In 2020, Jun Maeda (Kanon, Air, Clannad, Angel Beats!) briefly disappeared from Twitter and public life during the broadcast of The Day I Became a God. He returned with a different account in May 2021 and started posting regularly about his work again after the release of his Heaven Burns Red smartphone game in February 2022.
However, that streak of activity has now come to an end, as Maeda has deleted his second Twitter account as of Saturday.
His final posts addressed criticisms of the game’s “Seishun! 31A Mujintо̄ Survival Seikatsu ~Tokidoki Game Over~” (Youth! 31A Deserted Island Survival ~Occasional Game Over~) event story on Friday. He quote retweeted a tweet complaining that the game’s story has become boring and wrote, “It has become like this. I am sorry for not being good enough.”
He also responded to another comment speculating whether another writer handled…