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Tsukihime is a Japanese adult visual novel created by the dōjin circle 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'', animate ...

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'', and a co-founder of Type-Moon. He graduated from

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Biography

Together with his junior high school classmate and friend Takashi Takeuchi, Nasu formed Type-Moon in 2000, originally as a dōjin group to create the visual novel ''Tsukihime'', which soon gained immense popularity. His influences include

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, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Kenji Takemoto,

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After the success of ''Tsukihime'', Type-Moon became a commercial organization. A sequel to ''Tsukihime'', ''

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'', was released in August 2001. On 28 January 2004, Type-Moon released ''

'', written by Nasu; it, too, gained great success, becoming one of the most popular visual novels on the day of its release. A sequel to ''Fate/stay night'', ''

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'', was released on 28 October 2005. Nasu's visual novel work has been adapted to extremely popular manga and

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series.

Works

Among his earlier works are the novels ''Kara no Kyōkai'', originally released in 1998 and re-printed in 2004, ''Angel Notes'', ''Mahōtsukai no Yoru'' and ''Kōri no Hana''.

Novels

* '' Kara no Kyōkai'' also called ''Garden of Sinners'' - originally released in 1998 and re-printed in 2004. It was also re-released in a three-volume format with new illustrations in 2007 * ''Decoration Disorder Disconnection'' * ''Tsuki no Sango (Moon’s Coral)'' * '' Mahōtsukai no Yoru'' * ''Notes. (Angel Voice)'' * * ''Clock Tower 2015'' * ''Garden Of Avalon''

Visual novels

* ''

'' (2000) * ''

'' (2001) – Fan-disc of ''Tsukihime''. * ''

'' (2004) * ''

'' (2005) – Fan-disc of ''Fate/stay night''. * '' 428: Shibuya Scramble'' (2008) – Nasu wrote a special scenario for the game, with fellow Type-Moon co-founder Takashi Takeuchi providing the character designs. This scenario got a sequel as an

, ''

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''. * '' Mahōtsukai no Yoru'' (2012) – Adaptation of the novel. * '' Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-'' (2021) – Remake of ''Tsukihime'' Near-Side Route. * '' Tsukihime -The other side of red garden-'' (TBA) – Remake of ''Tsukihime'' Far-Side Route.

Video games

* ''

Melty Blood , sometimes shortened as , is a series of 2D visual novel fighting games, co-developed by dōjin circles Type-Moon and French-Bread as the meta-sequel of the Type-Moon's first visual novel ''Tsukihime''. The first game was originall ...

'' - ''Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code'' (2002 - 2016) – Story dialogue * ''

Fate/Extra ''Fate/Extra'' (stylized as ''Fate/EXTRA'') is a dungeon crawler role-playing game developed by Type-Moon and Imageepoch and published by Marvelous Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable. The game takes place in a parallel univers ...

'' (2010) – Story dialogue * ''

Fate/Extra CCC ''Fate/Extra'' (stylized as ''Fate/EXTRA'') is a dungeon crawler role-playing game developed by Type-Moon and Imageepoch and published by Marvelous Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable. The game takes place in a parallel univer ...

'' (2013) - Storyline Writer * ''

Fate/Grand Order is a free-to-play Japanese mobile game, developed by Lasengle (formerly Delightworks) using Unity, and published by Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The game is based on Type-Moon's ''Fate/stay night'' franchise, and w ...

'' (2015) - Composition, Screenplay & Supervision * '' Fate/Extella'' (2016) - Storyline Writer * '' Fate/Extella Link'' (2018) - Writer * '' Melty Blood: Type Lumina'' (2021) – Storyline dialogue * '' Fate/Extra Record'' (TBA) – Story dialogue

Anime

* '' Fate/Grand Order: Moonlight/Lostroom'' (2017) - Script * '' Fate/Extra Last Encore'' (2018) - Series Composition, Original Concept

Films

* '' Fate/Grand Order: Camelot - Wandering; Agaterám'' (2020) * '' Fate/Grand Order: Camelot - Paladin; Agaterám'' (2021) * '' Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity - Grand Temple of Time: Solomon'' (2021)

References

External links

Kinoko Nasu's and Takashi Takeuchi's official website and online diary

Type-Moon's official website

Kinoko Nasu manga
in Media Arts Database
Kinoko Nasu anime
listing in Media Arts Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Nasu, Kinoko 1973 births 20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists Anime screenwriters Dark fantasy writers Japanese writers Japanese fantasy writers Japanese screenwriters Japanese video game designers Living people Type-Moon Writers of modern Arthurian fiction