A comprehensive article about Mana-sama can be found here.

 

This is his official website.

This is his official fan club.

This is his own record label.

This is his own designer label.

 

He acted as band leader and guitarist for Malice Mizer. You can read about them here.

He also acted as producer for a visual kei band called Schwarz Stein. You can read about them here.

So, three months after Malice Mizer entered hiatus, Mana-sama has formed his solo project, Moi Dix Mois. You can read about Moi Dix Mois here.

 

The singles of Moi Dix Mois, In MY opinion…

were (pardon my rudeness, Mana-sama) but, they were kind of horrible. I’ve been grief-stricken by his music. Really dark, dark, dark, dark, dark… Look what he has also done to his beautiful guitars! The once elegant blue and white guitars are now splattered with blood with demonic signs sticked to them!!! ***** drove Mana-sama to utter misery, but Mana-sama’s back and he’s raising hell with him. (Someone said that it might not have occurred to me that the Moi Dix Mois guitars are actually different from the Malice Mizer guitars… Duh! You can’t just glue additional parts on a guitar now, can you???)

BUT, then came — DIXANADU!!! Yey!

Wonerful wonderful wonderful album! You could read my review of the album here. Released on March 19, Mana’s birthday, this year. That day, I wrote Mana-sama an e-mail with my birthday greetings in it, but got no reply. (Who am I anyway?) I kinda sulked after that, but got on my feet again a month later.

I found this interview with Mana-sama and K. It’s in German, but it’s subtitled in English. Convenient! Mana-sama “speaks” about himself.

 

Although, his guitars have also changed their form succeeding Malice Mizer’s hiatus, I still like them.

 

 

 

 

 

These are his guitars before.

 

 

 

 

 

Here are his guitars, now.

 

I like the jeune fille jf500 (Malice Mizer guitar, blue) because it fits Mana-sama’s rockin’ girly image in Malice Mizer. I also think that the ESP jeune fille X Bronze -Cross Ray- is cool (Moi Dix Mois guitar, blue) because it has the glowing blue cross at the bridge. The price for this custom ESP guitar is almost a million yen! You can view the specifications for the guitars here.

 

I’ve read somewhere from the web that he’s quite a snob and doesn’t really talk to people who doesn’t share his interests, and he also love to cook and whip up a good feast. I also read something about him saying that if a girl can walk down the street in a skirt and catch people’s attention, so can he. It was rumored that he composed some tracks for a Castlevania game, but apparently it wasn’t true. Although, they said that Mana-sama did write a promotional cell phone ringtone called “La nuit blanche” for Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (my fave Castlevania game). The ringtone is no longer available and was never released outside of Japan. (Wow, Mana-sama and Castlevania collaborating… what a dream!) Check out this pic (got this from here). I’m not sure, but is this Mana-sama and Castlevania creator, Koji Igarashi? Did they have an interview or something? (Anyone who knows about this please enlighten us.) The dialog box text is funny. I’ve also read that he’s quite a control freak which lead ex-Moi Dix Mois vocalist, Juka, to leave the band… Oh well, I’d willingly be Mana-sama’s vassal. He can control me anytime!

 

LOVE Mana-sama because he’s brilliant. He has his own record label, he’s a guitarist, a producer (Moi Dix Mois & Schwarz Stein), composer, he works on synthesizers, he designs gothic clothes, he appears in every issue of Gothic and Lolita Bible, he does practically everything for Malice Mizer before and Moi Dix Mois now, he looks cute in either girls’ or boys’ clothes, he has a very deep voice but doesn’t speak in public projecting a shy image, he’s a very driven individual, in a nutshell,

he KICKS ASS!

Please read: Of G***t and Mana-sama.