Type-Moon

Type-Moon
Industry Video game industry
Founded 2000
Headquarters Japan
Key people
Kinoko Nasu
Takashi Takeuchi
Products Tsukihime
Fate/stay night
Website Type-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 dojin 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 Kyōkai,[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 dojin 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 has been published since December 26, 2005, in Shonen Ace (known for the manga adaptation of Neon Genesis Evangelion and Sgt. Frog). 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 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 Kyōkai/The Garden of Sinners

Tsukihime

Fate/

Melty Blood

Carnival Phantasm

Mahōtsukai no Yoru

Girls' Work

Other works

References

  1. 1 2 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. "Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel (movie)". Anime News Network. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  7. "Fate/Grand Order RPG's New TV Ad Announces Late July Launch (movie)". Anime News Network. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  8. ガールズワーク -アニメ公式サイト- [Girls' Work - Anime Official Website]. GirlsWork-animation.com (in Japanese). Retrieved June 3, 2015.
  9. "【TGS2008】「428 the animation」TYPE-MOON監修シナリオ、TVアニメに". 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2008-12-24.

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