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I wish the baseball training minigame in Little Busters was a standalone thing.

>>35215907
I almost spent more time in that minigame than in the actual novel.

Wish we got more her.
Ya the bad all minigame was pretty good

>>35215987
>her only ending has her end up with a cat
suffering

I like Little Busters the most. I think it's a whole level above any other KEY title.

>>35215987
Baseball*
phone posting

>>35216078
I see this a lot, people whose favorite key novel is little busters.
It's great, but I find it hard to rank the novels considering how different they tend to be.

best girls

I love Nao incredibly much, but she deserved such a better story than whatever Charlotte was although I'm very glad I got to rediscover Key because of her. Even though she's my wife, It doesn't really make me praise Charlotte that high at all. I think my most favourite Key work would actually be Summer Pockets. I'm gonna give Harmonia a read soon too.

>>35219868
>my most favourite Key work would actually be Summer Pockets
Seriously? I'm still stuck at the very beginning right after you've cleared the opening chapter since new years.
What makes you place it higher than Clannad, Little Busters, Air or Angel Beats? I'm not really getting into it yet but really curious.

>>35219868
Goddamn that show was ass.

>>35219891
I still have to read RB so I can't say much about it. Clannad, Air and AB I all have watched a few years ago, and they are all very memorable but since I read SP not so long ago, I might have ended up being a little biased. AB well, I think it is somewhat better than Charlotte at least. I should rewatch it again to refresh my memory at some point.
>>35221129
Yeah, it really wasn't that good. I agree with most of the criticism it gets, always find it weird when people call it a god anime.

Kanon is their best game by a long shot.

Maeda said regarding his new book (which is supposedly quite good), he wrote what he actually believed for the first time in his life, and up till now he's been writing lies.
How does this make you feel?

>>35239833
Kanon has aged badly as fuck. Only Ayu's route is any good.
Air's their best.

>>35239900
Was it lies? Thought he meant more that he was able to be freely write what he think without needing to think about it confronting to Key.

Best girl best everything.

I love the moon so much you wouldn't believe it!

>>35240473
Well obviously not best route lmao.

>>35240470
No, it was all bullshit until now.

>>35239900
How exactly is a fictional story supposed to be "lies"?

>>35243638
Best alone because she's cute in it. EVery other route is shit. Then again the best thing about Little Busters is Refrain.

>>35245807
Do NOT agree! Rin2 was great and so was Rin1.
And you might exclude Saya now since she was an added character, but Saya's route is easily the best and cutest standalone story in Little Busters!

>>35245877
I like Saya and Salami but still Kurugaya > Saya > Salami at least in terms of character. Saya has indeed the best girl route though I'll never get the ending. Haruka has an annoying voice, Komari has an even more annoying voice, Kud is a whore, Mio is literally who, Kanata is a bitch.
Masato > Kengo > Kyouske

>>35246185
I have to say that I liked Saigusa simply because she shared the VA with Tomoyo After's best girl Kanako. Though objectively she's a pretty shitty girl, her most redeeming factors are her autistic angry outbursts in her route.
>though I'll never get the ending
You don't understand it or you'll never finish the route?

Key was good before they made rewrite.

>>35246527
Rewrite was good though.

>>35246476
The former ebbn a long while since I read it though.
>>35246527
Kotori and Akane's route were nice, the rest not so much.

>>35246755
The question whether she lived or died?
That's a common one, but I'm saddened to be the one to tell you that she's dead.
Which makes her pretty much the only LB girl who didn't get a happy ending...

>>35247282
>only LB girl who didn't get a happy ending

>>35247613
At least she gets to live again lol.
Also pic related, didn't get the secret ending?

>>35246527
you are incredibly rude to kagari

>>35239912
The Nayuki route is underrated.

>>35246527
Rewrite is my favorite key title overall. Though peak Key is undeniably Clannad Afterstory. Even if the ending kind of rubs me the wrong way.

Kanon is brutal because all the girls you don't choose meet horrible fates.

>>35251874
That's the case for every key novel.
Every girl you don't choose in Clannad is forced to live a life without Tomoya, which is a fate worse than desu.

>>35248724
based. Not much is said about it for some reason but its my favourite Kanon route.

>>35253156
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb9m5q84CO8
also this track is too good.

>>35253156
Because you are literally fucking your sweaty sporty cousin all day and going to school with her, all with the approval of her mother. Half-asleep buttsex with Nayuki-chan!

>>35247669
It's like 2 lines that don't make any sense. Whereas everyone else got a proper happy ending all things considered. Since they all achieved them when they are close to dead and it was only imaginary

For me, its Rewrite

>>35254027
These two lines imply that Riki remembers their promise after they escaped purgatory and innitiates a relationship with her.
It's not much, but better than Mio, Saigusa or Komari who got nothing new after refrain.

I love my looped wife!

>>35253384
Who's this Nagisa ripoff on the thumbnail?

>>35254428
Wasn't it more her remembering and not really him?

Reminder that Kyouske a SHIT.

>>35267613
>t.Rikki

>>35255511
Imagine her streaming the daily morning sex every loopday.

So why the fuck did Key stop giving the girls H-scenes since Clannad? What a shame.

Not that they were ever good, I always hated how vanilla they were and how none of the teenage girls ever had any pubic hair, it killed my boner. But still, it was nice to have the story and the characters acknowledge that they FUCKED shortly after the H-scene. Even cute Ayu!

>>35253428
Nayuki deserves to be raped in public for every single one of her classmates to see.

>>35275381
Both Clannad's sequel and Little Busters rereleases had h-scenes.
key just didn't release that many novels since then sadly...

>>35274827
Reminder that the 2006 Kanon adaptation featured a dude nude modelling in some art class in the first episode. What a lewd school.

>>35275396
Did After Story really have sex scenes for all the major characters?

>>35275422
Not After Story, Tomoyo After.
And no just Tomoyo has h-scenes.

>>35275434
Does that mean Tomoyo is the most humiliated character in the cast? She's the only one we've canonically seen naked and fucking. How can anyone take her seriously after seeing her like that?

Kyou was my 1st waifu
and she still is

>>35277857
Based.

>>35277232
She's also the only one who uses sex to get what she wants, and whose h-scenes can lead to a bad ending.
It's great.

>>35277857
Incredibly based, thigh highs girl and tsundere always wins.

>>35277857
Kurugaya for me.

>>35277857
Alternate route for her after Nagisa's death never ever

>>35282985
This, such a heavily missed opportunity.
I get that After Story is strictly speaking a Nagisa route and you can't just have another girl win Tomoya's heart like that.
But it'd be far more conclusive and satisfying than seeing him die and rewrite reality with some stupid magic orbs.

>>35277857
Kyou is cute, but for me it will forever be Nao.
>>35282838
>two dakis
Nice, are those official as well?

>>35282838
Very based

>>35282838
I still hold a grudge for how much they botched her route in the Refrain anime

>>35285109
The right one is a bootleg of the official one. Still have the original one of the right but after like 6 years of using there is some wear and tear so I have it hanging on my wall. Though just recently I managed to get another official unused one from a jap yahoo auction. The left one is also official and I currently have it 3 times but ordered another 2 a couple days ago since it became available again.
>>35289544
I thought she got it best in the anime out of all the girls. Certainly animation wise.

>>35275381
I'd rather no h-scenes than whatever the fuck those h-scenes were in Little Busters. It's not up their alley at all. It's like trying to make a pastry chef make a 5 star spaghetti bolognese.

>>35289587
Animation wise, yes.

Everything else, I personally wasn't a fan at all. I did love her one moment in the first episode though when she snaps on the bullies.

>>35289648
I disliked how Kurugaya's arc directly followed the baseball game and highlight of season 1, which kind of lessened the impact of that moment of absolute triumph and friendship.

>>35289648
They did the same with her like they with the rest of the routes, make it friendship not romance. I have to say I actually prefer that since I feel like little busters would have been better if it really is all about friendship. The individual routes aren't about pursuing romance but it's all done soley for the sake of friendship. Would have fit better. But since Kurugaya's route technically doesn't have a world shattering personal drama, it's literally about the MC falling for her, making it a friendship route doesn't make any sense.

>>35289848
For me it just felt like the romance element just felt so shoehorned in the anime.

But I guess the only options they had was to do that, literally rewrite it and make it about friendship instead by inserting some type of personal drama or not do the route at all.

What confused me was that at the end of the anime it's hinted to lean towards Riki x Rin, so does Kurugaya still like Riki or did she move on after episode 3? It's been a long while so I may be missing something

>>35289837
Yeah, I think having less episodes than the first season caused a lot of pacing issues, causing things to feel a lot more rushed and nearly as impactful until the end at least.

>>35290063
I feel like the first season, despite poor animation, is better than the routes in the VN but Refrain is a million times better in the VN.

>>35290063
>season 3
>8 episodes
I'm still mad.

>>35290168
If you're talking about EX, those were OVAs rather than a full on season. I'm surprised we even got that many episodes for OVAs. I ended up liking Riki X Saya a lot because it was established it was romantic interest early on rather than everyone is friends and then it starts shifting to romance

>>35290115
This, I actually go to enjoy Komari in the anime despite hating her character in the VN.
Animation really added a lot to her.

>>35290202
Kurugaya is the only who has that of the original girls.
>>35290207
>read komaris route
>scene with the dead cat
>turn deaf
God I hate her voice.

>>35290243
I dunno, I never really got that feel. Again, it's been years since I last watched so maybe i'd see it in hindsight but it never really felt "romantic" and more like a big sister figure (minus that one scene when he was crossdressing)

>that whore kud has a dozen official dakis
>best girl yui only has 2
I HATE IT!

>>35290282
I love how determined and confident Riki is in his love to Saya in the VN.
She's one of the only girls who gets that treatment, and Riki falls for her every single time he meets her in the school at night. Her route is honestly the best take on romance in Little busters if you ask me.
Their chemistry really made me wish she'd have gotten a happy ending too despite her special circumstances.

>>35290355
>that whore kud has a whole official spin-off novel
>best girl literally anyone else only has 0
>I HATE IT!

>>35290362
Yeah Saya's route is so good and it's not wishy washy "maybe she likes him, maybe he likes her? I don't know?"
It's clear there's an interest early on. Even if it was a few episodes, those episodes did it perfectly and the ending is really depressing.

>>35277857
I can't take Kyou seriously after I saw her impaled up the ass and forced to masturbate in front of her sister in Subahibi.

>>35271684
>kills second best girl says who knows how many times
>forces his pessimism on everyone
>forces his shitty sister on the mc
>induces a trauma on his sister
>cheats
>makes his friends either relive an awful moment or put them through a shitty situation

>>35271684
>kills second best girl says who knows how many times
>forces his pessimism on everyone
>forces his shitty sister on the mc
>induces a trauma on his sister
>cheats
>makes his friends either relive an awful moment or put them through a shitty situation
>ruins a happy ending for Kurugaya

>>35290462
Sounds like typical old Kyou to me.

>>35290462
She knows what's good.

>>35290497
If you look at it like that he seems pretty scummy but all of them were dead anyways and he was just trying to make Riki and Rin stronger so they'd survive in the real world.
And it's not like anyone except Kengo opposed the plan.

>>35277857
I will marry & impregnate Kyou every night, making her conceive decuplets 100 times for me

Is there any update at all on Rewrite possibly coming to steam? They have all their other VNs there (apart from the Angel Beats one) but not Rewrite

>>35293955
Neither Air, Kanon, Kud Wafter nor Loopers are on steam yet. There are still quite a few missing key novels.

>>35290678

Objective Clannad ranking:
Kyou > Kanako > Nagisa > Fuko > Tomoyo > Mei > Ryou > Kotomi > Sanae > Misae > Miyazawa > Ibuki

>>35295925
Correct Clannad ranking:
Kyou>Fuko>Ryou>Sanae>Mei>Nagisa>Misae>everyone else>Kotomi

>>35295977
>you want to hug me?
YES!

>>35295990

AIR > Planetarian > Refrain > Clannad S1 > Kanon > Clannad S2 > Little Busters = Rewrite > Angel Beats > Charlotte

>>35296094
Horrible rankings.

>>35295925
You made Sanae cry for placing her so low

>>35296046
These nameless background characters have more personality than most current anime protags lmao.

>>35296102
I disagree. Based on emotional impact.

>>35296094
>>35296142
How did Clannad S1 have more emotional impact than After Story?
Were you so disturbed by Botan's disappearance?

>>35296155
After story is only emotional if you like nagisa and tomoya. I like neither. Ushio's death is contrived and retarded. If it had ended at the sunflower scene it would have been perfect but alas. Fuuko's ending was always my favorite scene in all of Clannad.

>>35296187
I'd say the story of a young, happy couple being torn apart by a brutal fate of death is emotional no matter who it is...

>>35293955
According to reddit this midyear.

>>35277857
She has a very big butt, so she's my waifu too.

> Do you like how big my butt is, anon?

>>35293955
The Rewrite+ localization has been in hell for a while, I hear due to a translator dying some months back. Progress is still happening but it's slow. Maybe later this year

I'm completely overwhelmed by the amount of choices in Summer Pockets.
You get to pick from like 5-6 events two times a day. Do I choose the route I'll get from the very first choice? Or can I skip events with a girl and still reach her route?

Base Kyoubros.
But for me it's Misae

>>35296630
She should've been lifting her skirt up in that image, showing her underwear.

>>35296630
Nah, Kotomi's butt is fatter and sexier.

Okay I think I figured out how to play Summer Pockets now.

>>35301394
If After Story had been with her or Kotomi that would have gotten an emotional response from me.

I want to sodomize Ushio's sweaty ass.

Does anyone else have a soft spot for the Toei adaptation of Kanon? It's not as good as the Kyoani version, but I like how it focuses a lot more on Nayuki and I enjoy the faithfully deformed character designs with that old school animation style.

>>35304897
Go for somebody who's of legal age: >>35296630 or >>35302479

>>35305792
I like those better than Ushio, but she's still cute. Why not go after all three?

>>35306419
Ushio is for hugs.

>>35302479
Clearly incorrect, those thighs have no meat on them, and what good is a butt without complimentary thighs?

>>35306910
Okay, I edited it to make her butt fatter.

Makes me wonder how a Kyoani Little Busters adaptation would have been.

Don't die.

>>35312421
Then comment on something.

Clannad would be much better if Nagisa didnt exist. Fight me.

>>35313323
I never understood the whole magic stuff in AIR. Can I get quick rundown?

>>35312421
I'm amazed that the thread even survived a week.
Despite their heavy influences on early 2000's visual novel and anime culture, key doesn't really seem to be that popular anymore.

>>35314074
I'd say it's still relatively popular, but maybe less so in western speaking part of the internet.

>>35314193
You only really get people on youtube or mal recommend Clannad and maybe Angel Beats as babby's first tearjerker romance anime.
But aside from that, nobody talks about the VNs at all, Angel Beats First Beat was cancelled after chapter 1 and the new animes Charlotte and the day I became a god were outright shat on.

>>35313642
It never really got explained in a anime. Maybe the VN explained it better.

>>35314366
Did it ever get a full translation? I remember reading all of it years ago but it was still unfinished then. Some parts weren't translated the best.
>>35314313
Whatever happend to Angel Beats having multiple VN's?

>>35314313
My views are probably a little biased because I spent a lot of time around the Japanese and Western based Key communities. Most people at least are still aware of Angel Beats and Clannad, at least. Annoyingly so, though, Charlotte is often a show watched by a lot of first time anime viewers so the near non existent fandom is filled a lot with annoying teens. Key is still popular enough in Japan that it warrants at least 2 or 3 doujin gatherings per year. Popularity wise it's probably Angel Beats and Summer Pockets that take the cake. In a recent poll asking people to rank PA works shows got AB placed 4th and Charlotte placed 10th. https://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/research/articles/243278/

>>35314193
I think things went downhill since Charlotte

>>35315265
I always had the feeling it was decently well received in Japan. At least, I remember seeing it been among the top 100 anime ranked by 2chan/5chan. As well as Nao being the #1 character in the new-type character poll back in October 2020 during the re-broadcast. On the other hand it also wouldn't surprise me if that were the case to be honest. I'm still chuckling at the fact somebody was trying to convince me that PA Works is working on a second season or a ova.

>>35315149
I'm honestly not sure if it did get translated and if it hasn't, it absolutely won't get translated in the future.
So until someone who knows japanese plays the whole thing, it's just gonna be classic "Fuck you, it's Key magic time"

a fanTL of Rewrite Cradle's Tale is out
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WbL6NhpYT1ORtLDm8KVFRFTCm5Ez0j9A

i must nakadashi the moon

>>35316397
What's Cradle's Tale now?

>>35318483
very short epilogue that takes place after the events of Terra route, was released together with the anime

>>35318529
And it wasn't translated until now?
What the fuck happened to key...

Umm... I don't remember key being *that* kind of studio?

Samapoke is such ass. God. The drama at least, I'm just playing the sleepy girl's route because I thought she's kinda the only interesting one and as soon as the drama starts I couldn't care less and it feels like I've seen this shit like 10 times by now. It's been 10 years since I played my last Key VN (LB) and even though I was newfag then I remember being so invested in it. Did I just grow out of nakige or is this just actually kusoge?

bump

>>35325383
Rin <3

I didn't know there was a key visual thread
Is the later VNs good? I only played up until Rewrite and Harvest Festa and had the mood for VNs after 7 years

>>35325420
Can't say anything about Harmonia, but Summer Pockets is very good. You might want to wait for the english release of Reflection Blue though since that will feature double the amount of routes.

>>35325430
Right is Miyazawa, but who's on the left?
Female Tomoya?

What's your favorite moment in any KEY VN? How would you compare them to the anime counterpart?

>>35327155

Not necessarily a specific moment but I really enjoyed Tomoyo's route in the VN of her just basically being your pseudo girlfriend and then your real girlfriend for the majority of the route. The OVA kind of skimmed most of it, but understandbly so

>>35327155
You're asking questions...
I guess if I had to pinpoint something specific it'd either be Tomoya's and Nagisa's victory in the basketball match or Tomoya's and Ushio's tearful embrace in front of the sunflower field.
And honestly, I think the anime adaption(s) did them justice.

>>35327155
The part of Litle Busters where Masato went schizo

>>35325692
thanks friend, giving it a try after work

>>35327622
I unironically hate how sunohara is treated and tomoya being a trash friend to him. After Little Busters that just makes me mad.

i wanna like key but each game has like 1cg every 4 hours, has key ever made anything that didnt remind me how cheap it is constantly?

>>35327661
Yeah kinda, but the game made it clear over and over again that they're really just hanging out together because no one else wants anything to do with them.
The best part was Kotomi's route where Tomoya finds a circle of friends for once and just rudely excludes Sunohara on purpose at every given opportunity.
You can't help but feel bad for him...

where is she anons

>>35327661
I always saw it as banter really. I never saw it as a malicious. The only time it ever felt really toxic was when the two were fighting in After Story. Which again, tends to happen with friends.

https://vndb.org/r72801
According to vndb Summer Pockets Blue Reflection's TL was at around 85% progress back in january, so maybe we'll get a western release this year.

>>35332549
Could happen in the next couple months, or take forever. It's been one of those translation efforts that went very quickly for the first few months and ground to a halt once it was starting to look close to done

>>35332631
I hope for an official release at least, though I guess a physical copy of a niche visual novel woud be too much to ask for in 2010+11.

>>35332673
I'd be surprised, Key seems to like announcing global releases long in advance where they exist, and they've already done an official TL of the base game so they probably would expect diminished returns for doing RB on top of it

>>35332751
Yeah I guess it'd be too good to be true to get both versions. But I can dream, we got Little Busters Perfect Edition officially localized after all.
I still don't know how I feel about Umi, Miki and Shizuka getting romantic routes though. It already felt pretty retconned how Sasami's crush on Kengo was handled in her route and I don't want to cuck Ryouichi or Tenzen.

>>35333863
Tagame is a god artist

>>35333952
He is.

>>35334079
Their style is incredibly nice, I think I'll commission them again later this month.

>>35242756
>>35316404
>>35328852
based kagarichad

>>35334125
>again
You did? What did you commission?

>>35334125
Wish my virtual credit card would work, been having issues with my issuer for months now

>>35334244
She
>>35334346
Can't you just get a different one at this point?

>>35334356
Can't be bothered opening lots of accounts everywhere, my original vcc issuer should have their stuff fixed soon, they said they'd launch their new system on the 14th (so, a week ago)

>>35334147
ZEN's Kagari art is always so good

>>35334356
Nice work! How much does he take for such a commission?

>>35334380
>should have their stuff fixed soon
Hope so then
>ZEN's Kagari art is always so good
At least he doesn't draw her bigger than she 's suppose to be like he always does with Nao.
>>35334386
This was 8,000 yen but they recently increased their price to 11,000 yen. Pic related was around 7,000 yen a year ago, but Otou21 has increased their prices as well. ZEN is I think 12~15,000 yen or something.

>>35334471
>72-136$ for a drawing
I mean.. it sounds like a lot, but that's actually a good price for a complete work. Most painters take more for portraits off of photos and the likes.

>>35334705
For this kind of quality and the time and effort they put into it, I'd say it's a very good price to pay and sometimes I even feel like they are underselling their art so I bump the price up a little. But I gladly pay that amount or more, it's not even about the money for me but just wanting to see more art of her in every day life and such.

>>35334805
Based.
The pieces look good anon. Shame about the show itself...

>>35340263
The show itself is good too until....

>>35327155
Yuuichi saying Uguu
The anime nailed it.

>>35340263
It's a shame, yeah. But I don't care any more at this point I just take the good from it, her, and that's enough for me.

>>35296133
I was always interested in the one with the catlip and the group of friends, seems like she's already in her own VN/anime.

>>35342476
What about the super saiyan in the hallway?

Anyone have a full little busters save for steam? Not going to force myself to re-read everything again just for Refrain.

>>35345842
looks like she's facepalming incredibly hard to me, or running away in shame.. I'd run too if I was relegated to be a background character.

>>35350197
I do, but how does that help you?

Key vns not having Hinoue's art just feels wrong. Her art had a certain charm to it

Yup

>>35350465
Couldn't I use it myself as well?

>>35356716
How? It's on my account.

why is this the visual novel everyone like

>>35327661
Sunohara isn't really a good friend either, and a lot of the time he straight up harasses the girls. Tomoya is just treating him like he deserves to be treated.

>>35365518
>why is key's best novel the one everyone likes

Moon is one of the best things I've read in this medium, I actually consider it a masterpiece. Rewrite is probably Key's best work overall too.

>>35365518
Clannad?

>>35296630
>Anon, my big butt needs to fart. Can I direct my butt at you?

>>35368480
I wouldn't even be mad if Kyou took a dump in my mouth, let alone fart.

>>35296630
Cute butt, but a shitter is a shitter. She she should be ashamed of having one.

>>35304897
Why would it be sweaty?

>>35370877
Nah, her butt does much more than shitting. She's definitely proud of having it, and proud of how fat it is.

>>35296630
I wonder if Kyou and Ryou have the exact same wrinkles in their assholes. They are twins after all.

>>35371616
No, only their starting equipment was the same. Kyou's asshole is still tight and smooth though while Ryou's is stretched to the limit and wrinkled beyond recognition.

>>35371616
Their butts are probably just as fat as each other, so maybe.

never change /jp/

>>35372529
They should be threatened and forced to eat each other's asses at gunpoint. Hating the experience means hating their own assholes! So they better lick each other's sweaty cracks like they mean it! Any expression of disgust in their faces and would be the same as admitting that their own asses are gross and they don't deserve to walk around with their head held high, with pride and dignity.

>>35215708
Who is the bitch above Nagisa? I don't remember her at all.

So what was the deal with Ayu? She's an ikiryou or astral projection, right? So is she a combination of her own self-perception and Yuuichi's memories of her?

I mean, she acts like a kid because that's how old she was when she went into a coma. But she wears the red headband and remembers Yuuichi giving it to her, even though he never had the chance to. So it seems her memories are falsified and she's a weird mix of her astral projection and Yuuichi's false memories of their last days together as a result of his repressed trauma. So when she goes to "school" or whatever and gets away from him, she just disappears and her consciousness only pops up again when they meet each other in the market. She's half ikiryou half delusion. And it's implied that she loses all the memories she gained as an astral projection when she wakes up in the hospital, so technically the autistic ass Ayu we meet in the main story dies for real. In the other routes she disappears because Yuuichi doesn't get interested in her, and in her route she disappears in a way that allows her real self to awaken.

And her body is also a weird mix of what she really looks like (a 17 year old girl) and Yuuichi's memories of her as a kid, so the astral projection looks like a 13/14yo at most, and a shortstack at that. When she takes off her coat she has a pretty nice pair of hebe tits. Imagine being the doctors taking care of comatose Ayu for years, having to bathe her naked teen body every so often and extract piss and liquid shit straight out of her excretory orifices! How humiliating for Ayu, she'll be mortified to even look at the doctors in the eyes after all that!

Fuuko from Clannad is basically Ayu but less complicated and demoted to secondary girl. I want to fuck her chocolate starfish!

>>35373755
I wonder if the doctors shaved her pussy or if cripple Ayu has a jungle down there after never shaving at all from age 12 to age 17!

What about her armpits? Do doctors invade her privacy more than necessary (piss, shit and sweat) and go the extra mile of shaving her? I doubt it. And being mentally a brat who doesn't even remember having any hair when she fell down the tree, she'll either never get into the habit of shaving her armpits at all because she missed out on her formative years, or she'll be freaked out by the fact that she suddenly has a bush and shave it all off like a total slut, unlike the average Japanese girl.

Gotta admit, I miss those Basset Hound eyes that were all over anime in the early 2000's.

>>35373255
she's the girl with the dead brother that serves tea in the library's reference room

>>35373755
>Fuuko from Clannad is basically Ayu but less complicated
You see this a lot in key titles. The whole of Angel Beats is basically just a copy of the Little Busters setup, and I can't recount how many key girls have "disappeared" only to be brought back somehow by now.

They're still great stories though.

>>35370370
same but for my own wife

>>35377078
Who 's your wife?

>>35377248
Cute

>>35377637
Haha thanks but I'm male

>>35373839
Ayu is a lewd girl.

>>35315149
Air has two completed English patches since 2015; where have you guys been?

Kotomi's hairy teen pussy.

>>35245795
Its like writing depressing works and not actually being depressed. That's how I perceive it.

Ayu's anus.

moonbutt

Are the old Toei adaptations underrated?

Nayuki a cute, but I bet her feet stink.

Nayuki sleep

Ayu such a cute

>>35386253
key works are not depressing though?
Most they do usually is extract a few feels and tears before hitting you with a spectacularly out of place happy ending.
And the ones without deus ex machina happy endings end on orange tinted happy-sad notes as well, not depressing ones.
The only reason to get depression from Maeda's works is if you were depressed from the very beginning.

i forgot how they really went all out with the CGs on Kotomi's route, while on numbers it may not be that different compared to the other routes (i haven't really counted) they really make use of it as a storytelling medium and not just as a "reward" for the player, her route ending was really beautiful.

>>35404581
and no, my Japanese is not good enough to read the whole visual novel on Japanese and while some have pointed out that the old fan translation is more "soulful", i think the cons overweighs the pros compared to the steam release. sorry for being a secondary.

>>35404581
>>35404606
Imo they went all out on Kotomi's route in every point, not just CGs. Probably expected her to be more popular too.
She has the most CGs (after Nagisa) and the most of all the giirls if we don't count After Story, her route is one of the longest main routes, she has two different character songs whereas even Nagisa only has her theme in two variations and Kotomi's route includes the most interaction between characters, having Ryou, Kyou and Nagisa as secondary characters AND she is Tomoya's childhood friend, a title reserved for the winner of dating sims.
It's incredible how quickly she disappeared from the spotlight after Clannad.

>>35404681
I think given the "dating sim" nature, the girls personalities and designs plays a bigger factor on their popularity than their backstory or even hell, how important they are in it. that's why we see Tomoyo as one of the more popular character for example, and with the anime all the spotlights were stolen from every other girls to Nagisa, Tomoyo and Kyou.
while i do love Kotomi, i have to admit that design wise she is not that appealing compared to the other girls, her personality doesn't seem much too, they gave her a very good reason for that and that shy yet curious personality of her ends up being one of the strongest point as to why her route is one of the best in the vn, excluding after story.
the story of her dad briefcase never fails to make me teared up.

>>35404791
I think the main factor for her scant popularity is her absence from every route that's not her own.
While you can choose characters like Kyou, Tomoyo or Nagisa for almost every group scene like the basketball game, Miyazawa's fortune telling events, the baseball game and countless more, Kotomi doesn't appear in a single one.
She has less presence in the game than the literal ghost who disappears from every route after a certain point in time.

>>35404957
I've never thought of that, it's quite sad because her exclusion from other routes actually makes sense from the narrative perspective. without okazaki with her she'll just stay on the school library forever until the day she left japan for studying abroad, without making any friends, and filled with regrets of her past, well at the very least she'll still get her teddy bear and letter from her parents either way.

>>35405040
I appreciate that she was shoehorned into the anime as part of Tomoya's "harem" for the entirety of the high school part.

>>35405559
yeah that was nice, while i still think that the anime didn't do her story justice and less impactful thanks to its pseudo-harem nature given how personal her story is, i get where they were coming from. it's not a bad adaptation, it's a good one actually, it's just different compared to the vn.

Almost two weeks now, boys.

I'm surprised that the thread is up for this long, cheers everybody.
while we're at it, anyone else think that Tomoyo After prologue/eroge elements just holds the whole vn down? the game have been sitting on my hard drive for years because that prologue was just really hard to get through, just finished it recently and that prologue is not a good representative of the vn at all and only exist for fan service points. still not a fan of the personality and voice actor change though.

>>35415536
Tomoyo's voice in Tomoyo After is actually the original voice actor iirc. Tomoyo After released before Clannad Full Voice came out. Its interesting that despite Tomoyo After getting a few rereleases, they never got Kuwashima Houko to rerecord the VN.

>>35365875
I like Rewrite the best because it's like the least Key-like Key work. Harvest Festa was really nice too.

>>35418011
i keep hearing that the reason behind it is because the game is an eroge and the voice actors of the anime/voice rerelease doesn't want to be involved in it, which doesn't makes sense because the majority if not all the rereleases removed all the sex scenes from the game. I guess they're just saving money and couldn't be bothered to rerecord the game with the anime voice actors. it's just kinda jarring that Tomoyo screams for every 5 seconds in after.

>>35415536
Same, I needed weeks to get through the prologue and decided just to play Dungeons and Takafumis instead.
But finished the maingame in a matter of days once I got through the harsh start.
The individual character arcs are extremely good and Kanako carries the whole novel imo. I just wonder why they decided to give Tomoya and Tomoyo such a depressing ending despite going full deus ex machina in both Clannad and Little Busters.
Also Kanako best girl by a landslide.

i fell ill but by believing in kagarin i recovered fast!!

>>35423182
glad that you recovered fast anon!

Congratulations to 2 weeks anniversary!

>>35418011
>>35418778
Wasn't she voiced by Kurugaya in after?

Been so long since I read Rewrite but from what I remember, Akane best gir with best route, ending plus song, Kotori's route was also nice with some good emotional moments but a shitty ending. I think that one felt the most like normal KEY stuff. Chihaya wasn't even the main thing in her route but the based butler I think it was. Lucias date was cute. Touka second best girl and I unironically don't even remember what the blond loli was about. Also don't remember anything from Moon and the MC was a dick in Terra.

>>35432275
she's voiced by ryoko tanaka
>>35327155
Kotomi route ending, the anime didn't really do it justice but understandably so.

>>35432306
>Kotori's route was also nice with some good emotional moments but a shitty ending.
Yeah, the proper ending is in Harvest Festa. Kotori's story picks up from the end of the route and you get a much better conclusion. The abruptness of how Kotori's route ended always annoyed me too.

Rin best key girl.

>>35215708
I’ve never liked their works. Tried them when I was in the middle school 16 years aNd the experience was bad. However, with the genius Ryukishi07 working with them this time on LOOPERS, I will buy it and play it. Ryu never fails to impress me so I’m sure I will love it.

>>35435552
No.

>>35435552
For me, that would be my wife.

Which key character is the sexiest?
It has got to be Kyou, right?

>>35445205
No.

>>35445505
>didn't even get Ishikei doujins
heh

>>35445205
Subjective but it's definitely Nao for me even though she's more often a cutie rather than sexy, for me she still can be very sexy. Kyou does have a lot of sex appeal, she definitely is one of my favourites in Clannad.

>>35445205
Kyou mania 1/2 are the works I've reread the most.

>>35445654
Nao is a cute too, but I could never look at her in a sexual way.

>>35215708
I've never read a Key VN before but really want to. Which one should I read first?

>>35447453
Kanon

>>35445205
Has to be Akane, the boobs route is the best route.

>>35447453
Little Busters!
Then read the Clannad anime because it's a masterpiece, and watch Angel Beats next if you like it.
If you still want to keep going and want a bit more action and fantasy then Rewrite is great.

>>35447462
>>35447511
Thanks, I'll go with one of those. I watched Clannad/After Story and Angel Beats a while back and liked both

>>35445599
My wife is not a whore? Good.

>>35447821
Don't pretend like you aren't interested in it...

>>35445955
Understandable, it really depends for me as well. Most of the time she's just so freaking adorable <3

>>35448080
Never been a fan of this guys art. Looks too realistic. But yes it does suck that there is no porn of my waifu except for the one I "make"

>>35448080
She's human and shits from her asshole.

>>35448243
Nice

>>35448243
Kyou's asshole is not made for shitting!

This is the worst thread I have ever seen. I will not elaborate.

>>35448224
Post the ones you "make".

>>35450661
Just Koikatsu stuff.
https://files.catbox.moe/ngcwkl.mp4
https://files.catbox.moe/mn7h98.mp4

>>35452298
Nice work!

>>35453678
More.
https://files.catbox.moe/4vqxbj.mp4
https://files.catbox.moe/wd6rfx.mp4
https://files.catbox.moe/oh4ciu.mp4

>>35454051
I'm going to fap to this once I get home.

>>35445205
That's subjective. For me, it's my wife.

>>35445205
She's definitely proud of how large her butt is, since she likes to show it off.

>>35452298
>>35454051
Why does Riki have tits though?

What were nagisas parents routes in the VN about again? Been so long since I read them and they weren't in the anime.

>>35458423
Because I like futa on female and riki is voiced by a female, dressed as a female by the cast so might as well go all the way.

>>35327661
I just wanted Sunohara to get some.
In my headcanon, he gets with Mei.

>>35460294
He gets some

From Tomoya.

>>35460558
SAY IT AIN'T TRUE!

>>35460294
In my headcanon, the Sunoharem is real.

I'm guessing theres spoilers in this thread

well whatever i'm still not gonna regret that i waited until i knew japanese to get to the key stuff since reading translations of jun maeda is a tragedy

>>35460855
More Kyou ass!

>>35460855
this pleases me.

>>35448243

>>35458482
Sanae was about to lose her students to a real school with real teachers, but it got resolved with the power of love.
Akio was involved in a bus hijacking while on the way to a theater performance of his old group, got stabbed/shot and then teamed up with the hijacker.

Tomoyo.

sucks

Tomoyo's After

>>35486872
fuck you
>>35487905
sucks

>>35488397
fuck you, Tomoyo's After doesn't suck

I am Tomori's after

In my humble opinion, Tomoyo After is just as good if not better than Nagisa After Story.

Is posting from ONE acceptable? I became obsessed with Key anime when I was around 13 years old, back when Kanon 2006 was being fansubbed. Led me to reading up on their history as bishojo game developers and to download my first eroge. I have played ONE to completion three times, despite it not being as strong a work due to the repetition inherent in the route's structure. The best written routes are Akane's and Misaki's, simply because they had more of that Classic Key structure that incorporated the struggles of the heroine really well into the narrative. For the girls who had less going on, like Mio and Nanase, the recurring dilemma of the protagonist just abruptly takes over their route and overshadows them. It still holds a dear place in my heart, because it fully set me down the bishojo game path.

I miss Hisaya Naoki as a writer bros...

how is it possible key is still making great games after all these years?

>>35506226
I laughed.

>>35472287
Didn't the MC also fall in love with sanae in her route? Who could blame him.

>>35511440
No, he loves her as a mother most of the time

>>35215708
Is clannad any good?

>>35522456
we wouldn't still talk about it if its bad, play it, its good.

>>35531496
didn't realize that the thread reached the bump limit, thanks everyone! it was fun!

>>35531514
It didn't yet...
But yeah, I didn't expect it to last this long either. Thought it'd die after ten replies.
I'll make another one some time after this one is dead, though there doesn't seem to be too much interest.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL0CQjrcN8D3C92N7Fnbv_riGuah-JYA-

What's the best KEY vocal song?
For me, it's haruka kanata.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly5NiKQqJvc

>>35533872
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTwyfLvjmnI
Probably, very likely, Saya's song.
Opinion might slightly change depending on what I'm reading atm, but I'm always coming back to this one.

>>35533944
Poor girl. Weird that she actually has no happy ending. Considering maeda never had the guts to do that again since misuzu.

>>35534346
There is a certain cope that she actually went back in time in her route's ending and gets to live in nippon alongside Riki and his friends.
But it's not really believable.

>>35532000
i forgot how 4chan works for a while and panicked as to why my post wasn't bumping the thread, i didn't even bother to check the post count, silly me.
I wonder if it's really lack of interests or just the fact that most key games are considered old by age now and the most popular ones have been discussed to death. there doesn't seem to be a lot of discussions around their newer titles and with people checking the thread just to know whether or not something's worth playing/watching, going all out for spoiler territory discussion doesn't seems wise.

>>35534463
>there doesn't seem to be a lot of discussions around their newer titles
Which is a shame, really. I wonder how it is in nipland though.
Summer Pockets got an upgraded rerelease after all but still barely has any artwork.

I liked Sasami's route.
It was comfy and more like an actual dating sim route, but still had this janky Little Busters mystery feel to it.
Also Sasami is uber cute.

>>35536728
is there any info on whether or not they'll translate summer pocket blue reflection?

good thread lads. sad that nobody really cares about key anymore