Today rito and HighwayStar agency announced that rito will quit the HighWayStar agency because her contract is ending / not renewed. This also means she quits from her FictionJunction activities and its apparently why her name isnt in the vol#21 lineup. Yuki Kajiura has made a series of sentimental twits about it (1, 2, 3, […]
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