Leaf (Japanese company)

Leaf is a Japanese visual novel studio under the publisher Aquaplus, and has offices in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, and Tokyo. It and its competitor Key (to which it is often compared) are two of the most popular and successful dedicated visual novel studios operating today.^{[citation needed]} It was launched out of obscurity by its early release To Heart.^{[citation needed]} Leaf used the XviD video codec in several games: Aruru to Asobo!!, Tears to Tiara, Kusari, and ToHeart2 X Rated. Since XviD is free software, released under the GPL, Leaf was obligated to release the source code to those games under the same license.^[1][2][3] One still requires the game data to actually play the games with the source code.^[4][5] In addition, a free software game engine, named xlvns, was developed soon after Leaf released its first three visual novels.^[6][7] Characters from Utawarerumono, Tears to Tiara, To Heart, and Kizuato are playable in Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match, a fighting game developed by Aquaplus featuring characters from various Leaf games.^[8]

Leaf

Company type	Brand of Aquaplus
Industry	Computer games
Genre	Eroge & visual novels
Founded	Osaka, Japan (1995; 30 years ago (1995))
Headquarters	Yodogawa-ku, Osaka , Japan
Area served	Japan
Key people	Naoya Shimokawa
Products	To Heart White Album Utawarerumono To Heart 2 White Album 2
Website	leaf.aquaplus.jp

Titles

• DR2 Night Janki (1995)
• Filsnown (1995)
• Leaf Visual Novel Series (LVNS)
  • Shizuku (1996)
  • Kizuato (1996)
  • To Heart (1997)
  • Routes (2003)
• White Album (1998)
• Comic Party (1999)
• Magical Antique (2000)
• Tasogare (2001)
• Abyss Boat (2002)
• Utawarerumono (2002)
• December When There Is No Angel (2003)
• Tears to Tiara (2005)
• Kusari (2005)
• To Heart 2 XRATED (2005)
• FullAni (2006)
• To Heart 2: Another Days (2008)
• Kimi ga Yobu, Megido no Oka de (2008)
• White Album 2: Introductory Chapter (2010)
• Hoshi no Ouji-kun (2011)
• White Album 2: Closing Chapter (2011)
• Tears to Tiara II: Haou no Matsuei (2013)
• Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen (2015)

Leaf amusement softs

• Saorin to Issho!! (1996)
• Hatsune no Naisho!! (1997)
• Inagawa de Ikou!! (2000)
• Aruru to Asobo!! (2004)
• Manaka de Ikuno!! (2009)