Planetarian: Storyteller of the Stars is a 2016 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic film directed by Naokatsu Tsuda. The film is based on the Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet visual novel by
Theatrical release poster featuring Yumemi Hoshino
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Visual novels are a video game genre of Japanese origin focused on presenting a story. Progress is made via means such as clicking, tapping or pressing a button. Some descriptions of the genre suggest
Capcom at the Tokyo Game Show in 2005. Gameplay of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is projected in the background.
A vending machine promoting an anime series based on Clannad in 2007 at Akihabara Station in Tokyo. While developers made novel games outside Japan in 2010s, they lacked the impact that Japanese novel games had to expand into multimedia franchises.