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AIR
Key's visual novel AIR is currently available on Steam as part of a Summer Sale promotion, with no recent announcements regarding new adaptations, ports, or other developments.
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Yomimono stories · updated
Jun 28
Key's visual novel AIR appears in the Steam Summer Sale 2026 as one of 17 titles from the Visual Arts brand, discounted up to 65% off until July 10. The sale bundles AIR alongside other Key classics such as Kanon, CLANNAD, Little Busters!, and Summer Pockets. No other Yomimono stories published in the coverage period address AIR directly, and no new adaptations, sequels, or merchandise have been announced for the title.
The absence of dedicated coverage for AIR in the recent news cycle suggests the property is in a quiet period, with no new anime, game ports, or anniversary events reported. The Steam sale represents the only current activity tied to the visual novel, and it is a routine seasonal promotion rather than a targeted campaign for AIR specifically.
Key facts
- Steam Summer Sale inclusion
- AIR is one of 17 Key visual novels discounted up to 65% off in the Steam Summer Sale 2026, running until July 10. ↗
Timeline
- Jun 28, 2026 Kodansha House 2026 Pop-Up Event Comes to Los Angeles With New Art
- Jun 27, 2026 Palworld 1.0 Patch Notes Run 27 Pages, Pocketpair Says
- Jun 27, 2026 Airship Syndicate Announces Sci-Fi Prison Break Game Dust: Origins
- Jun 27, 2026 Key Visual Novels Up to 65% Off in Steam Summer Sale 2026
- Jun 27, 2026 Cake×Bomb Volume 7 Gets Live Commentary CM and PV
- Jun 27, 2026 Game Dev Story++ Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Released Today
- Jun 27, 2026 The World's Strongest Witch Anime Adds Fairouz Ai, Honoka Inoue to Cast
- Jun 27, 2026 The Fledgling Demon Lord's Starter Shop TV Anime Debuts in January 2027
- Jun 24, 2026 CAKE, WEP Partner to Distribute Voltron Franchise Globally
- Jun 23, 2026 Fairy Tail Wendy Marvel Bunny Figure Opens Pre-Orders on Amazon
- Jun 18, 2026 Fairy Tail's Mirajane Strauss Gets 1/4 Scale Bunny Figure
- Jun 17, 2026 AI Charmy Brand Launches With Ken Matsudaira Talking Plushie
- Jun 15, 2026 Bonginkan Releases Open Source AI Agent Research Project Fairy Tale
- Jun 13, 2026 Yuma Uchida, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Misato Matsuoka Join Iruma-Kun Season 4 Cast
- Jun 11, 2026 Horror Game 'If You Get Scared, You Lose' Launches on Steam
- Jun 11, 2026 Super Danganronpa 2 x ZOZOTOWN Collaboration Pre-Orders Open With New Murakaruki Art
- Jun 10, 2026 New Fairy Princess Minky Momo OVA Opens in Japanese Theaters on November 13
- Jun 9, 2026 One Piece: Grand Gourmet Management Game Announced for October 2026
- Jun 9, 2026 Kairosoft and Bandai Namco Announce One Piece Restaurant Management Game
- Jun 8, 2026 Gaming Cat Tops Worldwide App Store Downloads Among Japanese Publishers in Q4 2025
- Jun 8, 2026 New Fairy Tail Miniseries Titled Fairy Tail Re:Fantasia, Focuses on Laxus
- Jun 6, 2026 Cairn DLC 'On The Trail' Launches August 13, 2026
- Jun 6, 2026 Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Adds Godzilla, Evangelion, and More Collaborations
- Jun 6, 2026 Palworld Official Version 1.0 Launches July 10 With Biggest Update Yet
- Jun 3, 2026 Ben Stegmair Discusses Mentorship and Manga Rushmore on Something Genuine
- Jun 3, 2026 Fairy Tail 20th Anniversary Ichiban Kuji Reveals Natsu, Lucy, Happy, and Erza Figures
- Jun 2, 2026 ShoPro Channel Rebrands as ShoPro Anime Channel, Starts Free Mirmo! Streams
- Jun 1, 2026 Honō no Tōkyūjo: Dodge Danko Anime Reveals July 6 Debut, More Cast
- Jun 1, 2026 Irocks And Shirakami Fubuki Release Keyboard And Ergonomic Chair
- May 30, 2026 Anime Feminist Round-Up Covers Publisher Ethics, Accessibility, and Joseimuke Winter
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- included in Steam Summer Sale 2026 promotion with discounts up to 65% off · 2026-06-27
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6d ago
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Sep 21
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Sep 20
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Sep 19
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Sep 19
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Sep 19
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Sep 18
Netflix will stream "Lilith & Cinderella's Fairy Tale Kingdom" worldwide starting Friday, November 20, and a teaser trailer and teaser art are out. The animated film comes from the studio behind "KPop Demon Hunters" and retells Cinderella through her stepsister Lilith, who steals a magic wand and teams up with Cinderella. Alice Tso and John Ripa direct, with Ali Wong as Lilith, Amanda Seyfried as Cinderella, and Bette Midler among the cast.
Sep 17
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Sep 16
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Sep 15
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Sep 13
NHK's game music concert Symphonic Gamers 5, subtitled Melodies of Adventure Across Time and Space, returns to NHK BS at 0:40 on September 20, late night on September 19. The broadcast covers an orchestral program drawn from the Super Mario series, the Monster Hunter series, Kirby Air Ride, Chrono Trigger, Journey, Shadow of the Colossus, Tales of the Abyss, Granblue Fantasy, Okami, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, and Final Fantasy IX. Game director Masahiro Sakurai and voice actress Ruriko Aoki appear as MCs. The setlist runs from Super Mario's Above Ground BGM and Piranha March through Monster Hunter's Proof of a Hero and its Wilds version, Kirby Air Ride's Legendary Air Ride Machine, Chrono Trigger's Wind Scene and Frog's Theme, Okami's Reset (Thank You Version), Sakuna's Yanato Rice Planting Song, and Final Fantasy IX's Battle 1 and The Place I'll Return to Someday. NHK's official website and the streaming service NHK ONE carry performer and setlist details.
Sep 13
The October issue of Square Enix's Shonen Gangan announced on Thursday that Kyo Shirodaira and Yuri Kimura's The Record of a Fallen Vampire will get a new series, Vampire Jujikai: Inu ni wa Inu no Uta, in the magazine's next issue on October 9. The magazine also teases an important announcement about the series in that same issue.
Sep 13
The official Palworld X account posted a photo on August 13 showing a monitor outside a Pocketpair meeting room that reads "Palworld v1.1 Kickoff 2026/08/13 15:00-17:00." Taken literally, an initial planning meeting for version 1.1 was held that afternoon. The English account posted similarly, and replies are filling with update requests from players. Updates to the first decimal place count as major updates for Palworld.
Sep 11
Tenkuu released the AYANEO Pocket AIR Mini Arcade Edition Domestic Official Version on September 11, 2026, a limited model of a few hundred units worldwide priced at 29,800 yen including tax. It comes with an AYANEO-developed emulator and 24 arcade games licensed by Taiwanese publisher International Games System. The Crimson Red body has gold buttons and sticks, MediaTek Helio G90T, 2GB RAM, 32GB storage, and a 4:3 1280 x 960 LCD.
Sep 11
Hatano Seisakusho, the Osaka maker of bath fittings, will open a CAMPFIRE crowdfunding project for AiR JOKER on September 16. The device electrolyzes a teaspoon of salt and tap water into electrolyzed hypochlorous water, spraying it as mist about twice a month for roughly 25 minutes to suppress mold. Planned general price is 29,810 yen, with backer-only early-bird pricing.
Sep 10
Apple raised prices on the iPhone 16, 17, 17e and Air alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and the foldable iPhone Duo announcements, by 12,000 to 48,000 yen per model and capacity. Coming after a July domestic increase, cumulative rises reach 25,000 to 30,000 yen, and 65,000 yen on the 1TB iPhone Air. The same revision was applied in the United States.
Sep 10
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Sep 9
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Sep 9
The TV anime adaptation of Reno Lemaire's French manga "Dreamland" has added three new cast members ahead of its October 17 premiere. Takuya Eguchi will voice Savana, a foul-mouthed, quick-tempered charismatic fighter; Hiroyuki Yoshino plays Saba, an easygoing art college student; and Masahiko Tanaka voices Yung, a mysterious old man who knows Dreamland's secrets. The series follows Terrence, a boy who lost his mother in a fire and, after overcoming his fear of fire within a nightmare, awakens as a Dreamer who travels the dream world. The original manga is a cult favorite in France with over 800,000 copies in print. The anime will air in the ANiMAZiNG!!! slot on ABC TV and TV Asahi affiliates across 24 stations nationwide. Production is handled by Ellipse and La Chouette Compagnie, with directors Juan Pablo Machado and Joe Celse at the helm. The Japanese localization features sound direction by Soichiro Kubo and production by Tohokushinsha and Amuse Creative Studio.
Sep 9
Airframe Ultra, the hoverbike battle racer from Videocult and publisher Akupara Games, launches November 5, 2026. The game is set in Mega City West, a ruined future metropolis where riders pilot floating machines called Airframes through underground races, using pipes, chains, plasma torches, and swords to attack rivals. It supports split-screen and online multiplayer, plus customization for the Airframe and rider. A demo is now live on Steam.
Sep 9
Kameoka City launches a free interactive mystery game, 'Kameoka City Mayor Katsuragawa Kidnapping Case,' on September 18, tied to the 43rd National Urban Greenery Fair in Kyoto Tanba. Participants play police officers for one hour, solving puzzles via LINE and smartphones across a course from JR Kameoka Station to Hozugawa Park. The sitting mayor appears bound in the main visual. Nozomi Kubota of Creator's NEXT produces, following his 2024 brainwave art project at Sanga Stadium by KYOCERA.
Sep 8
Pocket Pair published the giveaway and merchandise lineup for its Tokyo Game Show 2026 booth on September 8. TGS 2026 runs September 17 to 21 at Makuhari Messe, with general public days from September 19 to 21. The main booth offers a Kigurumi Tsupper Nyan PR card for the Palworld Official Card Game, a limited T-shirt featuring Pals from version 1.0, and a junk towel depicting Bushigael taking a bath. A Palworld x Red Bull collaboration vending machine distributes Red Bull cans with a limited sticker using a newly drawn N'dakoala illustration. The merchandise booth sells a ball-chain plush currently available overseas, a Paripidon one-point T-shirt, a mug, and a tumbler. Purchase bonuses include a Kigurumi Okocho PR Soul Card for purchases of 3,000 yen or more, an Okocho Shopper Bag for the first 100 people who buy 20,000 yen or more of Palworld Official Card Game booster packs, and a 3D Seal for any single purchase. The roles for all 23 official cosplayers were also revealed, and a food truck in the outdoor food court hands out 3D Seals and original wet tissues with food purchases.
Sep 7
Yanmaga Web is offering the Swamp arc of Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji free until September 13. The free run covers chapters 48 through 134, in which Kaiji, entrusted with a large sum by his comrades, takes on a pachinko machine called the swamp at a casino. The publisher said it arranged the urgent release with author Nobuyuki Fukumoto's permission after the arc drew attention. The manga ran in Weekly Young Magazine from 2000 to 2004.
Sep 7
The Nijisanji VTuber unit Nanajigen Seitokai! will release its new album Nanajigen Kairou on November 11, 2026, in three editions. First press limited A includes a bonus Blu-ray and six replica canvas-style cards; limited B carries a remastered CD and six replica profile sheets. All editions include a serial code for a lottery into the January 23, 2027 live event. Animate offers a six-piece aurora sticker set and runs a release campaign from November 10 to 16.
Sep 7
Akupara Games and Videocult will release the battle racing game Airframe Ultra on November 5 for PC via Steam, Epic Games, and GOG.com. The retro-styled racer has players piloting hover vehicles at high speed, dismounting at midpoints for combat, then racing again to settle the score. Up to eight players can race online, and split-screen play with friends is supported.
Sep 4
The television anime adaptation of Jura's manga My Girlfriend's Friend will premiere on Tokyo MX on October 4 at 25:05, effectively October 5 at 1:05 a.m. New cast members are Riho Sugiyama as Miyuki and Ryōka Yuzuki as Kaori's mother. Airots performs the opening theme 'Gingira' and Ceui performs the ending theme 'False Love.' The 'Complete Deregula' version streams on AnimeFesta starting October 5.
Sep 4
Tenku will release ONE-NETBOOK's OneXFly APEX Air portable gaming PC in Japan on September 11. The variation model of the OneXFly APEX carries Intel's Arc G3 Extreme SoC, 32GB of memory, and 1TB of storage for 298,000 yen. The 8-inch 120Hz LCD unit weighs about 639g without the battery, down from roughly 699g. Reservations are open, and the unit will appear at the ONE-NETBOOK booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026.
Sep 4
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Sep 4
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Sep 3
The Kirby Air Ride amiibo Cook Kawasaki & Hop Star launched on September 3 at Nintendo Store and other retailers for 6,600 yen. A limited in-game event, Super Spicy! Cook Kawasaki Army, runs September 10-15, featuring City Trial team battles where players and CPU opponents are all Cook Kawasaki.
Sep 2
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Sep 1
ARROVA will sell a Matsuken Samba II costume and dance motion with music as VRChat digital fashion on the TOKYO AVATAR GATE marketplace starting September 9, 2026 at 17:00. The items are based on 3D model and motion data from Ken Matsudaira's previous virtual live performances, with ARROVA producing and V Inc. handling the VRChat costume and gimmick implementation. Material data comes from Sanki Promotion and Shogakukan. Three products go on sale: a set combining the kimono costume with the dance motion and music gimmick for 1,650 yen, and the costume alone or the gimmick alone for 1,100 yen each. The gimmick lets desktop users dance the Matsuken Samba II along with the music. A limited-time event runs in the TOKYO AVATAR GATE world on VRChat from September 12 to October 2, 2026. During the event, an 'All-Night Matsuken Time Signal' plays the song once an hour at five minutes past, and twice an hour on Fridays. The world also holds a hunt for 10 hidden Mini Matsuken figures and a photo spot with Ken Matsudaira's 3D model and a gold flurry filter.
Aug 30
WorldX Inc. announced KAIROS, an AI Video Operating System for enterprises that supports video communication for Japanese companies. KAIROS integrates planning, generation, review, and multi-format distribution into a single workflow based on corporate knowledge, aiming for high efficiency and cost optimization in corporate video production.
Aug 29
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Aug 29
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Aug 29
The Game Bakers revealed the first DLC for rock climbing sim Cairn at gamescom 2026. The free expansion, On the Trail, is a prequel set a year before the main story. It adds Marco as a playable character, introduces Deep Water Soloing, and is scheduled for PC and PlayStation 5 release after a slight delay.
Aug 29
Premium Bandai opened pre-orders for a PG UNLEASHED 1/60 Nu Gundam expansion set with clear exterior parts and six Fin Funnels, priced at 16,500 yen with shipment in December 2026. Reprints of the MG Sazabi Ver.Ka and RE/100 Nightingale Funnel Effect Set and the RE/100 Jagd Doga (Quess Air Unit) also began.
Aug 29
Amazon Japan is holding a Kindle Books 99 Yen Sale until September 3, with four manga series priced at 99 yen per volume: Air Master, Iron no Linebarrel Kanzenban, Hana no Keiji -Kumo no Kanata ni-, and Kurosagi. Bundle purchases are available, with all 28 volumes of Air Master costing 2,772 yen.
Aug 28
TBS's documentary program Jounetsu Tairiku will feature horror writer Suneji, who became a symbol of the recent horror boom after her debut web novel, About a Certain Place in the Kinki Region, surpassed 22 million page views and later sold over 1 million copies as a book. The show followed her since May, capturing her daily life and work during the busy midsummer horror season. It airs August 30 at 23:10 on MBS/TBS, with streaming on TVer.
Aug 28
The official website for the new Fairy Princess Minky Momo OVA announced four more cast members on Friday: Show Hayami as the King of Diginarsa, Kikuko Inoue as the Queen, Kazuyuki Okitsu as Momo's father, and Mie Sonozaki as her worrywart mother. The OVA opens in Japanese theaters on November 13.
Aug 28
The October issue of Kadokawa's Monthly Shonen Ace magazine published the final chapter of Waka Sanada's manga adaptation of Teika's The Delinquent Girl Beside Me Suddenly Dyed Her Hair Black light novel series on Wednesday. The fourth and final compiled book volume ships in late November. One Peace Books publishes the series in English.
Aug 28
Tatsunoko Production announced the short anime project Matsuken Anime will debut August 29 on YouTube. Ken Matsudaira voices the title character Matsuken, and Sumire Uesaka voices his dog companion Matsu Inu. Daisuke Namikawa voices other characters. The project adapts Matsudaira's 'Matsuken Samba' songs into stories where good triumphs over evil.
Aug 21
LEGO Group and NIKE announce a new collaboration set recreating the Nike Air Force 1 sneaker from 1,093 bricks. It includes an astronaut minifigure that performs a 360-degree dunk when a dial is turned. General sales begin September 1, 2026, at 15,980 yen. Four other NIKE x LEGO sets are currently on sale.
Aug 21
Tomohito Takatsuka and Yōko Hikasa have joined the cast of the new Fairy Princess Minky Momo OVA, playing the young man Rubato and the boy Peter. The OVA, titled Mahō no Princess Minky Momo Akogare no Yume e Magokoro no Duo, opens in Japan on November 13. It is the franchise's first new OVA since 1994's Minky Momo in The Station of Your Memories.
Aug 20
Pocketpair will exhibit at Tokyo Game Show 2026 with its largest booth in company history, featuring life-size statues of Pals like Sekhmet and Nyansie, a moving Jetdran statue, and dark humor exhibits including cages and a Mokoron holding a machine gun. The booth includes photo spots, an assault event, a cosplay stage with 23 cosplayers, and playable demos of Windrose and Never Grave.
Aug 20
Disney+ presented a teaser promotional video for Episode of Savanaclaw, the second season of the Disney Twisted-Wonderland The Animation series, on Thursday. The teaser introduces Fairouz Ai as the voice of Yuuka Hirasaka, a high school student who excels at judo and the protagonist of the second season. On the way home from a judo tournament, she encounters a mysterious carriage that whisks her away to Twisted-Wonderland. Episode of Savanaclaw will begin streaming exclusively on Disney+ in December 2026. The first season, Episode of Heartslabyul, debuted exclusively on Disney+ in October 2025, and the overall anime will run for three seasons. The seasons adapt the original game's accompanying manga under the titles Episode of Heartslabyul, Episode of Savanaclaw, and Episode of Octavinelle. The anime's English dub debuted on Disney+ and Hulu on the same day the anime premiered. Takahiro Natori is serving as chief director and series script supervisor, and Shin Katagai is directing at Yumeta Company and Graphinica. Yoichi Kato is credited as the main writer. Hanaka Nakano and Akane Sato are designing the characters. Takumi Ozawa, the composer of the game, is also composing the music in the anime itself.
Aug 19
Anime 'Mairimashita! Iruma-kun' and LAFARY are releasing collaboration goods on September 11, 2026. The lineup features nine items with newly drawn chocolate-themed illustrations, including badges, acrylic stands, tapestries, and T-shirts. Store sales have purchase limits and numbered tickets, while online orders run through September 30.
Aug 19
Hello Games CEO Sean Murray responded warmly to a post about a potential Palworld collaboration, after Pocketpair publishing head John Buckley had repeatedly expressed interest. Murray's heart reaction marks the first positive response in an exchange that had seemed one-sided, raising hopes for a collaboration between the two games.
Aug 18
Files in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate reveal Apple is developing camera-equipped AirPods, codenamed B790. A demo video shows the Visual Intelligence feature, letting Siri answer questions about the wearer's surroundings. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman suggests a release as early as September 2026, possibly alongside the iPhone 18 Pro.
Aug 18
Rock unit XASTAR, formed by V-singer MaiR and guitarist FKBC, launched a crowdfunding campaign on August 8 for their 2nd full album and 2nd one-man live. The target is 10 million yen, with 95% already collected. The live will be held at harevutai and streamed via Z-aN. The album is slated for spring 2027, featuring guest artists for the first time, starting with Asano Ruri.