Editing Nasuverse (section)

== Other Works ==

=== Mahoyo ===
[[File:Mahoyostill.jpg|300px|thumb|An example of a still from Mahoyo. Pretty, right? Now think about how long it would take to make an entire visual novel where all the art is stills of this quality.]]
"Witch on the Holy Night," abbreviated Mahoyo from the Japanese title '''Maho'''utsukai no '''Yo'''ru, is unofficially the first Nasuverse work (unreleased due to various reasons) and one of the last visual novels written by Nasu with art by Takeuchi. It follows Aozaki Aoko's life as a magician before Shiki met her in Tsukihime.

It's notable for eschewing traditional VN practice of depicting characters with slightly-animated portraits, preferring to show everything with individually drawn stills. This makes it very pretty, but virtually nothing can be reused, so it's a big expense in both time and money, leading to infamous delays in its production, enormous art costs, zero voiced dialogue (suicide for a VN released in 2012), and the decision to split it into three parts. The first of these three is all we had, as its financial failure most likely convinced TYPE-MOON to focus on the safe bet of licensing Fate for the foreseeable future, and probably why it took until 2022 for an official English translation (among other languages) [https://twitter.com/mahoyo_game/status/1513713767804198916 to be announced], finally seeing the light of day in December 2022. Whether the trilogy will continue as originally planned is anyone's guess.

=== Angel Notes ===
[[File:Nasuverse slashemperor.jpg|300px|thumb|Notes humanity is pretty out there.]]

Also known as Angel Notes, it is the second-oldest official Nasuverse work but is set in the far future. Earth/Gaia is suffering a spiritual death at the hands of human war and pollution. Humanity itself only survived by bioengineering to survive in the hostile environment. Enraged that the beings that killed her continue to live on her soon-to-be corpse, Gaia released into what was left of the atmosphere a lethal discharge of Mana, killing large swathes of humanity and mutating the flora and fauna into aberrations that would make a [[Death World]] proud. The surviving humans responded by bioengineering themselves AGAIN into monsters beyond Gaia's monsters. In response, Gaia's dying breath was a call to the Ultimate Ones to finish the job. The main story follows the last days of the last unmodified human (and thus the only one capable of wielding a God-Killing Gun), where he finds himself sharing an apartment with an incarnation of Type Venus that he 'killed' five years ago. 

Many other Nasu works, particularly Prisma Illya, reference Notes as a possible bad end for their future.  The infamous God-killing gun, the Black Barrel itself, was alluded multiple times in other works, but only returns to mainstream consciousness ''almost twenty years later'' in Fate/Grand Order, as an upgrade to Mash Kyrielight's Ortinax shield. 

The idea of the Ultimate Ones, particularly Type-ORT, being considered as impossibly-powerful and looming threats across the franchise, also originate in Notes, but much like the Black Barrel mentioned above, the true scale of just how unbelievably BROKEN they were came into play in Fate/Grand Order, where players were finally able to come face-to-face against ORT (or a ''version'' of ORT anyway)...  And let's just say that the reputation is merited. Do note, however, that ORT itself isn't mentioned in Notes, presumably because he was ''so weak in comparison to the others that his defeat wasn't even noteworthy''.

=== Carnival Phantasm ===
Carnival Phantasm is the obligatory comedy cross-over that all long-running Japanese series have to do at least once. It is very silly and is regarded with more or less universal praise.

That is to say, this is a 12 episodes anime worth of jokes. For the initial episodes it takes from the Take-Moon manga, but later episodes have the show's official content, with somewhat different tone and humour. Whether you like the simple gags at the start or the complicated ones later, you'll probably enjoy Carnival Phantasm more the more of the other stuff you've read.

Sort of received a sequel series named Fate/Grand Carnival which, as you can guess, focuses mainly on Fate/Grand Order what with both Tsukihime and Kara no Kyoukai fading from public consciousness.