The Japanese visual novels publishing company Visual Art's enters the light novel industry with the start of the new light novel label "VA Bunko" (VA文庫). VA Bunko's light novels will be based on games that were published under Visual Art's game brands. The label will be sold through the Japanese publisher Paradigm.
VA Bunko will start on October 31st, 2008 with the release of the following light novels:
"Meitantei Shikaku na Kanojo" by Fushimi Tsukasa (author) and Hasumi Elan (illustrator)
"planetarian ~Chiisana Hoshi no Yume~" by Suzumoto Yuichi (author) and Komatsu Eeji (illustrator)
The first chapter of the "Meitantei Shikaku na Kanojo" light novel is available for download in pdf format on Visual Art's "Issue" website (Issue is Visual Art's new brand).
"Meitantei Shikaku na Kanojo" will also be getting a Kinetic Novel version. A release date of the Kinetic Novel hasn't been announced yet.
Source: AkibaOS, Mangaoh Club
Comments
- ETERNAL (not verified)Sun, 2008-10-05 14:03
Interesting...as far as I know, Visual Arts is responsible for quite a lot of the good VN companies out there, including Key. Translations will probably be a problem, but it's still nice to see things like a Planetarian light novel.
- Robert (not verified)Sun, 2009-02-01 15:28
That is a great news. I have been liking Visual Arts' work from before. Hope the new project keeps up the standard too.
- Sally (not verified)Thu, 2009-02-12 20:18
Ahhh, this is so cool - a way to have more of a complete story to go with a game and vice versa. Visual Arts stuff is high quality; the new VA Bunko novel label I'm sure will not disappoint in this regard. Thanks for posting this!
- Sally
- Asian traveler (not verified)Thu, 2009-05-07 12:37
Visual Art's is a great company with very good artists. "VA Bunko" is not their the best project, but it is quietly good. Some episodes are very, very quality, but some of them are not at this level. However, I am curious to see what will be Visual Art`s next project.
- Gustav Klimt Paintings Fan (not verified)Sun, 2009-06-07 10:31
I recently wrote a short post about Japanese Art and so this post is interesting to me. I currently live in Shanghai and am interested in finding out more about Chinese & Japanese art and literature. Japan contines to lead the way in contemporary design, i feel. I shall Digg this article.
- japanese names (not verified)Mon, 2009-07-06 20:47
I was definitely pleased to hear of this news. VA produces very high quality work. Their artwork is awesome and VA文庫 is no exception.
- Fine Art Tom (not verified)Sat, 2009-07-11 03:15
Will check out the "Meitantei Shikaku na Kanojo" light novel on Visual Art's "Issue" website. Their logo is really cool.
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