Editing Nasuverse (section)

== Tsukihime ==
[[File:Tsukihimepromo.jpg|300px|thumb|The main cast of Tsukihime. From left to right: Yumidzuka Satsuki, Ciel, Tohno Akiha, Len, Arcueid Brunestud, Hisui, Kohaku. The redhead in the background is Aozaki Aoko, and the shadow at the top-right is Nrvnqsr Chaos (pronounced Nero).]][[File:nasuverse chrischan.jpg|300px|thumb|As you shouldn't.]]
Tsukihime is a visual novel that's one part murder mystery, one part dating simulator, and one part gothic horror. Its main character, Tohno Shiki, survives a car crash as a child and is disowned by his wealthy parents for his frail constitution. In exchange for this near-death experience, he gains the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception introduced in Kara no Kyoukai, enabling him to cut through anything. The story begins when he's called back to his family manor upon the death of the family patriarch, where he gets embroiled in the 'vampire murders' occurring throughout town. The problem is that, when he sleeps, he sees the crimes being done... from the murderer's perspective. The various routes of the story either track down the culprit or ignore them in favor of digging up the Tohno family's shadowy history.

The five choices of waifu, and therefore of routes in the story, are:
* Arcueid Brunestud, vampire-hunting vampire and the last one who was born this way, which makes her a kind of nature spirit. Technically the strongest thing on Earth bar maybe a certain temporally confused alien spider.
* Ciel, ninja-nun and vampire hunter working for the Church. Can't be killed because of a glitch in the world. Finds out that Shiki's eyes can fix glitches in one bad ending (or maybe she just stays a living head, who knows). She has a strange fascination with curry.
* Tohno Akiha, Shiki's younger sister and, after Shiki was disowned for being too sickly, heiress to the Tohno family fortune. She's used to acting the part of a financial conglomerate ''ojou''.
* Hisui, Maid One of the pair remaining at the Tohno family mansion. She's quiet and keeps things formal. A poor cook, but excellent around the house.
* Kohaku, Maid Two at the Tohno mansion. She's the cheery big sister type to contrast Hisui's cool exterior. Her cleaning skills are horrendous, but she's the best in the kitchen and the garden.

Other waifus featured are Aozaki Aoko, a mentor figure Shiki met when he was still recovering from his  ''accident'', and Yumidzuka Satsuki, the designated classmate love interest. They don't get routes, so they don't count, and Satsuki not having a route is a common subject of memes among Nasuverse fans.

Picking a waifu from the five above sets you on one of the story's routes, which are organized into the Near Side (Arcueid, Ciel) or Far Side (Akiha, Hisui, Kohaku). The Near Side routes focus on investigating the vampire murders in town and explains a lot of the mechanics of vampires in the Nasuverse, while the Far Side investigates the mysteries of the Tohno family. It's strongly recommended that you read the novel in the recommended order above, because the entire teenage vampire romance thing is just a bait on the hook trying to get nerds to read about something '''VERY''' different.

Overall, Tsukihime is a respectable visual novel and interesting if only so you can see how far Type-Moon has come from their beginnings hucking demos at Comiket. Its contained and minimalist nature helps it work out a lot, making it a lot more subtle than the loud idealist speeches and overexplaining everything you may be used to from Fate. On the other hand, there isn't exactly enough content to fill up five entire routes of story (80% of the Kohaku route is nigh-identical to the Hisui route), so going from one route on the same Side to the other(s) will involve judicious use of the fast-forward button.

If all you care about is shitposting, "Can Shiki kill Servants" is one of the fastest ways to start fights among Nasuverse geeks, and any relevant discussion quickly devolves into a total clownshow of powerlevel arguments.

=== Near Side ===
The Near Side routes focus on the vampiric threat in the city and the hunters dealing with it. The antagonist is Michael Roa Valdamjong, a vampire and one of the few in the Nasuverse to achieve immortality (kinda; a recurring theme in the Nasuverse is that immortality is not a thing, and even if your body doesn't decay, your soul always rots eventually). Roa's immortality allows him to continue his life by reincarnating into the body of a specially prepared host, usually a child so people ask fewer questions. He has a hateboner for Arcueid, who has sworn to hunt him down each time he reincarnates, and their conflict goes back centuries. Meanwhile, Ciel is investigating the vampire murders on orders of the holy Church and trying to rope Shiki into being her partner.

Highlights of the Near Side include mercy-killing a recently turned vampire as she confesses her love to you, death by shark attack on the upper floors of a hotel with no aquarium, the use of [[What|anal sex to slow down a progressing vampiric possession]], and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeiSVFrl_sI&t=4m10s real eyesore of a chair].

=== Far Side ===
Roa does not make an appearance in these routes (let alone [[/co/|Gary Larson]]). Instead, it's revealed he attempted to reincarnate into the most magically gifted child of the Tohno family, a bloodline that's already exceptional due to mingling with oni. Unlike the Near Side, where he succeedeed in extinguishing the kid's soul, the Far Side allows the Tohno scion to leverage his demon blood to resist the vampire and expel him. Unfortunately, half-oni seriously struggle with controlling their [[Rip and tear|violently psychotic impulses]] for the rest of their lives once they embrace their nature. The entire Tohno bloodline is half-oni and quite open to using their powers. You do the math. 

These routes explore the dark history of the household, shed light on Shiki's origins, let you sleep with the maids (sometimes [[Rape|questionably]]), chill and talk things out with your mortal enemy while under an unholy amount of drugs, and are generally a beautiful trip down "going batshit insane" lane.

=== Kagetsu Tohya ===
A proper sequel of sorts to Tsukihime, with quite a bit more art, music, and less dour atmosphere. It could be considered a fanservice disc, if not for the fact that it is quite a bit more intimately tied to Tsukihime's cast than Hollow Ataraxia is to Fate, going into their backgrounds more than Tsukihime could, and even tying up some legitimate loose ends, such as a short story set after Akiha's True Ending. Tsukihime was horror, and less is more in horror, so we instead get Kagetsu Tohya, which explores the world of Tsukihime in a way that the work itself couldn't afford to.

Kagetsu Tohya is generally split into two parts:
*Ten Nights of a Dream: Isolated stories to be read, some of them fanfiction made canon, but often pretty sizeable. They are unlocked as the player chews through the main story.
*Twilight Grass Moon, Fairy Tale Princess: The main story focuses on our protagonist, Tohno Shiki, who, half a year after the events of Tsukihime, finds himself endlessly reliving a single day of his daily life. Rather than a normal Groundhog Day scenario, though, he is caught in a dream, and the other characters with him. A dream somebody has trapped them in, for some reason. This is a problem, since Shiki's subconscious is a dark place, and he won't be allowed to leave until he confronts some of those repressed inner demons.

=== Tsukihime 2: The Dark Six ===
[[File:Nasuverse tsuki2.jpg|200px|thumb|Things that may never happen, but have been teased before.]]
Kagetsu Tohya included a teaser for Tsukihime 2, which would never be made. Tsukihime Plus Period, the data-book akin to Character Material for other titles, included the prologue to Tsukihime 2, 'Talk'. Overall, not only is there a surprisingly high amount of information available, but it seems that the nonexistent story of Tsukihime 2 is referenced and even bleeds into the other works, which actually exist.

The story of Tsukihime 2 revolves around the Aylesbury Ritual, wherin several powerful Dead Apostles gather to summon The Dark Six, an entity that would bring salvation to the Dead Apostles. This ritual has incidentally been carried out and apparently botched in Fate/Extra, resulting in a polar shift and draining of all of the world's prana.

Tsukihime 2 has two protagonists, of which the first is Enhance, who is quite literally Vampire Dante From the Devil May Cry Series. He is a vampire that goes around with a sword and a shotgun killing other vampires. The other protagonist might be Shiki, or somebody else, since Shiki by the time of Tsukihime 2 is so overpowered his glasses no longer work and he has to blind himself with magic bandages to suppress his eyes. Two heroines we know of are Bartholomeloi Lorelei, basically the purest blood magus in the world, and Altrogue Brunestud, Arcueid's sister, and the second in line to become Crimson Moon. From the Prologue it also seems that Ciel has a fairly large role in the story, possibly being the other protagonist herself.

=== Melty Blood ===
[[File:Nasuverse riesterms.jpg|300px|thumb|Neither of these will be mentioned again.]]
A sequel-spinoff series that continues where one of the routes left off. Which one? [[What|The Satsuki route, which doesn't exist]]. It started as a VN with a janky fighting game stapled to it, but later releases smoothed the gameplay until it was more like the Tsukihime Fighting Game than it was a VN you had to do fights to get through. Now there's a Melty Blood manga that goes over the original stuff, so you can just read that instead of playing badly made fighting games. 

The main story is famous for a few things, among which is invoking several fresh new words and ideas which would never be brought up again, and many of which would be contradicted by Fate, as the Tsuki-side seems to have been abandoned by Type-Moon for FGO bucks. In Melty, the town of Misaki where both Tsukihime and Mahoyo are set is visited by an alchemist, Sion Eltnam Atlasia. It turns out that the town has been chosen as a spot for the next manifestation of Night of Wallachia - a powerful vampire who takes the form of people's greatest fears. This is likely because certain people in Misaki have dangerous amounts of knowledge of the truly terrifying parts of the setting, and he hopes to use those fears to acquire some overpowered ability that would let him progress his research.

Wallachia, or Zepia Eltnam Oberon, you see, used to be a magus, an alchemist, and a scientist. With the infinite power of math, he has calculated the inevitability of the [[Vampire:_The_Masquerade#Gehenna:_the_end_of_the_Masquerade|apocalypse]], in Tsuki-side called The Sixth, and sought immortality by means of vampirism to help avert it. The Night of Wallachia is a roulette of sorts like that, meant to collect data, except that the guy running has long since gone batshit insane.<br>
Resolving this situation, however, is just the Story Mode of the first title, and nowhere near where the entire storyline ends. What follows after this one is spread across the individual Arcade Modes and victory quotes (that's not a joke) of fifteen to thirty one characters across three different games, and no one can be expected to remember all of it, including the makers. As such, Melty lore contains some of the most obscure stuff in the setting. Not the ''deepest lore'' mind you, just the stuff no one could be bothered to remember.
[[File:Neco arc devil monster.mp4|300px|thumb|A take on the average alignment of the neco characters in Melty Blood.]]
Melty Blood is notable for its long, seemingly nonsensical titles, and was supposed to get a new title in the 2010s. The first catch is that Type-Moon wanted the characters in the new Melty to have the [[Skub|Remake designs]], which would be easy. The other catch is that they wanted it to adhere to the Remake lore, which was impossible, because there was no Remake for the longest time. When the Remake ''finally'' came out, so did the new Melty Blood title, set as a what-if before Tsukihime. The new title, Melty Blood: Type Lumina, has recently brought the [[Daemon]] known as Neco-Arc back into the public consciousness. Expect gremlin cats to scour through 4chan for the next ̶𝚖̶𝚘̶𝚗̶𝚝̶𝚑̶ year(s?) or so.

=== The Tsukihime Remake ===
[[File:Rena 2003.png|300px|thumb|Click to die instantly.]]
A remake of Tsukihime was announced. In 2008. The massive success of the Fate side of the franchise put it on ice for over a decade before finally being released in Summer 2021, albeit in parts.

Updated character designs were revealed in 2013 and [[skub|earned a lot of flak for changing things that didn't really need to be changed]]. Later announcements included entirely new characters and the news that some old Tsukihime lore would be discarded -- namely replacing some of the lamer Dead Apostle Ancestors with cooler ones.

The Summer 2021 release, "Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon" remade the Near Side (Arc and Ciel) routes. It happened. The Arc route has since been fan-translated by Tsukihimates, with Ciel's apparently soon to follow. Revealed in a trailer after the game finishes, The Far Side routes will be in their own release, but there's no date on that yet. [[Epic|Also, Satsuki's getting her route.]]
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