A Aniplex posted this trailer for the anime film online Witch on the Holy Night (Mahoutsukai no Yoru), the visual novel by Type-Moonwhich is animated by the studio Ufotable (Demon Slayer, Fate/Zero, The Garden of Sinners).
A Aniplex released the game version for Playstation 4 It is Nintendo Switch in the West in December 2022, the same day as the game's release date in Japan. PS4 It is Switch sold more than 150 thousand copies worldwide. The game is available on Steam.
The novel Witch on the Holy Night (Mahoutsukai no Yoru), written in 1996, was the first novel that established the currently known Nasuverse. Kinoko Nasu and his colleagues thought at the time that they wouldn't be able to write anything better than that novel for the next ten years. In high school, he was inspired by the first episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion and thought about writing a novel. Nasu he wrote around 400 pages and tried to submit the story to several writing competitions in 1996, but was unsuccessful, and the work was limited to being distributed among his friends. Nasu tried to send the novel to the publisher Fujimi Shobo, but found it difficult to keep it under 350 pages and left the novel unpublished. In the end, he printed less than 5 copies of the original draft and some of the characters in the original story were drawn by Takashi Takeuchi to your old personal website.
After forming the TYPE-MOON with Takeuchi and with the successes of their work Tsukihime It is Fate/Stay Night, Takeuchi suggested redoing Mahoutsukai no Yoru so it could be published before your 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 designed as an adult game.
Synopsis of Witch on the Holy Night (Mahoutsukai no Yoru)
Near the end of the Showa Era, in the late 1980s, in the town of Misaki, an old mansion is rumored to be the home of a witch. After moving into the mansion, Aoko Aozaki begins learning sorcery from a young sorceress, Alice Kuonji, the mansion's supposed 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 inner city of Misaki, prompting Alice and Aoko to investigate. A dummy attacks them and is cremated. When this happens, the two see someone running away, a civilian who must not escape having seen magic alive. Unexpectedly, a young man named Soujuurou Shizuki is attracted to the mansion and comes to live with them as well. It is eventually revealed that the intruder is Touko Aozaki, Aoko's older sister. She, after having killed her grandfather, seeks to reveal the Aozakis' path to the root.
