Loopers Interview: Difference between revisions

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''LOOPERS'' Interview}}This is a transcription of an '''interview with Ryukishi07 regarding his involvement with Key and their upcoming visual novel ''LOOPERS''''' which was posted to the Visual Arts' online magazine ''Visualstyles'' in December 2020. It was translated into English by Aozora Lookout. The interview includes both [[Ryukishi07]] and ''[[LOOPERS]]'' director Takada Kazuma.

{{a|R|It started 20 years ago, as I was just playing their games like anyone else. I first found ''Air'' then went back for ''Kanon'', and that’s how I became immersed in ‘nakige’ (crying games). I was impressed, especially by the heroines in ''Kanon'' that would still be really colorful characters if released today, and I thought “It’s okay to go that far in making your character traits!” I loved Key so deeply that those ideas would inspire me later in writing the characters for [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (franchise)|''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni''.]] }}

{{a|R|Well at the time, I had practically no connections with President Baba or other Key staff. So from their side, they may have wanted to know more about me before talking about work. That theory may not be far off, as the offer to work on rewrite''Rewrite'' came not too long after. }}

{{a|R|At that time I was releasing a piece twice a year... I believe the offer came as I was in the middle of writing ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni (franchise)|Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', so I would not be able to write very much for other projects. But there’s an 8 month gap between winter and summer Comiket. I said I could join for the first half of that, so January through April. }}