Key Visual Arts

For more than one reason I would be against that concept.

An actual ero scene? Because you know, Key and ero scenes. Best kept separate for reasons of sanity and taste as even erogame fans will tell you. I have heard one or two other things which suggest the VN isn't headed in a direction I like, but it's too early to say.

Happily (or maybe unhappily) I'm in the position of liking the anime so I'll be perfectly happy to declare it the definitive version.

I am talking about the pairing... it's only echhi level , not to ero. But I dont know the detail...yet.

Wait, what problem with ero? Kanon's ero-scene is indeed bad, but thats because the art is not as good as their current art. I am not yet reach LB!EXE Ero-scene.

Key visual art's sexual content is notoriously bad because they A. obviously don't give two shits about it and B. their signature art style is, at best, cute. In an entirely nonerotic way.

Kanon also had ero scenes in really stupid contexts. Like the one inside a haunted school crawling with demons.

I have no faith in Key doing ero-scenes. I'd also rather they didn't.

edited 27th Dec '13 9:48:21 PM by runoeddie

I wouldn't want them to. Like, focus on the story. Enough people get the game for that alone I imagine.

The Angel Beats site says all ages, so it's not an eroge. That CG is just kinda lewd, but not ero.

Just me or does Key really obsessed with 'Wing' ?

Kanon, Ayu's bag and doll.

Air, a being called 'Winged Human'

Rewrite, Chiaya's ribbon (?)

Anggel Beats, 'Angel'

Also they always have 'another world' running around. It temping to put all of them in one (two?) world and make them related.

edited 7th Jan '14 6:10:09 AM by IllyasvielEmiya

Well to be frank, a lot of anime and Japanese media in general is obsessed with wings. Wings of freedom in Attack on Titan. We have examples in To Aru. Clamp quite frequently. Maybe Key does it a bit more than others but its supposed to be a angellic symbol and other than the obvious angel beats example, Key works are generally dramatic and hopeful so yeah.

Those things are like Key's signature.

There's probably no greater symbolism to wing symbol though.

I think Rewrite provides a reason for recurring patterns in a Key-like multiverse, but that's my own fan theory. Even then, it's normal to assume all Key worlds occupy the same multiverse and are the very least parallel universes.

let see,

afterlife, hill of light, kyosuke's world, moon route.

and then several alternate timeline.

Details on the Angel Beats! visual novel from Dengeki

The current plan is 6 volumes total. All members of the SSS will appear in volume 1, and it will comprise episodes 1 – 9 of the anime. That will be the common route and after that, 3 character routes.

We plan to release volumes 2 and on at half-year intervals. We want to completely finish volume 1 first and use that as a basis, then release volumes 2 and on at fixed intervals as cheaply as we can.

Volume 1 will be the largest. If you install volumes 2 and up on the same PC, certain character dialogues from volume 1 will change.

Volume 1 alone looks like it’ll have more C Gs than all of Clannad.

In addition to the common route, volume 1 will tell Iwasawa, Yui, and Matsushita’s stories. Iwasawa and Yui are both popular, so they’re a given. Matsushita’s character has a certain “gimmick”, so we made him the only selectable male character to make volume 1 a little more interesting.

All the male and female SSS members will have routes. We’ll slowly include male characters throughout the first half, or else the latter half will become a sausage fest.

The heroines will not necessarily be intimate with Otonashi.

President Baba rejected having mini-games at first, but somehow we got permission to put them in.

AB! is the most RPG-like work among Key games, so we wanted to make it as an RPG at first. But that would have taken 10 years to complete.

The character designer is Na-Ga, but he will supervise the artwork over a few other CG artists. Na-Ga himself may be in charge of the art for a few characters.

The scenario writers are Maeda Jun, Kai, and Kashida Leo. We’re using a method we’ve never used before. Maeda will touch up the scenarios written by the other two writers. Rather than saying he’s the supervisor, it’s more like a joint work with him at the lead.

The music will be from the anime. The TV anime’s ED, Brave Song, is written from Yuri’s point of view, so the game will have a new ED. If we had more time we would have liked to release a new album by Iwasawa along with the game, but our schedule is jam-packed even into the weekends right now so that’d be tough.

The game will be fully voiced with the same seiyuu from the anime. During the auditions for the anime, we told the seiyuu that it was a “work with a game adaptation in mind.” Otonashi will not be fully voiced. He will only be voiced when the story changes perspective to another character.

Of course, depending on the choices you make in the game, the story will diverge from the anime’s story. For example, the scene where everyone descends down to Guild in episode 2 – you can choose to get Otonashi caught in a trap and drop out, and then when he wakes up the next day the Guild is gone all of a sudden. Of course you can still continue the game after that and reach an ending.

Clannad had several minor scene branches, but AB! will take that even further. We don’t like choices that have no meaning (no effect on the story branching), so every choice will result in some sort of branch or scene variation.

At the beginning of the game, Otonashi’s tastes are plain. But depending on your choices, Otonashi can become a homo who crushes on Hinata or Noda, a yuri-lover, or incredibly idiotic. The other members will have unique reactions to each of Otonashi’s personalities.

They won’t be in the first volume, but we plan to have original characters designed by Na-Ga appear later. They will support Otonashi in his efforts to make the other members graduate from the afterworld.

As a “visual novel by Maeda Jun”, this can be considered his posthumous work.

Fuck.

edited 22nd Jan '14 6:23:49 PM by runoeddie

another doorstopper! God!

AH, Btw , I share that info to my page, Sorry to do it without permission.

Holy shit

What's so bad about a Door Stopper VN?

edited 23rd Jan '14 8:02:51 AM by TheCuriousFan

Well, it'll certainly take forever to translate.

I could probably learn Japanese faster, but that involves work on my part...

fantranslate manage to finish Rewrite, so lets be optimist

I was already so fucking lost when I tried to play Clannad without a guide that saying "we're doubling down on the branches" to me means I'll probably miss half the novel.

I only found out the baseball scene was in the novel when a friend played it and told me about it, I thought that was an anime original scene.

is there anyone play Kud-wafter?

I am wondering if it have multiple ending or not

Eh, I could care less about a side-game about one of the more annoying characters (imo)

that hurt, I am kud fan, you know.

T.T

Sorry. I apologize. But I didn't really find any of the heroines interesting, except maybe Kurugaya. Would it be consolation if I said she was less annoying than Sasami Sasesesesegawa?

well, with that much character, its hard to find the interesting one.

LB! Is not my favorite because we have too many genki girl status there. Kud, Haruka, Komari, it get crowded like kindegarten. i am enjoy it thought. and kud make me fall in love.

edited 28th Jan '14 11:40:50 PM by IllyasvielEmiya

Couple of VN screen shots for Angel Beats are out. And of course, the obligatory pantyshot -_-.

edited 1st Feb '14 5:59:34 PM by neobowman

For Rewrite, is there any particular path order that is recommended?