generasia:Featured article for 2011 week 13

Kajiura Yuki

From a young age, Kajiura Yuki (梶浦由記) was known to compose music. Due to her father's job, she lived in West Germany before returning to Japan for middle school. Early on, she took a great interest in operatic and classical composition, partly because of her father's great interest. In 1992, she debuted as a song-writer, vocalist, and producer of the unit See-Saw. After the group went on hiatus in 1994, she began composing music for many other musicians as well as composing back ground music for anime, games, and TV shows and commercials. In 2001 See-Saw reunited and began doing music for anime soundtracks. Kajiiura's compositions were highly acclaimed and she eventually did most of the music for NOIR, Tsubasa Chronicle, .hack//SIGN and the other .hack series, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and most recently Pandora Hearts. As a soloist, Kajiura goes by the name FictionJunction, especially in her collaborations. Her most popular collaboration so far has been FictionJunction YUUKA.

"FICTION ii", released on March 30, 2011, is the second special vocal album released by Kajiura Yuki. It collected her works for the Xenosaga series, El cazador de la Bruja and Pandora Hearts.