A prominent Japanese dojin soft circle, best known for their visual novels, founded in 2000.
Type-Moon was founded as a dojin soft circle by illustrator
Takeuchi Takashi and writer
Nasu Kinoko, whose first project was the novel Kara no Kyoukai, which was originally released in October 1998 and reprinted in 2004. The circle's name Type-Moon actually comes from one of Nasu's older works, Angel Notes. In December 2000, Type-Moon released the eroge visual novel dojin game 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. The game led to the creation of numerous top selling merchandise, memorabilia, and a large fanbase in- and outside of Japan. Tsukihime was adapted soon after in 2003 into an anime series, Shingetsutan Tsukihime, which was produced by J.C.Staff and published by Geneon, and a manga series based upon Shingetsutan Tsukihime that has been published since 2004.
In 2003 Nasu and Takeuchi established the corporate company Notes, with Type-Moon becoming a label under it. Today Notes is the publishing company behind all Type-Moon related stuff.
A common misconception amongst fans is to refer to Type-Moon as a game publishing company.
