{"id":36406,"date":"2024-09-03T15:40:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T06:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=36406"},"modified":"2024-09-03T15:40:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T06:40:41","slug":"fate-series-developer-type-moon-goes-viral-after-fans-discover-its-quietly-running-a-charity-to-feed-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/fate-series-developer-type-moon-goes-viral-after-fans-discover-its-quietly-running-a-charity-to-feed-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Fate series developer TYPE-MOON goes viral after fans discover it&#8217;s quietly running a charity to feed children\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the past two days, Fate and Tsukihime series developer <strong>TYPE-MOON<\/strong> has come into the spotlight in Japan for something completely unrelated to their portfolio of critically acclaimed visual novel games \u2013 namely, their humanitarian efforts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inside-games.jp\/article\/2024\/09\/02\/159023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inside Games<\/a>, TYPE-MOON (whose official corporate name is Notes Co., LTD) quietly established a charity organization called the \u201cNotes\u2019 Healthy Children\u2019s Foundation\u201d (unofficial translation) back in April last year. This seems to have suddenly come to the attention of fans of the company\u2019s games, prompting a lot of surprised yet impressed reactions across social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1040\" height=\"690\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240903-36406-001.jpg\" alt=\"Notes' Healthy Children's Foundation\" class=\"wp-image-36409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240903-36406-001.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240903-36406-001-380x252.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240903-36406-001-768x510.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/notes-foundation.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Notes&#8217; Healthy Children\u2019s Foundation<\/a> funds the operations of so-called children\u2019s cafeterias in Japan. These are volunteer-run public cafeterias that provide children with free or very cheap nutritious meals. In addition to supporting the cafeterias\u2019 basic operations across Japan\u2019s Chiba prefecture, TYPE-MOON is also providing subsidies for purchasing games and manga, with the goal of making these institutions a \u201cplace for educational support\u201d for kids.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foundation\u2019s board of directors includes TYPE-MOON&#8217;s CEO Kunihiro Nasu (known better as Kinoko Nasu) and interestingly, the CEO of anime production company Aniplex.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a related note, Ninja Gaiden developer Koei Tecmo made headlines just last month by <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/koei-tecmo-representative-director-sets-up-fund-to-support-children-from-single-mother-households\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">setting up a foundation<\/a> for children from single-mother-households.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fate and Tsukihime series developer TYPE-MOON (Notes Co., LTD) has been running a charity organization for kids since April last year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":36410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-36406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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