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.
Music of Kanon
The "Kanon Original Soundtrack", from the visual novel "Kanon", was first released on October 25, 2002 in Japan by Key Sounds Label bearing the catalog number "KSLA-0006". The soundtrack contains one disc totaling twenty-four songs composed, arranged, and produced by Jun Maeda, Shinji Orito, OdiakeS, and Kazuya Takase of I've Sound. Ayana provides vocals for two songs, "Last regrets" and "Kaze no Tadoritsuku Basho". The first half of the last track is the short version of "Kaze no Tadoritsuku Basho", and after a lengthy pause a hidden track of an arrange version of "Yuki no Shōjo" plays which was originally featured in the album "Anemoscope".