Airing during the Summer 2015 anime season, P.A Works teams up with writer Jun Maeda of Angel Beats and Clannad fame for Charlotte. Containing a variety elements from past works you can attribute to a bingo card like: sick children, death, and magical realism, it is a project that is by the numbers and more relies on execution to work out. With the execution being one of the more interesting hallmarks of the series holds onto, the results that arise from it turned to be equally as interesting…in both a good and bad sense. A misunderstood and ambitious undertaking or experimental flop of a production? Here is my two-cents worth on the matter.
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[Visual Novel Review] planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~
planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~ is a kinetic novel developed back in 2004 by Key – the studio responsible for such cathartic titles like: Kanon and Clannad. While this is certainly one of Key’s shortest works, it definitely doesn’t falter in eliciting an emotional response like those aforementioned. Thanks to the efforts of Sekai Project, in celebration of its 10th anniversary release in Japan, you can finally experience this bittersweet tale on Steam as an official English release.
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