Important Importables: Air doujin games

Key’s Air visual novel may have began life as an adult visual novel, but its popularity has made it more than that. Later releases of the game for consoles and handhelds had the adult content removed, so a wider audience could enjoy the game. It later inspired a manga, an anime, an animated film and drama cds.

However, fans have taken the series much further with doujin games. A doujin game is typically a computer game that may or may not be related to an existing anime/manga/video game/series. The irony of Air is that none of the popular doujin games created to honor the series that I found while researching are visual novels, for mature audiences or closely related to the series’ storyline. Instead, these high quality fan games cover a wide variety of genres. If you find a doujin game to download online, chances are it is a demo version. The original games are often created for, and sold at, conventions.

Thanks to the wonder that is Google, anyone who searches for the games and information on them should have no trouble finding a demo copy to test out. Let’s take a brief look over Air Flight, Air Force, AirRade, Air Tennis, Eternal Fighter Zero, Kanon & Air Smash and Pocket Kanon & Air and see what each game has to offer…