![]() ![]() ![]() As he sits on the town's seawall eating one of the rice balls, he notices a young girl beside him who introduces herself as Misuzu Kamio a sincere yet clumsy girl who is eager to become friends with him. Yukito collapses from heat stroke the next day and is taken to a nearby fisherman's guild after he awakens, they feed him, and give him some very large rice balls to take with him as he is leaving. That night, Yukito sleeps on the town's seawall by the beach. Yukito is unsuccessful in gaining the children's favor, and the children leave without paying him for his performance. On his first day in town, Yukito tries to earn money by putting on a mysterious puppet show where he manipulates a doll magically without strings for a small audience of kids passing by. The story opens on Monday Jwhen Yukito comes across a small seaside town where the story takes place. In the first story arc, Dream, Yukito Kunisaki is a showman traveling across Japan, continuing his late mother's search for the "girl in the sky". To view all plot lines in their entirety, the player will have to replay the game multiple times and choose different choices to further the plot to an alternate direction.Īir's story revolves around three girls whose lives are connected to the same man. Throughout gameplay, the player is given multiple options to choose from, and text progression pauses at these points until a choice is made. There are five main plot lines that the player will have the chance to experience, three which are initially available and two more which can later become available. However, if the player reaches a bad end to a storyline, the player does not have this option and must reload the game at the last saved point. With the consumer ports, if an undesired choice was selected, there would be an option to rewind the story to correct the mistake. Air follows a branching plot line with multiple endings, and depending on the decisions that the player makes during the game, the plot will progress in a specific direction. Much of its gameplay is spent on reading the story's narrative and dialogue. The anime adaptations are licensed by Funimation who released them in North America.Īir is a romance visual novel in which the player assumes the role of three characters. ![]() Kyoto Animation produced a 13-episode anime television series and a two-episode anime mini-series in 2005, and Toei Animation produced an anime film in 2005. Comic anthologies and art books were also published, as were audio dramas and several albums of music. A manga by Yukimaru Katsura was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Comptiq, and later published into two volumes. Air has sold over 300,000 units across several platforms.įollowing the game's release, Air made several transitions into other media. The game ranked as the best-selling PC game sold in Japan for the time of its release, and charted in the national top 50 several more times afterwards. The title of the game reflects the prominent themes of the air, skies, and use of wings throughout gameplay. The game is divided into three segments (Dream, Summer, and Air) which serve as different phases in the overall story. The gameplay in Air follows a branching plot line which offers pre-determined scenarios with courses of interaction, and focuses on the appeal of the three female main characters by the player character. He arrives in a quiet, seaside town where he meets three girls, one of whom is the key to the end of his journey. The story follows the life of Yukito Kunisaki, a traveling showman searching for the "girl in the sky". Key later released versions of Air without the erotic content, and the game was ported to the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. AIR: Air is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Key released on Septemfor Windows PCs. Clannad (Best Version Premium Box) is a "Key 3-Part Work Premium Box" package of the game Kanon together with the PS2 versions of Air and Clannad released on July 30, 2009. ![]()
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