Tsuki no Sango hardcover edition

I received this harcover edition of Tsuki no Sango in early November:

The contents are pretty similar to the previously reviewed Tsuki no Sango booklet, but with more illustrations and 2 cd's containing the narration by Sakamoto Maaya.

The book (right) is 75 pages long, so is almost the double amount of pages of the booklet version, and features pictures that where not present before. The thing to the left is the cover of the digipak containing the cd's.

One of the pictures not included in the previous booklet.

By the way a translated version of the story can be found at Mazui Subs webpage.

The cd's voiced by Sakamoto narrates the whole story. Both discs together are about 90 minutes long.

I hope they release sooner or later a Blu-ray (or at least a dvd) of the Tsuki no Sango video that was originally aired during the recital. I thought it was to be included in this version, but sadly is not. The promotional video below:

Tsuki no Sango

Tsuki no Sango is a story by Nasu Kinoko for the Sakamoto Maaya's Full Moon Recital Hall, a weird project organized by the Japanese online magazine Saizensen that consist in Sakamoto reading short novels in a theater along with the airing of a short animation movie in the background.

The first one this series of recitals, Tsuki no Sango (Moon's coral), was held in December 21th and was aired live via Ustream:

The short movie features drawings by Takeuchi Takashi and Aikura Chihiro and was animated by studio ufotable.

The story takes place in aproximately the year 3000, when the humankind arrived at his civilization peak but is loosing it's will to keep living, and talks about a girl living in a small island with a shinning coral reef that is descendent of Moon people, and how supposedly her ancestor came to Earth. Ok, is more complicated than that, but the overall plot is that and as a very brief summary kinda works.

At the event hall a visual booklet was sold, that features the novel, illustrated by Takeuchi and Aikura:

Is rather short, only 42 pages, and most of the illustrations are landscapes and starry skies, but features some close up of the characters.

The girl that lives in the small island, called "princess" by the 50 person colony that lives with her.