Dramatical Murder
Dramatical Murder (ドラマティカル マーダー, Doramatikaru Mādā, stylized as DRAMAtical Murder) is a Japanese BL visual novel developed and published by Nitro+chiral. It was originally released on March 23, 2012 for Windows PCs as a first press edition, with a regular edition released on April 27, 2012. A sequel titled Dramatical Murder re:connect, also for Windows PCs, was released on April 26, 2013, adding additional scenes, images and songs to the existing routes, as well as four new character routes to play through. On October 30, 2014, a version of the visual novel aimed at ages 15 and above titled Dramatical Murder re:code was released for the PlayStation Vita which removed the sex scenes, toned down the violence, and included an additional route for the character Mizuki.
| DRAMAtical Murder | |
DRAMAtical Murder visual novel cover | |
| ドラマティカル マーダー | |
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| Genre | Science fiction, yaoi |
| Game | |
| Developer | Nitro+chiral |
| Publisher | Nitro+chiral |
| Genre | BL game, Visual novel |
| Platform | PC |
| Released | Windows:
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Nitro+chiral |
| Illustrated by | Torao Asada |
| Published by | Enterbrain |
| Magazine | B's-Log Comic |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Original run | August 2012 – present |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Game | |
| DRAMAtical Murder re:connect | |
| Developer | Nitro+chiral |
| Publisher | Nitro+chiral |
| Genre | BL game, Visual novel |
| Platform | PC |
| Released | April 26, 2013 |
| Anime television series | |
| DRAMAtical Murder | |
| Directed by | Kazuya Miura |
| Produced by | Kazuhiro Asō Yoshikazu Beniya Hiroyuki Tanaka Kozue Kaneniwa Mika Shimizu Tomohito Nagase Kaho Yamada Hirotaka Toda Shun Arai |
| Written by | Touko Machida Kabura Fuchii |
| Music by | Yuki Hayashi |
| Studio | NAZ |
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| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | July 6, 2014 – September 21, 2014 |
| Episodes | 12 + OVA |
| Game | |
| DRAMAtical Murder re:code | |
| Developer | Nitroplus |
| Publisher | Nitroplus |
| Platform | PlayStation Vita |
| Released |
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An anime adaption by studio NAZ premiered on July 6, 2014. It is directed by Kazuya Miura, with Touko Machida and Kabura Fuchii handling series composition, Yukiko Ban designing the characters and Yuki Hayashi composing the music.
On July 4, 2018, it was announced at the Anime Expo that JAST USA's new JAST BLUE branch, which focuses on boys-love games, would release Nitro+CHiRAL's DRAMAtical Murder games and its other visual novel titles in English.