/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sigh...average post quality in this thread is abysmal. People, remember that opinions are opinions, they are subjective, and what you may like about X may be what another person hates about X. This does not mean they have 'no taste' or 'bad taste', it just means they like different things.

Now, some information useful to this thread:

I can say with certainty that Kanon, Clannad, Little Busters and Rewrite all had multiple writers. Air likely also had multiple writers, but I can't confirm. I have no idea about Planetarian's writer(s).
Jun Maeda wrote for Kanon, Air, Clannad and Little Busters. (Not Rewrite.)
Tonokawa wrote for Little Busters and Rewrite.
Ryukishi07 and Romeo only wrote for Rewrite (for Key; they obviously have non-Key works).

As far as I know, the route writers in Rewrite:
Chihaya: Tonokawa
Kotori: Romeo
Lucia: Ryukishi07
Shizuru: Tonokawa
Akane: Romeo
Moon: Romeo (not sure about this one)
Terra: Romeo (not sure about this one)

In Japan, Kanon was originally released to huge acclaim, and put Key on the map as a notable VN developer. Air and Clannad were similarly very positively received, and they both remain 'kamige' to the Japanese VN community. Though I'm not sure about the specifics, from what I've heard Little Busters was successful in Japan, but not to the extent of Key's previous three major works. Rewrite was successful for a VN, but as far as I know it wasn't as successful as Key's other major works. (It was still successful enough for them to release a fandisk, like with Clannad and Little Busters.) Again, no idea about Planetarian - I never hear anything from Japan about that game.

>On July 21, 2013, Key will celebrate its 15th anniversary since its foundation in 1998. This event will no doubt be well-celebrated by Key and its fans in Japan… but what about fans abroad? In hopes of being able to express our appreciation of Key as non-Japanese fans, as well as to show Key that they have a fan base outside of Japan, some of us at Doki, Fluffy, the Air TL team, and Amaterasu Translations decided that we will send Key a fan letter on its 15th anniversary.
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>The Key 15th Anniversary Letter Project is the result of this simple wish. Throughout the next year, we wish to collect as many fan messages and illustrations addressed to Key as possible, and would like to compile these together into a letter in English, before translating the letter and select messages into Japanese, and sending the letter and illustration collection to Key on its 15th anniversary. In order to achieve this, we would like to invite other fans of Key to submit messages and illustrations, and help us to create this letter.
http://key15th.com/