a Japanese visual novel studio under the publisher Hazuki (株式会社葉月 Kabushiki gaisha Hazuki). Although the company's name is spelled in Japanese using katakana, on the Internet August is known by the slang term Hachigatsu (八月). Hazuki and Hachigatsu mean August in Japanese. Hazuki founded a label named Aria for consumer video games in March 2006. Aria is composed of almost staffs of August. They aim to port PC video games to consumer video games with the original qualities and world views.