Visual novel writer Jun Maeda enters palliative care for throat cancer

Japanese visual novel publisher Visual Arts announced that writer and composer Jun Maeda has chosen palliative care after a throat cancer diagnosis, rather than chemotherapy, to conserve his strength for creative work. Maeda wrote the main scenarios for Air, Clannad and Kanon and the lyrics for Air's theme song Tori no Uta. Visual Arts said his work on Heaven Burns Red is complete through chapter six and that he remains hospitalized but determined to keep creating.