The anime film based on the visual novel created by TYPE-MOON, Mahoutsukai no Yoru (Witch on the Holy Night), revealed a new promotional video. The video did not reveal a release dateconfirming that the feature film is still in production. The studies Ufotable They are in charge of the animation.
The novel Mahoutsukai no Yoru original, written in 1996, was the novel that first established the Nasuverse currently known. Kinoko Nasu and his colleagues thought at the time that they would not be able to write anything better than that novel in the next ten years. In high school, she was inspired by the first episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion and thought about writing a novel. Nasu wrote about 400 pages and tried to submit it to several writing contests in 1996, but was unsuccessful, and the work was limited to passing it around to her friends. Nasu tried to send the novel to the publisher Fujimi Shobo, but he found it difficult to keep it under 350 pages and left the novel unpublished. In the end, he only printed less than 5 copies of the original draft and some of the characters from the original story were drawn by Takashi Takeuchi for your old personal website.
After forming TYPE-MOON with Takeuchi and with the successes of his later visual novel works Tsukihime and Fate/Stay NightTakeuchi suggested remaking Mahoutsukai no Yoru so it could be published before his next planned project Girls’ Work. TYPE-MOON then announced the development of the visual novel, although unlike the company’s previous games, Mahoutsukai no Yoru It was not conceived as a video game for adults.
Synopsis of Mahoutsukai no Yoru
Near the end of the Showa Era, in the late 1980s, in the city of Misaki, an old mansion is rumored to be the home of a witch. After moving into the mansion, Aoko Aozaki begins to learn sorcery from a young magician, Alice Kuonji, the mansion’s rumored witch. The Aozaki family oversees the land on which Misaki City is built and the heiress (Aoko) is tasked with protecting it. Mysterious intruders have been disturbing the bounded countryside of Misaki City, prompting Alice and Aoko to investigate. A mannequin or puppet attacks them and is incinerated. While this is happening, they both see someone fleeing, a civilian who should not escape having seen the magic alive. Unexpectedly, a young man named Soujuurou Shizuki is attracted to the mansion and comes to reside with them as well. It is eventually revealed that the intruder who had been disrupting the bounded field is Touko Aozaki, Aoko’s older sister. She, after having killed her grandfather, now seeks to reveal the Aozakis’ path to the root.
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