A Brief Introduction
Type-Moon is a Japanese game company founded by Takashi Takeuchi and Kinoko Nasu, and is known for its visual novels.
The company's official name is "Notes" (ノーツ), "Type-Moon" (タイプムーン) is the brand name used when the company publishes an adult visual novel. Today, the company is known by most people as Type-Moon.
Introduction and a Brief History
Type-Moon was originally a doujin group headed by Takashi Takeuchi and Kinoko Nasu. The group's first well-known work is the novel Kara no Kyoukai written by Nasu and illustrated by Takeuchi. Between October 1998 to May 1999, Nasu and Takeuchi regularly updated their personal website, Bamboo Broom, with serializations of Kara no Kyoukai. Kara no Kyoukai was not Nasu's only novel, some of his other works include DDD, Notes, and the unreleased Mahoutsukai no Yoru and Koori no Hana.
The group shot to fame with the release of its adult visual novel Tsukihime during the 2000 winter Comic Market (Comiket). Tsukihime captured its audience with Type-Moon's unique world setting and touching story. Later, not only was Tsukihime adapted into an anime (Shingetsutan Tsukihime), Type-Moon also released fan-disk Tsukihime PLUS-DISC and Kagetsu Tohya.
In 2002, Type-Moon teamed up with another doujin group, French-Bread, to make the 2D fighting game Melty Blood, featuring characters from Tsukihime. In May 2004, an improved version of the game was released under the title Melty Blood Re-ACT. Later, the game was ported to arcade under the name Melty Blood Act Cadenza, and ported to PS2 in August 2006. A new installment in the series, Melty Blood: Actress Again, is set to release in late 2008.
In 2003, Takeuchi and Nasu established Notes Co., Ltd. In April of that same year, after releasing Tsuki-Bako the group's final doujin product, which was a compilation of every game (excluding Melty Blood) the group has done up to that day, the team officially disbanded the doujin group known as Type-Moon, and made Type-Moon a brand name under Notes Co., Ltd.
On January 30th, 2004, Notes (here on out referred to as Type-Moon) published their first commercial product, the adult visual novel Fate/stay night. In January 2006, Fate/stay night was adapted into an anime. Near the end of 2005, Fate/stay night's fan disc, Fate/hollow ataraxia was released.
In late 2007, Capcom revealed a Fate fighting game called Fate/unlimited codes, the game was released in 2008, first in the arcades and later on PlayStation 2. In mid 2008, Type-Moon announced three new titles in the making: Mahou Tsukai no Yoru, Girl's Work and a remake of Tsukihime. The games are set to release sometime in 2009.
