History Music / YukiKajiura

* [[ABoyAndHisX A Girl And Her Piano]]: Although she does also have a dog, apparently.
* {{Asexuality}}: Has mentioned far preferring pianos to either women (at least, women who aren't her pet singers) or men.
* AuthorAppeal: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mappo Apocalyptic Buddhism]].
* BornInTheWrongCentury: [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/25992649/Yuki+Kajiura.jpg Intentionally patterns her appearance and life after the German Romantics]]. She seems to be aiming to, essentially, dissolve pop music back into classical music as opposed to the more common inverse of bringing classical flourishes to pop. It would appear that she views TheEighties as the most worthwhile period for ''non''-classical music, oddly enough.
** Maybe not so oddly, as she would have been a teenager around the time that bands like [[DeconstructorFleet Dire Straits and Talking Heads]] became big.
* CloudCuckoolander: Seriously, just...watch a non-music video of her and wait until she breaks out the blank stares and references to chocolate.
* CosplayOtakuGirl: She has a hand in picking out what her performers wear for videos and concerts.

* MadArtist: Has these traits.

* ReclusiveArtist: To an extent. It's also possible that she simply doesn't really ''have'' a private life to conceal.

* SeriousBusiness: Some detractors see her as taking {{Anime}} soundtracks far too seriously.

* SmokingIsCool: She smokes thin cigarettes in holders a la FranklinDRoosevelt, or at least did until recently.

* YuriFan: Possibly? She does seem to work on a lot of LesYay-heavy shows.

-->''"I have a love of songs that get me out of the quotidian. I like operas. Operas are completely in their own world, aren’t they? Within the sanctuary of the opera house, they weave otherworldly spaces for four hours. I love such songs with vistas into other worlds―-songs that seem to distort the size of my rooms when I listen to them. When I make melodies in my own little way, the lyrics end up that way. Lyrics like “I bought three radishes and found them cheap～♪” aren't relevant to my interests! It goes like “A traveler searching for eternity～♪” instead."''--Yuki Kajiura.

* {{Fictionary}}: 'Kajiuran', an apparently full-fledged ConstructedLanguage whose grammatical and semantic rules she refuses to explain to anybody else.
** Wakana once explained in an interview that Kajiura Yuki will just use any word that fits the music she has in mind and the words itself have no meaning.

* ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}'' (In part.)

* [[BishoujoGenre Bishoujo]]: most of her singers. Also, well, look at ''her''.

-->''"I’ve loved of songs that get me out of the quotidian. I like operas. Operas are completely in their own world, aren’t they? Within the sanctuary of the opera house, they weave otherworldly spaces for four hours. I love such songs with vistas into other worlds―-songs that seem to distort the size of my rooms when I listen to them. When I make melodies in my own little way, the lyrics end up that way. Lyrics like “I bought three radishes and found them cheap～♪” aren't relevant to my interests! It goes like “A traveler searching for eternity～♪” instead."''--Yuki Kajiura.

Indeed, her music isn't, as a whole, 'like' anything else in particular. It ranges from [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous]] ConstructedLanguage [[OminousLatinChanting Chanting]] (''{{Madlax}}'') to PsychoStrings (''Anime/KaraNoKyoukai'') to sweet pop music (many a MaiFranchise ImageSong) to lushly instrumented suites (''{{Noir}}'') to [[NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly whatever her band Kalafina is supposed to be]]. ''ElCazadorDeLaBruja'' is notable for having [[ShownTheirWork shown Kajiura's work]] in ethnomusicology and the musical traditions of Latin America and the American West, evoking musicians from Daniel Alomia Robles to JohnnyCash and Frankie 'Old Leather Lungs' Laine. She was for a time an impresario for the innovative pop group ALI Project, and brought them into the ''{{Noir}}'' production.

* ''Anime/KaraNoKyoukai''

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* [[BishoujoGenre Bishoujo]]: most of her singers. Also, [[http://aaroninjapan09.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/yukikajiura-2.png her.]]

* MadArtist: Dear God, [[http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/ww272/woam_2009/YukiKajiurasheets.jpg just look at how she sees herself...]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Yuki Kajiura with some of her singers. Clockwise from top left: Yuuka Nanri, Kaori Oda, Wakana Ootaki, and Keiko Kubota.]]

-->''"I’ve loved of songs that get me out of the quotidian. I like operas. Operas are completely in their own world, aren’t they? Within the space of the opera house, they weave otherworldly spaces for four hours. I love such songs with vistas into other worlds―-songs that seem to distort the size of my rooms when I listen to them. When I make melodies in my own little way, the lyrics end up that way. Lyrics like “I bought three radishes and found them cheap～♪” aren't relevant to my interests! It goes like “A traveler searching for eternity～♪” instead."''--Yuki Kajiura.

-->''"I’ve loved of songs that get me out of the quotidian. I like operas. Operas are completely in their kind of world, aren’t they? Within the space of the opera house, they weave otherworldly spaces for four hours. I love such songs with vistas into other worlds―-songs that seem to distort the size of my rooms when I listen to them. When I make melodies in my own little way, the lyrics end up that way. Lyrics like “I bought three radishes and found them cheap～♪” aren't relevant to my interests! It goes like “A traveler searching for eternity～♪” instead."''--Yuki Kajiura.

* {{Bishoujo}}: most of her singers. Also, [[http://aaroninjapan09.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/yukikajiura-2.png her.]]

* LesYay: With Chiaki Ishikawa, Yuuka Nanri, Emily Bindiger, Keiko Kubota...

* SexIsEvil: Sort of. 'Love Is Good' is the more prominent message; her lyrics excel at depicting every facet of romantic love from the best to the worst, and her body of work presents a world defined almost solely ''by'' romantic love; but the actual sex act, when the music addresses or alludes to it, tends to come across as something almost [[CosmicHorrorStory Lovecraftian

** "In Your Eyes" makes this explicit. The 'pure-hearted' narrator of the song, by nature of being pure-hearted, is unable to understand 'a kiss that [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean does not just end at a kiss]]', and this is presented as a good thing.

* SexIsEvil: Sort of. 'Love Is Good' is the more prominent message; her lyrics excel at depicting every facet of romantic love from the best to the worst, and her body of work presents a world defined almost solely ''by'' romantic love; but the actual sex act, when the music addresses or alludes to it, tends to come across as something almost [[CosmicHorrorStory Lovecraftian]].

* ''Anime/MaiHime''

* ''{{Xenosaga}}''

* ''MaiHime''

* ''{{Noir}}''

* ''FateZero''