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
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- 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.
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