Canaan is a 13-episode anime television series, conceptualized by Type-Moon co-founders Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi, based on the scenario that they created for the Wii visual novel 428: Shibuya Scramble, which is noted for being one of the few games to have been awarded a perfect score by games publication Famitsu. The series spawned manga and light novel adaptations.
North American cover of the Blu-ray release featuring Alphard (left) and Canaan (right)
Poster of the show's characters. From left to right: Nene, Santana, Hackō, Yunyun, Cummings, Liang Qi, Alphard, Canaan, Yuri Natsume, Maria Ōsawa and Minoru Minorikawa.
428: Shibuya Scramble is a visual novel adventure video game produced by Koichi Nakamura with Jiro Ishii serving as executive producer, developed by Nakamura's company Chunsoft, and initially published by Sega, originally in Japan for the Wii on December 4, 2008. The game was ported by Spike to the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable in September 2009. A version for iOS and Android was released in November 2011. PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows versions were released internationally in September 2018.
The game's Time Chart Mode, which allows players to change events by using the chart.
