Kabushigaisha ELF

ELF Corporation (エルフ or élf) is a hentai game studio. Some of its most popular games is Dōkyūsei, a pioneering dating sim, which has had a sequel, and been turned into video and TV series, and Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shoujo YU-NO, a visual novel adventure game, which revolutionized the visual novel industry and in turn had an impact on the manga and anime industries, inspiring numerous visual novel, manga and anime works, and was made into a video series and later in a manga and TV series. The character design of the main villains from the -saku series is the company mascot. élf was founded on April 27, 1989 in Tokyo. As of 2004, the CEO is Atsushi Shimoda (下田篤).