Mahoutsukai no Yoru

, abbreviated as and officially translated as Witch on the Holy Night, is a visual novel created by TYPE-MOON, which was originally released on April 12, 2012. It features Aoko Aozaki as the main character.
An HD rerelease including voice acting was released on December 07, 2022 for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch digitally,http://typemoon.com/products/mahoyo/product/ a limited physical edition for the two consoles in January 27th, 2023,https://twitter.com/mahoyo_game_en/status/1619040099706060803 and a Steam release on December 14th, 2023.https://twitter.com/mahoyo_game/status/1700779523544141895 These releases include official translations into English and Chinese.Mahoutsukai no Yoru HD press release 
==Story==
===Setting===
In the mansion on the hill, there lived two witches…
It is the late 1980s—the twilight of an era of beauty and vigor.
A boy moves to the city, barely missing two witches living in modern times.
The boy leads a completely ordinary life.
She carries herself with gallant pride.
The girl lives a sleepy, hidden life.
Each walks a starlit path.
One would never expect their paths to cross.
The story of how these three disparate people came together is soon to be told.
===Plot ===
Aoko abruptly enters the world of magi after her grandfather suddenly decides to have Aoko become the Aozaki family's successor. Since then, Aoko moves into the Kuonji Mansion and begins to learn magecraft from the young magus Alice Kuonji, the rumored witch of the mansion. After witnessing the two using magecraft, Soujuurou Shizuki is also forced to live with them until a rune to remove his memories is discovered.
*List of chapters and sections
*Chapter 1:
**Cats and Mistakes. Stars and Death.
**Winter Morning
**A Day in Her Life 1
**A Day in Her Life 2
**The Girl in the Mansion
*Chapter 1.5:
**Seven Days of Spinning Vol. 1
**Seven Days of Spinning Vol. 2
**Seven Days of Spinning Vol. 3
**Seven Days of Spinning Vol. 4
*Chapter 2:
**Lunchtime Together
**So What?
**City Style
*Chapter 3:
**The Incident in the Night
*Chapter 4:
**Girls of the Night
**So What if It's Uncharacteristic?
**Secret Resolve
**Night Calls
*Chapter 5:
**Night of the Witches 1
**Night of the Witches 2
**Night of the Witches 3
**Night of the Witches 4
**Night of the Witches 5
**Night of the Witches 6
**Night of the Witches 7
**Night of the Witches 8
**Night of the Witches 9
**Night of the Witches 10
**Night of the Witches 11
**Night of the Witches 12
**Night of the Witches 13
**Night of the Witches 14
*Chapter 6:
**Nostalgic Daydream
**Before the Tryst
**Aoko Out of the Blue
**Glass Bottle
**Life in the Mansion
**Kind of Like a Bird
*Chapter 7:
**The Bird Afar
**Naive Plans
**Fairy Tale Garden
**Martha
*Chapter 8:
**Mountain Cleaning During Winter Break
**The Witch and The Feral Child
**A Collar for a Present?
**A Calm Morning
**Whiteboard
*Chapter 8.5:
**The Carnegie Case
*Chapter 9:
**Instant Vs. Delivery
**A Return Gift
**Aquarium
**The Elder Sister Returns
**A Portrait of The Aozakis
*Chapter 10:
**A Day in Winter: Cleaning Up
**Beginning of the Night
**Forever a Witch
**Farewell, Little Red Riding Hood
**The Empty Village in the Snow
*Chapter 11:
**To the Church
**A Wolf's Tale
**Adoration and Impatience
**To the Night...
*Chapter 12:
**Blue Magic
**And Then, Blue Magic
*Chapter 13:
**The Road Home
**An Incident One Day
*Extra:
**The Wonderful World of Ploys 1
**The Wonderful World of Ploys 2
**The Wonderful World of Ploys 3
**The Wonderful World of Ploys 4
**The Wonderful World of Ploys 5
**The Wonderful World of Ploys 6
**The Honey Adventure
**Anyone Can Sleep, But Not Laugh
==Characters==
	
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:The first protagonist of the story, a high school student who was spontaneously chosen to become the head of the Aozaki Family. The newest magician wielding Magic Blue, the Fifth Magic.
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:A natural born witch, the daughter of the elder son of the wealthy Kuonji family and a witch he fell in love with, who lives alone in a mansion. She is emotionally detached and self-abusive, thus she does not form relationships easily, but gradually comes to accept Aoko as a friend. She has been acquainted with the Aozaki family for over ten years and serves as Aoko's partner and teacher.
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:The second protagonist of the story, a young man from a rural location who is still adjusting to living in the city and as a normal high school student. He is seemingly warm-hearted, but this is in fact due to his lack of a sense of "self". He winds up living at the Kuonji mansion as well, despite Alice's attempts to drive him away by ignoring him, Alice develops uncertain feelings toward him.
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:Aoko's older sister, regarded as a genius magus in the Aozaki family, who believed that their magical lineage was dying out. She and Aoko don't get along particularly well. Alice enjoys Touko's company because she is a person who can truly understand Alice, though Alice does little to stop Aoko and Touko from fighting. 
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:An ageless nature spirit who takes the form of a golden werewolf or a fair-haired young boy. His existence is similar to the True Ancestors that appeared in Tsukihime. Other werewolves once revered him as the werewolf who would revive their race, but after his true nature was discovered, he was sold to Touko Aozaki.
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:A classmate of Aoko, Vice President of the student council.
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:A classmate and friend of Aoko. 
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:A classmate of Aoko and friend of Soujuurou.
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:Alice's rival and childhood friend.
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:A member of the Mage's Association and Yuika's twin sister.
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:A member of the Church and Ritsuka's twin sister.
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:A member of the Church.
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:Owner of an antiques shop.
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:The teacher of Aoko and Soujuurou's class.
== Gallery ==
Witch on the Holy Night english logo.png|English logo.
Witch on the Holy Night Key Visual.jpg|Key Visual, illustrated by Hirokazu Koyama.
Mahōtsukai no Yoru game cover.jpg|Mahōtsukai no Yoru original visual novel cover.
File:Witch on the Holy Night 2022 Full Box Art.jpg|Mahōtsukai no Yoru logoless 2022 cover art
File:Witch on the Holy Night 2022 Full Limited Edition Art.jpg|Logoless Limited Edition cover art, illustrated by Hirokazu Koyama.
File:Witch on the Holy Night Christmas Card.jpg|Christmas promotional art
==Music==
The soundtrack was composed by Hideyuki Fukusawa.
*Witch On The Holy Night Original Soundtrack
*Witch on the Holy Night Original Soundtrack Repetition
*Ending Theme:
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== Staff==
*Scenario, Director: Kinoko Nasu
*Character Design, Key Animation, General Graphics, Supervision: Hirokazu Koyama
*Graphics: Takao Aotsuki, Shimokoshi
*Graphics: Takashi Takeuchi, BLACK, Sunadorineko
*Animation, Scripting: Tsukuri Monoji
*Main Background Art: IURO
*Ploy Kickshaw design: PFALZ
*Programming: Kiyobee, AZ-UME
*Music: Hideyuki Fukasawa, Keita Haga, James Harris, hil
*Sound Effects: Keita Haga 
*Production Support: Tokuro Sasaya, Ukan Todaka, OKSG, Meteo Hoshizora
*Logo Design, Package, Publicity, Web Design: WINFANWORKS
*Latin Translation: Miwa Kiyomune
*English Translation: Norimitsu Kaihō
*Production Assistant: Norio Sasaya, Nokiwa Todaka, Okashige
*Sales and PR: Norio Sasaya
*Planning & Production: TYPE-MOON
==Development==
The original Mahoutsukai no Yoru, written in 1996, was the novel that first established the currently known Nasuverse. Nasu and his colleagues thought at that point that he wouldn't be able to write anything better than it for the next ten years.*Staff Roundtable - The Second Night In high school, he was inspired by the first episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion and he thought of writing a novel. Nasu wrote roughly 400 pages and he tried to enter it into several writing competitions in 1996 but it was unsuccessful, and the work was merely passed around by his friends. Nasu tried to send the novel to the Fujimi Shobo publisher but he found it difficult to keep it under 350 pages and left the novel unreleased. In the end, he only printed less than 5 copies of the original draft. Some of the characters from the original story were drawn by Takashi Takeuchi for his old personal website.*The Unpublished Novel
After forming TYPE-MOON with Takeuchi and with the successes of his later visual novel works Tsukihime and Fate/stay night, Takeuchi suggested remaking Mahoutsukai no Yoru so it could be released before their next planned project Girls' Work. TYPE-MOON announced that it was working on the story as its latest visual novel project, with further details of the project to be published in Type-Moon Ace. Unlike TYPE-MOON's previous games, Mahoutsukai no Yoru is not an adult game.
Takashi Takeuchi illustrated Aoko, Touko and Alice in the Character Material, though Hirokazu Koyama would be the lead artist in the final product.
It has since been revealed that there are two sequels in the works.*Type-Moon Outlines Future Plans
===Release Date===
It was publicly announced in April 2008 and the game was set to be released sometime in 2009, but after several delays, the game received a September 2010 release date. In September, however, TYPE-MOON announced that the release date has been pushed back to winter 2011, and later to sometime in 2011. A free game demo was made available on December 15, 2011.
It was released officially on April 12, 2012.
===Trailers ===
HD 魔法使いの夜 PV TYPE-MOON|Witch on the Holy Night PV
魔法使いの夜 CM|Witch on the Holy Night CM
==Development==
===Script commentary===
Commentary located in the code for the game's script.
==Anime==
==Anthologies==
* (ID Comics DNA Media Comics) - 2 Volumes (Complete) https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/4798604313/
* (Hobby Japan Comics) - 1 Volume (Complete) https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/4798604313
* (Kadokawa Comics Ace) - 1 Volume (Complete) https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/4041205387
* (Kadokawa Comics Ace) - 1 Volume (Complete) https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/321206000108/
* - 2 Volumes (Complete) https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/201008000497/
==References==
==External links==
*Official Website 
*Official Website (English)
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