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Started out as a rumor before their 10th anniversary, now it's confirmed by Kajiura herself and in February 2018 that she's leaving for good.

Kajiura stated before there will be a new single in spring for Kalafina, but this news makes their future undecided (although Kalafina is about to release a documentary movie regarding their 10th anniversary + their future projects, now it's unknown whether their future means a future without Kajiura or disbanding, or etc.) and now Spacecraft is considering to hire someone else to direct Kalafina, which is very hard.

Seriously, Kalafina without Kajiura is just like... Haruna Luna, or other singers who worked with her before (some of them are still working with her) like Nanri Yuuka and Kaori Oda. No more Kajiurago, no more classical rendition of their older songs, it will become very different. At this point I'm just hoping FictionJunction will be back.

Wakana and Keiko are also part of FictionJunction, I wonder how they feel about this.

Also, Kalafina became a trending topic (Twitter) in Japan several weeks ago because of this news. To my surprise, I never thought this news was very big and Kalafina popularity is actually high demand.