Gackt might like Shinhwa, specifically Lee Minwoo's style. Don't hold me to it or anything, just go watch "Yo!" and look at a few pictures, and then compare it to Gackt's newer stuff and decide for yourself.
Mana's all sound strangely reminiscent of some of his earlier stuff, Bara no Seido, or Amadeus's "Kyozo no Kami." And they all got the same drum beats. And, aside from that, he is using very common occult symbols, like the horns over his chair in one of those pictures of him, Juka, and Kaya. And everything else. No originality! So I made a poem while I was brushing my teeth this morning *cause I do that*...
Why I'm My Own Prince, Especially Now
The lead singer doesn't have a face, the guitarist
never changed,
The other one....s pretty cool I guess; he still is terribly strange
The drummer, he simply went away, of the basist not much to say
And the only guy I've ever thought hot, has kind of stated he's gay.
I'm gonna paint creepy Dali-like paintings of them
all once I get better with art. I've already dreamt them and everything.
So there.
Kozi doth listen to Billy Joel. If you need proof, go listen to "Pressure"
In the Malice Mizer sur le tv thingie I downloaded, I noticed that at one point someone slashes their hand with a knife, and at the end they have "fin" written on the screen. This is extremely similar to Mylene Farmer's "Sans Logique" music video. The cover to the single has her with bloody tears, like in the Bel Aire pv too, and the beginning to the instrumental on their music video collection sounds almost exactly like "Pas le Temps de Vivre." Kozi's claw/finger things could technically have also been from "Comme J'ai Mal." Aside from that, in one of their earlier concerts, like back in the Tetsu era, they actually played Sans Logique as the first song. And then their first song was kind of named that too...and this is only from listening to two of her songs and seeing a couple music videos...
It's Poodle-man! When they were casting for Illuminati they were obviously quite selective. Watch carefully when all the people are standing around Gackt and you may get a glimpse of the illusive Poodle-man. He is in the back, on the right...this is a prime example of Gackt humor, for those of you who have never seen him at his best. At least I think it's humor.
"Papa lapped a pap lopped" could actually be "paw plapped the paw plopped" and then the song would be about kitties or a tiger lady. Just like "LEMONed I scream" sounds like "lemonaide ice cream." You know? (Although I think LEMONed was a collection of weird things Hide found around the place)
It is possible Malice has lied about everything they've ever been asked. Mana said he was very good at cooking, yet after Gackt had known him for over 2 years he still didn't know what kind of food he liked. "Um, French food?...I really don't know." That aside it is a little hard to believe that no one would have revealed their names or ages by now if they had told the truth about where they grew up.
I've seen a bunch of pictures with the Mizers and this random kid, like the SAME random kid. Why?! Although it could be that all Japanese kids look alike deep down I guess...j/k...
Mana has some pretty blatant obsessions: curry, vampires, being wierd and the like. However, one of the more interesting, and probably often overlooked, is his interest in "Paradise", a movie which I plan to see at some point. I haven't yet because the AMV doesn't have it so I'll have to get it from the library (the AMV is the store at which I work). I'm not that interested though so it might take a while before I can explain what it's about. So far he's mentioned it at least three times in my small collection of magazines, so it's pretty safe to say it's important. If one were to take an interest in understanding Mana it would probably be beneficial to check it out.
Kozi is
just a big, loveable twit. The reason he's so hard to understand is because
he...
1) endlessly makes puns
2) skaeps sdrawkcab
3) se-zu shinguzu en rerachiburi gu-do engurisu batto raitsu temu en kana
4) and just says really strange things that don't always make sense anyhow,
among others
Gackt really has posed for nudie magazines (a lot of other celebrities have too). It subtracts a certain I don't know from his overall interest factor in my opinion. He also takes on attributes from the people he's around at the time he's around them. Whatever will make him popular. But more importantly he seems to be searching for something or someone, which would explain why he's doing everything he can to make himself more famous. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out. To all the Gakkun fans out there, if I'm right and he is searching for someone, good luck! ^^
I don't think Gackt can speak french or english too well. However his Chinese is really good, according to my friend he sounds like a "knight": very aristocratic.
Gackt's dance from Mizerable is actually a Kung Fu pose called the "half horse". To copy it just stand with your legs a little more than shoulder length apart and twist your right foot in to face your other foot. Then get jiggy with it by leaning back and bouncing your upper body in strange directions. You'll look just like him.
Gackt doesn't seem to write his own songs anymore. Another World was for all purposes that "Josie and the Pussycat's" song...I thought someone had translated it into Japanese the first time I heard him sing it. He has also taken clips from La Cryma Christi (In Forest), Malice, Kenshin, possibly Dir en Grey, and countless others. Taking stuff from classical music is one thing because it is cultured for some reason, but I dunno. I personally don't agree with this. He has been complaining about his deadlines though...