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Hey all, I was recently thinking about selling my art through both original and fan merchandise and such. I am already aware that a lot of companies prohibit this type of thing (when it's fanart) and while it's done so often that it's not particularly punished, I want to stay on the safe side for sure.

I am particularly fond of anime/vns/games/other stuff from the 90's--2000's and I thought it would be fun to make Air/Kanon/CLANNAD keychains/stickers and stuff like that. I was wondering if Key specifically has any rules on derivative creations and the sales of them and also in general if rules for creating any type of doujin material still apply outside of Japan. It would also be helpful to know if there's a list out there that states what Japanese companies allow the sales of fanworks of their IPs (especially internationally). I'm pretty tired right now so let me know if I need to elaborate on anything. Thank you! :D

Any long time Key fan like me, who has seen every title from Kanon to Stella of The End, will notice a recurring theme throughout the company's realse history. It seems each if not majority of these novels' artsyle and settings tend to lean towards a certain season of the year. Some are obvious like Kanon taking place during winter, Air and Summer Pockets for the summertime, Clannad and Rewrite Harvest festa have the spring. Which leads to a topic I want to talk about. What about the season autumn? Well, I can't exactly say for sure since we never really had a big autumn scenery in a key story like we had with the previous titles I suggested. I would like to say Little Busters or Heaven Burns Red but I'm not exactly 100 percent can chose those since the games tend to focus more on all the overall characters than the scenery, like the other games did. Tell me, what Key projects do you guys think is best suited for the fall season? Or do you guys think that Key has been overdue to release a new game with an autumn setting?