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planetarian Snow Globe Video Anime Reaches 50 Million Yen Stretch Goal

Visual Art's/Key's Campfire crowdfunding original soundtrack CD. The campaign will also give all backers 12 exclusive Yumemi constellation cards. The campaign announced a new 60 million yen ($547,400) stretch goal to include a new "celebration song" on the CD. The campaign will end on January 25

The campaign sured its base goal to raise 30 million yen ($276,000) on December 1, two days after launching. It sured its 40 million yen ($365,000) stretch goal to increase the length of the OVA on December 12. Staff originally planned for the OVA to be about 25 minutes long.

The new OVA will feature the prequel short story "Snow Globe," which debuted as part of a light novel volume that bundled with a limited-edition version of the original PC game. The other short stories in the compiled novel were "Jerusalem," "Hoshi no Hito" (Man of the Stars), and "Tircis to Aminte" (Tircis and Aminte). The novel also bundled with a limited edition of the PlayStation 2 version of the game, and Visual Art's VA Bunko imprint published it as a separate volume in 2008. The novel's four short stories inspired three drama CDs, and the Snow Globe CD debuted at Comic Market 71 in 2006.

Hyperdimension Neptunia) is also returning to design the characters.

Other staff include:

• Prop Design: Kazutaka Ema
• Art Director: Yukihiro Watanabe
• Art Setting: Takahiro Murata
• Color Desing: Yūko Satō
• Director of Photography: Naotaka Watanabe
• 3D Director: Yoji Nagasawa
• Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
• Sound Director: Takayuki Yamaguchi
• Sound Effects: Yasumasa Koyama
• Background Music, Music Production: Visual Art's/Key
• Supervisor: Naokatsu Tsuda

The previous planetarian anime project includes the five-episode adapts the main game's story, while the film is "another story" about what happens to Kuzuya afterward.

released the anime alongside the film on home video in August 2018.

Visual Art's/Key ran a debuted in July 2018.

Visual Art's/Key (Angel Beats!) originally released the planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~ "kinetic novel" in Japan on PC in 2004, before porting it to the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable consoles. The story takes place 30 years after a world war put a halt to space development. The protagonist, simply known as "the Junk Hunter," attempts to restore a planetarium's projector after meeting a robot.

Nintendo Switch version of the game in January 2019.

Sources: planetarian Snow Globe's Campfire page, Anime! Anime! (高橋克則)