11 Facts About Jun Maeda

At the time in the mid-1990s, scenario writers for consumer video games were inexperienced, so Jun Maeda decided to shoot for adult games instead.

At Scoop in 1997, he contributed as the main scenario writer for the company's first game, Chaos Queen Ryoko; however, Jun Maeda was not happy with the work environment and promptly filed his resignation with the company shortly after finishing his work on the scenario.

Around this time, Jun Maeda was inspired by Hiroyuki Kanno's pioneering 1996 eroge visual novel YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World.

Also in 2004, Jun Maeda began writing his first manga entitled Hibiki's Magic, which was first conceived as a short story he wrote as a student.

However, in an interview in the December 2007 issue of Dengeki G's Magazine, Jun Maeda said that he would still be working on the music for Key's next game.

In 2007, Jun Maeda composed the ending theme for the game Himawari no Chapel de Kimi to for the company Marron, and he was on the music staff for Ram's game 5 released in July 2008.

In 2016, Jun Maeda revealed that he was suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy, and that to recover from this condition, he would need a heart transplant.

In 2021, Jun Maeda published his first novel, Nekogarizoku no Osa.

Jun Maeda released the concept album Long Long Love Song featuring Anri Kumaki on July 26,2017.

In 2021, Jun Maeda wrote and composed one song for The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage titled "Beat of the Night", performed by Kaoru Sakura.

Jun Maeda wrote and composed the opening theme song for the 2022 anime series Prima Doll, titled "Tin Toy Melody".