Vanillaware

Vanillaware is a game company led by the artist George Kamitani. Its games are renowned for their extremely detailed 2D artwork. It frequently works together with Basiscape for the soundtracks -- in fact, thus far, every single released OST for a Vanillaware game has been effectively a vehicle for the newer artists of Basiscape.

Games by Vanillaware:


 * Princess Crown
 * Odin Sphere
 * Grim Grimoire
 * Kumatanchi
 * Muramasa the Demon Blade
 * Grand Knights History (Japan: September 2011, USA: ???)
 * Dragons Crown (announced for spring 2013)

Vanillaware and George Kamitani use the following tropes:

 * Author Appeal: George Kamitani's fetishes appear to be as follows:
 * Amazonian Beauty (Gwendolyn, Raijin, the Amazon)
 * Buxom Is Better
 * Zettai Ryouiki: (Gwendolyn, Velvet, Raijin, Elf)
 * Doing It for The Art: It takes a ton of work to produce 2D graphics lavish enough to strain a contemporary game system.
 * Food Porn
 * Medieval European Fantasy: Five out of seven games.
 * Scenery Porn: To the point where many promotional images are the raw artwork for the backgrounds.
 * Spiritual Successor: Princess Crown --> Odin Sphere --> Muramasa. In fact, during development, the games were respectively referred to as Princess Crown 2 and Princess Crown 3. Dragon's Crown is instead a successor to Dungeons & Dragons: Tower Of Doom.