Kanon snow bunnies in Planetarian anime ED? 
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There was also a Saito in Charlotte
InterestingâŚ
I am going to be playing through Air and am currently playing though Rewrite, I will keep my eyes open for any references there as well.
Rewrite didnât have anything written by Maeda so I donât think thereâs a Saito there.
I donât know if it was already mentionned earlier in here but Rewrite Side-R seriously had lots of references. There was a Dango Daikazoku logo on that box Chihaya held when she first appeared, and Kotarou found a magazine titled âMasatoâs muscles or somethingâ when he looked for Kotori in the forest (in the beginning) and remember that guy who controlled a puppet and made Akane spit the juice she was drinking?, they made sure that he looked exactly like Yukito, the puppet too. Thereâs also an OMAKE in one of the volumes where the heroines wore the other Key uniforms. If I remember correctly, it was like this: Kanonâs for Kotori and Airâs for Chihaya (or the opposite, I donât remember that well), Clannadâs for Shizuru, Little Busters for Lucia (she wore it exactly like Kurugaya just so you know) and Angel Beatsâs for Akane (no, not the schoolâs but the after life battle front or whatever is its name). There were other references but I have to read it again to find them.
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Oh thatâs pretty interesting! Iâve never read Rewrite Side-R nor Side-B so itâs fun to see them do that sort of thing.
Heck, Iâd say that Rewrite in general has the most self-references out of any other key work
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I knew I remembered those names from somewhere!
Although this is still both Rewrite related, they referenced the seperate SiglusEngine benchmark they made for Rewrite, in the anime! Itâs was a program that tested if your computer is good enough to play Rewrite.
(It goes a bit crazy with modern computers :P)
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Rewrite Anime, first episode. In her introduction scene, Chihaya says âAuuâ, just like Sawatari Makoto in Kanon, who Chihayaâs design was (probably) inspired by.
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Donât forgot the legendary cafe Key.
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I FINALLY got around to playing Clannad, and saw this:
In the lower left corner you can see Keropii from Kanon holding a⌠key :V
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they have everything mang
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I had a similar thought too, back when I first discovered Clannad and AB! four years agoâthe Illusionary World just seemed too much like the Afterlife Academy to be unrelated. Even the characteristic light orbs linking the Illusionary World to Hikarizaka also appear in AB!: Not just in the opening titles either; one of them can also be seen in the final shot before the end credits of episode thirteen, rising up from the exact spot where Kanade just vanished from.
Coincidence? Meh, maybe. Connected universe? I suppose you can believe that if you want. Whatâs more likely though? Simple: The writers have a certain set of ideas they like exploring (plus they also clearly hold a lot of appeal with audiences, so why abandon them?).
Wait, what? when was Clannad even announced? surely key wouldnât refer to a game that hadnât even come out yet?
Clannad was announced in 2001 and was originally planned to launch in 2002. Numerous delays, however, postponed it until 2004. With that in mind, I think Toei would have been able to throw in a nifty reference like that.
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