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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. 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'', 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〔 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"''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Type-Moon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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