Tsuki wa Higashi ni Hi wa Nishi ni: Operation Sanctuary (月は東に日は西に -Operation Sanctuary- The Moon in the East, The Sun in the West -Operation Sanctuary-?) is a Japanese eroge by August released in 2003 for Windows. It is known in short as Hanihani (はにはに?). The Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 versions were released by Alchemist in 2004. An anime adaptation was shown in Japan during summer 2004. The title references a haiku by Yosa Buson: "Nanohana ya tsuki wa higashi ni hi wa nishi ni."
The PC version of the game was created using the NScripter visual novel engine.
Characters[]
- Naoki Kuzumi–Protagonist of this title. He lost his parents and memory 5 years ago due to a certain accident.
- Mikoto Amagasaki–A girl who has fallen from the sky. Naoki thinks its a day dream. Mikoto is from the future, 100 years later.
- Honami Fujieda–Naoki's childhood friend. She has been taking care of him before he lost his parents and memory.
- Matsuri Shibugaki–Naoki's cousin. She and her parents have been living with him for 5 years. She is quite close to Chihiro.
- Chihiro Tachibana–Matsuri's best friend and her classmate. She becomes a member of the garden club alone.
- Yui Nonohara–Naoki's homeroom teacher. Because her height is very low, students love her. Yui, like Mikoto, is from the future, 100 years later.
- Kyouko Nishina–Young female nurse of school. She is Yui's best friend. Like Mikoto and Yui, she is also from the future, 100 years later.
- Fumio Akiyama–Naoki's class representative. And she is also a superintendent of the student dormitory.
- Yusuke Amagasaki–Mikoto's brother who became separation and looked much like Naoki.
- Koji Hirose–Naoki's best friend. He is aiming at rebuilding an astronomical club that Naoki belongs to.
- Yuka Hirose–Additional character of consumer version. Koji's younger sister.
- Genzou Shibugaki–Matsuri's father. He works at a certain trading company and he is very busy. Naoki calls him "Oyaji(Dad)".
- Eri Shibugaki–Matsuri's mother. She works at the company that Genzou works at and she is also very busy. Naoki calls her "Eri-san".
- Jun'ichi Fukano–Mathematics teacher. He teaches students strictly, but in fact, he loves them.
- Rei Usami–Chief director of the school. She rarely shows up in front of students. She is also from the future, 100 years later
Staff[]
In-game screenshot from the demo version translated by insani.org.
Game[]
- Character design: Bekkanko
- Scenario: Taku Sakakibara, Hiroyuki Uchida, Hideaki Anzai
- Music: LOOPCUBE
- Opening: divergent flow
- :Lyrics: H/de.
- :Music: Hiroki
- :Vocal: Mayu
- Ending: Asu no Omoide (Memories of Tomorrow)
- :Lyrics: H/de.
- :Music: Hiroki
- :Vocal: Mayu
Anime[]
- General director: Mitsuhiro Tōgō
- Director: Shousei Jinno
- Character design: Norikatsu Nakano
- General key animation director: Norikatsu Nakano
- Art director: Shinji Katahira
- Scenario: Kazuharu Satō, Tsutomu Kaneko
- Music: Akufumi Tada
- Opening: amulet
- :Lyrics: a.k.a.dRESS
- :Music: a.k.a.dRESS
- :Vocal: Mayumi Iizuka
- Animation production: RADIX
External links[]
- Visual novel website at August (Japanese)
- Visual novel website at Alchemist (Japanese)
- Anime official website (Japanese)
- Hani Hani: Operation Sanctuary (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
it:Tsuki wa higashi ni hi wa nishi ni 〜Operation Sanctuary〜