Type-moon

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Notes (Type-Moon)
legal form Yūgen-gaisha (Ltd.)
founding 2003
Seat JapanJapan Japan
Branch Software development
Website www.typemoon.com

Type-Moon is a Japanese game developer of eroge - visual novels (erotic, interactive novels) founded by the author Kinoko Nasu and the illustrator Takashi Takeuchi .

Originally, Type-Moon was a Dōjin Circle (Fan Circle ) by Nasu and Takeuchi. After the great commercial success of their work Tsukihime , which even received an anime version as Dōjin Game , and Melty Blood , they founded the company YK Notes ( 有限会社 ノ ー ツ , Yūgen-gaisha Nōtsu ) based on Nasu's short story Notes in 2003 . , from which the name Type-Moon originates, and whose director is Takeuchi. Type-Moon has been the brand under which this company has been operating ever since. Another well-known work is Fate / stay night .

history

Type-Moon was founded by the illustrator Takashi Takeuchi and the writer Kinoko Nasu , whose first major project was the novel Kara no Kyōkai . It was first published on the Internet in October 1998 and then published as a book by Kodansha Verlag in 2004 and 2007 . In December 2000, Type Moon published the eroge visual novel Tsukihime for PC on Comiket , which sold more than 100,000 copies just through word of mouth. This game was adapted , very rarely for fan productions, in 2003 as the anime series Shingetsutan Tsukihime by JCStaff , based on which a manga series followed in 2004 .

In January 2001, Type-Moon released the Plus-Disk , an expansion for Tsukihime that introduced three side stories, along with multimedia content. In August 2001 the continuation of Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tōya followed . In April 2003, a box named Tsuki-Bako was released, which contained three CDs: Tsukihime , Plus + Disk (an expanded version of the Plus Disc ) and Kagetsu Tōya , as well as a remix soundtrack for both games.

In December 2002, Type Moon published in cooperation with the dojin Circle Watanabe Seisakusho (from 2003 French Bread ), which specializes in fighting games, the fighting game with visual novel elements Melty Blood , which is based on the Tsukihime universe. The Melty Blood: ReACT expansion pack followed in May 2004 . A patch update called Melty Blood: ReACT Final Tuned was offered as a free download. Also unusual for Dōjin Games, the game received ports through Ecole Software only in March 2005 for the arcade machine Sega NAOMI and then in August 2006 for the PlayStation 2 .

Type-Moon went from a dōjin circle to a commercial company called Notes in 2003 , whose first commercial / professional computer game was the eroge visual novel Fate / stay night on January 30, 2004 . The game was adapted on December 26, 2005 in Shōnen Ace magazine as a manga series that is still running today (as of March 2011), in 2006 as a 24-part anime series and on January 23, 2010 as the movie Fate / stay night Unlimited Blade Works . A sequel to Fate / stay night called Fate / hollow ataraxia was released on October 28, 2005. In May 2007, Fate / stay night was ported to the PlayStation 2.

At the 72nd Comiket in 2007 they released the All Around TYPE-MOON drama CD .

Works

Type-Moon has developed and produced the following:

Novels

  • Kara no Kyōkai , novel, first published in October 1998, then reissued in 2004 and 2007.

Tsukihime

  • Tsukihime, eroge visual novel, first published for the computer in December 2000.
  • Tsukihime Plus Disc released January 2001.
  • Kagetsu Tōya, Tsukihime successor to the computer, published August 2001.
  • Tsukibako, a special edition that includes three CDs; Tsukihime, Plus + Disc and Kagetsu Tōya, as well as a remixed soundtrack for both games, released in April 2003.
  • Tsukihime, a remake of the original game.

Fate /

  • Fate / stay night , eroge visual novel for the computer, published January 30, 2004. A DVD version was published March 29, 2006. A PS2 version was released in 2007 under the title Fate / stay night Réalta Nua without the eroge content .
  • Fate / hollow ataraxia, sequel to Fate / stay night for the computer, released October 28, 2005.
  • Fate / Zero , prequel as light novel , released December 12, 2006. In collaboration with Nitroplus .
  • Fate / tiger colosseum, 3D fighting game for PlayStation Portable (PSP), released on September 13, 2007. Published by Capcom and Cavia .
  • Fate / Strange Fake, is a novel and manga series by Ryōgo Narita from 2008.
  • Fate / Unlimited Codes, arcade game , PS2 and PSP 3D fighting game released in October 2008 (PSP 2009 version) developed by 8ing / Raizing and Cavia, published by Capcom.
  • Fate / Extra, an RPG for the PlayStation Portable, released March 2010.
  • Fate / Prototype, the original version of Fate / stay night as a single episode OVA, was released on December 31, 2011.
  • Fate / Apocrypha, an alternate story in a parallel world to Fate / Stay Night, was released as a light novel on December 29, 2012.
  • Fate / Extra CCC, sequel to the Fate / Extra RPG, was released on March 28, 2013.
  • Fate / Grand Order, turn-based smartphone RPG released on July 29, 2015 in Japan
  • Fate / Extella: The Umbral Star, a video game between Fate / Extra and Fate / Extra CCC, released on November 10, 2016
  • Fate / Grand Order: First Order, a TV special for the RPG smartphone, released December 31, 2016

Melty Blood

  • Melty Blood, fighting game for the computer, in collaboration with Watanabe Seisakusho / French-Bread , released December 2002.
  • Melty Blood ReACT, expansion pack for Melty Blood, released May 2004.
  • Melty Blood ReACT Final Tuned, update patch for Melty Blood ReACT, released as a free download.
  • Melty Blood: Act Cadenza, arcade port of Melty Blood, released for the PlayStation 2 in 2006 .
  • Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Version B, new version of Act Cadenza, released July 27, 2007.
  • Melty Blood: Actress Again, current game version A.

Mahotsukai no Yoru

  • Mahōtsukai no Yoru with the English subtitle Witch on the Holy Night is a adult visual novel in the Tsukihime universe with graphics by Hirokazu Koyama , the plot of which was originally written before Tsukihime. This game was released on April 12, 2012.

Girl's work

  • Girl's Work, originally announced as an adult visual novel in 2008, then discontinued and re-announced as an anime series. The scenario is said to come from the former Liarsoft employee Hoshizora Meteo.

Other works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 現代 作家 ガ イ ド - 奈 須 き の こ （な す き の こ） ("Contemporary writers - Kinoko Nasu"). In: Excite ブ ッ ク ス . Archived from the original on February 13, 2008 ; Retrieved January 6, 2009 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ 【TGS2008】 「428 the animation」 TYPE-MOON 監 修 シ ナ リ オ 、 、 TV ア ニ メ に . October 12, 2008. Retrieved December 24, 2008.