and Prelude, are two short stories published in Tsukihime material book's Plus Period published in Octoand the Type-Moon's Character material published on Augrespectively, intended to act as a prologue to a potential Tsukihime sequel.
A television adaptation of the visual novel, called Lunar Legend Tsukihime, by J.C.Staff aired between October 10 to December 26, 2003.
In August 2019, Type Moon announced that they established a new company called Type-Moon Studio BB, a video game development studio with former Square Enix and Atlus employee Kazuya Nino, who was a director for the series Trauma Center, Etrian Odyssey and Dragon Quest Builders as the head of the studio. A prequel, Fate/Zero, was released as a light novel written by Gen Urobuchi (from nitro+) under Kinoko Nasu's supervision, featuring art by Takashi Takeuchi, in 2006–2007, followed by an animated adaptation by ufotable in 2011–2012.Īt Comiket 72 on August 27, 2007, they released the "All Around TYPE-MOON drama CD".
Fate/stay night was also released on the PS2 platform in April 19, 2007. A sequel to Fate/stay night, Fate/hollow ataraxia, was released on 28 October 2005. It was later adapted into an anime series that aired 24 episodes in Japan starting 6 January 2006 a second anime series that premiered in Octoand a manga series that ran in publication between 26 December 2005 and 26 October 2012, in Monthly Shounen Ace. Type-Moon soon transitioned from a doujin soft organization to a commercial organization, and on 30 January 2004, released their first commercial release, a PC-based adult visual novel game, Fate/stay night, which broke all records on its opening day and became immensely popular. 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 25, 2005, and was released on the PS2 platform in August 10, 2006. In December 30, 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 20, 2004, to which a patch update, Melty Blood Re-ACT Final Tuned, was released as a free download over the Internet. In August 2001, Type-Moon released a fan disk 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. Soon after, in January 21, 2001, Type-Moon released a bonus disk to Tsukihime, Plus-Disk, that featured four short stories and assorted multimedia. Tsukihime was adapted soon after in 2003 into an anime series, Lunar Legend Tsukihime, which was produced by J.C.Staff and licensed by Geneon in North America, and a manga series based upon Lunar Legend Tsukihime that has been published between October 2003 and September 2010. The game led to the creation of numerous top selling merchandise, memorabilia, and a fanbase numbering millions around the world.
In December 28, 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. , written for the angel-themed doujin anthology Angel Voice in May 1999. The company name Type-Moon actually comes from one of Nasu's older works, Notes. Type-Moon was founded by artist Takashi Takeuchi and writer Kinoko Nasu, whose first project was the novel Kara no Kyoukai, which was originally released in October 1998 and reprinted in 2004.