, formerly and previously spelled in English as VisualArt's, is a Japanese publishing company which specializes in publishing and distributing visual novels for a large list of game developers. Visual Arts has developed game engines their brands currently use, including the current engine, called Siglus, and older engines RealLive and AVG32. Visual Arts also handles the distribution of these games. The games published are mostly for a male audience, though they also publish games targeted towards women as well. They are well known for publishing games developed by Key, such as ''

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'', '' Air'', and '' Clannad''. The company has coined a new type of visual novel called the kinetic novel where unlike in visual novels where the player is periodically given choices to make, there are no choices whatsoever and the player watches the game progress as if it were a movie. One of Key's games entitled '' Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet'' was the first game produced under the kinetic novel name. In addition to games, Visual Arts also releases music CDs for video game music. Of special note among the artists sold under this label is I've Sound, a techno/

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music production group who was the first in the adult game industry to perform at the

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in October 2005. Visual Arts is also involved with transplanting games they have previously published to be playable on

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manages this portion of Visual Arts known as . Visual Arts launched a web magazine called ''Visualstyle'' on October 26, 2007. Visual Arts launched a

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channel called Visual Channel in July 2008 where videos are posted which are related to the games and companies under Visual Arts. In October 2008, Visual Arts launched their VA Bunko light novel imprint, which includes light novels based on games produced by brands under Visual Arts.

Partner companies

Game brands

*13 cm *Amedeo *Anfini *B_Works *Bonbee! *Catwalk *Concept *Dress *E.G.O. *Elysion *Flady *Frill *Garden *G-clef *Ham Ham Soft *Hadashi Shōjo *Hayashigumi *Image Craft *Issue *Jidaiya * Key * KineticNovel *Kur-Mar-Ter *KuroCo *Lapis Lazuli *LimeLight *Mana *Miss Chifu *Moe. *Ningyou Yuugisya *Ocelot *OPTiM *Pass Guard *Pekoe *Playm *Radi *Realdeal *Rex *Rio * Saga Planets *Sirius *Spray * Studio Mebius *Tone Work's *Zero *Zion

Music related

*Cure Records * fripSide * I've Sound * Key Sounds Label *OTSU *Queens Label

Defunct

*Akiko *Akumi *Craftwork *Culotte *D-XX *Giant Panda *Harvest *Kamen Shōkai *Manbō Soft *Miyabi *Otherwise * Ram *Tamachadō *Words

References

External links

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Visual Arts product website

Visual Arts Motto official website

Visual Channel
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VA Bunko official website
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