Type Moon Guide By Your Local Cave Explorer
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What is this guide? -A helpful resource for all interested in Type Moon. This includes newbies, fans that are neither new nor old, and veterans alike. -Your questions will likely be answered here. Includes: Descriptions Descriptions,, Links/downloads Links/downloads,, Recommendations Recommendations,, and more By the way, I won’t be giving links to anime sites/downloads because everybody uses different programs/websites/subbers programs/websites/subbers
What is this guide? -A helpful resource for all interested in Type Moon. This includes newbies, fans that are neither new nor old, and veterans alike. -Your questions will likely be answered here. Includes: Descriptions Descriptions,, Links/downloads Links/downloads,, Recommendations Recommendations,, and more By the way, I won’t be giving links to anime sites/downloads because everybody uses different programs/websites/subbers programs/websites/subbers
Goal of this guide A lot of secondaries instantly think an “elitist” such as myself automatically hates secondari es, but that’s not true. If I truly hated secondarie s, people who do not involve themselves with source material, I wouldn’t always be saying “ask me anything”, giving links, or making this guide or any other guide in general. This is also why I don’t consider myself a true elitist. I am not the type to spite secondaries literally just for being secondaries. I do not think I am better than you. Do I think I am more knowledgeable about all this? Of course. A fitting comparison would be that you are one who has only watched the movie adapting 1 book out of a large book series. I have read all of the books, so I simply know more..that’s it. Also sorry if you don’t like being called a secondary, it’s just the easy term to use at the moment, I don’t wanna write out the meaning every time lol. Conflict isn’t the answer...conversion is! My main gripe with secondaries is that a lot of them get so entitled and defensive over limiting themselves to usually inferior inferior material, i.e. adaptations. No adaptation is perfect, and that’s a fact! I fact! I don’t hate nor have any problems at all with like 90% of secondaries, secondaries, it just bothers me that people limit themselves so much. I know plenty of secondaries (that happen to be great friends) that really enjoy series and just think they could be doing so much more and having so much more fun. I mean, out of the almost 30 or so titles this guide mostly covers, I dunno, like 6 or 7 at most have some form of anime adaptation? You spend so many hours reading subtitles! You’ve spent hundreds of hours playing FGO, a game you probably can’t understand nor have made any effort to understand in the first place! Read some goddamn source material! Type Moon is a great company, and you need to see more of it. <3 What I want is education, acceptance, and acknowledgement. You have work to do and there is so much more out there that is to be enjoyed. Elitists may be bad but there are some pretty horrible stubborn little scrubby secondaries out there. That being said, there is definitely too much hate going between the two. Accept that you are a secondary. You want to change that? Great! That’s my goal and the goal of this guide. To help people like you. But don’t get all mad and defensive at “elitists”. Most elitists don’t get mad at the really chill secondaries who don’t say anything, they get mad at the shitty stubborn ones that act like they know what they’re talking about. Guess what
First of all, what is Type Moon? Type Moon is a Japanese company com pany in 2000 by Nasu Kinoko and Takashi Takeuchi They are responsible for the creation, oversight, and publishing of many works and series throughout many mediums including visual novels, light novels, short stories, and anime. Notable works are Fate/Stay Night, Tsukihime, and Kara no Kyoukai. They have a pretty website at http://typemoon.com/
Common Misconceptions: M isconceptions: The Type Moon Wiki The Type Moon Wiki is a great source of information but one should not rely on it. Anybody can edit a wiki, and the TM Wiki is known for having a bit too much speculation, estimation, and assumption into implications. There are plenty of entries and sentences without a source at the end. If you’re trying to cite from it, please check if it’s sourced on the wiki. Other great resources are the translated materials, encyclopedia and the source materials themselves. Check the next few slides for a source slide. It’s pretty obvious if you’re trying to argue or discuss and you’re just pulling shit s hit from the wiki, think for yourself.
Common Misconceptions: What’s Canon? First of all, Nasuverse =/= all of Type Moon. Obligatory "Kaleidoscope means everything is canon" comment.
While most Type Moon works are part of the Nasuverse (A multiverse, collection of many sub-universes that share similar elements, characters, concepts and more but do not normally interact with each other), there are some that are completely not part of the Nasuverse such as DDD and Canaan. But there a lot of series that are still debated as being a part of the Nasuverse or not. Everything in the Nasuverse is canon. That is a statement. All routes and basically all series. There are some series that are widely debated as being considered Nasuverse or not. Inb4 “zero isnt canon cus that one stream xDDDD”. No, stop being an idiot, I doubt you know what that stream ACTUALLY was talking about. They were not talking about what is canon and not canon. They were just presenting FGO’s place in the timeline in reference to Nasu’s other works. The other section was literally just other things.
Personal Recommended Watching/Reading Orders Source Material Route 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Fate/Stay Night (VN) Fate/Hollow Ataraxia or Fate/Zero (personally would go Zero first) (VN/LN/Anime) Fate/Hollow Ataraxia or Fate/Zero (VN/LN/A) Tsukihime (VN) Plus disc and Kagetsu Tohya (VNs) Kara no Kyoukai (LN/Movies) After KnK, you’re free to do whatever, these are generally bases you should cover first*
*Nothing in Type Moon is forced except the main timelines and the Tsukihime timeline. For example, you could honestly play Fate/Extra before all of these. But these bases give the
I just wanna watch anime all day hey hey hey 1. 2. 3.
Fate/Zero Fate/Stay Night UBW (not the Deen movie) Kara no Kyoukai
And the Heaven’s Feel movies whenever they come out. Things you can (aka are fine with doing so, you are free to watch them) avoid 1. Deen’s 2006 FSN adaption. Horrible adaption of the Fate route that ended up mashing a lot of shit together and being garbage. You won’t be missing anything. 2. Tsukihime. Yes, it has an anime. Jokes aside for now, it’s complete garbage.
Recommendations on Adaptations vs Source Material While it is perfectly fine to just watch adaptations if that’s how you prefer things, just remember that no adaptation is perfect. (This is coming from someone who wastes his life away reading and then judging adaptations lol) As for Fate/Stay Night I still highly recommend the visual novel over the adaptations, and even to read the visual novel even if you’ve seen the adaptations. You’re still missing out on the Fate route (Deen’s adaptation does not count), and even with how good Ufotable’s adaptations are, you’re still missing minor things. Fate/Zero is kind of in a similar boat, but I think just watching the adaptation is perfectly fine. Just remember that you’re still missing minor things. With Kara no Kyoukai, Ufotable’s movies are beautifully made and you can go
Sources, Interviews, Encyclopedias and More! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49crU71miHObWRvV2tDUllYTjQ/edit - Type Moon Encyclopedia (Official) http://tmdict.com/en/ - Type Moon Dictionary/Glossary (fanmade) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NEZzQsil7Zgkajr6ESYIoW1JNN6aeBuG4kE2SZWghXw/edit - Useful Compilation of Beast’s Lair notes on all things Type Moon http://completematerial.pbworks.com/w/page/32479544/Index - Fate/Complete Material III World Material http://tsukikan.com/misc/ - Compiliation of Interviews with Nasu and CO. http://pastebin.com/VQwThQ8k (more)
http://tatari.co.nf/ - Collection of...well, a lot of different things. Lots of links to TMs various April Fools’ stuff A lot of the Materials haven’t been translated, but Fate/Complete Complete Material I can be bought in English (officially localized) on Amazon here and the second one will be released in October, found here. http://heavens-feel.com/translations.html - Fansite based around Type Moon translations and blogging, has a lot of Type Moon CD Dramas translated
Manga/Etc (some manga are listed on their specific slide) This slide is mostly for not wanting to cram a lot of links on certain slides First of all, here’s Karoshi’s Type Moon Manga Archive, a work in progress. Go like my good friend Karoshi on facebook. He posts a lot of manga on his page, both raw and translated. I am also an admin. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14l2ZKPoBotOx83yaJlEf4ssV9x2qU9axiYuEy3-_844/edit#gid=0 (This contains stuff like the Extra manga (x2), KnK, etc) All Around Type Moon
Melty Blood
Melty Blood Act 2
Take Moon Tsukihime KohaACE Raws - Scattered TLs can be found on Beast’s Lair Clocktower (Raw PDF)
Visual Novels Problems with visual novels? Want to read more? Join my visual novel facebook group at
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Guys if you want to read VNs and a lot of shit, you’ll either have to import them, or live a life on the high seas. Here’s newbies guide to living on the high seas. https://docs.google.com/document/d/15yedCriOougdY6s_29ROjoB7Y8jHkCP3CQnKoevaFwI/edit
Pretty Important To play visual novels on a system that’s not Japanese, you need to set your locale to Japanese. You can do this by going to ControlPanel>ClockRegionLanguage>RegionLanguage>Administrative>Then bottom setting, change the system locale to Japanese. Your system will need a restart. This setting doesn’t really do anything but its job here, so don’t worry bout it interfering in other places, it’s not like you’re changing your system’s entire language. Most of the visual novel download links in this guide are to mofumoe. It is a website that scavenged old fuwanovel torrents, and will
Part 1: Fate series Contents:
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1. Fate/Stay Night 2. Fate/Hollow Ataraxia 3. Fate/Zero 4. Fate/Extra + CCC 5. Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 6. Fate/Apocrypha 7. Fate/Strange Fake 8. Fate/Grand Order 9. Fate/Prototype + Fragments of Blue and Silver 10. Lord El-Melloi Case Files Etc Games and Novels (Unlimited Codes, Tiger Colosseum, etc)
Fate/Stay Night
Purchase - Original - Realta - Realta Patch - Garden of Avalon + Subbed GoA Drama CD
Released in 2004 - Story by Nasu Kinoko - Platform: PC, PS2, Vita Medium: Visual Novel. Adapted by Deen in 2006 and received a movie a few years later. In 2014, ufotable adapted Unlimited Blade Works as a TV series, and will adapt the Heaven’s Feel route as a movie trilogy starting in 2017. Visual novel with three routes, Fate, Unlimited Blade Works, and Heaven’s Feel. The visual novel is quite long at 50+ hours. It personally took me 75 hours. Contains many choices and bad ends, a guide is recommended. Description: The Holy Grail War. A battle royale between 7 magi who fight for the Holy Grail. These magi act as Masters and fight using Servants, high level familiars that are Heroic Spirits, heroes and beings from history, legends, and lore. The 5th Holy Grail War is beginning in Fuyuki, Japan, and a young man named Shirou Emiya finds himself caught up in it. Caught in a battle as simple bystander, during a life or death situation Shirou accidentally summons a Servant of his own, joining the Holy Grail War. That Servant is Artoria Pendragon, King of Knights and Britain. Realta Nua: An updated version of Fate/Stay Night rele ased in 2007. This new version contains cleaner visuals and CGs as well as more of those CGs. The soundtrack also has been remastered. Realta Nua is all ages so all 18+ content was removed. There is a patch for Realta Nua on PC. The fan patch can restore all missing content and changes made from the original. There is really no reason not to
Fate/Hollow Ataraxia Released in 2005 - Story by Nasu Kinoko - Platform: PC, Vita Medium: Visual Novel with one main story yet lots of optional slice of life fanservice (the good/normal kinda) and some mini-games. Not nearly as long as Stay Night, I think I completed just the main story in around 30 hours. That being said, I didn’t do much of the optional stuff. A guide really isn’t needed, there are many required bad ends and as long as you select the “!” events during the day and do the stuff at night, you’ll advance the plot. Description: The direct sequel to Fate/Stay Night. Ataraxia takes place 6 months after the end of FSN. (It takes place after a FSN ending that combines elements of all three routes, with every human and Servant alive except Kirei) Bazett Fraga McRemitz has been sent to Fuyuki by the Mage’s Association to be a Master in the Fifth Holy Grail War. The story begins as she wakes up on the 4th day of the war with no memory and a Servant by her side...Avenger. Meanwhile, Shirou Emiya is living life happily after the Fifth War, when he starts to notice a disturbance in the city. With the Servants sensing danger and the appearance of new dark creatures and the mysterious Caren Hortensia, both Shirou and Bazett find themselves in a four day time loop. “Don’t think too hard about it” - Nasu
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Fate/Zero Volume 1 released in 2006, all 4 volumes were released within the next year. - Story by Gen Urobuchi although heavily supervised and influenced by Nasu. Medium: Light novel, anime adaptation in 2011 by Ufotable. Description: Fate/Zero is a prequel to Fate/Stay Night, taking place 10 years before the events of Stay Night during t he Fourth Holy Grail War in Fuyuki. The Einzbern family, stressed over three consecutive losses in the war, elects to hire Emiya Kiritsugu, a widely known and hated magus killer and assassin known for employing whatever means necessary to take out an opponent. The story follows Kiritsugu as he struggles with his new family, the war, and his ideals.
The Fate/Zero light novels are translated and can be found here.
Fate/Extra + CCC
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Extra was released in 2010 for PSP - Story by Nasu Kinoko Medium: Roleplaying Game with visual novel elements (technically considered a VN as well due to the novel-like narration). A Fate/Extra anime titled Fate/Extra Last Encore by Shaft is due for 2017, and is not a direct adaptation of the game. Description: While originally sharing events with the Fate/Stay Night universe, a split occurred when major incidents happened in the 70s that began to suck the world’s mana dry, to the point where all of the world’s mana was gone by the year 2030. In 2032 humanity discovered the Automaton, a spiritual computer built by a pre-human race that has recorded all of history, and soon created the Moon Cell, an artificial environment where the system SE.RA.PH. and the Automaton construct a Holy Grail War with 128 participants. As the main character, you wake up in this enigmatic virtual world without any memory of the past and are thrown into this Holy Grail War, with “Who am I?” as the main question being posed. CCC: Not necessarily a sequel to Extra more than a continuation or separate route that is comparable to Heaven’s Feel or even Ataraxia. It takes place on the Far Side of the Moon where the advanced AI “BB” has brought over Masters and Servants into her Labyrinth. Released in 2013
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya Medium: Ongoing manga series by Hiroshi Hiroyama that branches into sequels 2wei and 3rei. Silver Link has already released anime adaptations for up to 2wei, and the 3rei adaptation is to air in July 2016. Description: The series takes place in Fuyuki City in an alternate timeline of Fate/stay night. Kiritsugu and Irisviel helped end the Holy Grail War ritual before it could start, sealing Ilya's memories away and allowing her to grow up as a normal girl. Shirou and Ilya live a peaceful life as brother and sister, without knowledge of magic, under the care of Sella and Leysritt, while their parents are abroad.The Class Cards, malicious fragments of Heroic Spirits, later appear in Fuyuki, and they are first believed to be remnants of the Holy Grail War. It is later revealed that they were actually brought forth from a parallel world along with Miyu, the completed Holy Grail of that world. Illya and co get dragged in once the sentient staves that Zelretch created for Rin and Luvia, Ruby and Sapphire, abandon their masters and create new contracts with Illya and Miyu. Kaleid is one series that is debated as “Nasuverse canon material” or not, due to it having a lot of multidimensional stuff of its own going on, as well as it breaking
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Fate/Apocrypha
Apocrypha Materials
Medium: Novel series by Yuuichirou Higashide (hella supervised by Nasu as usual) that started in 2012. Manga adaption drawn by Akira Ishida to begin in late June. Description: The setting of Fate/Apocrypha is a parallel world to Fate/stay night where the Greater Grail was removed from Fuyuki after the Third Holy Grail War and disappeared for many years. Around the 2000s, around the same time as the Fifth Holy Grail War would have happened, the group that plundered the Grail, Yggdmillennia, openly declared their secession from the Mage's Association and that they are in possession of the Grail. The Association dispatches fifty magi to retrieve it, but all but one are instantly slaughtered by Lancer of Black. The one remaining manages to activate the reserve system of the Greater Grail, allowing for the summoning of fourteen Servants in total. This marks the start of the Great Holy Grail War in Trifas, featuring two different factions, the Black Faction, whose members are part of Yggdramillennia, and the Red Faction, whose members were sent by the Mage's Association with the exception of one from the Church. The Grail itself also summons Ruler to act as a mediator of the Holy Grail War. The story follows the progression of the war. The series is not entirely translated. The first two volumes are published online here and volume 3 is currently being worked on here. The guy over at the first link is working on volume 4/5 and will start posting them once canonrap has completed
Fate/Strange Fake Medium: Light novel and manga by Ryohgo Narita, author of the Baccano and Durararararara series. Description: The plot centers around a Grail War faultily copied from the Third Holy Grail War in Fuyuki. After the end of the third Grail War, an organization from the United States took data from Fuyuki's Grail War and planned their own ritual. Seventy years later they use the city Snowfield as the Sacred Land for their own Grail War. They were unable to successfully copy every aspect of the ritual, which lead to it acting only as an imitation that has lost the Saber class and allowed for the summoning of strange Servants due to the definition of a "hero" being blurred. The Mage's Association has sent Rohngall and his pupil, Faldeus, to investigate the city and the status of the war. Faldeus, a spy from the US organization, has Rohngall sniped upon arrival, despite knowing that Rohngall was simply a puppet. He announces that their Holy Grail War has been in development and that it is real, which causes an uproar at the Clock Tower, and wishes to "advertise" the project to the Association. Yeah there’s a lot of crazy abnormal shit compared to most Fate titles, you’d have to read to fully get the gist of it all. Both the light novels and manga are partially translated. Light Novel V.1 ENG - Volume 2 Incomplete and Scattered - Manga (In Progress) - Manga Raws - Novels (Amazon)
Fate/Grand Order Mobile phone RPG, released in 2015. Description: Okay so pretty much, you take the role of a newbie Master at an organization called Chaldea that is focused on saving the world, which is due to end by the year 2016 due to anomalies in the space/time continuum. You go back in time to deal with these many anomalies. Yay. This game is NOT translated, although there are scattered translations of some of the story throughout the internet, of which I won’t be linking because scattered af and pointless af. It is entirely playable without any Japanese knowledge. You don’t play a shitty mobile game for the story, you play it because you’re a gacha obsessed Fate faggot. I’m only in this shit because I’m a fanboy of Type Moon.
There are resour ces to play the game everywhere 1. To play, you either need an android emulator on your PC or an iphone or android. You’ll need qooapp which let’s you download from the JP appstore, where you can get FGO. 2. http://fate-go.cirnopedia.info/index.php - Cirnopedia is basically all you need. Other resources are reddit, any social group community (as cancerous as they can be :D), beastslair, yadda yadda.
Fate/Prototype Prototype is a re-imagining of Fate/Stay Night based on scrapped concepts for Stay Night. The main one being a female protagonist (Ayaka Sajyou) instead of male, and a male Saber (Arthur) instead of female. Multiple other “prototype” versions of characters are featured. I can’t give a plot description because there is none...Prototype isn’t an actualized thing. It’s only medium is an OVA that was released with Carnival Phantasm’s Season 3. And there aren’t any plans to work it into a full story. Go watch the OVA though, it’s pretty cool.
Fragments of Blue and Silver The part of Prototype that actually is a developed story. Light novels by Hikaru Sakruai. One of the few Fate titles that Nasu isn’t hella supervising. (Example: Nasu basically created all of the characters for even the Fate titles he didn’t write, yet for this, Hikaru actually created the original Servants herself) Description: Fragments can be compared to Fate/Stay Night’s Fate/Zero, AKA a prequel taking place during the previous war. Uhhh I don’t really have a plot description for this one. While they are Prototypes, the plot isn’t really similar to Zero’s too much. Translations are scattered on Lair's TL thread
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Medium: Light novel series by Sanda Makoto, author of Rental Magica and Cross x Regalia. Description: Case Files focuses on Waver Velvet’s life as Lord El-Melloi II in England. After the 4th War, Waver of course survived, and “inherited” the title of Lord El-Melloi. This novel series has no clear plot, but it focused on Waver and co. solving a lot of mysteries about magic and such things. Characters include Waver, Grey (believed to be a descendant of King Arthur), Luvia, and Reines El-Melloi. This is the link to the translation. Like Fragments, it has a dedicated translation thread on Beast's Lair. The first volume's TL is almost complete. Fun facts: While there are many continuities and timelines in Fate, all of the authors really like the idea of Waver as Lord El-Melloi. He’s probably one of the
Other Stuff!!! Fate/Unlimited Codes - Fighting game by Capcom. Has a PSP and PS2 version. The PSP version was localized - DL I’d give a purchase link but it’s just JP imports on Amazon...where’s the US version lol Fate Tiger Colosseum - Chibi 3D Fighter by Capcom and Cavia. Only on PSP, not localized - DL Fate/Labyrinth - Side-story to Prototype Fragments - TL Thread on BL Capsule Servant - Little 2D battle game included with the Vita release of Ataraxia Carnival Phantasm - Anime based off Take Moon, a parody comedy manga All Around Type Moon - Another parody comedy manga Koha-ACE - Parody manga featuring Kohaku and lots of TM characters. It takes place as a side war to the 3rd Grail War where Japan has won the war and is using the Holy Grail as the core of a new bomb..It features mostly Japanese Servants. Uhhh good luck finding any translations other than extremely scattered stuff.
Part 2: Tsukihime Series 1. Tsukihime 2. Kagetsu Tohya 3. Melty Blood 4. Mahoutsukai no Yoru 5. Prelude and Talk 6. Hana no Miyako! 7. Tsuki no Sango
Tsukihime (Pt. 1) Description: The story follows Shiki Tohno, who as a child, was involved in a life-threatening accident. When he awoke, he found himself to have Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. With these eyes, Shiki can see lines of death in any object or being. The elimination of these lines means the destruction, or death, of said object or being. Shiki was banished from the Tohno family due to this injury and lived with relatives. The story advances to Shiki finally coming back to his mansion during highschool, with the only inhabitants being his little sister, and two maids. As time slowly creeps by, Shiki starts seeing a beautiful blonde girl in the city. Every time he sees her, an urge deep inside him builds up...an impulse to kill.
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Medium: Visual novel written by Nasu, released in 2000. It is an 18+ VN featuring five heroine routes. It is Type Moon’s first visual novel, and has had numerous manga adaptations as well as an anime adaptation (for the sake of the guide, I will recognize its existence). Note: If you see vertical bars (| |) in the game, be sure to install the
Tsukihime (Pt. 2) Tsukihime is translated. A remake of the visual novel was announced in 2008 an d we have been slowly getting new information on it. It features new character designs, new characters, a heroine route for Satsuki, and large changes to the setting. Nasu speaks of it as a “rebirth” that will build a lot on previous scenarios, for example, the 27 Dead Apostles will be reworked. No release date has been announced. With how different the remake is looking to be, I still heavily encourage reading the original visual novel first. God knows when the remake will be out anyways.
Tsukihime Plus Disc - DL Link - Glossary Side-story visual novel. Not really required but it’s like all of the causal side of Ataraxia. Nice for getting to know more about the characters.
Kagetsu Tohya Medium: Visual novel written by Nasu, released in 2001. One main story, although the game is not linear at all. There are hundreds of differents paths and loops that will eventually lead to the ending. Yeah it made my head hurt lol. Not really a need for a walkthough...maybe. Just for the sake of your own sanity, do not look up what the flowchart looks like.
Kagetsu Tohya is translated. -
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Description: KT takes place one year after the events of Tsukihime. Shiki awakes to find himself stuck in a one day time loop with seemingly infinite endings to the day. Over time, Shiki discovers the source of the phenomenon to be Len, an independent familiar under Arcueid’s care.
Melty Blood Medium: 2D Fighter and visual novel hybrid (depending on the version) first released in 2002, developed by French Bread with scenarios written by Nasu. There are multiple different versions that I’ll shortly summarize below. Description: Melty Blood takes place a year after Tsukihime, after a non-existent Sacchin route (lmao). Shiki starts hearing about a new string of murders in the city, and comes across Sion Eltnam Atlasia, who battles him and tries to capture him. Her reasoning was that she wanted to get into contact with Arcueid to find a cure for vampirism. Shiki sets out to help her reach her goal. Re-Act is the second version that has a short continuation. Act Cadenza is the third which features an alternate timeline. Cadenza has an expansion called Cadenza Version B. The final version is Actress Again, which is a true sequel to Melty Blood, taking place a year later. Actress Again has an expansion called Actress Again Current Code All versions have translations except the original Actress Again. Actress Again Current Code has been localized and can be purchased on Steam or elsewhere online. All of the links I provide will already be patched or will include the patch
Original - Re-Act Final Tuned (The original MB is required, as this is an expansion) Act Cadenza Actress Again Current Code
Mahoutsukai no Yoru
Download - Chapters 1-5 Patch
Medium: Originally a novel written by Nasu in 1996, Mahoyo is the origin of the Nasuverse. Wishing to revive it, Nasu and Takeuchi decided to remake it as a visual novel. The visual novel was released in 2012. Description: Mahoyo takes place in 1989, 10 years before the events of Tsukihime at a mansion in Misaki town. Aoko Aozaki abruptly entered the world of magecraft after her grandfather suddenly decided to have Aoko become the Aozaki family's successor. Since then, Aoko moved into the mansion under the guise of doing part-time work, Aoko begins to learn sorcery from a young mage, Alice Kuonji, the rumored witch of the mansion. Unexpectedly, a young boy named Soujuurou Shizuki is drawn to the mansion and comes to reside with them as well. Mahoyo is not translated completely, and there is currently no steady and reliable translation project going on for it. There has been a Commie translation going on for a very long time, but god knows if that ever is going to happen (it’s been on editing for like 2+ years). Herkz as of March says it’s still alive, but Herkz says a lot of things. On the positive side, Mcjon of Beast’ s Lair has translated and released a patch for chapters 1-5. He has stated
Mahoyo is to have two sequels.
Talk - Translation - Glossary Talk is a text-based story found in Plus Period, a Tsukihime information book. It takes place after the epilogue of Tsukihime and hints at a sequel. It features Ciel, Shiki as Satsujinki, and multiple Dead Apostles and magus. It involves Shiki going to Germany to find the Fruit of Einnashe in order to reduce Arcueid’s blood lust. Plus Period was published in 2004.
Prelude - Translation - Glossary Prelude is a collection of short stories found in Character Material, a material book released by Type Moon in 2006. It is supposed to act as a prologue to a possible Tsukihime 2. It features many new characters, especially Dead Apostles. Prelude I involves Shiki traveling to hunt down Louvre and steal a mace. Louvre is the newly appointed 10th Dead Apostle due to the death of the previous owner of the title, Nrvnqsr Chaos, during the events of Tsukihime. Prelude II focuses on the Burial Agency, the group of demon killer exorcists that Ciel belongs to. It involves Ciel and Mr. Dawn, another Burial Agency member, preparing for the Aylesbury Valesti. The Valesti is a ritual established by Crimson Moon involving the revival of the Dark Six. It is the earnest desire for the Dead Apostles and multiple True Ancestors. Only the ancestors with the “original blood” can attend, limiting attendance greatly. Fate/Extra takes place during a timeline where the world’s mana has run dry. The reasoning for that is because in that timeline, the Aylesbury Valesti was completed much earlier (in the 70s) than intended. So yeah, boom, bad stuff. And finally, Prelude III shows a discussion between apostles Solo mon and Blackmore about their relationship as well as the upcoming ritual. If you couldn’t tell at this point, it looks like Tsukihime 2 was completely scrapped now that we have the remake. This is because the remake is supposed to rework the Dead Apostles and lot of concepts in the series, changing a lot of things. Of course, it could still be a thing some day, but that’s just my reasoning
Hana no Miyako! Medium: Manga series by Kirishima Takeru that began publishing in 2012. Description: Hana no Miyako is a spin-off title in the Tsukihime series. It’s a pretty odd and complicated spin-off because it’s not really spinning off any particular title, it just uses characters and elements from the other titles including Fate ones, like a female loli Gilgamesh. The story is about a female Shiki Nanaya who is the weakest member of the Aikido club. She has been charged with recruiti ng a new member, and she’s set her sights on Miyako Arima, a girl from her class. Due to a chance encounter of her “defeating” a top ranked fighter at her school, Shiki is put on the spotlight and starts being the center of crazy events. While the manga has three volumes, sadly only the first volume has been scanned and translated.
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Tsuki no Sango
- Subbed PV - Text Translation
Medium: Short story written by Nasu in 2010 for Maaya Sakamoto’s Full Moon Recital, an event where she read short stories to pictures and music. It has a text version as well as the PV version that was used for the recital. Description: Tsuki no Sango supposedly takes place in the year 3000 on a timeline where the events of Tsukihime did not happen. It is a world that is degenerated but magecraft still lingers, unlike Fate/Extra’s world. The story follows a girl, called princess by her peers, who is the descendent of people from the Moon, specifically the “Girl of the Moon” who acts as the Moon’s core. At some point, the people of Earth decided that the Moon was the final frontier from their dying planet, so they launched the Lunar Immigration Plan. Disaster struck, and the people of the Moon completely shut off entry, isolating themselves. Back on Earth, humanity is on the brink of extinction mostly due to just giving up. Unlike Extra, the disaster that caused the downfall of this timeline’s Earth is not known. Nor was the disaster that separated the Moon and the Earth properly explained. This is just my personal opinion and guess, but I imagine that this timeline happened due to the failure of the Tsukihime events taking place. Without Tsukihime happening, the theoretical Tsukihime 2 involving the Aylesbury Valesti of course could not happen as well. I also guess that because Nasu also compared the world to Extra’s where that was actually what happened. Of course,
Part 3: The Rest of Nasuverse
1. Kara no Kyoukai 2. Angel Voice: Notes 3. Angel Voice: Clowick Canaan-vail 4. Mahoutsukai no Hako
Kara no Kyoukai - Translation - Official Glossary Medium: KnK began as novel written by Nasu released chapter by chapter from 1998 to 1999, with them finally being compiled and released as a full novel in 2004. The series was adapted in a movie series by Ufotable, with the first chapter being released in 2007. Description: Mikiya Kokutou becomes intrigued by the mysterious series of violent deaths occurring in his town and Shiki Ryougi, a beautiful but unsociable girl. As he tries to become closer to Shiki, he realizes that Shiki is connected to the mysterious deaths and that the supernatural forces involved with both could kill him. It is revealed that in Shiki's family, certain members of her family possess two distinct personalities, both aware and conscious of one another, but possessing different qualities. The dual consciousness, and Shiki's upbringing as a demon hunter, has caused her to reject other human beings. However, upon meeting Mikiya, she gradually finds happiness through their relationship and a schism develops between her two personalities. As a result, she winds up in a traffic accident and is left in a coma for two years. When she awakens, she finds herself unable to connect her past memories to her current identity. Reunited with Mikiya, now employed as an investigator for Touko Aozaki, Shiki assists Touko's detective agency, Garan no Dou, whenever combat is required, while struggling to come to terms with her identity. The movies are not in chronological order. I highly recommend watching them in release
Angel Voice: Notes Medium: Angel Voice is a doujin anthology centered around angels written by Nasu and Takeuchi in 1995 to be re-published later in 1999. It contains the short story Notes by Nasu and the one-shot manga clowick canaan-vail by Takeuchi Description: Notes takes place on a distant future Earth where the planet has died. Only mankind has survived due to advanced technology, and enhanced humans were created to be able to live on the ruined planet called Liners. A second type of being called A-Rays, creatures created through the combination of humans and other nowextinct creatures, were created. The A-Rays and enhanced humans have gone to war, only to be interrupted by the eight Aristotoles, also known as Types, who wish to exterminate all life. The story follows Gun God, the last unmodified human, as he struggles to survive against his enhanced human neighbors, angels, and the Aristotoles. Notes established a lot of concepts seen in other Type Moon works.
Translation - Image typeset version with glossary
Angel Voice: Clowick canaan-vail Clowick canaan-vail is Takeuchi’s one-shot doujin manga in Angel Voice. It was originally published in 1995 and later included in Angel Voice in 1999. Description: The story follows Gabriel, a humanoid data terminal that acts as a postman in a barren post-apocalyptic world. Gabriel runs on a limited power supply, which is due to run out in five days time, and any technology used to repair or charge her has been lost. The title is all made-up words by Takeuchi. The work means a lot to him. It’s adorable but pretty depressing. It’s probably by no means part of the Nasuverse but it’s here to keep it together with Notes. Clowick canaan-vail
Mahoutsukai no Hako Medium: Type Moon’s mobile site at http: //typemoonmobile.com/, made into a drama CD and short manga. Not used or updated anymore because they got around to making a mobile version of their main website.
Drama CD video Drama CD translation The manga isn’t translated and I can’t even find raws for it. The girls are super cute, I hope to see it more/again in the future
You can see three of the characters, Hibiki, Chikagi (two main girls), and Keitai-san (Mr. Cellphone) in Carnival Phantasm working at Ahnenerbe with Cu. The cellphone is a Mystic Code created by Zelretch. The identity of Keitai-san is heavily hinted to be Caubac Alcatraz, friend of Zelretch and the last/twenty-seventh Dead Apostle. The true form of Hibiki is actually Caubac’s
Part 4: Non-Nasuverse and even beyond 1. Canaan 2. Valkyria 3. Decoration Disorder Disconnection 4. Fire Girl 5. Girls’ Work 6. The Room of the April Witch 7. Extra stuff and whatever else
Not Nasuverse? Huh? The titles in this section are not part of the Nasuverse, or have good reasoning to not be considered part of the Nasuverse. This is true even for some titles that are still written by Nasu. It’s usually the case because the title shares absolutely no characters, concepts, or themes with anything from Nasuverse, which is a multiverse based around a group of concepts. The other titles are just other Type Moon titles or are barely Type Moon, who only have credit for it. That’s pretty much all it means, there’s not really anything else to say.
Canaan Medium: Anime written by Nasu from 2009. It is based off a bonu s scenario from the Wii game 428: Fusa Sareta Shibuya de. There is a manga adaptation. Description: The story follows Canaan, a Middle Eastern teenage mercenary who has been dispatched to Shanghai. She possesses an ability known as Synesthesia, which is basically an overpowered exaggerated version of real-life synesthesia. In the world of 428, a terrorist organization planted a virus called the Ua Virus in Japan. This virus acts as a biological weapon and kills on a massive scale. Those who survive the virus are known as either Borners, who gain special powers, or Unblooms, powerless humans who must wear masks to survive. At Shanghai, she meets up with Maria Oosawa, an old friend, and daughter of a scientist who created the only antivirus for the Ua Virus. They learn of the International Anti-Terrorist Conference going on and the terrorist attack led by Alphard, Canaan’s hated rival, and her terrorist organization Snake.
Canaan is pretty damn cool, wish there was more of it. Sadly, 428 is
Manga
Valkyria Medium: A doujin series by Takeuchi published around 1998/1999. Description: The series focuses on Valkyries, holy beings that serve the Gods. Ragnarok, the war that will take place between the Gods and the Giants. Valkyries prepare for this war by...killing heroes. When a Valkyrie kills a hero, their soul is absorbed into their sword, Valhalla, which is also a manifestation of their soul. Valkyria 1 Valkyria 1.5 Valkyria 2 Valkyria NAEV Saga 1 (Part 2 can be found grouped with 1 on sad panda, although it's not translated) I kind of fell in love with concept and characters for Valkyria even with such few short doujins. Takeuchi’s early art is so cute and charming.
Decoration Disorder Disconnection Medium: Light novel series by Nasu that began publishing in 2007. Description: DDD takes place in Shikura City where something called the Agonist Syndrome, basically demonic possession, is at large. Those who have the syndrome end up growing new body parts, be it limbs or just tumors, which lead to possibly gaining supernatural powers. The story follows Arika Ishizue, a guy who lost both his arm and his parents to his little sister, Kanata, an insanely powerful demon-possessed human. After returning to Shikura from the hospital, There he meets Kaie Karyou, a lovely looking young boy who is actually a demon lord. He has no limbs but uses demons to act as his limbs. Kaie asks Arika to be one who exorcises demons from those with A-Syndrome using demonic limbs he will lend Arika, and Arika accepts this job.
There are currently two volumes out. Both are translated into English but the second one is not entirely translated yet. Nasu has plans to continue the series, but not until the two Mahoyo sequels are done...AKA it’ll be a while. Translation Volume 2 PDF (Russian)...if you know Russian I guess
Fire Girl Medium: Light novel series by Meteo Hoshizora that began releasing in 2012. Description: Hinooka Homura. Seiran High School 1st year. She likes to talk with friends. What she doesn’t like are essays. By the way, she’s the type that gets sleepy after thinking for ten seconds. Basically she had the air of someone who had failed her high school debut. When Homura received the invitation “Why don’t you try becoming a mage?”, she joined the exploration club which had ties with the United Nations. The club activities consisted of conducting research on an unknown planet. Along with the Kendo boy Touya Takumi, Misasagi Mayo-senpai who was efficient both in her studies and in martial arts, as well as the golem Ameno, Homura parties with her friends and heads to the other world of Nutella, a huge scale planet that is several times the size of Jupiter. What a weird synopsis, right? There are currently four volumes, 1, 1-2, 2, and 2-2. The first volume is translated and 1-2 is nearly complete on translations. Translation page
Girls’ Work Originally planned to be a visual novel announced in 2008, it was later changed into an anime project as announced in 2010. To be written by Meteo Hoshizora.
Uhhh nothing is known about it other than a few characters and the setting. That’s because it kind of disappeared. There has been no news of it since its announcements and yeah. I don’t even think they announced a cancellation or a halting of the project, there’s just literally been nothing. Someday though, I believe.
rest in pepperonis never forghetti mom’s spaghetti
The Room of the April Witch Medium: Short story by Meteo Hoshizora used for Type Moon’s 2011 April Fools’ Day, although it contains no comedic elements. Description: The story is about a witch named April with the power to turn lies into reality. Due to this terrifying power, April is confined in a small house. However, once a year on April 1, April opens the door of her house to visitors.
Translation
Extra and moooooooore Red Dragon - Role-Playing-Fiction project involving Nasu, Urobuchi, Narita and a lot of other cool author dudes. Translation Maid-san wa Majo - Another little old doujin by Takeuchi. Read here World Conquest Zvezda Plot - Anime co-written by Meteo so Type Moon is given credit http://g.e-hentai.org/tag/artist:takeuchi+takashi - Check out Takeuchi’s tag for illustrations and CGs for basically all the games, materials, etc https://dulst.com/nasuverse - fanmade nasuverse card game lol This link is long - Sora no Soto, one-shot manga written by Nasu Kouri no Hana - Unreleased early novel by Nasu
Localization? Lol what’s that? Let’s look at what has been localized officially….Fate/Extra, Fate/Extella, Fate/Unlimited Codes, Melty Blood, and various books and manga. That’s really not a lot. But why? Well there’s no clear stated reason, but there are a plethora of implied ones. 1. 2.
Nasu himself has shown little interest nor sees the money in the western market. If we were going to see localizations of major titles, we’d have seen them a while ago, as things like Fate are extremely popular, even with growing western fanbases. Well why can’t another company publish their games in the west? Type Moon licenses are known to be not just very expensive, but very complicated to deal with and go through with as well. (Sekai Project’s word on the matter) It’s sooo troublesome. They don’t have to deal with just Type Moon, but whatever is involved in the title. That means going door to door for various voice actors and getting licenses from whatever talent or voice agency they may be involved with, and more. Apparently the licensing for Type Moon works has even surpassed the costs of Key/Visual Art (which are luckily doing localizations by themselves).
Is it possible at some point in the future? Of course. But god knows when that will happen.
Other recommendations! Any VN by Key (Kanon, Air, Clannad, Little Busters, Rewrite ((especially)), etc) Any VN by 07th (Higurashi, Umineko, etc) Any LN or series by Kazuma Kamachi (Toaru Majutsu no Index, Heavy Object, etc) Any VN by minori (ef, eden, etc) Any VN by akabeisoft1/2/3 (G-senjou no Maou, Sharin no Kuni, etc) The Majikoi VNs Kara no Shoujo VN series
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