What is the other name for the world's largest dōjinshi fair, held twice a year in Tokyo, Japan that was the location of the first release of a Japanese adult dōjin visual novel created by Type-Moon in 2000?
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Tsukihime Tsukihime (Japanese: 月姫 , lit. "Lunar Princess") is a Japanese adult dōjin visual novel 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 was serialized between October 2003 and September 2010 in MediaWorks' seinen magazine "Dengeki Daioh", with 10 volumes released.
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Comiket Comiket (コミケット , Komiketto ) , otherwise known as the Comic Market (コミックマーケット , Komikku Māketto ) , is the world's largest dōjinshi fair, held twice a year in Tokyo, Japan. The first Comiket was held on December 21, 1975, with only about 32 participating circles and an estimated 600 attendees. Attendance has since swelled to over a half million people.
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North Wind (visual novel) North Wind (ノースウインド , Noosu Uindo ) is an adult visual novel developed by DreamSoft (previously called FC03), which is a brand of F&C. It first released for the PC on September 24, 2004. The game was later ported to the PlayStation 2, and released in two separate volumes for the iOS. "North Wind" follows the player character and protagonist, Makoto Akizuki, a young man who was born into a town where every winter, a "Love Letter Festival" is held. Gameplay in "North Wind" offers branching plot lines, and a multi-choice navigation, where the player can attain multiple endings.
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Mine Yoshizaki Mine Yoshizaki (吉崎 観音 , Yoshizaki Mine , born December 2, 1971) is a Japanese manga creator who first started his career by making "dōjinshi" based on video games. Yoshizaki also worked as an assistant to manga artist Katsu Aki. His first publication was featured in a compilation book published by Shogakukan in 1989.
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MediaWorks (publisher) MediaWorks, Inc. (株式会社メディアワークス , Kabushiki-gaisha MediaWākusu ) was a Japanese publishing company in the Kadokawa Group known for their "Dengeki" (電撃 , meaning "electric shock") brand magazines and book labels. These included such well-known magazines as "Dengeki Daioh", and "Dengeki G's Magazine", along with MediaWorks' main light novel publishing imprint Dengeki Bunko. The company was merged with ASCII on April 1, 2008, and became ASCII Media Works. They mainly catered to the Japanese male otaku crowd, covering such topics as anime, light novels, manga, plastic modelling, and visual novels. However, MediaWorks had published three magazines targeted towards females—"Comic Sylph", "Dengeki Girl's Style", and "Character Parfait"—but each one was a special edition version of another magazine. MediaWorks ran yearly contests for original novel and manga submissions, such as the light novel Dengeki Novel Prize contest.
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Tail of the Moon Tail of the Moon (月のしっぽ , Tsuki no Shippo ) is a Japanese "shōjo" manga series written and illustrated by Rinko Ueda. The series began serialization in "Margaret" magazine in 2002 and ran until 2007. The individual chapters have been collected into fifteen "tankōbon" volumes by Shueisha; the first on March 25, 2003 and the last on August 24, 2007. The series has been licensed by Viz Media for an English-language North American release as part of their Shojo Beat imprint.
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Naru Nanao Naru Nanao (七尾 奈留 , Nanao Naru ) (pseudonym) is a female Japanese artist from Okinawa, Japan. Nanao's choice of her pseudonym stems from the Circus' game "Aries"; one of the characters was named Runa Nanao (七尾 留奈 , Nanao Runa ) . She is a free illustrator and thus is not affiliated with one single company; she is primarily a character designer. She began working with video game developers in 2000, but she is most well known for providing original character design for three heroines in the original "" visual novel by Circus released in 2002. Other works include "", "", and "Sola". At one point, she only went by her given name Naru. She is the supervisor of her dōjinshi circle known as "Ice and Chocolate" (あいすとちょこ , Aisu to Choko ) . She often collaborates with another circle named "Poteneko" (ぽてねこ ) . She even provided the front-cover illustration for the Comiket 70 catalog for August 2006.
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Go (Kaneshiro novel) GO is a novel written by Kazuki Kaneshiro and published in 2000 by Kodansha. "GO" received a Naoki Prize, an award of high praise in Japan. A film adaptation was released in 2001 that won numerous awards in Japan.
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VisualArt's VisualArt's (株式会社ビジュアルアーツ , Kabushikigaisha Bijuaru Ātsu ) , formerly Visual Artist Office (ビジュアルアーティストオフィス , Bijuaru Ātisuto Ofisu ) , is a Japanese publishing company specializing in the publishing and distribution of visual novels for a large list of game developers. VisualArt's has developed the game engines their brands currently use, including the current engine, called Siglus, and older engines RealLive and AVG32. VisualArt's also handles the selling and distribution of these games. The games published are mostly for a male audience, though they also publish games targeted towards women as well. They are well known for the publishing of games by the studio Key such as the famous visual novels "Kanon", "Air", and "Clannad".
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Kindred Spirits on the Roof Kindred Spirits on the Roof (Japanese: 屋上の百合霊さん , Hepburn: Okujou no Yurirei-san , lit. "Yuri-spirits on the roof") is an adult yuri visual novel developed by Liar-soft. It was released on March 30, 2012. The game was licensed by MangaGamer, who released it in English on February 12, 2016. "Kindred Spirits on the Roof" is a visual novel, so the majority of the gameplay consists of the player reading the game's story.
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Scrapped Princess Scrapped Princess (Japanese: スクラップド・プリンセス , Hepburn: Sukurappudo Purinsesu ) is a Japanese light novel series by Ichiro Sakaki and illustrated by Yukinobu Azumi, also known as the popular adult dōjin artist Nakayohi Mogudan. In 2003, it was adapted into an anime series produced by Bones. The character designs in the anime are by Takahiro Komori, who is also known for the designs on another anime series, "Cowboy Bebop".
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Flying Shine FlyingShine (有限会社フライングシャイン ) is a Japanese visual novel company, best known for creating the "eroge" (erotic games) "Cross Channel" and "Swan Song". It has three imprints: FlyingShine Kuro, FlyingShine Ken, and FlyingShine Kotobuki.
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Slave Doll Slave Doll (Japanese: こわれもの , Hepburn: Kowaremono ) is a Japanese pornographic original video animation created by Otakey Sasaki and released in 2000. The series revolves around Aki, a busty android maid constructed by the Gene (pronounced Gen-a) Corporation. Her function, besides being a household maid, is the collection of male genetic material (semen) through sexual means, after which it is saved, possibly for species preservation. "Slave Doll" was followed by a sequel,
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Dengeki Novel Prize The Dengeki Novel Prize (電撃小説大賞 , Dengeki Shōsetsu Taishō ) is a literary award handed out annually (since 1994) by the Japanese publisher ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks) for their Dengeki Bunko light novel imprint. The contest has discovered many popular and successful light novelists, like Kouhei Kadono and Yashichiro Takahashi. Originally called the Dengeki Game Novel Prize, the name was changed in 2003. The main Dengeki Novel Prize awards consist of the Grand Prize (¥3 million), Gold Prize (¥1 million) and Silver Prize (¥500,000). In addition to the money received, the winning novelists get their work published under Dengeki Bunko with the addition of an artist for the illustrated aspects of the light novels. However, if an entry is awarded the Media Works Bunko Prize, the winning novel will be published under ASCII Media Works' Media Works Bunko imprint, along with the author winning ¥1 million. Often, the name of the novel series is changed from what it was originally titled when it won the prize. There are over 5,000 submissions annually since 2011, and it is considered the largest prize for light novels.
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Wind: A Breath of Heart Wind: A Breath of Heart is a visual novel by Japanese game studio Minori. It was first released for the PC on April 19, 2002 with adult content. It was later ported to the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 by Alchemist in 2003 with the adult content removed. It features voiced dialog for all characters except for the protagonist. It has been adapted into an anime series with thirteen episodes and four special ones (9.5, 10.4, 10.8 and 12.5), four OVAs, and a manga. An English-language fan translation of the visual novel exists.
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Niigata Comic Market The Niigata Comic Market, commonly known as Gataket (ガタケット , gataketto ) , is a bimonthly dōjinshi comic book convention held in Niigata city in Japan. It is currently held at either Toki Messe or the Niigata-shi Sangyou Shinkou Center. It was first held in 1983, and between 7,000 and 10,000 people regularly attend each event. It is the largest dōjinshi comic market held on the Sea of Japan side of Japan.
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Diabolik Lovers Diabolik Lovers (Japanese: ディアボリックラヴァーズ , Hepburn: Diaborikku Ravāzu ) is a Japanese visual novel franchise by Rejet. Its first entry was released on October 11, 2012 for the PlayStation Portable system. Thus far the popular franchise has released six games with the first two having been remastered for the PlayStation Vita and released as ""Limited V Editions"". The franchise has brought forth two 12-episode anime television adaptations by Zexcs which aired from September 16, 2013 to December 9, 2013 and September 23, 2015 to December 9, 2015. The first series was followed by an OVA which was included in "Diabolik Lovers: Dark Fate" on February 28, 2015. It has been made into various manga, anime, drama CDs, music CDs and fanbooks. Two well received stage plays also ran in August 2015 and August 2016.
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Tokyo Anime Award The Tokyo Anime Award started from 2002, but was named in 2005. The first, second and third awards were only named simply 'Competition'. The award ceremony was held at the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) until 2013. In 2014, after the merger of Tokyo International Anime Fair with Anime Contents Expo and formation of AnimeJapan convention, Tokyo Anime Award started as a separate festival called Tokyo Anime Award Festival (TAAF).
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Oh! great Ito Ōgure (大暮 維人 , Ōgure Ito , born 22 February 1972 in Hyuga, Miyazaki, Japan) , known professionally as Oh! great, is a Japanese manga artist most recognized for the manga series "Tenjho Tenge" and "Air Gear". In 2006, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for "Air Gear". Oh! great also created the pornographic series "Silky Whip". Apart from working with manga, he designed some of the alternate character outfits in the PlayStation 2 version of Namco's 3D fighting game "Tekken 5", and a guest character in "Soul Calibur IV" named Ashlotte.
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Koge-Donbo Koge-Donbo* (こげどんぼ* ) , is a Japanese manga artist. Koge-Donbo* started her career soon after college as a doujinshi artist. She got the idea of a unique pen-name, Kobe-Donbo* from Akira Toriyama's pet cat. She made her first official US appearance at Otakon 2004 in Baltimore, MD as a Guest of Honor. Before that, she appeared at the AnimeGamers USA retail store in Los Angeles, California on July 7, 2002, for an autograph session promoting her "Chocola 2001" artbook. She returned for another autograph session at the same store on August 3, 2004. She was a Guest of Honor at Anime Expo 2006, presenting the world premiere of the new Di Gi Charat animation series.
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Maki Murakami Maki Murakami (村上真紀 , Murakami Maki ) is a Japanese manga artist most famous for the boys love manga "Gravitation", which, in addition to the "Gravitation" novel, is published in the U.S. by Tokyopop. Gravitation was the first BL to have broken into mainstream leading way for the overwhelming popularity of yaoi/shounen-ai today. There are twelve volumes currently available; and she is continuing the series with Gravitation EX, there are also two novels (one of which is written by Murakami herself). She also has written several issues of "yaoi" dōjinshi, published by her dōjinshi circle: Crocodile Avenue. "Rimigra" aka "Remix Gravitation" is the most popular and consists of sexual content but of quite a mild nature, unlike "Megamix Gravitation", which is very explicit and detailed. "Gravitation" was so successful it has its own anime series, which consists of 13 episodes as well as two "Lyrics of Love" OVAs. She has created other manga, but "Gravitation" is the most famous.
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School Days (visual novel) School Days (スクールデイズ , Sukūru Deizu ) is a Japanese visual novel developed by 0verflow, released on April 28, 2005 for Windows as an adult game. It was later ported as a DVD game and for the PlayStation 2 (PS2) and PlayStation Portable (PSP). The story, a dramatic slice-of-life, follows Makoto Ito, a high school student who becomes the ambivalent love-interest of several girls during his second term, and the effects this has on himself and his relationships with other characters. Though the game requires little interaction from users, "School Days" engages the player through a plot that they are given opportunities to change the course of during play. The game concludes with an ending specific to the outcome of the story, some of which became notorious for their graphic violence.