Gackt
Klaha
Real Name- Masaki Haruna
Mana
Date of Birth- March 19
Place of Birth- Hiroshima
Height- 173 cm
Blood Type- O
Instument- Guitar and Synthesizer
Mana was never a big fan of Japanese Pop Music (J-pop) but liked the sound of a distorted guitar and was attracted to heavy metal because of the look. But because the look changed so quickly, he got bored of it. When Mana was in Junior High, Mana asked for a guitar and his parents bought him a folk guitar; Mana never used it and instead bought and electric one. Mana did not think about becoming a professional musician when joining a friends band. All Mana knew is that becoming a business man was out of the question. While experimenting with many styles of music, Mana enjoyed creating new ones.
Mana only remembers meeting Kozi and making a band together. Mana created the name Malice Mizer (translated into English as 'Malice Misery'). After they met Yu~ki things started to take off from there, playing at small houses and getting their name known.
Secrets about Mana? Well, for one, don't you love how cute he is? And yes, I said HE. Mana is infact a man (a MANLY MAN!) but does not like guys clothing. He loves womens fashions and to this day owns a shop. And no, Mana is not gay. He is very particular in picking out his women. Because there are no women in Malice Mizer, Mana steps in as sort of a 'replacement' woman.
Kozi
Date of Birth- May 29
Place of Birth- Niigata
Height- 175 cm
Weight- 56 kg
Blood Type- A
Instument- Guitar
Kozi was never a good leader in school and the only reason he continued doing anything is because he liked music. Early off in junior high, Kozi wanted to play in a band. He first started playing the bass with his friend then moved to Tokyo and started the guitar. He dropped out of school at 16. With no money he had to work jobs that involved a lot of physical labor. He joined some band as a guitar player while in Tokyo. Eventually he met Mana and was surprised at how many horror video's Mana had. Mana then asked him to be the supporting memeber in a band.
In the band, Kozi is the second guitarist (Mana is first) and is the one who usually looks like a doll. He also is one of the back up vocalists. He's very shy to people but always enjoys spending time with his band members. He believes everyone should be optimistic.
Secretes about Kozi? Who knows? Kozi is a man and I didn't try to trick you this time like I did with Mana. Ths is all part of that visual kei thing I explained on my home page. If you didn't read that then maybe you should. About Kozi, he doesn't like Classical Music; he was forced to play pianno at a young age, he never finished school, and he was always so showy he could take lead roles but wasn't much of a leader.
Yu-Ki
Date of Birth- August 8
Kami
Date of Birth- February 1, 1973
Date of Death- June 21, 1999 
Tetsu
Date of Birth- December 12, 1972
I don't know a lot about Tetsu except that he was the original singer for Malice Mizer and left on December 27, 1994. No one really knows if he quit or if Mana gave him the boot. Tetsu is really kind of creepy and his voice makes you wonder if your dead. Yeah, Tetsu's defintally different
Date of Birth- July 4, 1540
Place of Birth- Okinawa
Height- 178 cm
Weight- 59 kg
Blood Type- A
Instument- Vocals andpiano
Gackt first started learning the piano at three. He says that his parents were very stricked. Evenutally, Gackt learned to love the piano and started playing it voluntarily. He had been into classical music but changed into band. After going crazy when he was young, he said he became a psychic. His family left Okinawa and moved to Kyoto. After the move, Gackt almost drowned. He said he felt "Kanashibari" (suddenly becoming inexpliccably paralyzed while lying down) a lot, and ghosts would move his body. In one of these incidents, he lost all trust with his parents because he said he had some woman's spirit in his body and they didn't beleive him.
Gackt wanted to be an orchestra conductor. He first wanted to play a brass instrument but everything changed when he started singing in a band. When he wasn't allowed to play the brass instrument, he turned to percussion. He was determined to play the best and when he saw his friends playing the piano better than him, he had to better then them too. He said he felt and attraction toward each of the members of the band (he mentioned Kami and Kozi's names). He says that he doesn't feel like a replacement for the previous vocalist (Tetsu) but that he doesn't have to do everything Tetsu did. On one incident in France, Gackt says, "During the video shooting, I found an old piano in the castle, and I was playing it. Then a girl, who lives in the castle, and her friend came close to me and were listening to my piano-playing. After playing piano, they showed a really happy facial expression, and since I can't speak in French and they just speak very awkward English, we couldn't speak much to each other but we surely could communicate. I felt it was a very precious experience." With Gackt as a lead singer, Malice Mizer went very far.
Secrets about Gackt? He claims to be a 465 year old vampire born in Norway and says says his body can be controled by ghosts. He loves to view the nightscapes. He says he remembers asking Kami were the best place to view them was but Kami took him to a beach instead. Tokyo really didn't have many places to view nightscapes. Gackt later took Kozi to see some and Kozi was really amazed. Gackt loves to play his piano, read books, drink alcohol, or listen to music.
Gackt wanted to be an orchestra conductor. He first wanted to play a brass instrument but everything changed when he started singing in a band. When he wasn't allowed to play the brass instrument, he turned to percussion. He was determined to play the best and when he saw his friends playing the piano better than him, he had to better then them too. He said he felt and attraction toward each of the members of the band (he mentioned Kami and Kozi's names). He says that he doesn't feel like a replacement for the previous vocalist (Tetsu) but that he doesn't have to do everything Tetsu did. On one incident in France, Gackt says, "During the video shooting, I found an old piano in the castle, and I was playing it. Then a girl, who lives in the castle, and her friend came close to me and were listening to my piano-playing. After playing piano, they showed a really happy facial expression, and since I can't speak in French and they just speak very awkward English, we couldn't speak much to each other but we surely could communicate. I felt it was a very precious experience." With Gackt as a lead singer, Malice Mizer went very far.
Secrets about Gackt? He claims to be a 465 year old vampire born in Norway and says says his body can be controled by ghosts. He loves to view the nightscapes. He says he remembers asking Kami were the best place to view them was but Kami took him to a beach instead. Tokyo really didn't have many places to view nightscapes. Gackt later took Kozi to see some and Kozi was really amazed. Gackt loves to play his piano, read books, drink alcohol, or listen to music.
Klaha Real Name- Masaki Haruna
Date of Birth- May 3rd
Place of Birth- Tokyo
Height- 175 cm
Blood Type- A
Instument- Vocals
Klaha started out his career by being in a band called "Pride of Mind" which was a new wave/dark wave influenced by that started in 1993. The sounds of the disturbing band broke up in 1996. Four years later, Klaha joined Malice Mizer, replacing Gackt. He worked with Malice Mizer on their 4th album "Bara no Seidou." Malice Mizer disbanded a little over a year later. They released 3 more singles and a movie entitled "Bara no Knrei ~Mayonaka ni Kawashita Yakusoku~ (Bridal of Rose). Klaha went solo after that and released a CD on December 4, 2002.
Mana
Date of Birth- March 19
Place of Birth- Hiroshima
Height- 173 cm
Blood Type- O
Instument- Guitar and Synthesizer
Mana was never a big fan of Japanese Pop Music (J-pop) but liked the sound of a distorted guitar and was attracted to heavy metal because of the look. But because the look changed so quickly, he got bored of it. When Mana was in Junior High, Mana asked for a guitar and his parents bought him a folk guitar; Mana never used it and instead bought and electric one. Mana did not think about becoming a professional musician when joining a friends band. All Mana knew is that becoming a business man was out of the question. While experimenting with many styles of music, Mana enjoyed creating new ones.
Mana only remembers meeting Kozi and making a band together. Mana created the name Malice Mizer (translated into English as 'Malice Misery'). After they met Yu~ki things started to take off from there, playing at small houses and getting their name known.
Secrets about Mana? Well, for one, don't you love how cute he is? And yes, I said HE. Mana is infact a man (a MANLY MAN!) but does not like guys clothing. He loves womens fashions and to this day owns a shop. And no, Mana is not gay. He is very particular in picking out his women. Because there are no women in Malice Mizer, Mana steps in as sort of a 'replacement' woman.
Kozi Date of Birth- May 29
Place of Birth- Niigata
Height- 175 cm
Weight- 56 kg
Blood Type- A
Instument- Guitar
Kozi was never a good leader in school and the only reason he continued doing anything is because he liked music. Early off in junior high, Kozi wanted to play in a band. He first started playing the bass with his friend then moved to Tokyo and started the guitar. He dropped out of school at 16. With no money he had to work jobs that involved a lot of physical labor. He joined some band as a guitar player while in Tokyo. Eventually he met Mana and was surprised at how many horror video's Mana had. Mana then asked him to be the supporting memeber in a band.
In the band, Kozi is the second guitarist (Mana is first) and is the one who usually looks like a doll. He also is one of the back up vocalists. He's very shy to people but always enjoys spending time with his band members. He believes everyone should be optimistic.
Secretes about Kozi? Who knows? Kozi is a man and I didn't try to trick you this time like I did with Mana. Ths is all part of that visual kei thing I explained on my home page. If you didn't read that then maybe you should. About Kozi, he doesn't like Classical Music; he was forced to play pianno at a young age, he never finished school, and he was always so showy he could take lead roles but wasn't much of a leader.
Yu-KiDate of Birth- August 8
Place of Birth- Fukuoka
Height- 175 cm
Weight- 54 kg
Blood Type- A
Instument- Bass
As a young kid, Yu~ki admitted he liked a lot of popular music and videos. His idol was Bruce Lee, "I often mimicked Bruce Lee," he says, "and I often climbed up to the roofs of the neighborhood. I guess I was very active at that time." He was so involved in it that he actually made up a set of nun-chucks (just to name a few) by himself from scratch! (It's well-known that the coffin which was used in the early MALICE MIZER stage was made by Yu~ki.)
On entering high school, Yu~ki started playing the bass. He was very loud and had the police called on him and his band several times. After high school, he went to Tokyo with his band's drummer. There he kept playing in a band and on the night of his last preformance, he was approtched by Mana. Mana asked him to play bass in his and Kozi's band. Yu~ki agreed, saying that his first impression of them was 'really weird.' When Tetsu left the band, because it took so long to find a new vocalist, the band asked him to sing. With Gackt though, a new image came about which some fans said it was weird to see Yu~ki in a silk hat.
Secretes about Yu~ki? There's a reason he sometimes looks like a French guy. Maybe it's because he like French Music. Yu~ki is very straight forward and serious. He likes to explore new things too, except gambling. Yu~ki does not like to gamble. Nor does he like alcohol or tobacco.
On entering high school, Yu~ki started playing the bass. He was very loud and had the police called on him and his band several times. After high school, he went to Tokyo with his band's drummer. There he kept playing in a band and on the night of his last preformance, he was approtched by Mana. Mana asked him to play bass in his and Kozi's band. Yu~ki agreed, saying that his first impression of them was 'really weird.' When Tetsu left the band, because it took so long to find a new vocalist, the band asked him to sing. With Gackt though, a new image came about which some fans said it was weird to see Yu~ki in a silk hat.
Secretes about Yu~ki? There's a reason he sometimes looks like a French guy. Maybe it's because he like French Music. Yu~ki is very straight forward and serious. He likes to explore new things too, except gambling. Yu~ki does not like to gamble. Nor does he like alcohol or tobacco.
KamiDate of Birth- February 1, 1973
Date of Death- June 21, 1999
Place of Birth- Ibaragi
Height- 177 cm
Weight- 57 kg
Blood Type- A
Instument- drums
Kami started playing the drums in fifth grade and was very competitve to get the drum part seeing as only three people were selected to play it. He practiced for hours and hours just to get the drum part. After that, Kami did not touch a drum for a very long time. When he enterd high school, he started saving up for his own drum set. "At first I wanted to play a guitar," Kami says, "but I couldn't. Then I recalled that I'd played percussion once." He said that it was only a simple set, but he loved in none the less.
Kami would play his drums for hours and hours on end, only stopping for school and tennis. At 17, Kami was determined to be a drummer. After graduating high school, he moved to Tokyo and joined a punk band. He was not fond of the music genre. He wanted to play a percussion part that which could develop more and requires more technique. Eventaully, he found a visual kei band named Kneuklid Romance. After that, Yu~ki came up to him and asked him to join Malice Mizer and Kami declined. Shortly after that, Mana call him up and Kami agreed to join as a temporary memeber. He offically joined them a half a year later.
Secrets about Kami? He's a MAJOR war freak. "I was not interested in the history itself . . . Then I happened to watch the TV program on National broadcasting channel which dealt with a captain of old Japanese army, and I was so impressed by it that I kept watching it every week," Kami said. His favorite captain is Shingen Takeda and his second is Masamune Date. His life style was effected by the stories he read about those two. When he started becoming interested in them, Malice Mizer was trying to take over the Indies so he could kind of relate to Takeda's taking over Japan. He's crazy about 'seppuku' (performing hara-kiri[suiside of "death before dishonor"]) and fortresses. He also owned over 80 bottles of perfume but only wore 4, "I just liked the bottles," said Kami. And just to clear this up, Kami's hair really WAS long enough to the point where he could sit on it and it was ALL natural. And there are no fans underneath his drumset; his 'hair defing gravity' is actually something he can do. On stage, Kami usually seeks "sanctuary" from Gackt from behind his drumset but he says he like to 'flirt' with Gackt and harrass/annoy Yu~ki too.
On June 25, 1999, Kami was found dead in his house. His death day was actually four days previous, and he died of subarachnoid hemmorhage, killing him quickly and painlessly. There was a small funeral in which Mana, Kozi, Yu~ki, his parents and a few friends attended. Kami's really good friend/band member, Gackt, did not hear the news until later; he was on a solo tour. Kami was only 26 years old and one of the best drummers in the history of music.
Kami would play his drums for hours and hours on end, only stopping for school and tennis. At 17, Kami was determined to be a drummer. After graduating high school, he moved to Tokyo and joined a punk band. He was not fond of the music genre. He wanted to play a percussion part that which could develop more and requires more technique. Eventaully, he found a visual kei band named Kneuklid Romance. After that, Yu~ki came up to him and asked him to join Malice Mizer and Kami declined. Shortly after that, Mana call him up and Kami agreed to join as a temporary memeber. He offically joined them a half a year later.
Secrets about Kami? He's a MAJOR war freak. "I was not interested in the history itself . . . Then I happened to watch the TV program on National broadcasting channel which dealt with a captain of old Japanese army, and I was so impressed by it that I kept watching it every week," Kami said. His favorite captain is Shingen Takeda and his second is Masamune Date. His life style was effected by the stories he read about those two. When he started becoming interested in them, Malice Mizer was trying to take over the Indies so he could kind of relate to Takeda's taking over Japan. He's crazy about 'seppuku' (performing hara-kiri[suiside of "death before dishonor"]) and fortresses. He also owned over 80 bottles of perfume but only wore 4, "I just liked the bottles," said Kami. And just to clear this up, Kami's hair really WAS long enough to the point where he could sit on it and it was ALL natural. And there are no fans underneath his drumset; his 'hair defing gravity' is actually something he can do. On stage, Kami usually seeks "sanctuary" from Gackt from behind his drumset but he says he like to 'flirt' with Gackt and harrass/annoy Yu~ki too.
On June 25, 1999, Kami was found dead in his house. His death day was actually four days previous, and he died of subarachnoid hemmorhage, killing him quickly and painlessly. There was a small funeral in which Mana, Kozi, Yu~ki, his parents and a few friends attended. Kami's really good friend/band member, Gackt, did not hear the news until later; he was on a solo tour. Kami was only 26 years old and one of the best drummers in the history of music.
Tetsu Date of Birth- December 12, 1972
Place of Birth- Tokyo
Height- unknown
Weight- unknown
Blood Type- B
Instument- Vocals
