 The music in the game was composed primarily by Shinji Orito, Jun Maeda, and Magome Togoshi, who had started working with Key since before "Kanon"s release.After the completion of "Air", two of the staff—Kazuki Fujii, and Takashi Ishikawa—left Key.Jun Maeda, the main scenario writer of "Air", commented that in the early stages of "Air" production, it was already decided that it was to be an adult game, and he further assumes that if it was not at least first released with adult content, that it would not have been as commercially successful.