Type-Moon

History

Originally founded by artist Takashi Takeuchi and writer Kinoko Nasu as a doujin group, Type-Moon has become famous for its plot-heavy dark fantasy adult visual novels, most popularly Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night-- both of which have been adapted into popular mainstream TV anime. Their first well-known published work was a novel series called Kara no Kyoukai, which was originally serialized on their personal site called Bamboo Broom back in October of 1998, alongside some of their other works such as DDD and Notes (aka Angel Notes). With the release of their first doujinsoft game entitled Tsukihime at the Winter Comiket of 2000, the group quickly rose to fame, and in 2001 they released a sequel to Tsukihime entitled Kagetsu Tohya.

In 2002, Type Moon teamed together with another doujin group called French Bread to make Melty Blood, a fighting game that is set some time after the events in Tsukihime.

In 2003, Type Moon would release it's last product as a doujin group, entitled Tsuki Bako, which was a compilation of Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, and a bonus disc called Tsukihime Plus Disc. That April, Nasu and Takeuchi officially disbanded the doujin group known as Type-Moon, and after establishing Notes Co., Ltd. (aka Notes, Y.K.), they remade Type-Moon as a brand name under the Notes, Y.K. corporate entity. Also in the same year, Tsukihime recieved an anime adaptation by J.C. Staff and Geneon.