OMG!

Did i just ressurected my blog or what? Well unfortunatly the server of my portuguese blog went puff and ah uh...peanuts.
Well, why did i decided to come back? Don't ask me, i guess i was bored, it's 4 am i mean... noone goes and do an awesome banner like this one, at 4 am...uhuhuhu i am so good eh? My style improved like hell in two years.
It's mummy Merc's doing... she is a great mummy, and she teaches me a lot of photoshoping.

I still have to learn how to make transparencies.
I will i will!

What happened in two years? Almost nothing <.< Kamijo Sama has new bandie... BURUSAIYOOOOOOO! So far...Zombie is my theme song xD

I am so stupiddd!

Seems like that side of me never changed. AHHHH UH it's so cold, and this is so random. I wish i could tell, a lot of things happened in this two years, but... NO sorry.

Oh yeah, i returned to WOW? omg...my warlock still existed...poor hunny...
Poor Jerzie... i pity her, but now with my awesome CERRI PERRI, i will beat the crap out of everybody who crosses my way (i have this confidence since i killed another paladin that outgeared me like tones). BECAUSE I AM AWESOME CERRI PERRI! NUUUUUUUH :3

I am hungry...i eat like a cow...
i wonder were the food goes... not to my breasts, not to my ass...where then?
Ah well... foul, foul...
Ok, really i have nothing to say, my life was mostly stuck and crap in the last two years. Lost many people, gained better people :3 i guess, i am still lucky :3

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Tomorrow i am going to London <.< meh...might find some jrock :3 i wish i wish... last time i bought so many MUCC cd's.

MUCC is win...

Ok, dont make me say anything more ;_; i am retarded at 4 am.

nyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu~

NIPAH!

Well! It's me Manon after all this time, I'm back and with a new banner of mine! wheeeeeeeeeeee! Death Note klock *________*. I got the last 9th volume from Amazon Uk. That's what a call a freaking luck indeed!

As for meself! I'm ok! PMSic! But ok! My holydays were the same old thing and I really found some J Rock albuns at Paris *nhyahhh*
I bought: Kagerou, L'Arc~en~Ciel, Merry, Moi Dix Mois, MUCC, Gazette, Ayabe and Nightmare!
I can say I'm a happy child after all.
Not that I have much to say, anyway...
Also another bad new from the J Rock world. Kagerou are ending activity this January 2007.
One of my fav bands too, but do what? Go cry and ask for mercy? Life's not that way unfortunatly!
I'm happy for my banner! I improved like hell in doing anything with photoshit 7.0!
And I hope this new year will bring some new hopes and joy for us all in the matters of world speech! This world sucks! And somebody has to do something for our own good.
Lets take arms and fight! We can still save this shit from going down to the devil geez!

I told you I was PMSic! I'm really sorry... not in the moods

Manon

Good Afternoon! Have you noticed something different around Dress Code?
Sure you did! I've changed my layout for the winter version, since yesterday it was the 1st of December. It's getting really cold around here and I had this wonderful pics from Kamijo and snow so I decided to open my Photoshop 7.0 and do this snowy like banner to change for the Autumn/Orange one.
Sometimes it's really good to change. But when you are talking about banners it's really hard, cause you have to change the lay, the buttons, the links, the colours, the music and everything. This time the song is Fuyu Tokyo that means The Tokyo Winter. So it's adequate altought it was pretty cool playing Dress Code in my blog "Dress Code". This music is softer for a winter.
My portuguese blog will also be changing lay soon for a winter version, for this present one is too red for a winter. It's actually my face, but it's tooooooo red! It looks like Moulin Rouge there. I have to change the music too. Guess I'll place Billet playing for it's a bit softer for winter.
I'm so like seasons. Maybe it's because I'm Wiccan or something, and we have to be coordenated with the seasons.
There's gonna be a great hannuckah at my parents this year. And I'll have to attend because of granny, but actually I'll be celebrating the Yule at Paris with my friends Tala and Mathias.
This year we are gonna spend a lot of time there. It's gonna be cool, cause there is always a Virgin Megastore to empty XD. No kiddin'. My stay in Paris is equivalent to 40 albuns of different bands and places. I'm a crazy for music. That's why I created this place. Well guess I'll try to look for D'espairs Ray and Kagerou at Champs Elisées. Once I found there Moi Dix Mois so I don't think it's so impossible as that since Kagerou and D'espairs Ray have been in tour there.
Where is Portugal? I don't know, cause everybody seems to forget we exist. Well probably I would be the only one at the their show really! Dir en Grey were supposed to come here! What happened? THEY CANCELED THE SHOWWWWWWW! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
What a misfortune this country. Luckily when I'll end my singing licence I'll have to go to other country to study and happily I'll have more chances to see J Rock bands act in front of myself. I'm also wishing to go to the Liepzieg Gothic Treffen 2007. I'm trying to get tickets from a friend of mine which works at Napalm Mastersound. I don't know if I'll be able. But I hope so. Lets just wish Mana Sama will be there this year too.
If not... well maybe I'll go to Wacken Open Air 2007. That one I've been going for 3 years by now. If I don't go out of the country how can I see my fav bands? I can't so... I have to move. Download, Wacken Open, Summer Breeze, Gods of Metal, etc.etc.etc.
Today I got a frustration! I went to BD Mania and I found 2 volumes of Neon Genesis Evangelion that were missing in my colection. But...tadahhhhhh! I had no money for the both of them! So I had to buy vol.1 and leave vol.7 behind. I hope nobody buys that! For I can go there at monday and buy it. *prays really loud*.
That's it, my life sucks a lot, and I have nothing interesting to say really.

Big Kissu*

Good afternoon. I know it took me a bit long to write back! Not that I've been really busy, but the portuguese blog server is not working today so I decided to make an AV and post something here on my english blog.
Does anyone have the GRAND PAIN PV? I desperatly need it! I even have the entire Chantons L'Amour and Scarlet Majesty Tour here in my pc and I DON'T HAVE GRAND PAIN!
If anyone have it or know somewhere I can get it. JUST TELL ME!
I've been listening recently to some D'espairs Ray! It's really cool. I downloaded [Coll:set] from Limewire yesterday and I'm looking forward for J Rock no Sekai to reupload the mini albuns and singles from them.

Appart from that! Some people are really jerks! I was playing habbo [silly brazilian community] and a guy tricked me with a virus he sent me through msn! My pc ran madddd! Lucky me I'm really cold blooded! I didn't despair! I looked like someone from Neon Genesis Evangelion while the pilots are fighting inside the Evas. Yelling commands to a friend of mine: Shut the power, restart!!!!!!!!!
Damn you see! Things were getting bit shocking here! But I did get rid of the virus and didn't lost my account at habbo - because I have a paid account! The virus gave the password to the guy but he did nothing to my account so I changed the password and I'm now running my Norton AntiVirus here.
Thank god I had informatics or I would scream like a cow seeing my pc burning fast.

Thats it! I had a 15 [0-20] in my Portuguese exam about the Lusiads. I think it went pretty well for the 0 i've studied!
I've been bad of feelings latelly. I hardly sleep. You see this friend of mine tried to comit suicide because of me [really complicated story] and none of his friends besides my best friend Tala came for help. He is taking care of him at his house and I wished I could be entirely by his side, but I have school, I study, I work, and Tala got fired so he has a lot more time.
I went to the Cradle of Filth show at Paradise Garage [downtown Lisbon], and the show was pretty cool! I loved the opening with Deathstars and all. It was amazing.

Here some pics.

Good night my friends...sorry for this enormous absence from myself, but I have a lot of things to do...You know I must have. I'm training to become a lyrical singer and it really demands a lot of my spare time (appart from school of course). I don't actually have much to post here today... I did this nice avatar so I thought, hey manon, why not doing a post today... to be serious, I did a hugeeee gif for my portuguese blog Pandemonium and it resulted really well. It's with this same pict of Kamijo in "Never Cage" suits. I love the golden butterfly on the back of his coat... I was only able to see her while I was watching the Cinderella Fantasy PV, because I had never noticed the butterfly.
OMG, I'm still so sad, luck me Kamijo still writes in his personal blog and fortunatly I always menage the translations for I can read it.

Well, Portugal... I miss someone to talk about stuff I like... I feel like I'm the only one liking JRock in the entire country. I know it's not true, but that's how I feel. My other friends who love are from Brazil, and they are so far away from me... although I love them though.
I wished Dany and Kelly were my neighbours and we could just see each others everyday and talk like hell about Mana (Dany just loves Mana Sama), and well the bands *you know what do I mean* I feel quite alone on that matter. People here only like brainwashing music like rap, hip hop and kizomba.
It makes me laugh, or at least used to, when our school had a radio place, and they places such horrible songs playing on the audio system.
When I think about it I always bless my iPod for all the good moments.
Talking about that! I finally have the entire PVology of Lareine, or at least almost (still missing that damned GRAND PAIN who always loves to run away from me)
When I saw them playing in my iPod I couldn't believe it was true back then.
*Kamijo looks so cute in all of them* --> I think he is really expressive in what he does, even if it's just an act, I don't care what people say.
Usually the comment is this one:

--> Wether you like or not Lareine... Or you hate them, or you love them, there is never an intermediate level.
        --> If you like... it looks like Kamijo is singing for you and just for you.
        --> If you hate... you just wanna throw Kamijo through the window (go on I'll catch him)

I used to say I loved Kamijo 'cause he seemed like he was singing for my and just for me like whispering into my very same ears, his poetry.
When Dany watched the Saikai no Hana PV she said exactly the same:
         -->You were right! It looks like he is singing for you in particular, like is just you there.
I have to agree... That is what called my attention on Lareine in the first place.
2nd! I could not believe Kamijo was japanease! The only thing there that is visible japanease is exactly his nose. It's so small and cute @_@ *I'm crazy*
I don't know how he does that... but he changed my point of view about japanease people, cause I never really cared about them before, now I'm discovering a lotta new stuff about the subject. It's simply amazing! I WANNA LIVE THERE *_*
Like I could go dreaming forever... now Lareine is over... I gotta conscientialize it! I haven't done it still. It's hard for me to turn on the official site and Kamijo's blog.
I'm so sentimental my GOD and take this business so seriously... Lareine has been my favourite band for a couple of years by now and it's so but so sad what happened that I can't even describe. I don't know if Kamijo is reading any fan lettering around but well I don't know I just feel so unpoetic to write something to him. Seems almost pathetical! He is just what he is! And, I am Manon...see the pointless of all this situation =| YEY I'm sure you do. Nobody reads this anyway then... just unconscious babling!

Stay fine all of you...
My best regards...

Manon no Bara~

Is this the end? The end of Lareine? It can't be... after a lot of ends, is this definitive? I can't just believe Kamijo gave up so easealy! It makes me wanna hit him with a stick and *hug him* at the same time!

Here I have the translation of the blog message Kamijo left on his personal blog... isn't he at least start a new band like he did with New Sodmy! Whyyyyyy? First Malice Mizer in H.I.A.T.U.S., then Lareine disbands? My fav band of all times???????? Damned! The bands of my life always disbandddddddd! This is so f*uckin' terrible...
But I don't care! I'll keep listening to Lareine no matter what and keep bying the albuns that are still missing in my collection, and keep liking kamijo in the same why, supporting him whatever their decisions look like! And here's the blog entry...

"This is a sudden announcement, but due to the absence of members, LAREINE is disbanding without intention to resume activity. Guitarist Mayu disappeared for seven months (Manon's note: beating Mayu with a stick so hard he would die*), so henceforth, Kamijo and Emiru see no reason for the continuation of LAREINE. However, because they say in conclusion, "In the absence of a guitarist, we cannot continue activity with satisfaction," this time they have decided to fully disband (manon's note: why fully! why not gettin' another guitar player and start again?*). The live on 10/31 at (not sure) will be the last, so the artist known as LAREINE will in 2007 have an open exhibition (a personal exhibition?) to completely end activity. The final live will not be a one-man show, and the members and staff express their regrets. However, understanding the circumstances now, please understand that the only decision so far is to go on with the live. It will be the last, but in the 3 and a half years since the revival (of LAREINE) and the 11 years since the initial formation (of LAREINE), thank you very much for your support of LAREINE to be this successful and long-lasting. (manon's note: I'm gonna cry*)

Emiru:
I apologize that I must report this to you all like this.
LAREINE once disbanded, the project called RIBBON passed, and LAREINE returned. I never imagined that the winds of change would blow this way, but I think we should honestly look to the future.
I don't know when I'll stand on a stage again, but when that time comes, but I think I'd wager my life that I will.
When I look back, ever since I broke out of my cocoon, I was reborn with LAREINE -- when Machi was there, it was the original (literally, "without one ingredient changed") LAREINE. First half a year of lives and recordings, then half a year of experiencing RIBBON, even with a little of LAREINE's arrangements, we left the world many songs. (that's probably the easiest way to translate that, lol)
Personally, I think they were a lot of very distinct, different musical projects.
Wow, someday again I'll return to that cocoon and want to make LAREINE's songs and do lives, and someday in the future, with a smile, I want to return to the talented world of LAREINE!
Last, I now thank you very much.

Kamijo:
At the time when Mayu wrote "LAST SONG FOR YOU," it was a premonition of misfortune. That song was supposed to be for Kazumi. The time of "Fierte" was the same. So I didn't publish the song that held such a truly pivotal element. It came true, though. An artist may do that for self-expression. But that prophet-like misfortune was also there, so we also had the responsibility of controlling the life of the people who listened to those lyrics.
To start with, this activity cessation is very close to a disbandment. LAREINE's activity is decidedly not just something brilliant. If it seemed brilliant, and you can certainly say so, there were also ugly thorns. But the flower petals that wholeheartedly extended a hand to hide that lining... No, the flower petals that protected those thorns were blown away by the wind. (Ryan's note: I love how poetic he is even in his disbandment message* - manon's note: I agree*) LAREINE does not need thorns that are more than LAREINE. Thus LAREINE has reached an eternal sleep.
Has the Romance reached everyone?
Could you see the would our thoughts sketched?
LAREINE was our everything.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you to each person who gave us the chance to transcend the limit of everything. (manon's note: Does this really mean full disbandement! Not in my head... nooooooooo*)

And is this what happened? Mayu just desappeared without trail and they don't have a drummer (I could be their drummer and guitar player @_@ *dreams*).
I just can't believe I'm going to the damned tomb without seeing Lareine liveeeeee!
Ahhhhh misfortune of myself! I just can't accemble this still in my head. My Kamijo... no motr Lareine songs? What about something solo... oh 'cmon say something! Your fans are in despair! At least he keeps writting in his personal blog, and that means he is not dead like they said in April.

And this is it... this kind of post make me sad... really sad... just like, I don't know.

My best regards...

Manon_No_Bara

 Hi! I did it, I'm quite back... after all this days >_< lotta work, school, no time for blogging.
In this post I'm gonna talk about one of the most mysterious and intriguing beings I've ever seen.. yes, talking about Mr.Manabu Satou, mostly known as Mana Sama.

I found an interview that might interest you, so I'm posting it with the right credits.

by Mana Sama.net

† Mana-Sama †

So obviously you've come to this website because you're either a fan of Mana or you're simply looking for a place to get some good information. Either way, I must say, in my very own oppinion, Mana is one of the most creative and inspirational people I have ever learned about. His entire life, hes had his own little quirks (much like all of us), but what makes him unique is how he is not afraid to go out and do things most people will probably never accomplish in their life time.

If this isn't your first read about Mana, you're probably looking for some juicy information you didn't know already. I can expect you're looking for something like Mana's real name or maybe even his age. To be honest, I don't even know. There are so many rumors that float around the internet about variouse names such as Satou Manabu and ages ranging anywhere to early thirties to his late fourties. For Mana's name, NOBODY, except the people in his personal life really knows. Anything you hear on the internet is not true and has no real substancial back up to it. As for his age, you could probably take a wild guess at it, or try to add up the year in which his accomplishments took place, but I have yet to find someone with a real age and can back it up 100%. For now and probably forever, we will simply know Mana as Mana. His age will also probably forever be unknown, because he is myserious like that.

By now you're probably thinking, "Gee Sarah, thats nice and all, but you're kinda rambling and I'd like some real information!" Please understand, with the growing fanbase Mana has right now, it is very difficult for one to get facts straight. I would like for everyone to realize nothing but the truth of Mana. It is only silly and pointless that so many people read misinterpreted information and it actually saddens me greatly. Anyway, I know you're looking for something worth reading, so I'll tell you a few things I know, but not everything! If I did that, life just wouldn't be fun and there wouldn't be anything new for you to learn.

To start off, Mana was born on March 19 in Hiroshima, Japan to two music professors. Early on, Mana was able to learn trumpet and find an interest in the "abnormal". Generally Mana does not like to bring up the past, but from what we do know, he was a metal head in high school, and even got into "cosplay" (from what he calls it) as a teenager by going to his first concert, Motley Crue. By this time, Mana was convinced he wanted to learn guitar. At first learning guitar wasn't exactly what he had hoped. His parents gave him an old accoustic guitar, which he never used once he was able to buy his own electric guitar. From then on, he practiced with several other small bands around his area. The first band he really got into playing with was Ves.Tearge, but then moved on to Girl'e.

Eventually, outside of high school, Mana was able to meet someone who would end up becoming a very good friend of his, Kozi. Together, Mana and Kozi performed in the band Matenrou, with Kozi on Vocals and Mana on Bass. After leaving Matenrou, Mana and Kozi became co founders of Malice Mizer, hence the start of one of Mana's biggest careers.

As most people know, Malice Mizer became a hot commodity in Japan's visual kei scene. The band started out with Tetsu on vocals, Mana on guitar, Kozi on guitar, Yu~ki on bass, and Gaz on drums. Early on in the band's fast passed career, Tetsu and Gaz left. Malice Mizer had come to a point where they had become a very poor band for about a year and were on the verge of breaking up, until Gackt (vo) and Kami (dr) came into the picture. With these two key people in the band, Malice Mizer was now growing into full speed again. Malice Mizer had full potential to accomplish what they were looking for in their careers and doing it at a fast pace. Merveilles reached up to Number 2 in album charts and the concert which came shortly after the album release sold out in a record of 2 minutes. Things at this time were going great, but during the production of the Le Ciel PV, everything began to flip upside down. Shortly after, the band started getting into disagreements, causing Gackt to leave. Even more tragedy arose when the drummer, Kami, unexpectedly died of a brain hemorrhage in his sleep.

Malice Mizer was now in a low point being out a vocalist and drummer, once again. In the mean time, Mana opened up his very own clothing line, Moi-même-Moitié, and record label, Midi: Nette. Another year later, Malice Mizer was back up again to where they could produce more with Klaha as a support vocalist, and a support drummer. Klaha eventually became Malice Mizer's perminent new addiction to the band, but Kami was never to be replaced with a new official drummer in his dedication as an "eternal blood relative". The band held up until December 2001, when they decided on a hiatus for unknown reasons.

On March 19, 2002, Mana was "reborn" again in a since. Mana came back into the music scene with a new appearance and solo project, Moi dix Mois. In Moi dix Mois, Mana is most definately not the innocent little doll you once knew in Malice Mizer. Personally, I doubt he will ever fully go back to what he once was. In this project, Mana even composes, writes, and directs all of his own music. The apperance of Moi dix Mois gives of a strong "death metal" yet elegant and mysteriouse feeling to it, much like the music itself. Mana shows off a more powerful side to himself with powerful guitar cords and the very own image of how he sees the band should be. Moi dix Mois is much like a world within itself, which is very difficult to describe in words. In my own belief, you cannot simply read about Moi dix Mois to understand what it is all about. One must listen to the music to understand the myseriouse dark "world" it puts you in, and also see the visuals carefully set along with the sound to get a full understanding of who Mana is.

After reading all this, I'm sure you're now thinking "Well thats great. Mana seems to be very passionate and dedicated to his music and bands, but what about the man in general? What is he like apart from this? Is he actually a normal person or some super being of a dark imaginary world?" Well, there is a lot I can tell you about Mana himself, but the thing about him is, music is and always will be his very first priority in life. There is still a real human being under all that, but music is such a huge passion to him that he would probably die a slow painful death if it was taken away from him. How sad! Anyway, here is some random facts about Mana.

Way back in the days of Malice Mizer, Mana used to COMPLETELY shrowd his life in mystery. To many interviews he made up a lot of silly answers to questions. You could never be too sure if he was actually seriouse or just trying to mess with your mind. However, in Moi dix Mois, Mana is learning to grow up a little more every day. He shares with his fans his interests and hobbies, and out of those things, Mana tends to be a huge fan of food and cooking. "What? But hes so skinny!" you exclaim. Yes, but remember, hes a little Japanese man too (hes what? 5'7'', 5'8''/approx 173 cm?). He probably has a much faster metabolism than most of us over here in the western hemisphere do. For the longest time, Mana's favorite food was curry. He talked about curry so much, you'd think he had dreams every night about it. Ever since he began touring around Europe though, hes seemed to expand himself even more as to his favorite foods and everything he tries.

Thinking of all of Mana's interests, this could actually get quite long and extensive, so I'm just going to make little categories and explain each one under them.

Video Games:

Mana LOVES video games.He's guilty of buying game counsils as soon as they come out. Mana loves an array of different video games, but his most favorite has to be CastleVania, he's even had an interview with the creator of the game. Other than that, Mana supposedly has a video game area in his room for all his games. Sadly enough though, he still has old games that he refuses to get rid of, "just incase" he may ever need to play them again or he just doesn't want to get rid of them.

Movies

Despite the fact that Mana used to say he never watched TV, he still watches a TON of movies.From what I've heard he even has a little movie library going on in his house. Most people already know this, but Mana really enjoys horror films, especially the original Dracula movie. The only kind of horror he doesn't really like is Japanese horror, because he gets scared of them. Mana is also a war freak. Amongst war movies, he likes Saving Private Ryan. As for TV, Mana mentions he likes anime and cooking shows. Mana's favorites are Barbapapa and Doraemon, but he has also mentioned he likes Sailor Moon, Angelique, various shojo anime (moreso manga), and Gundam Wing.

Hobbies

Mana likes to collect a lot of random things. He learned how to make garage kits from Dada (vo. of Velvet Eden) and over time has become a garage kit collector. He also enjoys collecting figurines from video games, horror movies/comics, and sci fi movies/comics. Mana's house is supposedly very messy and cluttered because of al the stuff he keeps and never throws away. He is also, as I have mentioned before, big into cooking. Its one of his most favorite hobbies. Mana has memorized the scent of over 35 different spices and always likes to experiment with his cooking.

Interests

How to start this..Mana has so many different interests, and its difficult to just put them all here because most of his interests lie in a lot of things I've mentioned already. Other than what I have written about, Mana is a big fan of Heavy death and black metal music, French Pop (his favorite french artist is Mylene Farmer), classical music, and even the 80s. His favorite bands are Motley Crue and Slayer. He obviously really likes exploring new cultures as well. Mana has been to France and Germany a number of times, and is now investigating into America. Time will only tell where else he'll end up going.

Instruments

What else can he play besides Guitar? Well, Mana can also play trumpet, synthesizer, and drums (but not as well as he'd like). At his house, he currently owns 10 guitars (soon 11), an accordian, a violin, a bass guitar, and a synth. Incase you're wondering, for the most part, Mana designs his guitars and gets them custom made and for free from the ESP company in Japan.

Pets

Mana has never owned a pet or liked to touch animals, except for Sea-Monkeys. In his fanclub, Mana had a contest for one abroad fan and one domestic fan to receive Sea-Monkeys personally from him. I was the abroad fan who won and got to take care of sea-monkeys from Mana because he had such and obsession with them. I don't know if his are still alive today..sadly, mine died after a couple days of going out of town. But you are more than welcome to read about my sea-monkeys from Mana in my Sea-Monkey journal. (it also has entries from other fans who bought their own sea-monkeys in inspiration of Mana's) Mana named his first "Sea Demon" (as he calls them) Damien.

Dislikes

So far, we've talked about Mana's interests, hobbies, and likes, but what DOESN'T he like? Well, for one, he doesn't like small enclosed places. When Mana was younger he was locked in a room by himself and since then he's been clausterphobic. Mana also doesn't like loud obnoxious crowds (unless its a concert of course) or flownder because people eat them when they're still half alive. Sports are definately not an interest of Mana's. He usually gets very bored when people talk about them. Along with that, he does not like very athletic people, especially girls, nor does he enjoy very sickly people because he hates sickness.

Fans, Relationships, Family, etc.

With as many Mana fans I've talked to on the internet, there is certainly one thing I've learned about female Mana fans. So many girls think Mana is the perfect gentleman and would love to date and/or marry him. Having said that, I feel a big obligated since curiouse minds tend to wander, about what Mana likes in the opposite gender. Mana has -NEVER- said hes married, nor has he ever said hes NOT married. Draw your own conclusions if you will, but this is what he's said he looks for in the opposite gender. Mana looks for girls that are a bit irregular. He doesnt' want them to be very sporty but not sickly (as I mentioned above). He likes girls that can be somewhat assertive but mysteriouse and sweet like a doll or a girl that just jumped out of a shojo manga. From what he's said in the past, Mana doesn't really seem to go out and look for relationships and hes not really the kind of person to go out and make the first move. However, it if were to happen I don't think he'd want some rabid fangirl to just jump out at him or something. Mana just takes things as he comes, so whatever is to happen, if he ever does find someone in his life or if he has, I'm sure it will be/is the right person.

This isn't only about girls though! To be honest, Mana doesn't have very many male fans in Japan so he gets very excited when he sees male fans in Europe. Thats something he's always wanted, so its just another thing that makes him really happy. I think in a way, he feels like he can connect with them better, which is perfectly understandable, because Mana IS a guy and likes to be around other males.

As for family. Both of Mana's parents are still married, it seems. Mana has a brother and a sister. His sister has a one year old little girl named Mi-chan. Mana really loves Mi-chan and plays with her when he sees his family (he only visits them once a year), but his sister refuses to let him him to turn her daughter into anything like him.

So thats a lot of information about Mana. You probably can imagine how tired I'm starting to get after writing so much. In conclusion, Mana is a great man who is passionate about what he does. He is strong willed, and with that, a little stubborn, but he loves his job and hobbies just as much as he loves his fans. He takes great pride in everything he does, and for that hes looked up to by a lot of people. To truely understand Mana, you can't only just love him for who he is and what he does, but you have to put yourself in his shoes. Sometimes that take a few hoops to jump through, and Mana wasn't made for everyone to like him, but for those who can get a grasp on his world and what he does, really has a unique understanding of what he is all about. Lastly, I'd just like to say, if you read all this trying to research a little more about Mana, I hope you may have learned a few things you didn't know already, and if you read this because it gave you something to do or you wanted to see Mana in the persective of another fan, I hope you found the read at least mildly interesting. Mana is one person I am truely dedicated to, so writing about him can actually be a fun hobby to me (I know I'm weird).

Bands Mana has taken part in from past to present:
Ves: Tearge --> Girl'e --> Matenrou --> Malice Mizer --> Moi dix Mois

by mana-sama.net (c) 

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And this is the today post... I wanted to do it because Mana is absolutly fascinating and I loved to read this interview... it explains much, but not everything.
Like my friend Dany says: "I wish I could understand Mana, I wanted to be his psychologist!"

Wish to see you next post soon. I don't have much more to say...

Hail J Rock ^^

~Manon~no~Bara~