Mahoyo

This is a great year to be a Type-Moon fan. Why? First and foremost, Mahou Tsukai no Yoru is coming out on September 30th (the Type-Moon website got a facelift as well), which just happens to be the same day that the DVD of the Unlimited Blade Works film is released, coincidence? Either way, it has been five years since the last major original Type-Moon product, Fate/hollow ataraxia (well, it technically was still just a fandisc, but I think its quality and size merits this) hit the stores, no more milking their existing properties (okay, so the Rakkyo films were a nice treat), yay!

According to Nasu, there will be three parts to Mahoyo. Part one, the one that will come out this September, is based on the story written by Nasu before Tsukihime, while the next two parts will be all new content. Looking at Type-Moon's past release record, I wonder how long it'll be before the fans can finally see the last part, that, and Tsukihime 2... (considering there are still fans patiently waiting for news of DDD volume 3).

So Type-Moon Ace Vol.3 was released a while ago, and what's the big announcement? Mahou Tsukai no Yoru has been delayed until 2010!

The official reason goes something along the lines of "The delay was in part due to being over-optimistic about recreating a 13-year-old work, and in part because we can't suppress to our desire to pursue new stories." There was also words of the entire company working hard together to get the game done blah blah.

Hmm, okay, fair enough, guess TM pulled a Blizzard, will just have to look forward to both Mahoyo and Starcraft 2 in 2010.

Happy New Year (to whoever actually comes here)! May this little site be updated more frequently in 2009.

Anyway, the main purpose of this post, aside from the holiday greetings, is to update y'all with some Type-Moon news for the last couple months.

Let's see, first of all, Comiket 75 has come and gone, and there were a variety of TM goods sold. The best of the best, without surprise, came from the TM booth itself:

• CONCEPT artbook [2,000 yen]
• Poster set - 22 posters (150mm x 420mm) [3,500 yen]
• Ryogi Shiki bath towel [4,000 yen]
• AATM2 Neck warmer [2,000 yen]
• AATM2 Paper bag

Not really news, but Type-Moon has updated their sites with sections for all three of their newly announced games, with the subtitle of "The next worlds of TYPE-MOON."

At the moment nothing we don't know about are available, the only things up are some character art and sketches of the games, all of which were already featured in the magazines released last month.

Still waiting for Tsukihime 2 and the next volume of DDD though :/ On a side note, look for a big Type-Moon feature soon...

With issues of the latest issue of Tech Gian and Type-Moon Ace "leaked", news of Type-Moon's upcoming projects are practically everywhere now:

Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - Not much news here, the game was announced by Type-Moon a couple of weeks ago. The story is based on one of Nasu's (TM co-founder) early unreleased novels. The story centers around the life of magician Aoko Aozaki and her sorcery teacher Alice Kuonji, who live together in a mansion. One day, a young boy called Souichirou Shizuki joins them, and things become interesting...

The "bad news" is the game will be "All Age", meaning there are no ero contents, of course, being a TM game, the story is what really matters. Another thing to note is that the art will be done by Hirokazu Koyama, making this one of the first TM game not drawn by Takeuchi.