Sena★Sena
Sena★Sena is a project by Otaroad blog featuring the story of the site mascot Senaka-chan in a variety of media and the web novel which is basically the main part of the project has just officially started a few days ago. The character song CD will be sold at Comic Treasure 10 on the 26th.
Why this project for a blog is significant is because… it has an amazing number of famous professionals working on it:
Suzumoto Yuuichi (One of the writers for Air and Clannad)
Komatsu E-ji (Artist for planetarian, Tristia of the Deep-Blue Sea)
Itou Noizi (Artist for Shakugan no Shana, Suzumiya Haruhi series)
GotoP (Artist for Close to ~Inori no oka and Wandaba Style)
Togoshi Magome (Composer for Air, Clannad, Little Busters!)
4-EVER (New group by ex-composer/guitarist from Under17)
fripside (Popular indies group, now with VisualArts)
milktub (Band that did theme songs for Aka, Green Green, Carnival)
Suzumoto Yuuichi, Komatsu E-ji, and Togoshi Magome is also coincidently the team that made planetarian. Though Suzumoto and Togoshi have already left Key, and Komatsu wasn’t with Key in the first place.
August 8th, 2007 at 4:28 am
I will certainly be keeping an eye on this series. Hopefully it will become as great an anime as “Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi”, and with Itou Noizi as an artist, it can’t go wrong.
August 8th, 2007 at 4:45 am
What I find more surprising is the large amount of talented ex-KEY personell, workign with Noizi Ito of all things. This is the closest we can get to Nozi Ito working on a KEY game (which I doubt has been done before)
But then again, there are so many dream team-ups in my head that I wish could happen that never would. Like Brian Herbert working with EA to recreate the Dune games from the movie perspective, but with the extended storyline. Or SNK making an actual eroge. Or My Way Entertainment, after the success of the Juggernaut Bitch, decided to rename Shana “Tabasce Sauce made in New York city !!” Looks like we have to make do with whatw e can.
Like this project… and Johnny Depp on Doraemon.
August 8th, 2007 at 10:35 am
As far as lead planning and writing goes, Suzumoto only has Planetarian to his name. Nonetheless, he’s widely regarded as one of the best scriptwriters to have worked with Key.
August 8th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
>rg4619
Why do you say so? I’m not sure how differently he is regarded in english communities, but as a scenario writer at Key, Suzumoto is usually better known for having written the Summer chapter in Air and the Kotomi scenario in Clannad rather than his work on planetarian.
August 8th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
That’s true. However, my understanding is that the main vision behind his previous works originated through Jun Maeda (although, as you say, the actual execution was Suzumoto’s). With these projects, it isn’t uncommon for one person to dominate the planning process, while specific scenarios are delegated to sub-writers (who write according to the established plan). Little Busters! was developed this way. The same goes for most minori and Nekoneko Soft works.
On the other hand, Planetarian is the first pure reflection of Suzumoto’s vision. In addition to the script, he created the world and concept from scratch.
August 8th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Oh I see where you’re coming from now, thanks for the clarification.
August 9th, 2007 at 12:42 am
I guess Suzumoto saw what Hisaya Naoki did with Sola and thought “I can do that!”
Assuming he actually comes to work more than twice a month, maybe he can. Kotomi’s scenario in Clannad was one of the most emotionally intense experiences I can think of.