Last Moon is the eighth full-length studio album by Japanese recording artist Gackt released on April 27, 2016 in Japan. It is considered to be the final, but not ending part of "Moon Saga", a concept by which is conceptually linked to its predecessor albums Moon (2002), Crescent (2003), and Diabolos (2005), as well as 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, are Gackt's first in almost seven years. It is called "last" because it is considered as a turning point in his career, whether it will be his last original release and tour, featuring his signature stage shows, for a while or not. It is called "Visualive" because links together video, performance and music. On October 7, 2015 the single "Arrow" was released. The tour and album release were supported by Nestlé. Through this collaboration, on Nestle's special website every month until the official release, new songs to be included for the album were available for streaming and download.

The concept was conceived in 2004 during the The Sixth Day & Seventh Night tour (song "Utakata no Yume"). It was followed by the Diabolos tour in 2005, and in between the Requiem et Reminiscence II tour in 2009, Gackt thought to do the Last Moon tour. However, due to the vast developing time of Mysteries of Yoshitsune I&II plays he would not be able do the RR II concept, and instead managed to establish the Visualive form with the RR II concept.

Conceptually, the story of the "Moon Saga" is separated in four chapters. The first chapter takes places roughly from the year 700 to 1300, second from 1300 to 1600, third from 1600 to current time (2000), and fourth from the current time (2000) to the future (2045). The work from 2002 (Moon) and 2003 (Crecent, movie Moon Child, novel Moon Child Requiem) covered the fourth chapter, from 2005 (Diabolos) took place between the second and third chapter, while from 2012-2014 (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 both Europe and Asia (mostly Japan), depending on the story and meaning wanted to be expressed.

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