Update 2: The submission wiki is currently a bit unstable (Someone needs to give me a lecture on properly configuring php-fpm, I think). It is highly recommended that you save your text on your computer first before submitting it. We will give a bit of a leeway for letter/message submissions if this is causing any trouble.

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Hello, fellow Kagikko! It’s again been a while since our last post, and there are several announcements that I have piled up, so here’s a short, new status update!

First, we will now impose a deadline of April 1st on letter and messages, and a deadline of April 27th on images submissions to the Key 15th Project. I notice that this announcement is a bit of a short notice, but we decided to create this deadline in order to allow our translators enough time to prepare for the translations of the messages and letters, as well as to give our designer adequate time to design the layout of the yearbook. Please note that since this deadline is created for submissions that require translations, image submissions will have a bit of leeway.

I would also like to announce that we have received our first batch of DeviantArt submissions from the #Key-Visual-Arts-Club. Thanks to everyone’s contributions and the relentless effort of Dafoose (one of #Key-Visual-Arts-Club’s co-founders), the batch of more than 90 fan art has brought us to over 210 submissions! Featured above is an illustration of Kanade by Karuma-chan, another co-founder of the club. These submissions can be found here.

I am running out of things to say for this post, but we will have another post soon (probably later this month) to discuss some ideas that we have been cooking up. Until then, please continue working on your submission if you haven’t submitted yet!

Edit: Following discussions with other staff members, we will stop accepting letters and messages on April 1st; this is also the “preferred deadline” for images. The stated April 27th is the deadline for images.

For those who are unfamiliar with the project, the Key 15th project is a fan-coordinated effort to reach out to Key with a collection of fan messages, letters, and illustrations to showcase international fan support of their works and to commemorate their fifteenth anniversary.

Since it’s been a month since our last update, it’s time for another (and this year’s first) project update! First of all, I would like to thank all of the individuals and groups who have participated in spreading the word of the project. Thanks to everyone’s effort, the Key15th Project saw a huge boost in the number of submissions over the holiday season, and we now have over 80 submissions, not including those that are submitted to one of the participating groups over at DeviantArt (shout out to #ClannadClub and #Key-Visual-Arts-Club)!

On the more technical side of the project, we recently redesigned the submission form to make it look (hopefully) easier to navigate and more intuitive. I am happy to announce that this new submission form also supports uploading multiple attachments without the previously-used Upload Wizard (which probably confused a lot of people since it didn’t add the files to the submissions directly). For an example of a submission having multiple attachments, please take a look at CuteMichiyo’s cosplay photography submission. In addition, we also added a contact form for any questions pertaining to the project or submission; you are still welcome to ask questions over at the IRC channel.

On other news, I am also very happy to pass on the news that Planetarian, the kinetic novel by Key, is now available in English on iOS, and that the complete English patch for Rewrite has been completed by the fine folks over at Amaterasu! I would like to encourage everyone to give these visual novels a try, and send in a letter or a short message to express their gratitude. To coincide with the completion of the Rewrite translation, we are featuring RandomDesu’s wonderful Rewrite fan art submission as this post’s accompanying image.

We have some exciting things planned for later this year. Until then, please stay tuned for more updates.

- Cloud668

For those who are unfamiliar with the project, the Key 15th project is an effort to reach out to Key with a collection of fan messages, letters, and illustrations to showcase international fan support of their works.

It’s been a little more than a month since the project was announced, and even though it took a little longer than I expected, I am happy to announce that we are now taking submissions! As reported in our last post, we were deciding between using MediaWiki or Shimmie, and after some evaluations, we decided to go with using a MediaWiki installation to accept and host the submissions. With the help of a couple extensions, we were able to create a simple, standardized submission process that should make it easy for anyone to submit something.

We are now accepting messages, letters, and images (fan art, cosplay, etc.) over at our Submission Wiki. Registration is not required for submissions, but it is highly recommended as it helps with user identification and allows for email notifications. It is, however, required for file uploads. To provide a few examples, some of the messages and images submitted to the Key 10th Anniversary Letter Project have been uploaded to the submission wiki. Please read the criteria first before submitting something. Note that although we do accept video submissions, we are still working out the guidelines/criteria for that aspect of the project, and video uploads are not currently allowed on the wiki. If you have any questions about submitting something, please leave a comment here or join us on IRC.

We do not have a set date for when we will stop accepting submissions, which will last until January at the earliest, and probably longer than that. At the end of the submission phase, we will collect these fan submissions to the best of our capacity into a yearbook and DVD, which we will print and send to Key and related publishers on Key’s 15th anniversary next year. As a huge fan of Key, I personally ask you to please take a moment to voice your appreciation to Key and its staff members, and help showing them the extent of its fan base outside of Japan.