Overview
Tsukihime (月姫, Tsukihime, lit. "Moon Princess) is a Japanese adult visual novel created by the doujinshi circle Type-Moon and story by Kinoko Nasu.
The story is based on an adventure game style, with different routes depending on the player's choices. In each route, the heroine changes, and there are multiple endings.
It shares the same world with Kara no Kyoukai and Mahoutsukai no Yoru, which also started out as coterie biography novels, and some of the main characters have been adapted directly from their settings.
Later, a fan disc Kagetsu Tohya was released in 2001, and after 2002, a fighting game Melty Blood series was produced in collaboration with another circle, French-Bread.
It is famous as the first work that Type-Moon released to the world (or rather, it is correct to say that Type-Moon is the coterie circle that was originally formed for the purpose of creating Tsukihime), and it boasted record sales through word of mouth as a coterie work with a level of quality comparable to commercial works, which was very rare in the coterie game market at the time. As one of the few examples of a doujin work entering the media mix, it is said to have had a huge influence on the way doujin works were produced before and after Tsukihime.
However, as Type-Moon became more commercialized, they ended their activities as a doujin circle with Tsuki-Bako (月箱, Tsuki-Bako, lit. Moon Box) a compilation of their past works, and stopped reselling them.
As a result, illegal copies of the game have been circulating, and even today, official copies are sold at a high price in the used market.
Plot
The protagonist of the story, Shiki Tohno, nearly died once when he was a child. From this he came to possess the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, a special set of eyes that can see "the death of things" as black lines.
When he was suffering from the burden of this ability as a child, he was helped by a woman he met by chance. He received a pair of glasses to seal the power of his eyes, which allowed him to lead an ordinary life as an outwardly normal boy.
However in the present time, a series of bizarre murders in which people are killed by having all of their blood drained from their bodies occur at the same time that Shiki decides to return to his parents' house from his relatives' house, and his life is suddenly transformed into an extraordinary one.
Characters
Main Characters
| Shiki Tohno | Arcueid Brunestud |
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| The main character. He has the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, which allows him to see the death of things. | She is a vampire known as the True Ancestor. She was killed once by Shiki. |
| Ciel | Akiha Tohno |
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| A senior who loves curry. Ciel is his baptismal name. | She is the current head of the Tohno family and the younger sister of the main character, who has lived apart from her for eight years. |
| Hisui | Kohaku |
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| A servant attached to Shiki. She is taciturn and expressionless. | She is Hisui's twin sister. A servant attached to Akiha. |
Side Characters
| Satsuki Yumizuka | Aoko Aozaki |
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| A classmate with twin-tails. She has feelings for Shiki. | Aoko is a magician. She met Shiki as a child and gave him a pair of glasses to suppress his eyes. |
| Nrvnqsr Chaos | Michael Roa Valdamjong |
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| A vampire who has been chasing Arcueid. | He is a vampire who has pursued Arcueid. |
| Arihiko Inui | SHIKI Tohno |
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| He has been Shiki's best friend since elementary school. He has red hair and loves women. | He is a mysterious person with a name similar to Shiki's. |
Remake
The release of a remake of Tsukihime was announced in the 2008 issue of TYPE-MOON Ace.
Later, a follow-up was published in the same magazine in October 2016, but at that point it only had new visuals of the main characters and one new character were introduced.
However, during the Fate Project New Year's Eve TV Special 2020 broadcast on New Year's Eve 2020, a surprise announcement was made that the game would be released on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in the summer of 2021 with a completely new cast. A PV produced by ufotable was released along with it. The full title is Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- (月姫 -A piece of blue glass moon-).
Related Illustrations
Remake Illustrations
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External Links
月姫 -A piece of blue glass moon-
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