Baba, Na-Ga and Orito Coming to Anime Central

[Pepe]

Thanks for the recap Clannad Man! Helps a lot

Several of the staff members manning the booth were retained from the company’s time at Anime Expo, helping to maintain the feel exuded from that event.

Oh was Yoshikuni Toyoizumi there? I remember he was at AX last year, but I’m not sure if he was at ACEN.

It seems odd they did not mention this in any of their recent promotional material; it will be interesting to see if they make it more of a focus going forward.

Yeah it was a shame they lacked advertising this time around… I tried to help by making a detailed explanation of all the goods on our blog but I don’t even know if that helped any x.x

They had discussed that is anyone inquired about the item (which, I might add, was largely hidden from view), they would be willing to part with it for $1,400.

Wow goodbye salary for one month hahaha

Interestingly, if an animated version of the VN exists, images from the anime would be used to depict the series as opposed to its respective VN opening.

Makes sense, since most of the overseas crowd is familiar with Key through their anime, after all.

Planetarian was Key’s first download-only title. It sold 200 copies.

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Baba acknowledged the popularity of Rewrite in foreign markets, though he admitted, “I’m not sure why, though…”
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Because REWRITE OF THE LIFE MUTHAFUCKAAAA-okay I’m gonna stop now

Visual Art’s currently has almost 50 staff members

Oh wow, here I thought they’d be a lot bigger, considering they have products sold nationwide and heck internationally now.

Lia will perform the theme song vocals for Planetarian

This is a bit of a strange wording thingy… “Hoshi no Fune” is being advertised as the theme song, but in KSL Live they pretty much specified it as the ending of the hoshi no hito movie so… I guess in this context they mean the same thing?

I knew I had to wear the same ensemble for the autograph session the next day since it clearly made an impression.

Gee I hope you didn’t sweat too much on the first day, then

Harmonia is complete! …with the exception that Takahiro Baba is displeased with the game’s sound quality. Revisions to correct this are currently underway.

Yeah that sounds about consistent with what I’ve heard from him back at character1. It’s a bit sad, but it’s a lot better than releasing it early only to have an inferior product :x

But hey, looks like baba is really stringent about quality, which I find impressive.

Takahiro Baba on the upcoming Rewrite anime: “Most people do not appreciate the true meaning of Rewrite to this day. … We can’t afford to leave anime fans in the dark like that.” This is why an additional route is being added to the anime not found in the visual novel.

Yeah like all those people who up to this day think Rewrite has an “environmental” message coughcough

Baba confirms: Half of the text for Angel Beats! -1st beat- has been translated into English!

Wait wait wtf half?!?! That’s an absurdly high number for something that only just got announced in passing holy shit.

Asked if there have been or will be homosexual characters in Key games, President Baba said that no homosexual protagonists have been pitched to him yet. He continued by saying that the current version of RealLive allows for characters to be influenced by player actions, so some characters may become increasingly ‘friendly’ or hostile towards characters of the same gender.

After hearing stories about 1st beat, I’m inclined to disagree with there being no homosexual characters :kyogrin:
But yes, about the new engine, that is very much true. 1st beat is proof enough.