About Me
Name: Mana
Date of Birth: March 19th
Place of Birth: Hiroshima
Height: 173 cm
Weight: 49 kg
Bloodtype: O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Mana is the leader and one of the co-founders of Malice Mizer. Usualy in blue
He's also the most effeminate of the group, (he is rarely seen without make-up or a skirt).Mana's father was a high school music teacher. In their house, there was a piano, keyboard, and trumpet, but he can't remember if his parents ever forced him to learn an instrument.
His parents say they let him learn the piano when he was really young but he hated it.
His parents also say that when he was in his mother's womb, they let him listen to classical music, (naturally, he didn't know about it).
At home, every Sunday morning, they played classical music, but when Mana was in primary school, he preferred sculpture class to music, (especially clay-moulding, but he liked to break the pieces he made because he thought breaking the form was more beautiful).
He was good in painting and he often won prizes at exhibitions. After Junior High, he preferred painting science-fictional subjects.In reference to music, Mana was not positive to listen to Japanese pop songs.
He was struck by some popular music, (sometimes by Johnny's, and sometimes by female idols), but he started to listen to rock music early.
At first, he listened to heavy metal. He liked Japanese and foreign rock. In terms of sound, he was really impressed by the sound of the guitar which is highly distorted. He guesses the reason he was attracted to heavy metal is the look (it really stood out).
He was disappointed really soon because sometimes the band he used to like a lot in terms of visual look changed their look very quickly, (in every album, there was a different changed look).
He ended up not liking them anymore.When Mana was in Junior High, he told his parents he wanted a guitar so they bought him a folk guitar. He never used it.
Instead, he went and bought an electric guitar by himself. At first, he liked heavy metal. Then he went into hard-core punk, which was really violent music.
He saw lives and concerts, and they played their music really hard and the concert was chaotic. This really interested Mana. The punk-style hairdo or mohawk also interested him, so in high school he tried the mohawk hairstyle once, (they kept telling him to stop it, however, because his father was a teacher and he was getting nervous about it).
In high school, Mana also belonged to the Handball Club because, he claims, it's a minor sport. Everyone tended to join the Soccer Club, the Basketball Club, etc., but even when Mana was younger he preferred doing something different, something not so popular. (He also belonged to the Art Club).
And although he did sports, he didn't look like an athlete: Even when he went to a game, his hair was in a mohawk style, so he brought a really extreme visual look into his high school sports field(!).
Also, Mana hated wearing a uniform in high school, (but they were not allowed to wear private clothing). So he stuck to changing the unform to his taste by lining the inside of his coat jacket with paisley patterns.Wearing his mohawk, Mana also played music and had a band with his friends but he didn't think about becoming a professional musician, (he wasn't serious about music).
He didn't know what to do in the future. After high school graduation, Mana still hadn't decided on anything, but he knew he didn't want to be a businessman.
Back then, he didn't have any aim or intention. He went to Osaka and lived there and then he had a group which played punk music.
They didn't play hard-core but alley-punk. Gradually he realised he didn't want to play punk. In a way he realised his musical identity.
Simply because he liked gaudy things, he started to wear make-up, but as he thought about his individuality, he gradually changed his mind and he started to feel his direction of music is not masculine.So did this lead to MALICE MIZER?
Mana doesn't remember the actual reason, but he happened to be listening only to classical music at the time, (when he left for Osaka, he brought a lot of classical music tapes from his house), so he guessed he would like that field again, (he mainly liked Bach), and he has been attracted to mysterious things.
Then he started to collect horror videos. He liked the background music of Italian horror movies, (really cool and mysterious).
He was really inspired by that and he realised he wanted to play that kind of music because it has slight feelings of heavy metal, but the difference is the melody itself is really pathos, like classical music, so it was rather dull and heavy at the same time.
He made up a group which played that kind of music.They played in livehouses but they were not popular since only he played a guitar.
He harmonized with bass sometimes but he realised they needed a second guitar after all.
The band wore make-up as they do now, because Mana was really inspired by a drag-queen group (these kinds of groups are called Mr. Lady or New Half in Japan), but that band didn't last, (Mana still has a tape of them though).
Mana met Közi in Tokyo. At first he worked in the "background", and then he met Közi when he changed his part-time job.
But it wasn't so easy-going. At first he joined a ready-made band as a helping staff but it didn't last.
So he made up his mind to make a group with Közi which would have a solid concept and which would never imitate foreign artists, (be really original).
Then the concept of evil and tragedy was born and it drove MALICE MIZER.Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds
