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Science Adventure
''Science Adventure'' is a multimedia series consisting of interconnected science fiction stories, created mainly by 5pb., Mages, Nitroplus, and Chiyomaru Studio. The main entries mostly take the form of visual novel video games, but side entries span across several different mediums. The series currently consists of six mainline entries: the first part of the series, ''Chaos;Head'', was a visual novel released in 2008, and it is followed by the visual novels ''Steins;Gate'', ''Robotics;Notes'', ''Chaos;Child'', ''Occultic;Nine'', ''Anonymous;Code'', as well as the upcoming ''Steins;???''. The series also includes several spin-off games based on ''Chaos;Head'', ''Steins;Gate'', ''Robotics;Notes'', and ''Chaos;Child'', as well as many spinoffs in other mediums including anime, manga, light novels, audio dramas, and stage plays. The main entries and their spin-offs all take place in the same fictional universe, with focuses on several different science fiction themes. ''Chaos;Head'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaos;Head
''Chaos;Head'' (stylized as ''ChäoS;HEAd'') is a 2008 science fiction visual novel video game developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus. It is the first game in the ''Science Adventure'' series. Following the original Windows release, the enhanced version ''Chaos;Head Noah'' was released for Xbox 360 in 2009, and has since been ported to multiple platforms. An English localization was released by Spike Chunsoft for Nintendo Switch and Windows in 2022. The game follows Takumi Nishijou, who gets involved in the "New Gen" serial murder case. He frequently experiences delusions and hallucinations, some of which the player can influence, which affects the progression of the story. The game was planned by Chiyomaru Shikura and written by Hayashi Naotaka, and features character designs by Sasaki Mutsumi and music by Takeshi Abo, who described the game's sound as "rainy". The game was commercially successful, helping 5pb. establish itself as a game developer, and was well received for its stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutsumi Sasaki
is a Japanese freelance anime/manga artist from Hokkaidō, Japan. He mainly provides character designs for bishōjo characters. Works ;Character design *''Happy Lesson'' *''Futakoi'' *''Memories Off'' *''Memories Off 2nd'' *''Myself ; Yourself'' *''Chaos;Head'' *''Chaos;Head Love Chu Chu!'' *'' Majika Majika'' *'' L@ve Once'' *''Chaos;Child'' *''Chaos;Child Love Chu Chu!!'' ;Illustration *'' Aquarian Age'' *'' Aquarian Age Alternative'' *'' Character Net Ai$Tantei no Jiken Bo'' *''Futakoi Alternative is a Japanese anime television series created by character designer Mutsumi Sasaki and planner & scenario writer Hina Futaba. The series was produced by MediaWorks, King Records, Lantis and Yomiko Advertising and animated by Feel, Studio ...'' *'' Misuteri Aru Character Net'' ;Other *'' Yogurting'' References External linksMutsumi Sasaki's personal website {{DEFAULTSORT:Sasaki, Mutsumi People from Hokkaido Living people Japanese illustrators Year of birth missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fictional Universe
A fictional universe, or fictional world, is a self-consistent setting with events, and often other elements, that differ from the real world. It may also be called an imagined, constructed, or fictional realm (or world). Fictional universes may appear in novels, comics, films, television shows, video games, and other creative works. The subject is most commonly addressed in reference to fictional universes that differ markedly from the real world, such as those that introduce entire fictional cities, countries, or even planets, or those that contradict commonly known facts about the world and its history, or those that feature fantasy or science fiction concepts such as magic or faster than light travel—and especially those in which the deliberate development of the setting is a substantial focus of the work. When a large franchise of related works has two or more somewhat different fictional universes that are each internally consistent but not consistent with each other (su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stage Play
A play is a work of drama, usually consisting mostly of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and intended for theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Reading (process), reading. The writer of a play is called a playwright. Plays are performed at a variety of levels, from London's West End theatre, West End and Broadway theatre, Broadway in New York City – which are the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world – to Regional theater in the United States, regional theatre, to community theatre, as well as university or school productions. A stage play is a play performed and written to be performed on stage rather than broadcast or made into a movie. Stage plays are those performed on any stage before an audience. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference as to whether their plays were performed or read. The term "play" can refer to both the written texts of playwrights and to their complete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audio Drama
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension." Radio drama includes plays specifically written for radio, docudrama, dramatized works of fiction, as well as plays originally written for the theatre, including musical theatre, and opera. Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s radio drama began losing its audience. However, it remains popular in much of the world. Recordings of OTR (old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors, libraries and museums, as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Novel
A light novel (, Hepburn: ''raito noberu'') is a style of young adult novel primarily targeting high school and middle school students. The term "light novel" is a ''wasei-eigo'', or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. Light novels are often called or, in English, LN. The average length of a light novel is about 50,000 words, and is published in the '' bunkobon'' format ( A6, 10.5 cm×14.8 cm or 4.1"x5.8"). Light novels are subject to dense publishing schedules, with new installations being published in 3–9-month intervals. Light novels are commonly illustrated in a manga art style and are often adapted into manga and anime. While most light novels are published only as books, some have their chapters first serialized monthly in anthology magazines before being collected and compiled into book format, similar to how manga is published. Details Light novels developed from pulp magazines. To please their audience, in the 1970s, most o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in the country. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ('' hentai'' and ''ecchi''), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of the English word ''animation'') describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Animation produced outside of Japan with similar style to Japanese animation is commonly referred to as anime-influenced animation. The earliest commercial Japanese animations date to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steins;???
''Steins;???'' ( tentative title) is an upcoming video game developed by Chiyomaru Studio and Mages. It is a thematic sequel to '' Steins;Gate'' (2009), and is part of the ''Science Adventure'' series. The game is written by Mages' representative director Chiyomaru Shikura, and previously went under the working title ''Steins;God''. Overview ''Steins;???'' is a thematic sequel to '' Steins;Gate'' (2009), and part of the larger ''Science Adventure'' series. The developers describe the game as being to ''Steins;Gate'' what ''Chaos;Child'' is to ''Chaos;Head''. Characters from ''Steins;Gate'' are planned to appear in ''Steins;???'', along with new ones. Development ''Steins;???'' is in development by Chiyomaru Studio and Mages, and is written by Mages' representative director Chiyomaru Shikura. It was initially known internally under the working title ''Steins;God'' until Shikura decided against it. Shikura wanted to create something new with ''Steins;???'', as he considered ''Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occultic;Nine
is a Japanese light novel series written by Chiyomaru Shikura, and is a part of the '' Science Adventure'' franchise. It was later adapted into a visual novel and published by Mages in November 2017. The light novel series is licensed in English by J-Novel Club. A manga, illustrated by Ganjii, was serialized in Kodansha's '' good! Afternoon'' from October 2015 to May 2017. An anime television series adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired between October and December 2016. Plot The story follows nine idiosyncratic individuals, linked by the "Choujou Kagaku Kirikiri Basara" occult summary blog run by 17-year-old second-year high school student Yuuta Gamon. Little incongruities that occur around these nine eventually lead to a larger, unimaginable event that may alter what is considered common sense in this world. Characters ; : :A high school boy and self-described NEET living in Kichijoji who runs the blog "Kiri Kiri Basara," which aggregates news and discussion of the occult, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaos;Child
''Chaos;Child'' (stylized as ''ChäoS;Child'') is a visual novel video game developed by 5pb. It is the fourth main entry in the ''Science Adventure'' series, and a thematic sequel to ''Chaos;Head'' (2008). It was released in Japan in 2014 for Xbox One, and later for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch. An English localization was released for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita by PQube in 2017, and for Windows by Spike Chunsoft in 2019. The player takes the role of Takuru Miyashiro, the president of his school's newspaper club, who investigates the "Return of the New Generation Madness" serial murder case. He experiences delusions, and at multiple points throughout the story, the player gets the option to choose if Takuru should experience a positive or negative delusion, or neither: these choices affect the plot's direction, causing it to branch off from the main narrative into different routes. The game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Novel
A , often abbreviated as VN, is a form of digital semi-interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with and used in the medium of video games, but are not always labeled as such themselves. They combine a textual narrative with static or animated illustrations and a varying degree of interactivity. The format is more rarely referred to as novel game, a retranscription of the ''wasei-eigo'' term , which is more often used in Japanese. Visual novels originated in and are especially prevalent in Japan, where they made up nearly 70% of the PC game titles released in 2006. In Japanese, a distinction is often made between visual novels (NVL, from "novel"), which consist primarily of narration and have very few interactive elements, and adventure games (AVG or ADV, from "adventure"), which incorporate problem-solving and other types of gameplay. This distinction is normally lost outside Japan, as both visual novels and adventure games are commonly referred to as "visual n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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