Clannad (visual novel)
The first consumer console port of the game was released for the PlayStation 2 (PS2) on February 23, 2006 by Interchannel. The PS2 version was re-released as a "Best" version on July 30, 2009. The PS2 version was bundled in a "Key 3-Part Work Premium Box" package together with the PS2 versions of "Kanon" and "Air" released on July 30, 2009. An Xbox 360 version was released on August 28, 2008 also by Prototype. A PlayStation 3 (PS3) version was released by Prototype on April 21, 2011. A downloadable version of the PS3 release via the PlayStation Store was released by Prototype on February 14, 2013.
Brain Powerd
"Brain Powerd" was produced by Sunrise and directed and written by Yoshiyuki Tomino, the creator of the long-running Gundam franchise. "Brain Powerd" is often compared to the Gainax's popular "Neon Genesis Evangelion", a 1995 anime series with similar themes to "Brain Powerd". Tomino claimed that the plans and overall storyline for "Brain Powerd" were made even prior to the airing of "Evangelion". He stated that he "never meant ["Brain Powerd"] to be an antithesis to "Evangelion"" despite the inevitable comparisons they would receive when his own series debuted in 1998. After deciding not to make any changes to "Brain Powerd", he "resigned" himself to the fact that the public would label his anime an attempt to best "Evangelion". Tomino was enthusiastic about his first attempt at the "organic" mecha subgenre in place of the purely metallic robots he had worked with for so many years in his career. He wanted to write an interesting story for "Brain Powerd" in order to allow those who watched it to do so without "having a nervous breakdown" and to show fans "that there were often other things out there better than anime". Tomino has wished that more animators would see themselves as entertainers, though he admitted that he felt that "Brain Powerd" was not very entertaining and thus a failure in this regard.