Mahotsukai no Yoru
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, officially subtitled as Witch on the Holy Night, is a novel
written by Type-Moon
co-founder Kinoko Nasu
, initially released on July 28, 1996. After the successes of his later visual novel works Tsukihime
and Fate/stay night
, Type-Moon announced that it was working on the story as its latest visual novel
project, with further details of the project to be published in Type-Moon Ace. The visual novel adaptation will be released in 2011.
originally wrote Mahōtsukai no Yoru as a novel in the winter of 1996 and completed with the intent of showing it to people other than his friends. After submiting the novel to several competitions Nasu was unable to keep the page count down and later moved on to other projects. After forming Type-Moon
with Takashi Takeuchi
and releasing several projects under it Takeuchi suggested remaking Mahōtsukai no Yoru so it could be released before their next planned project Girls' Work
In April 2008, a game version of Mahōtsukai no Yoru was announced. Unlike Type-Moon's previous games, Mahōtsukai no Yoru will not be an ero-game, and will feature Koyama Hirokazu as the lead artist in place of Takeuchi. The game was set to release sometime in 2009 however after several delays, the game received a September 2010 release date. In September, however, Type-Moon announced that the release date has been pushed back to winter 2011, and later to sometime in 2011.
A demo of the game will be available in December 2011.
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
written by Type-Moon
TYPE-MOON
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 for its publishing and corporate operations...
co-founder Kinoko Nasu
Kinoko Nasu
is a Japanese author, best known for writing the novel Kara no Kyoukai and visual novels Tsukihime and Fate/stay night. Renowned for a unique style of storytelling and prose, Nasu is amongst the most prominent visual novelists in Japan.-Biography:...
, initially released on July 28, 1996. After the successes of his later visual novel works Tsukihime
Tsukihime
is a Japanese eroge dōjin visual novel game created by Type-Moon, who first released it at the Winter Comiket in December 2000. It was adapted in 2003 into an anime series, Shingetsutan Tsukihime, produced by J.C.Staff and Geneon, and a manga series, which has been serialized since 2004 in...
and Fate/stay night
Fate/stay night
is a Japanese visual novel developed by Type-Moon, which was originally released as an adult game for the PC. An all-ages version of Fate/stay night, titled Fate/stay night Réalta Nua, was released for the PlayStation 2 on April 19, 2007, and features the Japanese voice actors from the anime series...
, Type-Moon announced that it was working on the story as its latest visual novel
Visual novel
A is an interactive fiction game featuring mostly static graphics, usually with anime-style art, or occasionally live-action stills or video footage...
project, with further details of the project to be published in Type-Moon Ace. The visual novel adaptation will be released in 2011.
Characters
Development
Kinoko NasuKinoko Nasu
is a Japanese author, best known for writing the novel Kara no Kyoukai and visual novels Tsukihime and Fate/stay night. Renowned for a unique style of storytelling and prose, Nasu is amongst the most prominent visual novelists in Japan.-Biography:...
originally wrote Mahōtsukai no Yoru as a novel in the winter of 1996 and completed with the intent of showing it to people other than his friends. After submiting the novel to several competitions Nasu was unable to keep the page count down and later moved on to other projects. After forming Type-Moon
TYPE-MOON
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 for its publishing and corporate operations...
with Takashi Takeuchi
Takashi Takeuchi
is a Japanese artist, noted as the co-founder of Japanese visual novel and anime development and production enterprise TYPE-MOON, and for his illustrations on TYPE-MOON's visual novels, Tsukihime and Fate/stay night, which were both later adapted into anime and manga series. He has frequently...
and releasing several projects under it Takeuchi suggested remaking Mahōtsukai no Yoru so it could be released before their next planned project Girls' Work
In April 2008, a game version of Mahōtsukai no Yoru was announced. Unlike Type-Moon's previous games, Mahōtsukai no Yoru will not be an ero-game, and will feature Koyama Hirokazu as the lead artist in place of Takeuchi. The game was set to release sometime in 2009 however after several delays, the game received a September 2010 release date. In September, however, Type-Moon announced that the release date has been pushed back to winter 2011, and later to sometime in 2011.
A demo of the game will be available in December 2011.