August (company)

August

Company type	Joint stock company
Industry	Computer games
Founded	2001 (2001)
Headquarters	Japan
Products	Visual novels
Website	august-soft.com

August (オーガスト, Ōgasuto) is a Japanese visual novel studio under the publisher Hazuki (株式会社葉月, Kabushiki gaisha Hazuki). Although the company's name is spelled in Japanese using katakana, on the Internet August is known by the slang term Hachigatsu (八月). Hazuki and Hachigatsu mean August in Japanese.

Hazuki founded a label named Aria for consumer video games in March 2006. Aria is composed of almost staffs of August. They aim to port PC video games to consumer video games with the original qualities and world views.

Works

August

• Binary Pot (February 22, 2002)
• Princess Holiday (September 27, 2002)
• Tsuki wa Higashi ni Hi wa Nishi ni: Operation Sanctuary (September 26, 2003)
• August Fan Box (August 27, 2004)
• Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na (September 22, 2005)
• Fortune Arterial (January 25, 2008)
• Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na -Moonlight Cradle- (February 27, 2009)
• Aiyoku no Eustia (April 28, 2011)
• Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai (January 25, 2013)
• Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai: Hōkago Shippo Days (August 10, 2013)
• Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai: Dreaming Sheep (March 28, 2014)
• Sen no Hatō, Tsukisome no Kōki (千の刃濤、桃花染の皇姫) (September 23, 2016)

Aria

• Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na -Brighter than dawning blue- (December 7, 2006)
  • PlayStation 2, release by Digital Gain (later Kaga Create)
• Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na Portable (February 25, 2010)
  • PlayStation Portable, released by Kadokawa Shoten
• Fortune Arterial: Akai Yakusoku (cancelled)
  • PlayStation 3, released by Kadokawa Shoten

External links

• August's official website (in Japanese)
• Aria's official website (in Japanese)
• August at The Visual Novel Database