Visual Art's

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company_name = Visual Art's co.,ltd
株式会社ビジュアルアーツ
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company_type = Joint stock company
foundation = 1991
key_people = Takahiro Baba
location = Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
industry = Computer games
products = Visual novels
homepage = [http://visualarts.product.co.jp/ visualarts.product.co.jp] Nihongo|Visual Art's co.,ltd|株式会社ビジュアルアーツ|Kabushikigaisha Bijuaru Ātsu, formally Nihongo|Visual Artist Office|ビジュアルアーティストオフィス|Bijuaru Ātisuto Ofisu, is a Japanese publishing company specializing in the publishing and distribution of visual novels for a large list of game developers. Visual Art's has developed the game engines their brands currently use, including the current engine, called RealLive, and an older engine called AVG32. Visual Art's also handles the selling and distribution of these games. The games published are mostly for a male audience, though they also publish games targeted towards women as well. They are well known for the publishing of games by the studio Key such as the famous visual novels "Kanon", "Air", and "Clannad".

The company has coined a new type of visual novel called the kinetic novel where unlike in visual novels where the player is periodically given choices to make, there are no choices whatsoever and the player watches the game progress as if it were a movie. One of Key's games entitled "" was the first game produced under the kinetic novel name. In addition to games, Visual Art's also releases music CDs for video game music. Of special note among the artists sold under this label is I've Sound, a techno/trance music production group who was the first in the adult game industry to perform at the Nippon Budokan in October 2005.

Visual Art's is also involved with transplanting games they have previously published to be playable on mobile phones. Prototype manages this portion of Visual Art's known as Nihongo|Visual Art's Motto|ビジュアルアーツ★Motto|Bijuaru Ātsu★Motto. Visual Art's launched a web magazine called "Visualstyle" on October 26 2007. [ citeweb|url=http://www.visualstyle.jp/|title=Visualstyle's official website|publisher=Visual Art's|accessdate=2007-12-01| language=Japanese] Visual Art's launched a YouTube channel called Visual Channel in July 2008 where videos are posted which are related to the games and companies under Visual Art's. In October 2008, Visual Art's will launch their "VA Bunko" light novel imprint which will include light novels based on games produced by brands under Visual Art's.

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* [http://www.product.co.jp/ Visual Art's official website] jp icon
* [http://visualarts.product.co.jp/ Visual Art's brands updates] jp icon
* [http://motto.product.co.jp/ Visual Art's Motto official website] jp icon
* [http://www.visualstyle.jp/ "Visualstyle" official website] jp icon
* [http://jp.youtube.com/user/visualarts Visual Channel] at YouTube jp icon