cries and yearns for wings to soar high, while the choral symphony of life echoes throughout the heavens.
焼け焦げた願いが
空を抉じ開ける頃に
懐かしい故郷は
きっと花の盛りでしょう
Just as burnt, unfulfilled wishes can open up a new path in life, one's nostalgic hometown can be in full bloom once again.
激しく瞬く星たちの夢の跡
The shimmering stars leave behind a trace of their dreams and hopes.
安らぎのあると人の言う
最果てまで
月影優しく
行く路を教えてよ
Lead the way with the gentle light of the moon to the edge of the world, where peace is said to lie.
静かに瞬く星たちの
祈りの空
貴方の叫びで
この夢が終わるまで
The sky, filled with the prayers of shining stars that twinkle quietly, will only end its dream once we speak out with our own voices.
Contributed by Connor B. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@MsBungakuJosei
When the prayers could not reach
The scattered sky where the stars
Quietly sparkled,
They instead filled up the heavens and the ground.
What shines upon the thin branch
Is a future that forgot to bloom,
Still regretting as it drops its leftover buds.
Look, the time has already come
For it to bear the gold fruit.
By just by picking it with your hand,
The world will end
That is why as an undefiled one, if the whiteness of the snow
Comes to know warmth, it will disappear.
That dream you hold that is only beautiful stabbed you through.
Your cold eyes hold kindness and the truth.
The intensely sparkling stars go against heaven
Until the clashing prayers
Make this sky fall.
I do not need a bouquet
For someone to grieve for me.
In the little time until my heart breaks, make my wish come true.
The wish of someone
I wish to see out
Brings about the time that the brilliant light becomes full.
Wanting wings, everyone cried.
This is the chorus
Of the sea and the sky that life plays.
By the time the wish burned to ashes
Pries open the sky,
Surely, your homeland
Is in the peak of its flowers.
The intensely sparkling stars appear after a dream.
Tell me the path
To the ends of the earth
Where the shadow of the moon is gentle
That those who have attained peace speak of.
The sky of prayers in which
The quietly sparkling stars reside
Continue to shine until this dream ends
@user-re5tq8mk6v
穢れぬものとして降る雪の白さは
温もりを知れば消えてしまうの
切嗣の正義
正義の味方としてのあり方
人の温かみを知りそれを破壊しなきゃいけない
純粋過ぎる優しさが人の温もりに触れることで失った時に失われていく
純粋だった切嗣の正義が淀んで穢れを知っていく
@HerMi.T
Yeah that's why shirou take resolution in the end of use to guide human with the influence of his action.Sorry it could be irrelevant in this comment but I think I can better explain this decision by explaining his character. Shirou is very twisted character and you can even call him the embodiment of every hypocrisies of any superheroes. he is very different to a normal human being. Many normal humans also have this very optimistic dream. Normal humans have this dream but they have their own sense of justice. But shirou is very different. he has a ideal but he didn' have any sense of good or evil or any form of justice. he only try to save others for satisfying his need of pleasure or the feeling of alive. he didn' even know the true reason of his dream. He also said this in Unlimited Blade Works route.
[I swore so as a child.
To fulfill the dream of the man I admired most.
…But to be honest, I'm still wondering…
If my idea is the right one.
Where my idea comes from.
What I can do even despite me being just an amateur.
How to make the dream of making everybody happy, which Kiritsugu always talked about, come true.]
his every ideal is copied. he copied everything from Kiritsugu. Even his morality is also copied from his father. he mindlessly follow it and trying to save others without thinking because he just want to feel that smile again which is present in Kiritsugu's face. he even also want a enemy or some 'true evil' to defeat as a superhero to feel that feeling of pleasure. kirei also point out which shirou wanted to prove wrong.
[Rejoice, boy. Your wish will finally come true."
The priest says, as if declaring an oracle.
Those words are...
Aren't those the true feelings I haven't yet realized
"What are you saying all of a sudden?"
"You should know. Your wish will not come true unless there is a clear evil. Even if it is not something you approve of, a superhero requires a villain to defeat."
"!"
I feel like everything has turned black.
The priest said it.
The greatest wish and the ugliest wish I have are the same.
…Yes, the desire to protect something…
…Is, at the same time, none other than the wish for something to violate it
" Y-You"
But there's no way I'd wish for something like that.
I don't remember a moment when I've wished for that.
Such an insecure wish…
…Just means the target ideals are inconsistent.
But the priest says as if to pierce my heart, "Good thing you have an enemy now."
"No, you do not have to gloss over it. Your worries are normal for a human being."
The priest smiles.
"!"
I shake off the priest's words and walk to the door. ]
He later also said that he think he did actually want a enemy in fate route. that's why he actually want to change saber as a more "human" for her sake but never understand his own hypocrisy. that is the reason why fate route is route which explains Shirou ideals very well. Shirou forces his copied morality and fake love of human towards everyone without understanding their problems. he has very limited emotion and he can't understand the emotion of others. But he also never understand that he also has his own "true self" of his own but he never understand his true self in fate route. We also understand that his love toward human is not fake but it is the characteristics of his true self. it is also said by Kirei in heaven's feel route
[I see. So that means you will not follow Kiritsugu's path."
He talks as if he's disinterested.
The priest regards me with a bored expression, as if disappointed.
"Father's path…?"
"That's right. Your father loved humans.
Higher, wider, farther. He loved humans as they go over their limits without end. That is why he turned himself into the definite evil.
That man would have killed Matou Sakura. He threw away his human emotions for the sake of justice."
"…Is that any different from you?
Casting away one person's happiness for the sake of justice, for many people's happiness."
"No. What you people call happiness did not bring me joy."
"Huh…?"
That's not a reply.
No, more than that…
He's not even looking at me.
"Right, we were different.
He threw away what he had, but I had nothing to throw away.
The result was the same, but the process was completely different.
His existence was too unpleasant. His agony was truly unpleasant.
If he went to such lengths to cast it away, he should never have had it in the first place. But still he agonized over his decision, trying to pick it back up after he threw it away. As if saying that is the correct way for humans to live."
"The difference was crucial. Yes. If I cannot obtain anything, why was I born into this world?"
The priest' words are not directed at anyone.
...But they contain anger.
They contain emotion, which i thought this man didn't have.
"…Hah. Come to think of it, there is no way you can succeed Kiritsugu. He did what was necessary by throwing things away, but you insist on having it both ways.
We are similar, you and I.
You died once and broke down when you were resurrected. It is posteriori, but you are like me, a defect from birth."
"What…? What part of me is broken?"
"You just do not realize it.
You have no concept of self. So I did not think you would concern yourself with a single person. No, rather"
You are not concerned about many,
but concerned about all as if they were only one.]
In ubw he started to saw the hypocrisy of his own ideals with help of Archer and Rin and his experiences in ubw route. he understand that his ideal is always false. he has not any sense of justice and even his self. he also understand the inconsistencies of ideal of not just his own but also the ideals of others heroes. others heroes only force their ideals on the basis of their own ideals. He understand that he can't save everyone by forcing his ideal on someone. his way of saving only destroy anyone for others and only lead despair. But this is the route where he understands the true meaning of his ideal and his true self. he actually loved humans but very differently to his father. he loved the human emotions, love, compassion, shared human nature and values. He thinks that good and bad are situational. There are right and wrongs and those who didn't fear to this always lead a destruction. he want to become superhero to spread this shared nature and love of human toward each other into everywhere to form a ideal "human society" where everyone understand other's feelings and also think about the gain and loss of others as well as themselves without any prejudice and also create justice in this world. Shirou want to create a world filled with 'Swords'. swords represent Shirou's selflessness and his live for others. he want to create a ordered world where people also punishes those are bad or wrong in that situation. To destroy discimination, he want to first create a selfless world by eradicating prejudice and spreading the human nature. But it is still impossible to satisfy everyone. it still lead nowhere but it is able to create a better world. that's why he said
["I have created a thousand blades .
Unaware of loss
Nor aware of gain"]
And
[“Everything is here, and nothing is here.
That is why this is called Unlimited Blade Works.
This is the only definite answer obtained by the one who lived as a sword all his life.”]
He will take every type of suffering and throw evrything for it to inspire other about this suffering. so people would also understand the suffering of others and started to create 'Heroes'. The thing is he considered living like this is beautiful. He considered enduring the suffering of others is very beautiful. In short he want to turn himself into a person who take every pain and suffering from others onto him and not giving those pain to others, to inspire others to be like him and lead a better world. he loves human so much that he loves taking pain, suffering and consequences of hypocrisies of every selfish human dreams from others to make them happy and to show human a better path for living as a 'real' human and also show that what human can do. So that no one would suffer from these selfish hypocisies. To teach other that pursue these selfish dreams by trying to eradicating these hypocrisies. He will not become a person like archer in which everyone force their mistakes to show their goodness but he will become a idol for others to inspire them to become like him and love others. He also accept hatred and sins of humanity and show the beauty of these ugliness and show how to use it improve humans as whole and use it to spread love and compassion towards each other even more. Shirou is a void who has not any values and sense of justice. He interpreted his existence is possible because of humans and for humans. That's why he take the decision to hold his own sense of selflessness and dream to guide others human's and their individuals ideals to interpret other's ideals as well to understand humanity as whole better. He want to guide or change human to believing this way of living by the influence of his actions, his guidance and beauty of this dream. He have not any ideals but he want to guide every human's ideals in right path by understanding every ideals and even the hate and love both towards his own ideals to convert his ideal into more better one.
That's why he understands himself.
Sorry for this huge comment.😔
@ryogi5199
Shizuka ni matataku
Hoshitachi no chiriyuku sora
Todokanu inori ga
Ten to chi wo mitashiteta
Hosoi eda ni hikaru no wa
Saki wasureta mirai
Mada nagori oshisou ni tsubomi wo otoshita
Hora, mou toki wa michite
Minoru kin no kajitsu
Sono te de tsumitoru dakede
Sekai wa owaru kara
Kegarenu mono toshite furuyuki no shirosa wa
Nukumori wo shireba kiete shimau no
Kirei na yume dake ga anata wo kirisaita
Tsumetai (Tsumetai) hitomi no (hitomi no) yasashisa to shinjitsu
Hageshiku matataku hoshitachi wa ten ni somuite
Atanasu inori ga
Kono sora wo otosu made
[Full Version Continues]
Watashi wo tomurau tame no
Hanataba wa iranai
Kokoro ga tsuienu uchi ni negai wo kanaete
Mitodokete mitai
Hito no nozomi ga
San san to hikari ni michiru toki wo
Tsubasa wo hoshigatte dare mo ga naiteita
Inochi ga (Inochi ga) kanaderu (kanaderu)
Manten no KOORASU
Yakekogeta negai ga
Sora wo kojiakeru koro ni
Natsukashii kokyou wa
Kitto hana no sakari deshou
Hageshiku matataku hoshitachi no yume no ato
Yasuragi no aru to hito no iu
Saihate made
Tsukikage yasashiku
Yukumichi wo oshiete yo
Shizuka ni matataku hoshitachi no
Inori no sora
Anata no sakebi de
Kono yume ga owaru made
@raikiri1374
Kiritsugu is easily one of the most well written characters in anime
@Arindam878
*Fiction
@gamergirl2236
Alongside Guts from Berserk
@silverfang5387
@@gamergirl2236 facts
@raiden144
VN Shirou too
@z3zin74
Accelerator too
@journey95far49
Fate/Zero is a masterpiece..one of the most unique and compelling anime out there
@Ayto27
Fate Zero is just truly something else. Easily my favorite anime and in my opinion, the best anime ever made.
@guidomista559
@@Ayto27 yeah Imo Zero is the best fate installment
@HerMi.T
@@guidomista559 not best fate installment. Fate stay night overall is superior. When you read vn of stay night and hollow ataraxia. You understand my point.