GROOVER
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Groover is a subsidiary of Starlink which the visual novels produced under this brand were all produced by Bamboo (Takeuchi Hiroshi). The employees of this subsidiary consisted of former Front Wing employees and scenario writers who created Front Wing's first visual novel, Canary ~Kono omoi wo uta Ni Nosete~ which Bamboo jointly directed with Kei.
By the end of May 2001, due to lack of communication from the team responsible for the Blue Canary fan-disk, the ones responsible for Hooligan release and Front Wing, plus the high publishing costs and delay in some releases, Front Wing withdrew from the Green Green contract with Gungho and put the Green Green project up for order which was bought on May 2001 by Starlink. The representative of Front Wing released a statement around June 2001, claiming that the team responsible for Green Green were not involved with the company and were simply freelancers. After some time, Gungho created a substituary of Starlink known as GROOVER.
A year later, Front Wing wanted the project back entirely and sued Gungho and Starlink employees for copyright. This didn't work out and Front Wing lost the case.
After the release of Green Green: Kanenone Dynatic, employees of GROOVER and Gungho followed Bamboo to his next project Edelweiss that was being published on his independent VN brand OVERDRIVE in 2006. GROOVER's official website closed around March 31st, 2008. Regarding the independent VN brand OVERDRIVE, its operations were officially ended on April 30th, 2022.
By the end of May 2001, due to lack of communication from the team responsible for the Blue Canary fan-disk, the ones responsible for Hooligan release and Front Wing, plus the high publishing costs and delay in some releases, Front Wing withdrew from the Green Green contract with Gungho and put the Green Green project up for order which was bought on May 2001 by Starlink. The representative of Front Wing released a statement around June 2001, claiming that the team responsible for Green Green were not involved with the company and were simply freelancers. After some time, Gungho created a substituary of Starlink known as GROOVER.
A year later, Front Wing wanted the project back entirely and sued Gungho and Starlink employees for copyright. This didn't work out and Front Wing lost the case.
After the release of Green Green: Kanenone Dynatic, employees of GROOVER and Gungho followed Bamboo to his next project Edelweiss that was being published on his independent VN brand OVERDRIVE in 2006. GROOVER's official website closed around March 31st, 2008. Regarding the independent VN brand OVERDRIVE, its operations were officially ended on April 30th, 2022.