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unusual facts about visual novel



Ayana

She debuted in 1999 as the singer of the opening and ending themes to Key's visual novel Kanon.

Eiji Usatsuka

The similarity of "both peoples" designs, were however noticed and later revealed by Tōya Okano (scenario assistant for Visual Art's' Clannad) in a Dengeki G's Magazine interview article presenting Visual Art's brand Mana’s game Angel Magister.

Galaxy Fraulein Yuna

The shooter ended up evolving instead into a visual novel, although Akitaka Mika would much later develop a title similar to the original Yuna design proposal called Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire.

Hiroko Kasahara

She sang the ending theme song of the PlayStation 2 role-playing video game Shadow Hearts, titled Ending Theme ~ Shadow Hearts, and the ending theme of the PC and PlayStation 2 visual novel Ever 17: The Out of Infinity, titled Aqua Stripe

IBM 5100

The Visual Novel/Manga/Anime series Steins;Gate makes numerous references as a plot device, such as when they needed it to crack some of CERN's files.

Key Sounds Label

Following the convention established with Kanon and Air, Key has released three more arrange albums bundled with the first-print releases of Key's later titles Clannad, Little Busters!, and Little Busters! Ecstasy.

MangaGamer

During the Anime Expo 2010 and Otakon 2010 conventions, physical disks were sold with the first four games in the Higurashi When They Cry series and Kira Kira All-Ages.

Matsubishi Department Store

The department store is one of the main settings for the visual novel Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume developed by Key.

Piece of Wonder

Piece of Wonder is a hybrid tactical RPG and visual novel originally published in Japan in February 2002 by Studio Crossfire and released on January 21, 2007 in the United States by Hirameki International.


see also

Boin

Resort Boin, Japanese eroge visual novel and a sequel to Boin

Happiness!

The opening theme of the Happiness! visual novel is "Zero" by Hiromi Satō, and the ending theme is "Mezame no Asa" by the voice actresses of the four main heroines (Yui Sakakibara, Mia Naruse, Yura Hinata and Oto Agumi), performing under the name Happiness!

Kinoko Nasu

Together with junior high school classmate and friend, Takashi Takeuchi, Nasu formed Type-Moon in 2000, originally as a dōjin group to create the visual novel Tsukihime, which soon gained immense popularity, much of which is attributed to Nasu's unique style of storytelling.

Magical Battle Arena

It introduces the fighting in a similar manner to modern Gundam video games such as the Gundam Battle Assault series, except the fact that the characters come from the anime Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Card Captor Sakura, Slayers, Magic Circle Guru Guru, the eroge Visual Novel Magical Girl Kirara and Sarara, and the original characters, Lulu Gelad and Nowel Diastasis who are created in Magical Battle Arena.

Popotan

Sales of the visual novel and its fan disc made the top 50 list of bestselling bishōjo games in Japan multiple times and it spawned an internet meme when the opening was put to sped-up music by the Swedish band Caramell.

Tanegashima Space Center

In the Robotics;Notes visual novel, Tanegashima Space Center is one of the major settings found in the game.

The Royal Trap

The game was created with the Ren'Py visual novel engine and features an opening theme written by Matthew Myers and performed by Natasha Cox of the band Mankind Is Obsolete.