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planetarian best version?

I've been wondering about this since I reunited with the series fairly recently and I can say without a doubt that I'm curious of whatever she was reincarnated as a totally different character (Head cannon) or rather if it was used as some kind of reference for another character within another series.

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Does anyone in Japan or someone following info on KEY know what the state of the company is post-acquisition? Has there been layoffs, or did any main writers leave the company?

Also wondering how imposing Tencent has been on current and future projects, and as a fan of KEY, I am a little worried about the future of great storytelling : (

Hello all! ..... I used to be huge with Key long long ago back before I hit an anime slump after Clannad. I watched Angel Beats after it and really fell off for years.

Back in 2005, I watched Air and Kanon 2002, to which later I watched Kanon 2006. I may potentially pick up more Key anime back down the line since I am trying to re-kindle my anime interests.

That said, I just went to Japan about two months ago. I stayed in Osaka for 4 days, and Tokyo for about 10. During this time, my mind was more or less focused on just the food and dragon quest goodies.

I did consider however if I had the time and days (which I did not), to go to the Train Station where Kanon was based on..... since it was in Osaka. Sadly, I did not have time.

I am planning on going back in 2025 or so. Not 100% sure when yet.... but I was thinking about it from a Key perspective now. Are there any 'must-go-to' places in Japan for a Key fan? I mean, a Train Station isn't really a day's worth of fun there. It's seemingly way away from really much of any big-fun stuff in Osaka from what it seems.

Additionally, I know Air was based on Kasumi Japan. ... but I am also not even sure if it is worth going way out of the way to the northern stretch of that area just for Kasumi, since it looks so desolate and since Air was back in the early 2000s, I doubt there's really much left to even enjoy there. (It seems they had some stuff in the past but....)

So yeah. Are there any themed places in Japan for Key-related series? Any stores to check out? I know Key doesn't have many real hitters in Japan but it's worth checking and putting on my itinerary if I plan for it.

Thank you!

is there any way to play stella of the end in english rn? if no , is there any info on where will it be possible?

Hey all! A few years ago, I found some recordings on YouTube of Jun Maeda singing and playing acoustic guitar for Last Regrets, Song for Friends, and a few others at an event in japan. They were lofi, like recorded on voice memos on someone’s iPhone but they were cool as hell.

The YouTube videos are gone now, and I asked about this in the sub almost 3 years ago. Someone who had saved the clips was gracious enough to provide them here, but sadly I had a hard drive crash and lost the files. The person who sent them to me has since deleted their account, so I can’t ask them either! Does anyone have these saved somewhere or have any leads I can follow? Thanks!

These newer Key's VN deserve to be made into anime series. Especially Angel Beats Heaven's Door (Manga) and 1st Beats (VN). I don't know why the anime producers simply ignore Key's VN, when there are many of them deserve some lime light.

Basically everything sold out in a matter of 2 days?? Bruh pls

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Hi!

I enjoy Key and their works. So far, on Linux using Wine and Proton, I've read:

• Air
• Kanon
• Harmonia
• Planeterian
• Clannad (Though I mostly bought it to support Key, haven't played much of it due to time restraints.)
• Little Busters!

But here is the deal, Little Busters has been very... finicky. It's made with the Siglus engine (at least that specific edition on Steam) and so is Harmonia, but Little Busters randomly refuses to start up. If I get it to work, then it will work 100% of the time until I restart my computer. The only way to get it to work again after that is to randomly open it fifty or so times while opening other Key VNs in between attempts. Then it will work consistently again until I restart. Or, there is also the option where I install a new version of Proton and it works again. But that's pointless because I eventually run out of Proton versions :P (Reinstalling doesn't work, neither does purging steam from the system entirely.)

The issue is within Linux itself. After I installed a newer kernel (5.13) the issue disappeared. I have no idea what was wrong with 5.4 LTS (The kernel Mint has installed by default due to reliability and support).

Anyone else? Or just me? (P.S. I'm not looking for a solution.)

What's the male uniform like? We have seen how the girls uniform looks like but throughout the entire game, we never see what the male's version looks like and it makes me very curious, what do you all think it's like?

I want to buy some of key's VN, and steam seems like the only place to do so. Is there another place for english versions? What about different versions of novels?

So I've just lost my first match in Little Busters, 13:2 at that and even though I've heard that it's very hard to win on the first route, I have to fight with the handicap that I have zero knowledge about that sport (where I live we only know soccer lol). So since the only thing I know about baseball is that you hit a ball with a bat, 99% of the terminology and the rules went over my head and I just skipped through the choices during the match as I didn't know what was going on there, same for the tactical decisions before the match (I mean how the hell am I supposed to know how that works). I never felt so helpless in a videogame before... XD

Will I eventually be even able to win a match without knowing what I'm doing, even if the player stats get better throughout the routes? Is that necessary for the true ending?

Which one do you think is a better artist in general? Hayao Miyazaki or Jun Maeda?

I've read many VN from Jun Maeda as well as watching many of the anime adoptions. I've also watched films such as Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle...etc. I think Jun Maeda is on a similar level as Hayao Miyazaki. I put it this way: Jun Maeda is like Hayao Miyazaki in a way, as both of them came up with impressionistic works and both of them seems to have some important messages within their works. However, Jun Maeda seems to be a bit less vague and the way I see it, he seems to understand Japanese society's problem better. Considering that Jun was a psychology major, I believe he's trying to use his works to heal the tormented souls broken by the hypercompetitive, make-it-or-break-it social setting found in Japan and many other parts of Asia such as PRC, South Korea, Taiwan...etc. His works seem to focus more on childhood and teenage years, as most of his targeted audiences have a broken childhood filled with traumas. Unlike Hayao, he does some fan service on a very subliminal level and added a great deal of humors to his works. With that being said, there are some important messages buried in many Key Studio's works such as the importance of friendship, leadership quality, moving on from traumas and not letting them make you do stupid things such as alienating yourself...etc.

Meanwhile, Hayao's works seems to be more capable at gathering attention from beyond Asia. People tend to find Hayao's underlying messages easier to relate to, because it's basically the things that most westerners care about...save the environment, the catastrophe of war...etc. However, he's less focused on the crowds that Jun Maeda seems to be targeting. The only one that seems to somehow resemble Jun Maeda's work is Spirited Away, but still it's pretty vague.

The way I see it, both are great artists in their own ways. They're about the same caliber, just their methods, messages and targeted audiences are a bit different. Hayao attracts more international attentions, while Jun is more for those who are more traumatized. What do you think?