Key Radio

Infobox Radio show
show_name = Key Radio


format = Information
runtime = 30—60 minutes (average)
creator = Key, Visual Art's
presenter = Shinji Orito
Itaru Hinoue
Chiro
country = flagicon|Japan Japan
first_aired = December 13, 2007
last_aired = date
num_episodes = 12
website = " [http://key.visualarts.gr.jp/gallery/radio/index.html Key Radio] "Nihongo|"Key Radio"|Keyらじ|Key Raji is a Japanese Internet radio program produced by the Visual Art's and the visual novel studio Key in regards to Key and the games the company produces. The first broadcast was released online on December 13, 2007, and as of September 19, 2008, twelve episodes have been produced. The show is hosted by Shinji Orito and Itaru Hinoue of Key, and another woman named Chiro who works for Pekoe, another visual novel studio under Visual Art's.citeweb|url= http://key.visualarts.gr.jp/diary/2007/12/key.html|title=Key's official blog entry on the radio's first recording|publisher=Key|date=2007-12-13|accessdate=2008-07-12|language= Japanese] Orito also serves as the chief editor of the broadcasts, but Hinoue has filled in for Orito on some occasions. Guests have been known to appear on the show including Jun Maeda and Na-Ga of Key. The broadcasts are available via download on Key's official website, and were available for download on the radio show's official blog for the first nine broadcasts. [citeweb|url= http://www.voiceblog.jp/visualarts/|title=Key Radio's official blog|publisher=Visual Art's|accessdate=2007-12-28| language=Japanese] The first nine episodes are no longer available for download. The more recent broadcasts can be listened to on Visual Art's' YouTube channel named Visual Channel. [citeweb|url= http://jp.youtube.com/user/visualarts|title=Visual Channel official website|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=2008-07-11|language= Japanese] Listeners can submit thoughts about the show and any requests they may have for the show, along with submitting questions to the host trio. [citeweb|url= http://key.visualarts.gr.jp/gallery/radio/radio_form.html|title=Key Radio's submission form|publisher=Key|accessdate=2007-12-06|language=Japanese]

Format

"Key Radio" is hosted by three people: Shinji Orito, a signature musical composer and co-founder of Key; Itaru Hinoue, a signature art director, character designer, and co-founder of Key; and another woman named Chiro from the visual novel studio Pekoe, also under Visual Art's. The greeting Nihongo|"Key Raji wā"|Keyらじわー is used by the hosts to address the listeners, and is also used by the listeners as an opening greeting in submissions. For the first six episodes, the show had five corners, or parts, but from the seventh broadcast on two more corners were added to the program. When the show had five corners, each episode started with opening greetings from the hosts and went onto thoughts and impressions that listeners had about the show. This moved on to an informal talk between the hosts, followed by a section where entries previously submitted by listeners concerning their enthusiasm for Key were read by the hosts. The fourth corner concerned answering questions that had been submitted by listeners, and the final corner had Orito playing the flute; listeners could submit suggestions for songs he was to play. The first corner added concerns scary stories that the hosts can tell themselves, or read from submissions by listeners, and was added partly because Hinoue enjoys such stories. The second corner added deals with submissions by listeners describing a new fictional character, and Hinoue will take these submissions and form a new fictional character out of combining elements from multiple submissions together. During the broadcasts, tracks from the soundtracks released under Key Sounds Label play in the background.

Broadcast history

The first broadcast was released on December 13, 2007 and was originally over an hour long, but was cut down to thirty minutes.citeweb|url= http://key.visualarts.gr.jp/gallery/radio/index.html|title=Key Radio section at Key's official website|publisher=Key|accessdate=2007-12-06|language=Japanese] The main topic of discussion of the first broadcast was Key's products at Comiket 73 later held in late December 2007. The second broadcast was an end-of-the-year special released on December 28, 2007 and was longer than the first broadcast at forty-one minutes and thirty seconds. The third broadcast was a New Year Expansion edition released on January 22, 2008 and ran for forty-three minutes and thirty seconds. The fourth broadcast was released on February 25, 2008, covered the then-upcoming OTSU album release as the main topic, and ran for about thirty-nine minutes. The fifth broadcast was released on March 19, 2008 and was so long that Key had to split it into two parts, the first at about thirty-eight minutes, and the second at thirty minutes, forty seconds. The main feature of the fifth broadcast was of having Na-Ga as a guest on the show.

The sixth broadcast was released on April 14, 2008 and ran for about forty-one minutes; this was also the first broadcast not edited by Shinji Orito, but instead was edited by Itaru Hinoue. The seventh broadcast was released on May 17, 2008 and ran for about forty-two minutes; this was the second broadcast edited by Hinoue. The main focus of the seventh broadcast was as a special listener contribution episode. The eighth broadcast was released on May 26, 2008 and ran for about forty-eight minutes. The main focus of the eighth broadcast was as a report and discussion of the OTSU #02 and KSL Live World 2008 concerts held in May 2008. The ninth broadcast was released on June 19, 2008 and ran for about fifty-four minutes. The main focus of the ninth broadcast was of having Lia as a guest on the show. The tenth broadcast was released on July 11, 2008 and ran for about fifty minutes. The main focus of the tenth broadcast was of having Jun Maeda as a guest on the show along with giving a report on "Little Busters! Ecstasy". The eleventh broadcast was released on August 8, 2008 and ran for forty-one minutes. Since the previous two broadcasts had guests on the show, not much time was left to answer questions asked by listeners, so the eleventh broadcast is a listener submission special. The twelfth broadcast was released on September 19, 2008 and ran for about an hour.

An exclusive broadcast entitled "Key Radio Push!! ver" was included with the August 2008 issue of "Push!!" sold on June 21, 2008. [citeweb|url=http://www.max-p.jp/adult/2008/07/push8.html|title="Push!!" August 2008 issue|publisher=Max| accessdate=2008-08-08|language=Japanese] The main focus of the exclusive episode was of having the scenario writer Kai as a guest on the show. Kai has previously worked with Key on "Clannad", though at the time his most recent work was Ram's visual novel "5". [citeweb|url= http://erogamescape.ddo.jp/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/creater.php?creater=983|title=Kai's visual novel contributions|publisher= ErogameScape|accessdate=2008-08-08|language=Japanese]

References

External links

* [http://key.visualarts.gr.jp/gallery/radio/index.html Official website] ja icon