Visual Arts, formerly Visual Artist Office, and previously spelled in English as VisualArt's, is a Japanese publishing company which specializes in publishing and distributing visual novels for a large list of game developers. Visual Arts has developed game engines their brands currently use, including the current engine, called Siglus, and older engines RealLive and AVG32. Visual Arts also handles the distribution of these games. The games published are mostly for a male audience, though they publish games targeted towards women as well. They are well known for publishing games developed by Key, such as Kanon, Air, and Clannad. [From Wikipedia] Brief history of Visual Art's: March 1991: Visual Artist Office is founded Later in 1991: Softhouse Bonbee Bonbon is established 1993: AyPio is established by UYE! after leaving Softhouse Bonbee BonbonMay 1996: AVG32 engine is released August 1996: Name changed to Visual Art's 1997: Zero is established. 1998: I've Sound and Ram are established July 1998: Key is established June 1999: Kanon is released. 2001: Giant Panda and Key Sounds Label are established September 2001: RealLive engine is released 2006: Prototype, Visual Art's Motto and pekoe are established 2007: mana and Frill are established 2010: Singer/voice actor brand voix is formed. Siglus engine is released. Angel Beats! airs on TV. 2011: Asoberu! BD-GAME, tone work's, and Visual Art's MottoSP are established. November 2019: SAGA PLANETS leaves Visual Art's. 2022: Visual Art's transferred all its adult game brands to ee-product,inc. July 2023: Acquired by Tencent.