Quite the interesting story you have there. I commend you for spreading the gospel of Key to your girlfriend. 
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So I told myself âI will not watch Clannad until I read the VN first!â
[/quote] That is actually what I decided to do with AIR and Little Busters, because I wanted to see if reading the visual novel first would give me a different perspective of the anime adaptation.
So have you read Little Busters yet?
(checks the mailbox) Nope. Itâs not here yet.
Man gotta love that friend of yours. :proceed to throw more Key VNs:
When I found out the âvisual novel genreâ i tried searching for some visual novels to play. I got into Fuwanovel, then I found Rewrite. The first route I did was Luciaâs: I simply loved it. Then, I started searching about Key and found out LB!, that Iâve just finished recently. At this time, I was already a Key and Maedaâs fan.
Wasnât Luciaâs locked until you completed Shizuruâs? o.o
Nah you start with Kotori, Chihaya, and Lucia by default.
Yeah, that hurt.
I discover key when i check my facebook group âhome for anime and otakus malaysiaâ and âclannad groupâ . I see they always post many pictures about angel beats,clannad and give a high recommendation about this anime.They say if you like to cry watching anime then i suggest this.Thats where i start to know key
My story is pretty similar to @JDAM_Cid in that I was first exposed to Kanon and Air by Megatokyo back around 2001, and didnât really pay it too much mind.
In 2005, after high school, I started getting really into anime again. I discovered shows like Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya that were aimed at my current demographic (before that I was only familiar with shows like Dragonball Z that just didnât interest me anymore). From there I sought out Air and Kanon 2006, because I had heard of the franchises (loved them both). I started watching the Clannad anime when it was first airing and instantly fell in love with that series.
Thatâs where my experience with the visual novels started. On Christmas of 2007, I bought myself a copy of Planetarian, and read the whole thing in one sitting. Then, in the summer of 2008 (between Clannad and After Story anime releases) I picked up a copy of Clannad Full Voice that I read through. Since then Iâve also read through all of Rewrite and a few branches of Little Busters.
So I think my answer to the original question of how did I discover Key is probably âMegatokyo and the anime adaptations of Air and Kanon '06â
My first experience with Key was back in early 2009 when I watched AIR
I was on the âList of Animesâ alphabetical list on Wikipedia and I was watching opening themes trying to find shows I want to watch
And I found AIRâs and my life has been chagned for the better ever since
I got bored of Naruto and all that boring shonen stuff cause the plots seemed boring to me. Then on YouTube, I saw a suggestion and it was CLANNAD episode 1. I watched it and it caught my attention because it actually talked about real life situations, I also loved the animation, dem cherry blossom trees doe :3 After that, I thought CLANNAD ended since I finished the last episode, and then I saw the OVA for the Tomoyo chapter, which was part of season 1. I didnât understand why she was with Tomoya so I did research on CLANNAD and it said there was a second season. I then watched it, and lost my soul ;; After I finished all the episodes for After story, I saw the top suggestion on YouTube, and it said âKanon 2006â so I watched it and got hooked up with it. After I finished that too, I kinda got sad cause the recommendation box showed CLANNAD which I already watched. After that, I searched on the Internet âAnimeâs like CLANNAD and Kanonâ and I found out that there was an anime called âAirâ which I couldnât find cause when I typed it in, all these airplane videos would show -.- Until I realized I had to type âTVâ in. Basically, after I finished Air, I then re-searched if there was any animeâs like CLANNAD, Kanon, and Air, and I read something saying it was from Key, and that I could watch Angel Beats, which, I enjoyed. Did some research and learned LB was an anime too. Watched the first episode hoping to get all excited and be happy, but I honestly didnât like how it started. The animation and the first episode plot kinda threw me off. So did the boy to girl ratio since I liked the normal 1 boy to 6 girls. I gave up on it. Re watched it about a year later and yeah. Now here I am. Though I gotta say LB was disappointing for all those fights and stuff. Key is wonderful ^^
Doesnât Angel Beats break this pattern too?
Hey, @Takafumi, seems like youâve found a partner in crime. (lol)
Hey, I was his partner first! Also, going off of the anime alone thereâs a higher chance of having a negative reaction, Iâd say. Itâs not like itâs a secret that itâs a rather meh adaptation, so heâs not alone in that regard.
Great! Now you guys can create a gang!
Angel beats does, but I didnât really get annoyed by it, since most of the guys didnât have big roles, and Hinata was like the big brother to Yuzuru in a way.
Especially Rinâs route in the anime -.- She only had a 3 minute scene in the anime to explain her backstory ! And sheâs the main heroine -_- But I do praise J.C. Staff for what music they put for which scenes. Though they seemed to interested in âSong for friendsâ since that played throughout half of refrain, just saying. Though there are some beautiful songs on the soundtrack that I donât think they put in the anime, such as âApproaching lightâ which was beautiful. I donât know if J.C. Staff did some Anime-original songs too, since there was a beautiful song playing in LB - EX episode 8 that I canât find on the soundtrack (Btw, would appreciate it if you can tell me the title. Itâs a piano song that plays when Haruka is talking to this one girl about Kanataâs you know what. )
Nope. Thatâs totally different. Especially on the ratio thing - The guys carried Litbus HARD. The start of Litbus was great. Thereâs some action music, a big scary guy, a fight⌠itâs like âwait⌠this is Key?â
Then cats happen. Thereâs fighting and baseball and probably the best comedy seen in Key VNs.
I have no problem with the common route. The problem I have with Litbus is that the individual character routes were all weaker than the VNs that preceded them. Kanon and Clannad were good because they had a good cast, and they did justice to those characters in the routes. They werenât always the most powerful stories, but they were worth investing in.
Then you go from that to⌠Oh, Rin1. Sudden ending. Oh, Kud route. Itâs trying to be tragic? When does sad stuff happen? Oh, Komari route. Didnât they do this before?
It was different to what Key did for years, and to me, it was an unwelcome change. Litbus is still a great VN, itâs definitely up there on my ratings, but only because of the common route and refrain.
⌠The first season of the anime was really boring though. Probably because it was just the heroine routes⌠I do think they did Kudâs route a better service than the VN ever did, which going into the VN was the route I was interested the most, so it was nice to see it being not terrible.
Most of the characters overall didnât have big roles. You have like⌠Otonashi, Yuri, and Kanade. The rest are quick plot devices or comedy punching bags.
Well⌠Rin doesnât really have a backstory. Sheâs a shy girl. She grew up. Itâs basically the same as Rikiâs but without anything eventful.
In the first season they cut tracks awkwardly, and apparently forgot that half of the soundtrack existed.
Nothing too fancy, about 5 years ago I went on yahoo answers and asked for a sad anime to watch and someone recommended Kanon, ever since Iâve been a die hard fan.
So nostalgic , (2012), when I was bored and searched for anime.
I saw Clannad and thought âLet me give it a tryâ. that day I knew My fate was to love Key, !
