Anime Review: Prima Doll—Key Always Delivers!

Prima Doll is Key's latest multimedia project. Let's talk about it!

Epic Eagle Team Releases Fan Translation of Key’s Stella of the End

On July 10th, 2023, during a very dry week, the fan translation group SnowyRujinTL posted an update to Twitter about its progress on Planetarian -Snow Globe-. But within the same…

Review: LOOPERS—Let’s set out to Find a Real Treasure

This review was handed in by Manpig. If you’re interested in the works of KEY, Minori and an abundance of robot related takes, make sure to follow his account on…

Kanon on Switch, and The VN’s Significance Today

Originally released by Key/Visual Arts in Japan on June 4th, 1999, Kanon was the studio’s first release. Soon after, it received official Japanese ports to the Dreamcast  in September 2000…

VISUAL ARTS BLOG: 4 New EN Releases for 2023 & Unnannounced Games, Company’s Future Plans

New Worldwide Game Releases: Baba Takahiro, representative director of Key/VisualArts, released a blog post on the 12th detailing the aspirations for the famed visual novel developer going into 2023. This…

Tone Works and Frill are No Longer Owned by Publisher Visual Arts

Tone Works is one of many VN studios owned by publisher Visual Arts, who also possess the rights to the popular studio Key (Clannad, Planetarian, etc.). Tone Works is responsible…

Fans on Twitter manage to preserve Fan-made Nintendo DS Port for KEY’s Planetarian

On the 19th of December, an innocuous post was made on Twitter by the user FerbusG, who simply wanted to mention some trivia about Visual Arts’s kinetic novel planetarian –…

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Official Review: CLANNAD

Sekai Project's Steam release of CLANNAD has been hyped for the better part of a year now, so just how good is it? Let’s dive into this and find out.

Key’s Harmonia on Steam Greenlight, to be Released Soonish

Today VisualArts Key, creators of famous visual novels such as Clannad and Little Busters, put the English version of their upcoming visual novel Harmonia onto Steam Greenlight.

Angel Beats! -1st beat- OP&ED Singles “Heartily Song” Available for Preorder

Angel Beats! -1st beat-‘s OP&ED singles CD is available for preorder on most sites that sell Japanese music. The official release date is still set for April the 1st and…