'Moon Princess') is a Japanese adult visual novel game created by Type-Moon, who first released it at the Winter Comiket in December 2000.

Story concepts and characters shared many similarities with other Type-Moon's series The Garden of Sinners, and the two were also subtly connected.

The second part, Tsukihime: The Other Side of Red Garden, was teased in a secret unlockable trailer in A Piece of Blue Glass Moon.

Melty Blood: Type Lumina, a fighting game, was released worldwide on September 30, 2021, as companion to the remake titles.

Tsukihime remake entries are visual novels like the original, and though it features modern amenities (such as better skip functions), it plays mostly the same.

Unlike the original, both remakes of Near and Far sides titled Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon and Tsukihime: The Other Side of Red Garden are released separately: The game's plot follows the perspective of protagonist Shiki Tohno (遠野 志貴, Tōno Shiki), a second-year high school student in the fictional town of Misaki.

After regaining consciousness, he gains the ability to see "Death lines"—lines by which things, living or not, will eventually break when they die.

As with many Type-Moon works, Tsukihime takes place in the shared "Nasuverse" universe and is set many years after the events of Witch on the Holy Night.

The original 2000 release takes place in the fictional town of Misaki in 1999, with the events of Witch on the Holy Night being a prequel that explores the backstory of Shiki's teacher Aoko Aozaki.

The 2024 remake takes place in the fictional city of Soya in 2014 and serves as a direct sequel to the 2022 remastered version of Witch on the Holy Night instead.

However Shiki’s variant of the eyes prove superior, allowing him to secure victory over Roa and negate his reincarnation ability permanently.

The next day, Arcueid secretly kills Roa, while Shiki believes that Vlov’s death marked the end of the murders.

Noel also begins frantically trying to prove herself by killing more vampires as a result of having been threatened with reassignment due to her poor recent performance.

As Shiki lies dying, he cuts his own line to completely rid Roa and himself, but is unexpectedly revived by Ciel at the cost of her own life force.

Arcueid takes longer to resurrect, allowing Ciel time to prepare her battle gear and meet her in the city.

As Arucied will eventually die the longer she maintains her luminous form, Shiki wants to prevent that from happening.

The tone of the story was the complete opposite and only the tagline of "a biting relationship between a murderer who can see death lines and a vampire" remained in the final version.

[citation needed] Upon developing the story for Tsukihime, they pictured Arcueid as a cool and princess-like "Noble Vampire", but thought that it overlapped with Akiha's "Lady" character.

[8] The original visual novel was available to play with Game Boy Advance with the conversion software "Rinkai Tsukihime" distributed by the doujin circle "Inside-Cap".

The remake modernizes the setting of Tsukihime, having it take place in a large city in 2014 (as opposed to the suburban town in 1999 of the original), and also makes changes to the plot.

[17] At Anime Expo 2023, it was announced that the Tsukihime remake entries would get official localization outside Japan,[18] starting from A Piece of Blue Glass Moon on June 27, 2024.

[20][unreliable source] Kagetsu Tohya has teasers for a Tsukihime 2, and writer Kinoko Nasu's short stories "talk."

[citation needed] According to Character material, the sequel would have been called Tsukihime: The Dark Six and would have revolved, at least in part, around a ritual gathering of Dead Apostle ancestors.

[citation needed] Kagetsu Tohya is a sequel released in August 2001 and set one year after the events in the main Tsukihime storyline.

As the player repeats each day they are able to make different choices which affect the flow of the narrative and unlock extra content in the game, including ten short stories.

Melty Blood is a PC dojin fighting game series developed by Type-Moon and French-Bread, originally released at Comiket 63 in 2002.

It later spawned an arcade version,[23] titled Act Cadenza, that was developed by Ecole Software and was then ported to the PlayStation 2.

[24] A decade later, Type-Moon and French-Bread collaborated once again to develop the fifth installment and reboot, Melty Blood: Type Lumina, featuring the characters from the remake titles.

[25] Geneon announced it had licensed the series for distribution in North America in 2004 under the title Tsukihime, Lunar Legend.

He states, "It's an ending that takes its time, however, as this show's deliberate pacing ensures that the story is revealed only to those who are patient enough.