Jun Maeda
After forming Key, Maeda worked on the music and scenario for their first title "Kanon" released in 1999, which proved to be very popular in the adult game market in Japan. Beside Maeda, the majority of "Kanon" scenario was written by Naoki Hisaya, but he quit Key shortly after "Kanon" was produced. Following this, Maeda wrote most of the scenario for Key's next title "Air", along with again working as the lyricist and one of the composers for the music featured in the game. After a period of four years in 2004, Key released their third and longest game "Clannad" where Maeda did a vast amount of the writing for the game; in all, Maeda put in around 75% of the work that went into the creation of "Clannad". Also in 2004, Maeda began writing his first manga entitled "Hibiki's Magic", which was first conceived as a short story he wrote as a student. In 2005, Maeda worked on the scenario and music for Key's fifth game "", followed by Key's sixth title "Little Busters!" released in July 2007 which he also worked on in regards to the scenario and music.
Kanon (visual novel)
Between June and August 2004, Ohzora also released five separate volumes of manga based on "Kanon" drawn by five separate artists. Ohzora later collected some of the previously published manga anthologies into two volumes titled "Kanon Anthology Comics Best Selection" released in December 2006 and January 2007. Additionally, Ohzora released another 13 volumes of an anthology series titled "Kanon" under their "Twin Heart Comics" label. The now-bankrupt publisher Raporto also released 21 manga anthology volumes titled "Kanon" under their "Raporto Comics" label between November 2000 and October 2002. The last manga anthology, a collection of four-panel comic strips released in a single volume by Enterbrain titled "Magi-Cu 4-koma Kanon", was released in January 2007 under their "MC Comics" label. Each of the anthology series are written and drawn by an average of 20 people per volume.