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Last Moon
Last Moon is the eighth full-length studio album by Japanese recording artist Gackt released on April 27, 2016 in Japan. As a concept album, it is considered to be the final, but not the concluding part of "Moon Saga", a conceptual story which is linked to its predecessor albums Moon (2002), Crescent (2003), and Diabolos (2005), as well as to the movie Moon Child (2003), theatre play Mysteries of Yoshitsune I & II (2012–2014), and two novels (2003, 2014).
The concept album and its promotional tour, Last Visualive, were Gackt's first in almost seven years. The tour was called "last" because it was considered to be a turning point in his career, whether it was to actually be his last release and tour or not. The tour was called "Visualive" because it combined video, performance and music. On October 7, 2015 the single "Arrow" was released. The tour and album release were supported by Nestlé. Because of this collaboration, Nestlé's official website featured parts of this album until the official release through streaming and download.
The overarching concept was conceived in 2004 during the Sixth Day & Seventh Night tour (song "Utakata no Yume"). It was followed by the Diabolos tour in 2005, and Gackt had planned to do the Last Moon tour before the Requiem et Reminiscence II tour in 2009. However, due to the vast development time of the Mysteries of Yoshitsune I & II plays he was not able to go through with RR II concept in time, and instead went ahead with the Visualive form utilizing concepts from the RR II project.
Conceptually, the story of the "Moon Saga" is separated into four chapters. The first chapter takes places roughly between the years 700 and 1300, the second between 1300 and 1600, the third between 1600 and "current" time (2000), and the fourth between the "current" time (2000) and the future (2045). The work from 2002 (Moon) and 2003 (Crescent, movie Moon Child, novel Moon Child Requiem) covered the fourth chapter, from 2005 (Diabolos) took place between the second and third chapter, while from 2012 to 2014 (theatre play Mysteries of Yoshitsune I & II, novel Moon Saga Mysteries of Yoshitsune) and 2016 (Last Moon) depict the first chapter. The whole story is set in Europe and Asia (mostly Japan), depending on which meaningful aspects of the story were being focused on.
The idea was to create a story where the Oni (Japanese demons) were the origin of vampires, and eventually of the central character of the first chapter, Yoshitsune Minamoto. According to this narrative framen, in the Heian period there existed beings called as Mononoke (spirits), and Mononofu, who were born inbetween humans and Mononoke, with special powers from both Mononoke and humans. The heritage of Mysteries of Yoshitsune spread out when a member with inherited blood crossed over to Europe, and became the progenitor of the later vampires.
The story from the first chapter follows the "darkside inhabitants" – darts, who were scattered all over Europe, fighting for different countries even against fellow inhabitants in the shadow of history. The second chapter how they tried to make something that will surpass them and for purpose of fighting, so were created 13 "shitos" (使徒, apostle, disciple), but their body was incomplete and couldn't appear under the sun. From the third chapter, now known as "vampires", is followed their life. They didn't pursue their purpose of life, and as become aware of the darkness inside them, raises the question what is now their purpose of existence. After the awakening, two of the thirteen shito died (the man and woman shown in the music video of "Todokanai Ai to Shitteita no ni Osaekirezu ni Aishitsuzuketa...") leaving behind eleven. Five out of the eleven decided to stand up and fight against the darts, their creators. They wanted to prove that there was meaning in their existence, however they were outnumbered, and there was only one shito survivor.
However, it is not a vampire's story as they were presented as a way of expressing a certain evil side and existence of humans. People long for immortality, believing it to be a wonderful thing, while vampires know how painful such an immortal existence can be and seek a peaceful death, because without death the life has no meaning. The theme of the concept, like his other in Requiem et Reminiscence albums, is about the existential questions of humanity. The "Moon Saga" is a symbolic story about the repetition of human sins, war and the question of what is the ultimate meaning of human life. The history of mankind's struggle – the suffering and sorrow in the quest for the virtues and ideas.
The tour is titled as Saigo no Tsuki ("Last Moon" in English language), but the saigo is not written in kanji 最後 (last, end) yet 最期 which has a nuance of "the final moments" or "dying days", as it is not the end of the "Moon" concept. The theme of the album and tour is people thoughts during the last moments of death while looking at the Moon. The symbolism of the Moon in the story is for the reason it's witnessing the tragedies that humanity repeats, and thus through the Moon people can symbolically look back on the life path they walked on.
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Last Moon
Last Moon is the eighth full-length studio album by Japanese recording artist Gackt released on April 27, 2016 in Japan. As a concept album, it is considered to be the final, but not the concluding part of "Moon Saga", a conceptual story which is linked to its predecessor albums Moon (2002), Crescent (2003), and Diabolos (2005), as well as to the movie Moon Child (2003), theatre play Mysteries of Yoshitsune I & II (2012–2014), and two novels (2003, 2014).
The concept album and its promotional tour, Last Visualive, were Gackt's first in almost seven years. The tour was called "last" because it was considered to be a turning point in his career, whether it was to actually be his last release and tour or not. The tour was called "Visualive" because it combined video, performance and music. On October 7, 2015 the single "Arrow" was released. The tour and album release were supported by Nestlé. Because of this collaboration, Nestlé's official website featured parts of this album until the official release through streaming and download.
The overarching concept was conceived in 2004 during the Sixth Day & Seventh Night tour (song "Utakata no Yume"). It was followed by the Diabolos tour in 2005, and Gackt had planned to do the Last Moon tour before the Requiem et Reminiscence II tour in 2009. However, due to the vast development time of the Mysteries of Yoshitsune I & II plays he was not able to go through with RR II concept in time, and instead went ahead with the Visualive form utilizing concepts from the RR II project.
Conceptually, the story of the "Moon Saga" is separated into four chapters. The first chapter takes places roughly between the years 700 and 1300, the second between 1300 and 1600, the third between 1600 and "current" time (2000), and the fourth between the "current" time (2000) and the future (2045). The work from 2002 (Moon) and 2003 (Crescent, movie Moon Child, novel Moon Child Requiem) covered the fourth chapter, from 2005 (Diabolos) took place between the second and third chapter, while from 2012 to 2014 (theatre play Mysteries of Yoshitsune I & II, novel Moon Saga Mysteries of Yoshitsune) and 2016 (Last Moon) depict the first chapter. The whole story is set in Europe and Asia (mostly Japan), depending on which meaningful aspects of the story were being focused on.
The idea was to create a story where the Oni (Japanese demons) were the origin of vampires, and eventually of the central character of the first chapter, Yoshitsune Minamoto. According to this narrative framen, in the Heian period there existed beings called as Mononoke (spirits), and Mononofu, who were born inbetween humans and Mononoke, with special powers from both Mononoke and humans. The heritage of Mysteries of Yoshitsune spread out when a member with inherited blood crossed over to Europe, and became the progenitor of the later vampires.
The story from the first chapter follows the "darkside inhabitants" – darts, who were scattered all over Europe, fighting for different countries even against fellow inhabitants in the shadow of history. The second chapter how they tried to make something that will surpass them and for purpose of fighting, so were created 13 "shitos" (使徒, apostle, disciple), but their body was incomplete and couldn't appear under the sun. From the third chapter, now known as "vampires", is followed their life. They didn't pursue their purpose of life, and as become aware of the darkness inside them, raises the question what is now their purpose of existence. After the awakening, two of the thirteen shito died (the man and woman shown in the music video of "Todokanai Ai to Shitteita no ni Osaekirezu ni Aishitsuzuketa...") leaving behind eleven. Five out of the eleven decided to stand up and fight against the darts, their creators. They wanted to prove that there was meaning in their existence, however they were outnumbered, and there was only one shito survivor.
However, it is not a vampire's story as they were presented as a way of expressing a certain evil side and existence of humans. People long for immortality, believing it to be a wonderful thing, while vampires know how painful such an immortal existence can be and seek a peaceful death, because without death the life has no meaning. The theme of the concept, like his other in Requiem et Reminiscence albums, is about the existential questions of humanity. The "Moon Saga" is a symbolic story about the repetition of human sins, war and the question of what is the ultimate meaning of human life. The history of mankind's struggle – the suffering and sorrow in the quest for the virtues and ideas.
The tour is titled as Saigo no Tsuki ("Last Moon" in English language), but the saigo is not written in kanji 最後 (last, end) yet 最期 which has a nuance of "the final moments" or "dying days", as it is not the end of the "Moon" concept. The theme of the album and tour is people thoughts during the last moments of death while looking at the Moon. The symbolism of the Moon in the story is for the reason it's witnessing the tragedies that humanity repeats, and thus through the Moon people can symbolically look back on the life path they walked on.