M E M B E R S
Kyo - Vocals
The Basics
Name: Nishimura "Kyo" Tooru
Role in Dir en Grey: Vocalist
Birthdate: February 16, 1974
Birthplace: Kyoto
Western Zodiac: Aquarius
Eastern(Chinese) Zodiac: Tiger
Blood Type: B
Height: 170 cm (5' 3")
Weight: 52 kg (115 lbs)
Shoe Size: 5 1/2
Hobbies: Writing, music, watching movies, sleeping, watching anime, playing video games.
Likes: Women, being home by himself, his 800-1000 cds, lying in interviews, being scary, being bad, warumono figurines, putting make up on his staff, Mad Stallin, swimming, safety pins, girls in kimono, piercings, sleeping, Star Wars, Anime, Dir en Grey.
Dislikes: Women, people, being called cute or kawaii, his birth name, being interrupted, being called "-chan", being woken up, liver, carrots.
Interesting rumors/facts
-Kyo never intend to be a rock star when he was a kid. Instead, he wanted to be a Hakaida [a baddie from "Kikaida"]. "Because I like baddies" he said.
-He didn't get into music until he was 15, where he found it was something he really enjoys.
-He is a great fan of the band Kuroyume, and he looks up to the vocalist Kiyoharu
-He dislikes his birth name that he doesn't even use it in his former band.
-Kyo has had numerous accidents for as long as he's been alive. He's had a fire extingusher swung at his head (by a friend no less), he almost got alcohol poisoning the first time he drank, he got into a motorcycle accident, a car accident (well, almost, by Die), he has an ear problem, he seems to constantly be getting sick, and oddly enough, actually tripped over one of the crew guys when they were cleaning up his white spittle crap.
-He enjoy lying in interviews
-Kyo once stated in an interview that, for some reason, people keep calling him Miyabi. Ever since then, Die keeps calling him "Miya-chan."
-When asked to list his 3 most precious things, Kyo responded with: 1. Dir en Grey; 2. my voice; 3. my 800-1000 CDs at home.
-When asked to say something to all of his bandmates, he simply replied with "Minna-san work hard."
-Kyo once walked out on stage wearing one of the Child Prey mouse heads.
-It is not clear if Kyo listens classical music or not. But surely, Dir en grey borrowed a tune from Brahms for Deity. Another source stated that Kyo heard a random ringtone from a mobile phone and tried to sing it. Later they found out that it was Brahms´s fifth Hungarian dance.
-At one point at a concert in Osaka, Toshiya gave his bass to Kyo. The look on his face is assumed to be the same face he would make if someone handed him a large, dead, smelly fish.
-He prefere recieving ciggerattes than candy from fans
-One of his favourite things to do is to talk about blood and gore, but this is expected of 'stage-kyo'.
-He sleeps a lot. Once he even fell asleep in the middle of an interview.
-He disappears often and comes back to sleep, says other members. 'No sleep no life' says Kyo.
-Kyo also collects the Japanese manga "Warumono".
-Kyo says that when he is home, he likes to stay by himself.
-When asked what he believes he will be like in ten years, he said he would still be the same.
-He says that his favorite smell is silver, and that he dislikes the smell of "books".
-He considers himself to be evil looking and scary. Many of his fans state that the scarier image he tries to put on, the more kawaii [cute] he seems to be.
-Kyo likes to be called "Kyo" and "Kyo-san." He hates to be called "kawaii" [cute] or "Kyo-chan".
-Rumored that he once broke a staff members nose for calling him cute.
-He loves putting make-up on his staff. Version magazine featured a picture-by-picture show once when Kyo put make-up on a editorial assistant.
-Although there are four seasons he doesn't like any of them because he doesn't have any beautiful memories from any season.
-He is very demanding and selfish on the stage. Whenever fan interrupts his MC he shouts 'Shut up bitch! I'm not talking to you!'
-The nickname of Kyo is Warumono, meaning "bad person" in Japanese.
-He has 2 pets, Puchi and Buchi, the kangaroo rats.
-He has many piercings and tattoos.
-Kyo hasn't got much luck with his eyebrow piercings. When he first had one, it got infected and was very tender, so he decided to leave it alone and have another piercing on the other side, but the same thing happened to that one too!
-His hearing to his left ear is very bad, because in 2000 he had an Acute Acoustic Trauma, and because of that, many lives were postponed to next year. The cause is theorized to be a live version of Rasetsu Koku. He had a call from his family saying 'Don't give up. You have to replace the canceled gigs because your fans support you...'.
-While he was in the hospital, Kyo was not worried about delaying the tour or if these complications would cause problems with the band. He was just worried that he was going to get fat from the medicine. He also complained that the nurse giving him saline injections took the needle out of his arm very slowly, and he wanted her to do it fast.
-When Kyo left the hospital, his bandmates threw him a party with champagne.
-Kyo is allergic to flower pollen.
-Kyo can play guitar and bass to some extent. He tried many different instruments before he decided he would be a singer instead.
-Kyo's band mate Toshiya describes Kyo as a warumono, referring to a bad person as well.
-At the same time, Shinya fondly refers to Kyo as "kaibatsu-kun," a kaibatsu being a monster.
-Kaoru says that Kyo is "a person who often sleeps",
-Die says the same, only adding that he is a "typical blood type B".
-All members agree that he has got the worst handwriting. He writes the set list for the gig but often other people can't read it.
-In the band only Kyo likes to use daub-like, thick make-up. His hair changes color constantly: raging from black to red, to bleached blonde; he just spikes it up or combs it down, or just puts it under a hat or a bandana. Nowadays he keeps it at shoulder-lenght and dyes it black. In their Visual Kei days, the clothes he designed were often based on a traditional japanese kimono, interwined with modern materials like pleather and corsets.
-Toshiya and Kyo used to live together because they didn't have much money back then, and Toshiya says that he's glad he doesn't live with Kyo anymore because his piercing scare him.
-Kyo is the only member of the band who doesn't drink.
-He can't work (live) without complaining. But that is just one of his ways of expressing himself. Sometimes he doesn't say enough words so people misunderstand him, but he doesn't care.
-He hates splatter films. "I get really sick when I see things bleeding. But I don't mind doing it myself' says Kyo..."
*He can't cook.
-He can make spiky hair in 10 minutes. When they were indies they used to do all make-up themselves.
-Kyo uses Blue Jeans by Versace.
-When Shinya first saw Kyo at a concert of Shinya's band he was surprised that young children were there.
-He knows Shinya since high school
-First meeting Die, Kyo thought he looked like a robot.
-Kyo is very stubborn. When he fought with his grandfather as a kid he said he would leave the house, but was told to leave the clothes because he had not bought them. Kyo stood outside right before snowfall, naked, for three hours until his parents came and apologized.
-Kyo likes and is very good at swimming.
-Kyo was very disappointed by his first love. He had not told her but somehow people found out and told her and she started avoiding Kyo.
-Kyo likes girls in kimonos. Perhaps this is why he so often wears a furisode.
-His likes and dislikes could be summed up with one word: women. "They can bring such wonderful happiness, yet are utterly terrifying."
-He prefers strong women to passive women.
-Kyo wears glasses.
-Kyo once stated that it is okay for people to wear normal clothes at weddings, but the bride should wear a blue fish.
-He has stated he would like to get married and settle down someday.
-Shinya first dyed his hair when he graduated and was finally allowed to. Kyo did it.
-Kyo's parents were very kind to him when he was a kid, they'd take him anywhere he wanted to go.
-Kyo has thought of committing suicide when he was younger.
-The reason why Kyo does not like alcohol is that he almost got alcohol poisoning the first time he drank.
-Kyo lived in with a girl at some point in his life and they stayed in an apartment that was above his parent's place.
-Kyo, Shinya, and Kaoru are all Shiina Ringo fans.
-Kyo never went to high school, he turn in a blank paper for the entrance exam. He did this so he could concentrate on being a musician.
-Dir en grey was afraid of Kaoru when they first met him!
-Kyo writes the song lyrics, and they're usually pretty sexual.
-At the end of the Los Angeles live on March 23, 2006, Kyo put a bucket on his head.
-Kyo used to fanservice the most with Toshiya or Kaoru.
-Kyo [as well as Die, Shinya and Kaoru] speaks Kansai-ben, a popular dialect of Japanese but different than “regular” Japanese–the kind that you’d learn if you were foreign.
-Kyo hates effeminate things (IE: Aya from Psycho le Cemu) and would hate to be described as so. He stayed that he would rather look nasty and disturbing and be disliked, than settle for the “pin-up boy” image and be admired.
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Kaoru Niikura - Guitar
Real Name: [ ?? ? ] Kaoru Niikura
Stage Name: Kaoru
Position in Dir en grey: Lead Guitar
Blood Type: A
Birthdate: February 17th, 1974
Birthplace: Hyougo, Japan
Star Sign: Aquarius
Zodiac: Tiger
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 115
Shoe Size: 5 1/2
Likes: Shopping, Gundam
Dislikes: Prawns
Favorite Foods: Curry, Potato Salad, Hamburger, Chocolate, Sushi, Double Cheeseburger, Chinese Food, Ramen, Okonomiyaki, Takoyaki, Akaihan flavored onigiri, Gyudon, Gyudon Curry, Gyudon Kimechi
Disliked Foods: Prawns
Favorite Cigarette: Mild Seven Light
Favorite Sports: Soccor, Baseball
Favorite Color: Purple, Black
Favorite Music: hide, X Japan, Shiina Ringo
Prefered Instrument Brand: ESP
Former Bands: CHARM ? La:Sadie's
- Kaoru always has his hide plushy with him during lives. (Indies Period)
- Kaoru was injured while he was working part time at a race track.
- If asked what he needs more of in his life, Kaoru usually answers, "Gundam!"
- Kaoru is a Shiina Ringo fan.
- Dir en grey was afraid of Kaoru when they first met him!
- Kaoru use the fragrance Egoist Platinum.
- Kaoru is afraid to go on rollarcoasters. And he doesn't like scary movies.
- Kaoru has hide's autograph.
- Kaoru cannot swim.
- Kaoru loves getting underwear as a present. Mostly because he says he never has time to buy his own himself.
- Kaoru enjoys picking up the other band members. He picked up Kyo during the Osaka-Jo hall live, and Die at another, and Shinya at yet another. He has yet to pick up Toshiya.
- Kaoru claims that he has never been on a 'proper' date. He's gone out with girls before, but he doesn't consider them to be proper dates, because he can never decide where to take her out, so they end up not doing much of anything.
- When Kaoru was a teenager he got bored with his black hair and began slowly dying it brown. When his parents noticed and asked him about it, he told them that he was going to the swimming and the chemicals in the pool were doing it, which is funny, because Kaoru cannot swim.
- He was in tech club at school and he made only 5 absences during his high school
life!
-Does not like to admit it but he's good at drawing
-He loves collecting hats
-He is the oldest in the band
-He likes American bands such as Linkin Park, Papa Roach and Rage Against the Machine
-His english is not too good
-Likes his adam's apple, saying it's very manly
-He claims to be a person with a complicated nature
-His costumes never showed off alot of skin, though could be quite wild none-the-less ( in example: the parasite hat)
-He would sell his soul for Gundam stuff and a video rental card
-He claims to have way too many complexes
-He is happy when doing a live and eating a hamburger comes close
-He caught his swater in his guitar once and could not get it out
-He dislikes the fans that can;t listen to others
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