 Shortly before the release of "Clannad", two autographed illustrations by Hinoue were put onto the Japanese Yahoo!Auction website in April 2004; bidding for the drawings started at 1 yen (about US$0.01).One of the drawings was bid on by forty-eight people was sold for 479,000 yen (about US$4,300), while the second drawing was bid on by 113 people and fetched 531,000 yen (about US$4,800).