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CLANNAD’s Kickstarter is live!

A Kickstarter for CLANNAD has been launched by Sekai Project just days after its Prefundia was put up. It’s raised $123,453 at the time of writing, not far from its funding goal of $140,000. This happened in more or less half a day.

Most of what you might want to know about the history of the project can be found in my earlier post about the Prefundia page, so I’ll just re-iterate two key points:

  1. The translation will be completely re-done by a team of professionals
  2. The release will be fully voiced bar the protagonist

As for new information… well, we did get a cost breakdown. 10% of the money will go to for Kickstarter / credit card fees, 40% to translation and editing, and 50% to licensing voices + physical goods production and shipping. At the bottom there is also a progress update on SP’s other projects:

[…] our previous Kickstarter projects are also progressing quite nicely! We’ve released World End ECONOMiCA episode.01, and episode.02 will be released by the end of the year. fault milestone one chapters 1-4 also have been translated and we will be updating the beta very soon!

I’ll end this with a letter from VisualArt’s CEO, Takahiro Baba:

"To our overseas Key fans, It has been a dream of ours to one day produce an English version of our game, CLANNAD. The translation of CLANNAD is particularly difficult where a simple mistake in translation would damage the nuances of the story. However, after planetarian's release, I believe many of you are well aware of the astoundingly high quality translation by Sekai project. CLANNAD is certainly a lengthy tale but I'm sure it will have a lasting impression on your lives. In order to allow a much larger audience to enjoy CLANNAD, I hope from the bottom of my heart that this project will be successful. Takahiro Baba, company president and CEO, VisualArt's"

Zakamutt

Writer of irreverent VNTS commentaries, shadowy Fuwanovel string puller, Swedish, ambivalent toward meatballs. Brave Fuwanovel Skype Group memeber (rip), technically a reviewer, chronic everything staller. I am all these things and more, but mostly I'm really lazy. Loves yuri, reading, chocolate, and quality sugar-free colas. Hates VNs with too many choices and long walks on the beach.

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tantei
10 years ago

yay it is fully funded now.

Chifuyu
10 years ago

I’m off for some feels. This is actually a heartwarming news for some clannad fanboys.

NameBK-201
Reply to  Chifuyu
10 years ago

I’m in tears right now, so happy that I’m in tears

Ziggy
10 years ago

Little Busters please

RiraitoFag
10 years ago

Riraito please

Jakerams
Reply to  RiraitoFag
10 years ago

What this guy said.