Mahou Tsukai no Yoru
It is the late 1980s. Rumors of a witch living inside an old mansion circulate in the city. Unbeknownst to observers, living inside the mansion is an actual witch, Alice Kuonji, a stoic woman and a magus hiding in the present day. Under her tutelage studies Aoko Aozaki, a high school student studying magecraft as the head of the Aozaki family. As magi, the two of them secretly fight any threat that enters their town.
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Things start to change when a young man unfamiliar with city life, Shizuki Soujuurou, enters their lives. Slowly, he affects the lives of these two magi. And so their story begins...
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - Witch on the Holy Night is a Visual Novel set in the Nasuverse. Originally a five hundred-page novel penned by Kinoko Nasu, it was never publicly released and only a handful of copies were distributed. It was announced for a visual novel remake on 2008, but it got stuck in Development Hell several times before finally being released on April 12, 2012. A translation of the demo text can be read here.
Unlike the other Type-Moon visual novels, Mahoyo is a linear novel with no branching plot lines. It is also Type-Moon's first all-ages visual novel.
This visual novel contains examples of:
- Animorphism: Lugh can take either the form of a pretty boy or a Big Badass Wolf.
- Backstory: The entire novel revolves around the high school life of Aoko, a major character in Tsukihime and Melty Blood.
- Badass: Given. It's Nasuverse, after all.
- Badass Normal: Shizuki.
- Big Badass Wolf: Lugh Beowulf
- Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Shizuki literally break his arm punching Lugh.
- Child Soldier: Shizuki came from the same organization as Souichirou, from Fate Stay Night
- Country Mouse: Shizuki.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Shizuki takes down Lugh, a two thousand years old Nature Spirit who not even Aoko could defeat, by punching him in the heart and hitting his back with an elbow blow.
- Familiar: Lugh to Touko.
- Golem: Alice has one. Touko has... some.
- Half the Man He Used To Be: Shizuki. But he got better
- Idiot Hero: Shizuki. The guy is just plain clueless.
- Kung Fu Wizard: Aoko.
- Marionette Master: Touko.
- Nigh Invulnerability: Lugh No Sell a kick that could break a tree in half.
- Nursery Rhyme: Alice uses it as enchantations for her magic.
- The Eighties
- Fairy Tale Motifs: Alice's magic revolves around fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
- Playboy Bunny: Aoko gets to use one in an Extra Scene. Maybe a compensation for the lack of H.
- Reset Button: Aoko uses her time manipulating Magic to make so that Shizuki's death never occurred
- Sibling Rivalry: A very ugly one between Aoko and Touko over the succession of the family magecraft.
- The Stoic: Alice is described as such. She barely shows any emotion, but seems to have warmed up to Aoko and Shizuki.
- Time Master: Whoever controls the Fifth Magic.
- Tsundere: Aoko to Shizuki.
- Witch Species