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Type-Moon
IndustryVideo game industry
Founded2000
HeadquartersJapan
Key people
Kinoko Nasu
Takashi Takeuchi
ProductsTsukihime
Fate/stay night
WebsiteType-Moon's Official Homepage
Type-Moon's official Tsukihime website

Type-Moon (タイプムーン, Taipu Mūn) is a Japanese 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 Notes Co., Ltd. (有限会社ノーツ, Yūgen-kaisha Nōtsu) for its publishing and corporate operations. After creating the popular visual novel Tsukihime as a doujin soft circle, Type-Moon has since incorporated and produced the also popular visual novel Fate/stay night. The latter has also been adapted into anime and manga series that have amassed a global fanbase.

History

Type-Moon was founded by artist Takashi Takeuchi and writer Kinoko Nasu, whose first project was the novel Kara no Kyoukai,[1] which was originally released in October 1998 and reprinted in 2004. The company name Type-Moon actually comes from one of Kinoko's older works, Angel Notes. In December 2000, Type-Moon released the adult Windows visual novel Tsukihime, which sold extremely well and amassed a large fanbase[1] because of its comprehensive and expansive storyline and writer Kinoko Nasu's unique style of storytelling. The game led to the creation of numerous top selling merchandise, memorabilia, and a fanbase numbering millions around the world. Tsukihime was adapted soon after in 2003 into an anime series, Shingetsutan Tsukihime, which was produced by J.C.Staff and published by Geneon, and a manga series based upon Shingetsutan Tsukihime that has been published since 2004.

Soon after, in January 2001, Type-Moon released Plus-Disk, an addition to Tsukihime that featured three side-stories and assorted multimedia. In August 2001, Type-Moon released a sequel to Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, and soon, in April 2003 released Tsuki-Bako, a specially packaged three-disk set that included Tsukihime, Plus-Disk, and Kagetsu Tohya, as well as a remixed soundtrack for both games and more multimedia.

In December 2002, Type-Moon, in association with French-Bread (known as Watanabe Seisakujo prior to 2003), released their first fighting game, Melty Blood, a PC-based doujin game based on the Tsukihime universe, which was very popular and was followed soon after by an expansion, Melty Blood Re-ACT, released in May 2004, to which a patch update, Melty Blood Re-ACT Final Tuned, was released as a free download over the Internet. Melty Blood is widely considered among the best doujin 2D fighting games ever made, and has been released as an arcade port, Melty Blood: Act Cadenza, in March 2005, and was released on the PS2 platform in August 2006.

Type-Moon soon transitioned from a doujin soft organization to a commercial organization, and on January 30, 2004, released their first commercial release, a PC-based eroge visual novel game, Fate/stay night, which broke all records on its opening day and became immensely popular. It was later adapted into an anime series that aired 24 episodes in Japan starting January 6, 2006; a second anime series that premiered in October 2014; and a manga series that ran in publication between December 26, 2005 and October 26, 2012, in Monthly Shounen Ace. A sequel to Fate/stay night, Fate/hollow ataraxia, was released on October 28, 2005. Fate/stay night was also released on the PS2 platform in May 2007. A prequel, Fate/Zero, was released as a light novel written by Gen Urobuchi (from nitro+) under Kinoko Nasu's supervision, featuring art by Takashi Takeuchi, in 2006-2007, followed by an animated adaptation by ufotable in 2011-2012.

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

Releases

Type-Moon has developed and produced the following:

Kara no Kyoukai -the Garden of sinners-

  • Kara no Kyoukai -the Garden of sinners-, novel of 3 volumes, originally released in October 1998 and reprinted in 2004 and again in 2007. Another story was published in 2008. With 7 Anime film adaptations spanning from December 2007 to December 2009 and an OVA in February 2011. Another film has been released in September 2013 based on the chapter Mirai Fukuin.

Tsukihime

  • Tsukihime, PC-based eroge visual novel game, originally released in December 2000. A television adaptation of the visual novel, called Lunar Legend Tsukihime, aired October 2003 by J.C.Staff.[2]
  • Tsukihime PLUS-DISC, released in January 2001.
  • Kagetsu Tohya, PC-based Tsukihime sequel, released in August 2001.
  • Tsukibako, a specially packaged three-disk set that included Tsukihime, PLUS+DISC and Kagetsu Tohya and a remixed soundtrack for both games and more multimedia, released in April 2003.
  • Tsukihime, a remake of the original game, rumored to contain a Satsuki Yumizuka route.[citation needed]

Fate/

  • Fate/stay night, PC-based visual novel game, released on January 30, 2004. A DVD version was released on March 29, 2006, a non-ero PS2 port entitled Fate/stay night [Réalta Nua] has been released in 2007 and re-ported non-ero to PC on three versions covering each arc. Currently, three anime adaptations exist of Fate/stay night: the first was produced by Studio Deen and primarily based on the visual novel's Fate route,[3] the second was a movie adaptation of the Unlimited Blade Works route and also produced by Studio Deen,[4] and the third was a TV remake of the Unlimited Blade Works route produced by ufotable.[5] The Heaven's Feel route is presently being adapted into movie(s) by ufotable.[6]
  • Fate/hollow ataraxia, PC-based Fate/stay night sequel, released on October 28, 2005, re-released for PS Vita on December 27, 2015.
  • Fate/Zero, light novel prequel, released on December 12, 2006. Made in collaboration with Nitroplus. Animated on October 2011 to June 2012.
  • Fate/unlimited codes, arcade, PS2, and PSP 3D fighting game, released on October 28, 2005.
  • Fate/tiger colosseum, PSP 3D fighting game, released September 13, 2007. Made by Capcom and Cavia.
  • Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya, a spin-off manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyama Hiroshi, serialized in Comp Ace magazine from 2007–2008, followed by two sequels entitled 2wei! and 3rei!!
  • Fate/Extra, an RPG dungeon-crawler for the PSP-system, released July 2010. Sequel Fate/Extra CCC was released in March 2013.
  • Fate/Apocrypha, a light novel written by Yuuichirou Higashide and illustrated by Konoe Ototsugu, was released between December 2012 and December 2014 spanning across five volumes.
  • Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Blue and Silver, a light novel written by Hikaru Sakurai, illustrated by Nakahara and published by Kadokawa Shouten, started publication in August 2013. It is a prequel of Fate/Prototype, the original version of Fate/stay night with a female protagonist.
  • Fate/Labyrinth, a light novel written by Hikaru Sakurai and illustrated by Nakahara. It acts as a side-story to Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Blue and Silver and will be released between Fragments' 3rd and 4th volume.
  • Fate/strange Fake, a light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita, illustrated by Morii Shizuki and published in Dengeki Bunko starting from January 10, 2015. It is a remake of the original 2008 April's Fool's web-published one-shot known as Fake/states night which was later edited and included in TYPE-MOON Ace Vol.2 in 2009. A manga adaptation, also illustrated by Morii Shizuki, is being released alongside aforementioned current novelization.[7]
  • Lord El-Melloi II Case Files, a light novel written by Makoto Mita, illustrated by Sakamoto Mineji and published by TYPE-MOON under their label TYPE-MOON BOOKS.[8] It is considered a side-story to Fate/Zero, following one of the protagonists as an adult.
  • Fate/Grand Order, an RPG for the Android/iOS that was released in July 2015. The game contains characters from previous Fate properties along with new characters. A new class, Shielder, was added to the game.[9]

Melty Blood

Other works

Upcoming works

  • Tsukihime, a new visual novel re-telling the story of Tsukihime is currently in production.
  • Girls' Work, a new all-ages work written by ex-Liarsoft members Hoshizora Meteor, Myogaya Jinroku and Kimura Kou, with character designs by Takenashi Eri. An anime adaptation by ufotable is planned.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b Lada, Jenni (5 August 2011). "Important Importables: Type-Moon". TechnologyTell. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Lunar Legend Tsukihime". Anime News Network. Anime News Network. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Fate/stay night (TV)". Anime News Network. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  4. ^ "Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (movie)". Anime News Network. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  5. ^ "Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (TV)". Anime News Network. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  6. ^ "Official Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] website". Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  7. ^ "Fate / strange Fake - TYPE-MOON.COM". Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  8. ^ "TYPE-MOON BOOKS". Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  9. ^ "Fate/Grand Order RPG's New TV Ad Announces Late July Launch (movie)". Anime News Network. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  10. ^ "【TGS2008】「428 the animation」TYPE-MOON監修シナリオ、TVアニメに". 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2008-12-24.
  11. ^ "4Gamer Interview with Kinoko Nasu - tsukikan.com". Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  12. ^ ガールズワーク -アニメ公式サイト-. girlswork-animation.com (in Japanese). Retrieved February 26, 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
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