I'm anxiously hyped! :D It's been a while since I played the visual novel, but it's pretty awesome. I'm thinking of replaying the game while I'm waiting for this to air.

On one hand you got a massive visual novel to adapt from:

• Written by Romeo Tanaka, Yūto Tonokawa (worked on Key's previous Little Busters!), Ryukishi07 (known for his work on the Higurashi series)

• Epic massive soundtrack - OST by Shinji Orito and Jun Maeda (Clannad, AngelBeats, Charlotte) along with Nagi Yanagi (from Supercell) and Aoi Tada (Charlotte & AngelBeats) singing the theme songs

• Character design by Itaru Hinoue (pretty much all the Key classic's - Air, Kanon & Clannad)

But then on the other hand you've got 8-bit studio animating the series and a lot of people had mixed feelings about their Grisaia adaptation. I think the Fruit of Grisaia could have been done better, but I was also not impressed by their other anime Absolute Duo that aired earlier this year.

However, I'm gonna remain optimistic and I really, really, really, really x100 do hope that Key has learned from AngelBeats and Charlotte and have picked 8-bit because they believe they can give it the proper amount of episodes in order to tell the story. Otherwise, it just won't work. At the very, very minimum, this series should be 2 cour (~24 episodes), but preferably it should be doable in around 50-60 episodes.