Visual Art's

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Visual Art's co.,ltd 株式会社ビジュアルアーツ
Type	Joint stock company
Founded	1991
Headquarters	Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
Key people	Takahiro Baba
Industry	Computer games
Products	Visual novels
Website	visualarts.product.co.jp

Visual Art's co.,ltd (株式会社ビジュアルアーツ, Kabushikigaisha Bijuaru Ātsu^?), formally 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. Visual Art's has developed the game engines their brands currently use, including the current engine, called RealLive, and an older engine called AVG32. Visual Art'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.

The company has coined a new type of visual novel called the kinetic novel where unlike in visual novels where the player is periodically given choices to make, there are no choices whatsoever and the player watches the game progress as if it were a movie. One of Key's games entitled Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume was the first game produced under the kinetic novel name. In addition to games, Visual Art's also releases music CDs for video game music. Of special note among the artists sold under this label is I've Sound, a techno/trance music production group who was the first in the adult game industry to perform at the Nippon Budokan in October 2005.

Visual Art's is also involved with transplanting games they have previously published to be playable on mobile phones. Prototype manages this portion of Visual Art's known as Visual Art's Motto (ビジュアルアーツ★Motto, Bijuaru Ātsu★Motto^?). Visual Art's launched a web magazine called Visualstyle on October 26, 2007.^[1]

Contents 1 Partner companies 1.1 Game brands 1.2 Music related 1.3 Defunct 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Partner companies

[edit] Game brands 13cm 130cm 13cc Amedeo Anfini B_Works Bonbee! Catwalk Concept Dress E.G.O. Flady Frill G-clef Ham Ham Soft Hadashi Shōjo Hayashigumi Image Craft Jidaiya Key KineticNovel Kur-Mar-Ter KuroCo LimeLight Mana Miss Chifu Moe. Ocelot OPTiM Pass Guard Pekoe Playm Radi Ram Realdeal Rex Rio Saga Planets Sirius Spray Studio Mebius Zero Zion

[edit] Music related Cure Records fripSide I've Sound Key Sounds Label OTSU Queens Label

[edit] Defunct Akiko Akumi Craftwork Culotte D-XX Giant Panda Harvest Kamen Shōkai Manbō Soft Miyabi Otherwise Tamachadō Words

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[edit] External links

• Visual Art's official website (Japanese)
• Visual Art's brands updates (Japanese)
• Visual Art's Motto official website (Japanese)
• Visualstyle official website (Japanese)

v • d • e Key (under Visual Art's) Main staff Jun Maeda · Shinji Orito · Itaru Hinoue · Na-Ga · Yūto Tonokawa Notable former staff Naoki Hisaya · Yūichi Suzumoto · Magome Togoshi · OdiakeS Pre-Key visual novels Dōsei · Moon. · One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e Visual novels Kanon · Air · Clannad · Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume · Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life · Little Busters! · Rewrite Animation One OVA episodes · Kanon anime episodes · Air anime episodes · Air movie · Clannad anime episodes · Clannad movie Characters Kanon characters (Ayu Tsukimiya) · Air characters · Clannad characters · Little Busters! characters Soundtracks Kanon · Air ("Tori no Uta") · Clannad · Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume · Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life · Little Busters! Key Sounds Label Humanity... · Birthday Song,Requiem · Spica/Hanabi/Moon · Ma-Na · Love Song · OTSU Club Music Compilation albums