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Tsukihime
is a Japanese adult visual novel game created by Type-Moon, who first released it at the Winter Comiket in December 2000. In 2003, it was adapted into both an anime television series, ''Lunar Legend Tsukihime'', animated by J.C.Staff, and a manga series, which was serialized between 2003 and 2010 in MediaWorks manga magazine ''Dengeki Daioh'', with ten volumes released. Several other related media have also been released, including the bonus disc ''Tsukihime Plus-Disc'', a fan disc ''Kagetsu Tohya'', and the fighting game series ''Melty Blood''. Story concepts and characters shared many similarities with other Type-Moon's series ''The Garden of Sinners'', and the two were also subtly connected. A remake with updated art and story was announced in 2008. The first part of the remake, ''Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon'', featuring a rewritten and expanded version of two of the original routes, first released in Japan in 2021, and was released worldwide in 2024. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type-Moon
Type-Moon (stylized as TYPE-MOON) is a Japanese video game company, best known for their visual novels, co-founded by author Kinoko Nasu and illustrator Takashi Takeuchi. It is also known under the name for its publishing and corporate operations, as it is the company official name, while Type-Moon is a brand name as a homage to the original doujin group. After creating the popular visual novel ''Tsukihime'' as a doujin soft dōjin circle, circle, the company has since incorporated and produced the even more popular visual novel ''Fate/stay night'', which became its most well-known title. Both series have also been adapted into anime and manga series that have amassed a global fanbase. History The company was founded by artist Takashi Takeuchi and writer Kinoko Nasu, whose first project was the novel ''The Garden of Sinners'', which was originally released in October 1998 and reprinted in 2004. The company name Type-Moon comes from one of Nasu's older works, , written for the an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melty Blood
, sometimes shortened as , is a series of 2D visual novel fighting game, fighting video games, co-developed by dōjin soft, dōjin dōjin circle, circles Type-Moon and French Bread (game developer), French-Bread as the meta-sequel of Type-Moon's first visual novel ''Tsukihime''. The first game was originally released at Comiket in December 2002, and later spawned multiple sequels, such as an arcade game, arcade version titled ''Act Cadenza'', developed by Ecole Software, which was ported to the PlayStation 2, the first Type-Moon game to receive a console release. The latest title, called ''Melty Blood: Type Lumina'', was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows on September 30, 2021. It serves as a reboot of the series, and takes place in a new continuity first depicted in ''Tsukihime#Remake, Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-'', a remake of the original ''Tsukihime''. A manga series, written and illustrated by Takeru Kirishima, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Garden Of Sinners
''The Garden of Sinners'', known in Japan as sometimes referred to as , is a Japanese light novel series, written by Kinoko Nasu and illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi. Originally released as a series of chapters released independently online or at Comiket between October 1998 and August 1999, the chapters were later republished by Kodansha into two volumes in 2004, and again in three volumes between 2007 and 2008. Ufotable produced a series of seven anime films based on the series between 2007 and 2009 and also produced an original video animation episode in 2011. A final anime film was produced and released in 2013. A manga adaptation illustrated by Sphere Tenku started serialization in September 2010 in Seikaisha's online magazine ''Saizensen''. Plot Story and setting Set in Japan predominantly during the late 1990s, ''The Garden of Sinners'' follows the story of , a teenage girl raised as a demon hunter who acquired the "Tsukihime#Plot, Mystic Eyes of Death Perception ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witch On The Holy Night
''Witch on the Holy Night'' (known in Japan as and sometimes shortened as ''Mahoyo'') is a Japanese visual novel developed and published by Type-Moon. It was first released for Windows on April 12, 2012, in Japan. An enhanced remastered version with voice acting and updated graphics was released by Aniplex worldwide for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on December 8, 2022, and was released for Windows via Steam on December 14, 2023. It is largely a kinetic novel: the user experiences a linear plotline with little variation or player choices. The game is a prequel to ''Tsukihime'' and explores the backstory of Shiki Tohno's master Aoko Aozaki. An anime film adaptation by Ufotable has been announced. Plot Near the end of the Shōwa era, in Misaki town, an old mansion is rumored to be the home of a witch. After moving there, Aoko Aozaki begins to learn sorcery from a young mage, Alice Kuonji, the rumored witch of the mansion. The Aozaki family oversees the land on which Misaki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnival Phantasm
is a comedy OVA series based on Eri Takenashi's Type-Moon gag manga, . It focuses on absurd situations happening to each characters of ''Fate/stay night'', ''Melty Blood'', and '' Tsukihime''. It is followed by a spiritual sequel known as '' Fate/Grand Carnival''. Plot The Ahnenerbe is a pub temporarily appearing among parallel worlds. Once every ten years, an event called "The Carnival Moment" occurs, where tales from other dimensions and worlds cross paths for characters from various tales to encounter each other. A multitude of characters from Type-Moon meet, mainly from ''Fate/stay night'' and '' Tsukihime''. They are subjected to a series of situations and parody not seen in every respective games. Development The series was developed in order to celebrate the tenth anniversary of TYPE-MOON. The third season included the 12-minute special anime ''Fate/Prototype''. Media Manga Take-Moon published the series in Comic Ichijinsha with two volumes published between June 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NScripter
, officially abbreviated as Nscr, also known under its Working title, production title Scripter4, is a game engine developed by Naoki Takahashi between 1999 and 2018 functioning with its own script language which facilitates the creation of both Visual Novel, visual and sound novels. The Software development kit, SDK is only available for Windows. From version 2.82, NScripter supports both Japanese writing system, Japanese characters - these are two bytes long - and any single-byte character; before that, it only supported Japanese language, Japanese characters. This engine was very popular in Japan because of its simplicity and because it was free for amateur game makers. Additionally, there are forks available to extend NScripter's capabilities to display characters from another language, run a game on other platforms, etc. NScripter NScripter's development ranged from to ; it was first called by its Working title, production title Scripter4 because it was the successor to Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Novel
A visual novel (VN) is a form of digital interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with 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 likely referred to as a visual novel game. 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 ADV-style adventure games are commonly referred to as "visual novels" by international fans. Visual novels are rarely produced exclusively for dedicated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsushi Sakurabi
is a Japanese animator An animator is an artist who creates images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, and video games. Animat ..., storyboard artist, and director. Filmography Television series Films References External links * * Anime directors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Anime-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dengeki Daioh
is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks) under the ''Dengeki'' brand. Many manga serialized in ''Dengeki Daioh'' were later published in ''tankōbon'' volumes under ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Comics imprint. The magazine is sold every month on the 27th. A yonkoma section of ''Dengeki Daioh'' called features various omake strips of the manga series published in it. The format is typically a normal drawing on the right side featuring one or sometimes more characters, and a vertical four panel strip on the left featuring characters from the associated series in super deformed form. Two special editions of the magazine called ''Dengeki Moeoh'' and ''Dengeki Daioh Genesis'' are sold bimonthly and quarterly, respectively. The publication originated from Bandai's ''Cyber Comix'' magazine, which later became the short-lived ''Media Comix Dyne'' — it lasted three issues. After the publication of ''Media Comix Dyne'' was canceled, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroko Tokita
is a Japanese anime screenwriter and director. Productions worked on *'' Bonobono'': Storyboard, Episode Director *''Chocchan's Story'': Director, Screenplay *''Descendants of Darkness'': Director, Storyboard (ep. 1) *'' Galaxy Angel A'': Screenplay (eps. 9B, 11A, 17A) *'' Mamotte! Lollipop'': Series Composition, Script (ep. 1) *'' Master Keaton'': Storyboard (ep. 7) *''Miracle Girls'': Director (eps. 30–51), Script (ep. 43), Storyboard (ep. 30) *''Mirage of Blaze'': Series Composition, Script (eps. 1, 5, 7, 10, 13), Series Formation *'' Mizuiro Jidai'': Director *'' Nazca'': Director, Storyboard, Technical Director *''Peach Girl'': Series Composition, Screenplay (eps. 1, 6, 11, 17, 20, 23) *''School Rumble'': Series Composition, Script (eps. 1, 5, 9, 17, 19, 26) *'' School Rumble Nigakki'': Series Composition, Script (eps. 1, 5–7, 14, 16, 20, 25–26) *'' School Rumble OVA Ichigakki Hoshu'': Series Composition, Script (eps. 1–2) *'' Sensual Phrase'': Series Director *'' Suzu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DrMaster
DrMaster Publications Inc. was an American distributor of manga and manhua with offices in the United States, Republic of China and Japan. It was headquartered in Fremont, California. It began strictly as a printer of manga, and entered the publishing business after taking over most of ComicsOne's manga and manhua titles. DrMaster's Publications Inc. went out of business around 2009 and its offices in Fremont are gone. The building was later occupied by Sunesys Telecommunications. Manga * '' 888'' * '' Freaks'' * '' Cosplay Koromo-chan'' * '' Dark Edge'' * '' High School Girls'' * '' Hinadori Girl'' * '' Imperfect Hero'' * ''Indian Summer'' * '' Infinite Ryvius'' * '' Iron Wok Jan'' * '' Maniac Road'' * '' Metro Survive'' * '' Pretty Maniacs'' * '' Premature Priest'' * '' Red Prowling Devil'' * '' Junk Force'' *'' Junk: Record of the Last Hero'' * ''Onegai Twins'' * '' Tori Koro'' * ''Stellvia'' * '' Stray Little Devil'' * '' Tsukihime: Lunar Legend'' Manhua * '' Chronicle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
