The Ar tonelico アルトネリコ, arutoneriko?) Series is a series of console role-playing games produced by Gust Ltd. and Banpresto, with the latter being replaced by Namco-Bandai Games after Banpresto became a subsidiary of it. It is a niche series within the role-playing genre, though one that has a small yet very devoted fandom in Japan and in the rest of the world, and it is the first series set in the Universe of EXA_PICO. Aside of the games that form the main part of it, it also encompasses two manga series, an anime OVA, several books and novels, and even visual novels made in Flash.