Editing Nasuverse (section)

=== 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.