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===Tactics to Key=== After leaving Scoop in 1997, Maeda went to work for the newly-formed company [[Tactics]] under the publisher [[Nexton]]. There, he went to work on the scenario and musical composition of Tactics' second game ''[[Moon.]]'', followed by his work on the scenario for their third game ''[[One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e]]'' in 1998. After realizing the positive reception received for both titles, Maeda and much of the staff who made both ''Moon.'' and ''One'', including [[Itaru Hinoue]], [[Shinji Orito]], [[Naoki Hisaya]], and [[OdiakeS]], left Tactics to work under the video game publishing company [[Visual Art's]] where they formed the company [[Key]]. After forming Key, Maeda worked on the music and scenario for their first title ''[[Kanon]]'' released in 1999, which proved to be very popular in the [[Eroge|adult game]] market in Japan. Beside Maeda, the majority of ''Kanon'''s scenario was written by Naoki Hisaya, but he quit Key shortly after ''Kanon'' was produced. Following this, Maeda wrote most of the scenario for Key's next title ''[[Air]]'', along with again working as the lyricist and one of the composers for the music featured in the game. After a period of four years in 2004, Key released their third and longest game ''[[Clannad]]'' where Maeda did a vast amount of the writing for the game; in all, Maeda put in around 75% of the work that went into the creation of ''Clannad''. Also in 2004, Maeda began writing his first [[manga]] entitled ''Hibiki's Magic'', which was first conceived as a short story he wrote as a student.<ref name="volume1">{{cite book|last=Maeda|first=Jun|title=''Hibiki's Magic'' volume 1|publisher=[[Tokyopop]]}}</ref> In 2005, Maeda worked on the scenario and music for Key's fifth game ''[[Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life]]'', followed by Key's sixth title ''[[Little Busters!]]'' released in July 2007 which he also worked on the in regards to the scenario and music. Maeda was reported to say in the February 2007 issue of ''[[Comptiq]]'' that after the completion of ''Little Busters!'', he would not be working on the scenario staff for Key any longer. However, in an interview in the December 2007 issue of ''Dengeki G's Magazine'', Maeda said that he would still be working on the music for Key's next game.<ref>{{citation|title=Jun Maeda and Shinji Orito Interview|magazine=[[Dengeki G's Magazine]]|date=[[October 30]] [[2007]]|publisher=[[MediaWorks (publisher)|MediaWorks]]}}</ref> In 2007, Maeda also composed the ending theme for the game ''Himawari no Chapel de Kimi to'' for the company Marron, and he is also on the music staff for [[Ram|Ram's]] game ''5''.<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.marron.nu/web/himawari/index.html|title=Himawari no Chapel de Kimi to official website|accessdate=2007-11-16|language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{citeweb|url=http://ram.product.co.jp/5staff.html|title= The staff for the visual novel 5|publisher=[[Ram (company)|Ram]]|accessdate=2007-11-16|language=Japanese}}</ref>
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