YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World

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YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World
NEC PC-98 cover
この世の果てで恋を唄う少女YU-NO (Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shōjo YU-NO)
Genre	Science fiction[1]
Video game
Developer	ELF Corporation (original) 5pb. (remake)
Publisher	Original ELF Corporation Remake JP: 5pb. WW: Spike Chunsoft EU: Numskull Games
Produced by	Remake Makoto Asada Chiyomaru Shikura
Designed by	Hiroyuki Kanno
Music by	Ryu Umemoto Ryu Takami Kazuhiro Kanae (original) Keishi Yonao (remake)
Genre	Adventure game, visual novel
Platform	Original NEC PC-98, Sega Saturn, Microsoft Windows Remake PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows
Released	December 26, 1996 Original NEC PC-98 JP: December 26, 1996 Sega Saturn JP: December 4, 1997 32-bit Windows JP: December 22, 2000 Remake PlayStation Vita JP: March 16, 2017 PlayStation 4 JP: March 16, 2017 NA: October 1, 2019 EU: October 4, 2019 Nintendo Switch JP: March 14, 2019 NA: October 1, 2019 EU: October 4, 2019 64-bit Windows WW: October 1, 2019
Manga
Written by	Mario Kaneda
Magazine	G Fantasy
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1997 – 1998
Original video animation
YU-NO
Directed by	Katsuma Kanazawa Yagoshi Mamoru[2]
Written by	Osamu Kudo Sakura Momoi
Studio	Pink Pineapple
Licensed by	NA: NuTech Digital
Released	October 23, 1998 – September 24, 1999
Episodes	4 (List of episodes)
Manga
Written by	Sōji Ishida
Published by	Enterbrain
Magazine	Comic Clear
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	March 14, 2017 – March 15, 2018
Volumes	2
Anime television series
Directed by	Tetsuo Hirakawa
Produced by	Hiroaki Tsunoda Noritomo Isogai Shinji Oomori Kazuaki Takahashi Hirohiko Kanbe Yoshito Hayano Hidenori Kawai Kazuasa Umeda
Written by	Tetsuo Hirakawa Kenta Ihara Keiichirou Oochi Masahiro Yokotani
Music by	Keishi Yonao Ryuu Takami Ryuu Kawamura Evan Call
Studio	Feel
Licensed by	NA: Crunchyroll
Original network	AT-X, Tokyo MX, ABC, BS Fuji
Original run	April 2, 2019 – October 1, 2019
Episodes	26 + OVA[3] (List of episodes)

YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World^[a] is a visual novel adventure game developed and published by ELF Corporation. It was originally released in 1996 as an eroge for the NEC PC-98 Japanese home computer and later ported to the Sega Saturn and Microsoft Windows platforms without the sexual content. The story follows the protagonist travelling between parallel worlds to solve the mystery of his parents' disappearance. The game uses concepts from science fiction, physics, mathematics, philosophy, history and religion to construct its fictional universe. The "Auto Diverge Mapping System" (A.D.M.S.) that displays the branching parallel worlds and storylines as a tree helps the player navigate the game world.

YU-NO was written and produced by Hiroyuki Kanno, and its FM-synth music soundtrack was composed by Ryu Umemoto,^[4][5] Ryu Takami and Kazuhiro Kanae, who had previously worked on C's Ware [ja] titles such as Eve Burst Error (1995).^[5][6][7] YU-NO was well-received and influential in Japan, where it revolutionized the visual novel industry and in turn had an impact on the manga and anime industries, inspiring numerous visual novel, manga and anime works.

In 2017, 5pb. (Later Mages) developed and published a remake of the game for the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4. Spike Chunsoft released this version for PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, and Nintendo Switch in 2019.^[8][9] The game has also been adapted into a four-part hentai original video animation, a manga and novels, and a TV anime series by Feel that aired from April to October 2019. The TV anime series is licensed by Funimation and Crunchyroll outside Japan.

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