A 24-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by Eight Bit and directed by Motoki Tanaka, aired between July 2016 and March 2017.

Throughout the game, the player encounters CG artwork at certain points in the story, which take the place of the background art and character sprites.

[1] Throughout gameplay, the player encounters minigames accessed through an in-game GPS system called Mappie, which is rendered as a point and click map.

[1] Gaia, an organization under the auspices of the environmental conservation group Martel, is populated by nihilistic and misanthropic people able to contract with familiars, which manifest as constructs fueled by the summoner's life force.

Martel itself used to be a church and contains within it a holy maiden group of girls with developmental disabilities trained to be choral singers of a song of destruction, aiming to drive out and force the Earth's collapse.

Gaia and Guardian came to Kazamatsuri in the pursuit of the Earth's familiar named Kagari, who manifests as a young, high school age-looking girl.

Kagari, the heroine of Rewrite, has the power to initiate a period of re-evolution, which restarts the process of evolving another means of intelligent life.

[11] Akane, a heroine in the game, is unenthusiastic towards Kotarou's pursuit of the supernatural, which she initially claims she does not believe in, but is later shown to be a figure of authority in Gaia.

Another heroine is first-year student Sizuru Nakatsu, a shy girl on the public ethics committee[16] who has excellent hearing, eyesight and can read lips.

After the five heroine's routes are completed, the story shifts to a setting amid a ruined Kazamatsuri where Kotarou encounters Kagari in a world after re-evolution, still on the Moon.

Kotarou agrees to help her and he acts as a double agent, demolishing Gaia's and Guardian's infrastructure in Kazamatsuri and killing those on either side.

Kazamatsuri is partly destroyed when Gaia attempts to force Kagari to initiate re-evolution, but Kotarou manages to stop this from occurring.

The five heroines, now in high school, investigate the tree as members of the occult research society and transform Kotarou into a familiar, but he refuses to do what they demand.

When he accepted it, Tanaka was still unaware that Maeda had stepped down as Key's main scenario writer, and he became more interested when he was told that he would write Rewrite's overall story.

[24] Tanaka was tasked with drawing up the entire scenario framework,[20] and during this time, Takahiro Baba suggested that one more heroine route be added to the story to bring the total to six, but to do that they had to hire another writer.

and Key's eighth game Kud Wafter, and a Kanon light novel titled Kanojotachi no Kenkai (彼女たちの見解, The Girls' Opinions) written by Mariko Shimizu and illustrated by Zen.

The program, which also came with the previously released demo, features Chihaya rolling down a hill and hitting boulders and Kotori's pet dog Chibi-Moth.

[39] The laptops feature five separate themes of system sounds, which use dialogue of the voice actresses of five Rewrite heroines: Kotori, Chihaya, Akane, Sizuru and Lucia.

[47] Prototype released a PlayStation Portable (PSP) port of Rewrite on April 17, 2014;[48] those who pre-ordered the game also received an exclusive drama CD.

Shortly after Rewrite's release, Tonokawa approached Takahiro Baba with the proposal, who gave his approval for the production of a fan disc.

The five system sound themes included with the Rewrite laptops were released with the fan disc, with the addition of dialogue of Kagari by Kana Hanazawa.

[59][60] To advertise Harvest festa!, Good Smile Racing produced an itasha (a car featuring illustrations of anime-styled characters) of a 2008 Daihatsu Hijet Cargo decorated with images from the game, and drove it around Japan between May 30 and July 26, 2012.

[71] A manga adaptation, illustrated by Sakana Tōjō and titled Rewrite: Side-B, began serialization in the October 2010 issue of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine.

[76][77] A second manga, illustrated by Shūichi Kawakami and titled Rewrite: Side-R, was serialized between the April 2011 and September 2013 issues of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Daioh.

[103] Three volumes of a short story compilation series by several authors titled Rewrite SSS were published by Harvest between October 2011 and January 2012.

Two singles for the anime were released on September 21, 2016: "End of the World / Hetakuso na Uta" by Anri Kumaki and "Word of Dawn / Okiraku Kyūsai" by Tada.

[134] According to public sales information published at Gamasutra, taken from the Japanese Amazon website, Rewrite was the number one top seller of PC games in Japan the day of its release.

[147] A mobile app game for iOS and Android titled Key Collection, produced by Index Corporation and distributed via Mobage, was released in September 2013.

The player collects cards of varying rarity featuring characters from several visual novels developed by Key, including Rewrite, obtained through completing various minigame missions, to form a team.

[148][149] A mobile social role-playing game for iOS and Android titled Rewrite IgnisMemoria, produced by Team Aeca under VisualArt's, was released on February 6, 2017.