the GazettE Ruki's Biography

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  Real Name: Matsumoto Takanori

  Part: Vocal

  Date Birth: 1st February 1982

  Blood Type: B

  Birthplace: Kanagawa prefecture (Shounan district)

  Height: 162 cm

  Weight: Nobody knows, except Ruki

  Foot Size: 25.5 cm

  Ring Size: 17 cm

  Family: Mother, father, older brother

  Piercing: 5 on the right ear

  Tobacco: PIANISSIMO (He constantly promises to give up, but yes: he smokes)

  First Copied Song: Sex Pistols - Bodies

  Liked Type: A self-aware person, a wonderful person

  Disliked Type: An impure girl, a stupid person

  Strong Point: Genuine side

  Weak Point: Genuine side

  Charming Point: Temple

  Likes: Shopping, shopping and shopping

  Message: "Let's start from the bottom"

  Previous Bands: Mikoto, Ma'die Kusse, Kar+te=zyAnose

  
  

  -> Others- Ruki has a herniated disc in his spine. In childhood it wasn't painful but when he became older (first year of high school) it started to bothered him so he had it to be operated.- Ruki is nervous. He likes to argue. Though in interview he often keeps silent and looks tense.- Ruki has a tense relationships with his parents. He can't apologized personally to them, he writes letters to them.- His hobby is shoping (shopping-to-death)- His place of living is usually very clean and tidy, looks like temple and smells incense.- Ruki was a drummer for one of his previous band.

  
  

  -> About Ruki by other members

  
  

  What is your first impression of Ruki?- Reita: When I first met him, I thought he is a vivid rocker. It would be fun to form a band with him. But actually he is someone inconsistent. Once when we had performance with the other band, I asked him “let’s go home together today?”. Although he answered “Fine!” but when we found him he was all surrounded by fans. And we can just……May be he just couldn’t keep his promise.

  
  

  Ruki’s expression: “That’s because……” said a nervous Ruki. Reita ignoring him. 

  
  

  - Kai: I met him in a live house when having a bands companionship. We didn’t have a word before at all but he just lent his equipments to me. He’s really a nice guy was my first impression of him.

  
  

  Ruki was still a drummer at that time?- Kai: Yes.- Uruha: I really don’t remember. In my memory, I was interested in Ruki’s band vocalist. And after that the vocalist told us their drummer want to have some words with us. And I was like “Ohhhh, that guy!” (laugh)- Aoi: I first met him in studio. He suddenly came shake my hands and didn’t get shy at all. I thought may be he would be someone big in the future. But I don’t remember anything else other than shaking hands.

  
  

  What are Ruki’s strong and weak points?- Reita: The good point is he has good sense of whatever he is doing. It is fun to have him around. He will cheer the others up around and have lots of more than necessary to speak……But he manage to merge into the atmosphere’s tension as a whole. The bad point is he really is a baka. Clumsy in speaking. And messed up the other’s house……

  
  

  Ruki’s expression: I didn’t mess up you house!

  
  

  - Kai: The good point is he has curiosity in everything. I think it’s good to have a try in anything new. The bad point is he has too many to speak. Sometimes I really want him to be quiet for a moment (laugh). I was half serious but Ruki just thought I was joking and kept on talking. (laugh)- Uruha: The good point is he is very intimate with the others and that’s the lovely place he has. It’s just like he doesn’t know what the worldliness is. And he is the “heart” and “brain” of the GazettE. And we are brothers, we all respected him so much. The bad point is he likes shirking. It’s like he will act as an ostrich when there is difficulties.

  
  

  Ruki’s expression: Looked like he want to run away from there. 

  
  

  - Kai: Ruki, that’s of no use. It’s over once you’re in that zone. You can’t escape just by running away. (laugh)- Aoi: The good point is he has the most knowledge of music in the GazettE. But in this two years we have been working together, we always help to move out the equipments from the van. I just saw Ruki lead off shifting stuffs about three times in these two years. Every time is Kai who moving in and out very diligently. With the same B-blood type, there are still some differences between them.- Uruha: He doesn’t have that voltage at all!

  
  

  Ruki’s expression: Dumb……

  
  

  Do you have things like “Please keep your mind on that! Please stop doing this!” that you want to tell Ruki?- Reita: Please stop making up unreasonable lies. Once it was the meeting time already but Ruki still wasn’t here yet, I thought he was still sleeping so I just called and asked “Where are you?”. And he said “I am on the train now”, but it’s so quiet around that it didn’t sound like he is on one. The time didn’t match too. It’s okay to tell where is he now honestly. Please don’t making up bad lies.- Kai: In my circumstances for example, he’d asked me to give him a cigarette, but I usually found it was all gone after that. Just tell me a word and I will give it to him.- Uruha: Once a time, Ruki asked me “may I stay overnight at yours” and I said okay. And I let my mum prepared for his coming. But he still didn’t get here in the midnight, so I called and asked “aren’t you coming?” and he said “I am on my way.” So I just kept waiting, but the bell didn’t ring at all that day. (bitterly smile)- Reita: Poor Uruha~

  
  

  Ruki’s expression: “That’s SOOOO long ago……” murmuring to himself.

  
  

  - Aoi: I felt the same. He said “give me a cigarette” and it would all gone.

  
  

  Ruki’s expression: “I am so sorry.” And nodding his apologies.

  
  

  Here is the corner of instant dialogue.- Reita: I want to know why is he being so nice to me.

  
  

  How nice is it? - Reita: I usually will take off my coat when I arrive at his home and he will take care of it for me. He will even hang it up with a hanger. May be he just want to make his house dirty? But I’d like to marry Ruki if he kept on doing all those tiny kind things. (laugh)- Ruki: What? No way, it’s just because you wanna got marry? (laugh)- Kai: It’d became weird if you speak too much, Ruki. You’d get into that zone again……

  
  

  Did you really help taking care of the colthes? - Ruki: Yes.

  
  

  You will do the same to the other members? - Ruki: Yes. I just don’t like putting things around undisciplined in the house.- Reita: I want to add supplement! Ruki will do that in his house only. He put things all around in the other’s house and on the moving van.- Ruki: I can say anything in this corner now?

  
  

  Yes. - Ruki: I didn’t mess up there. (angry)- Reita: He got angry now……- Kai: Although I am bullied by everyone, but why must you hit me by the hand with rings on?- Ruki: It’s just by chance that I hit you with my rings on.- Reita: I felt it pain too! Please be measured.- Ruki: Really? Aren’t you joking with me?- Kai: It really hurts. (seriously)- Ruki: I know it hurts with rings. But you seemed happy with it, so I just kept doing that thinking it should hurt. (laugh)

  
  

  Is that so? (smirk) So what about Uruha? - Uruha: Don’t you value your property so much? Why would you forgot your purse in the convenience store?- Ruki: You said something happened long ago again.- Uruha: I still have your stuff in my car.- Ruki: Hat?- Uruha: Not just that. I think I have a few punk CD there? And clothes and shoes. I put them all in a trunk.

  
  

  Please answer this, Ruki.- Ruki: I forget things very easily. (bitterly smile) But that’s still something long ago already.- Aoi: Then why do you always stop singing before the solo in rehearsals? Every time I am about to start playing the solo……He just sings when he feels like it…… Are you thinking it is end already?- Ruki: I am used to stop when the music dies, that’s the reason.- Aoi: But what about rehearsal is, you have to check with the sound of solo, isn’t it?- Ruki: I am just out of control. (laugh) I will notice on that from now on.- Aoi: Please, I’ll count on you. (smile)

  
  

  Is there any difference when it’s just two of you instead of all being together?- Reita: He will help picking up my things when I am lost in trance. He even won’t complain about a word of his feeling. And our stomach have the same timing. I am so happy that every time I visit his house he will cook something for me to eat.- Kai: He is even much more tender than everyone’s around. May be he is just shy with all of us here. But when it’s just two of us, it’s like “Wow! Is that true of such a attentive Ruki?”- Uruha: I think he is chiyu-kei [sees reference in Uruha’s section. Ruki did response to his words here] to me. When he came staying at my house, it’s chiyu enough to see him sleep rowing on my bed.- Reita: Lovely kid.- Kai: He is just someone recalling of the other’s maternity?- Aoi: I feel the same with the others. He is so much more gentle and somehow cute. Of course he is cool being as our “head”, that’s very respectable, too.

  
  

  What makes you feel cool of Ruki recently?- Reita: I was surprised that he brought his own equipment (mike). He always seems unconcerned with the equipments. And he just walking around with his personal notebook in hands, doing the design skillfully, that’s very surprising too.- Kai: Personally, he starts to understand me more of my feelings.- Uruha: I became lonely……We used to hang out a lot before. And we had lots of topics to talk about before. May he lost the interest in me?- Aoi: Recently, he has been doing well on the MC[speeches between songs]. He could speak on and on for an hour in the MC before.

  
  

  At last, please say a sentence to Ruki.- Reita: We all like you. No one will ever dislike Ruki.- Aoi: If someone hates Ruki I will just XXXXX him!- Uruha: The one who hate Ruki will just make us all of his enemies.- Kai: That’s right. We will take care of you!- Reita: Last time Ruki said he want to see my mail, so I just let him. And there was mail of me between Uruha which has Ruki’s name on it. He was froze with a “Huh” and he face just softened when he understand that we didn’t say any malicious of him. (laugh)- Uruha: That must be chiyu as well.- Reita: Who will be such a BAGA to leave the evidences behind? (laugh)- Ruki: What’s that mean?!- Reita: We love Ruki!

the GazettE Reita's Biography

Real Name: Suzuki Akira (But there are opinions that he is Suzuki Ryo)

Part: Bass

Date Birth: 27th May 1981

Blood Type: A

Birthplace: Kanagawa prefecture (Shounan district)

Height: 172 cm

Weight: 55 kg

Foot Size: 26 cm

Ring Size: 17 cm

Family: Mother, grandmother, older sister

Piercing: 1 on the right ear, 1 on the left ear

Tobacco: Mild Seven Lights

First Copied Song: Luna Sea - Precious

Liked Type: Feminine and mature person

Disliked Type: A vulgar person

Strong Point: Myself

Weak Point: Myself

Charming Point: Ass

Likes: Biking (on his Harley), skateboarding

Message: "Come on, baby"

Previous Bands: Karasu, Ma'die Kusse, Kar+te=zyAnose

-> Others:- Reita has Harley and likes to drive it.- He is also fond of skating.- He is the most talkative of the GazettE.- He's TV junkie. His favorites programms are scientistic and sport.- He belives in reincarnation.- He can't write long letters/e-mails. He prefers sending sms but never uses smiles in messages.- Uruha and Rita have been friends for more than 15 years.

-> About Reita by other members:

What is your first impression of Reita?-mAoi: I can’t recall anything. We were not as closed as now, not much memory back then.- Uruha: I joined the soccer club when I was in year 2. Reita joined in year 4. He was in small size back then. With black hair and don’t know why he always pout.

Reita’s expression: There’s nothing to do with the lips!

- Uruha: And there was another good friend called KAKI chan. They are one big and one small so Reita was being called “the smaller one”. And I found him very good at joking when we talked, my first impression of him is like “Isn’t he fun.”- Kai: I was introduced to him by Ruki. I thought he was some gloomy person.

Reita’s expression: Liar! I have talked with you.

- Ruki: When Reita talked about his first impression in my session, didn’t he said I didn’t go home with them? I want to explain myself here, I couldn’t anything of it.

Reita’s expression: WHAT?

- Uruha: Ruki has said nothing yet. Just go on.

Reita’s expression: “What’s that. Just Annoying. I don’t care……” was murmuring himself.

What are Reita’s strong and weak points?- Aoi: The good point is, he is good at cheering people up when we are all frustrated. The bad point is, his motivation is low. There is a little bit different of him when in live.- Uruha: The good point is, he will stand on himself whatever happened. And his bad point may has something to do with his A blood type. When I said “shouldn’t it be this because of that”, he wouldn’t listened to me at all. He would just say “So what will you do?”. And when I listened to him I found him just changed my sentences. I thought it’s better to answer people after listening to them, so I hope he can just listen to me.- Kai: He is really good at detecting the atmosphere. He’s keen on understanding people just by the look.

Reita’s expression: “That’s right.” Having a smile on his face.

- Kai: The bad point is, he’d like to solve disagreements by hands. He just like bullying me when I can’t reply properly. But if I stand on a good point, he will disturb me by hands. When I saw that and said “Hands disturbing again?” then he would really came attacking me. (laugh)- Ruki: The good point is, it’s very interesting to talk with him. I can always find words to keep on his conversation. About the bad point, it was Uruha’s birthday event some days ago, of course we are celebrating for him but Reita wanted presents himself as well. Is he just jealous or he is impudent?

Reita’s expression: What? Like all’s my faults anyway. (sweat)

- Ruki: Well, it’s just things like that.

Do you have things like “Please keep your mind on that! Please stop doing this!” that you want to tell Reita?- Aoi: Aren’t we both standing on the right hand side of the stage? When I was standing in front of the stage I felt him came and push me aside. What should I do if I want to come in front?- Uruha: I want to say he always consider to much and I think sometimes he just do it over. And of course these do reflect on the matter of the band. Please don’t gives up in the middle, try to finish it up.- Kai: Say it in a good way, he is good at associating with people. But in a bad way, he is quite self-centered.

Reita’s expression: Staring

- Uruha: True, true. Sometimes he said he was going to invite people, but the person who came next day said it was like a torture.- All: nodding.- Ruki: He said I had messed up his house before, but he also messed up mine. I told him quietly you shouldn’t do it to the others if you dislike that yourself too. But he just attacked me, I am still a little bit afraid of speaking him now. (smirk)

Reita’s expression: Staring at Ruki.

- Ruki: The feeling now is quite uncomfortable as well.

Here is the corner of instant dialogue.- Aoi: In live, we are both standing on the right…… Umm, it’s hard to say. Reita will complain about it again. No, I don’t have anything want to know. (smirk) It’s good enough to perform like before.- Uruha: He has became manneristic recently. There’s lots of chance that we go home together, but he just didn’t talk to me. I thought he don’t want to talk with me.- Reita: Well, I don’t really understand which is the fact. Uruha didn’t talk as well. He seemed in a bad mood when the car came pick him up in the morning and he just complain about the others. I want to say loudly that “Aren’t you the same!”.- Uruha: Well, keep your eyes open when you are driving!

Wait a minute, it’s not good to have quarrels here. Please go on happily.- Uruha & Reita: Okay- Kai: My question is much more urgent. May I work along with you as the rhythm team? I have said a lot before but I really don’t have much confidence.- Reita: What? It’s all my fault with everything happened and not happened. It’s just annoying that everyone want to take their revenge!- Kai: He got pissed off already, then just forget it. (smirk)- Reita: WHAT!- Kai: My question is ended and you don’t need to answer that. If I make you angry, I will just follow after you quietly. (smile)- Ruki: I always thought, Reita always say something the same to me when I visit his home. He will say like “want to eat something” or “are you hungry”.- Uruha: Err? May be he always asked if Ruki was hungry because he was hungry himself?- All: Looking at Reita

Reita’s expression: lower his head.

- Ruki: I will be in a bad mood when I am hungry. But that just happened once in our old band times. Although it just happened once, I would always buy 2 burgers when I started to get hungry. Eat one immediately and left one to have it later. But I found it gone later, I got hungry already by then.- Uruha: That’s something strange……(laugh)- Ruki: Therefore…Please listen to me. I was really hungry and I don’t have any money with me. I was looking forward to the burger and found it gone. Can you understand my feeling? I could just go to sleep without the burger. And Reita will still ask me “Got angry? Are you hungry?”. I just want to know what do you mean.- Reita: Well……I am just joking.- Ruki: But Reita keep on saying that for more than 2 years!- Uruha: I can understand Reita’s thinking pattern now. But isn’t that just fine to get something to eat when hungry?- Ruki: I want to say, I would have said it myself when I am hungry, don’t need to worry about me.- Reita: I am sorry, may be I just use the wrong method to show my caring.- Ruki: And there’s nothing to do with my anger.- Reita: I am really sorry about that.

Is there any difference when it’s just two of you instead of all being together?- Aoi: I still don’t have the chance to be just with him. Although I stayed overnight at his home before, but we didn’t talk at all. I even thought I have been to the wrong house. When I went home, I was friends with his family but not Reita’s.- All: laugh- Uruha: Well, he like to be half joking in his talk. I have been friends with him for such a long time, I just know about his gentleness well enough.

Reita’s expression: Thank You!

- Uruha: Well, we have said lots of horrible things of him, but actually he is much more gentle that that, please look after him.- Kai: When it comes to me, he treats me all the same with the others around or not. That’s really nice of him.- Ruki: When we have the same topic, he will chat very passionately with me. For example, if Reita bought the DVD of his favourite artists, he would come show it to me very happily.

What makes you feel cool of Reita recently?- Aoi: He gets really serious when it come to music.- Uruha: He is very easily affected by the others. If he met some cool bands, he will have changed in some dedicated ways.- Kai: Ummm? It seems there’s some changes with his clothing style.- Ruki: I am like the others giving an “OH” when I see changes in his clothing style. His wearing was rather rigid before, not as causal as nowadays. I was very shocked to see him wearing his silver necklace out.

At last, please say a sentence to Reita.- Kai: I love you!- Uruha: Love you, too!- Aoi: Yeah. Right.- Ruki: Ahahaha.

the GazettE Kai Biography

Real Name: Uke Yutaka

Part: Drums

Date Birth: 28th October 1981

Blood Type: B

Birthplace: Tokushima

Height: 172 cm

Weight: 55 kg

Foot Size: 27 cm

Ring Size: 19 cm

Family: Father, mother

Piercing: 2 on the left ear

Tobacco: Red Marlboro

First Copied Song: Luna Sea - Jesus

Liked Type: A motherly person who will welcome me with "welcome home!" when I return home.

Disliked Type: One who hides his character

Strong Point: Don't mind if he's bullied

Weak Point: Forgetfulness

Charming Point: Can be interesting in anything

Likes: Cooking, video games

Message: "Our hearts are always as one!"

Previous Bands: Mareydi†Creia

-> Others:- Kai's hobby is cooking and he does it well (though Reita doesn't like it)- Kai has a radio show: Premium Radio Show where different j-rockers are invited to.- Other gazemembers consider him to be a leader of the band.- He mostly speaks at interviews.- He helps Uruha to give up smoking. Smoking won.

-> About Kai by other members:

What is your first impression of Kai?- Ruki: Different from the feelings of now, I thought he was gloomy.- Reita: I don’t know him much yet as the same as Kai doesn’t know us. (laugh) It was like he’d stop talking suddenly.- Uruha: I thought he was a complicated person. My common knowledge is different from his. Wasn’t it basic to greet when you first meet someone? But Kai only gave me a glimpse. And then I heard he thought I was supporting technician after that, HOW RUDE! I had greeted him properly!

May be he was just shy?- Uruha: Well, that would be fine if that’s the case, but I was shocked.- Aoi: I also thought that he was someone who couldn’t greet properly.

Kai’s expression: Well……I surrender. (sweat)

What are Kai’s strong and weak points?- Ruki: The good point is that he has a nice personality and can calm the atmosphere. The weak point is that he forgets stuff everywhere, though I don’t have the point to speak of him myself. (laugh)- Reita: I will start from the weak point. There is some problem with his brain in summary, I can’t even find a word to describe his forgetfulness. We have asked him if he forgot something before and he answered “No”, but actually he did forget something secretly. Forgot to lock the car’s door when going to the convenience store for example, it’s just unforgivable. The good point is that he is easy to bully and he won’t get angry after that.- Uruha: Virtues……I think there is a lot of him but I preferred his tenderness.- Reita: If there is a lot (of virtues) just name some of them now?- Uruha: Well, It’s hard. But Kai has always been gentle.

Always?- Uruha: He sold game boy advance to me with half price for example.

Kai’s expression: …………(smirk)

- Reita: Sweet! Is that a new one?- Ruki: Cheers to tender Uruha kun. [It said Uruha here, but I think Ruki should mean Kai actually.]- Uruha: And he will be my game competitor too. But his shortcoming is doesn’t understand me. He won’t agree with me even after I told him about what I think.

Kai’s expression: That’s not true……

- Aoi: The good point is, he will give his best to help the others no matter he can make it or not. The weak point is…he said he would come to my home because it’s late at night, that’s fine, but he just used my computer and even forgot my existence.

Do you have things like “Please keep your mind on that! Please stop doing this!” that you want to tell Kai kun?- Ruki: Please don’t forget your moral of hardworking. And you often stay overnight at my home, please sleep properly on the sheets (tatami). It must hurts the waist to sleep on the floor. He doesn’t listen to me even I told him, “It will get sick.” Please understand my care.

Kai’s expression: (nodding)

- Reita: Aren’t we the member of rhythm team? Please work hard together to become the best partner.

Kai’s expression: PEACE!

- Reita: We all love Kai after saying this and that. But there is only one thing that we want him stop doing, that’s the band……- All: (laughter burst out)

Kai’s expression: Please let me think about it……(murmuring and smirk) Just joking Kai kun! Everybody just likes teasing you.

- All: (nodding and grin)- Reita: Kai’s fan must be angry with me if I keep bullying him like this, but please understand it’s only pranks. Kai makes other people feel for loving him.- Uruha: Please don’t forget your hardworking. Thank you for always. It’s like Kai is living by instinct.

Kai’s expression: (smiling shyly)

- Uruha: He is always the pioneer among the member no matter how troublesome the matter is. Really thank you.

Here is the corner of instant dialogue.- Ruki: I just said Kai is working desperately. I want to know if you are really working so hard or that is another reason.- Kai: I am always hardworking.- Ruki: That’s great.- Reita: Well……can’t we have another drummer?- All: (guffaw)

Please ask something other than this. (laugh)- Reita: Kai has always been forging himself, or let say he is being harsh on himself. I think that’s pretty cool of his hardworking secretly all behind of us. Here’s the question. I want to know if Kai always do running ?

You do running?- Kai: Yes, everyday.- Reita: The same with muscle training?- Kai: Yes. But please don’t say it in front of everyone!- Reita: (ignoring)- Uruha: Kai set fire at my home unsuccessfully last time. I would like to know the reason of that. Shouldn’t we trust each other as members, I want to know the reason why Kai wanted to burn down his member’s home.- Kai: I don’t wan to say something pointless, but I didn’t intend to set fire.

You can’t tell of the reason?- Kai: Wait a minute. That’s only a mistake.

So it was not on purpose?- Kai: That’s right.- Uruha: Give me back my days in shock horror. (sob)- All: (laugh)- Ruki: That’s the problem.- Kai: What is that? Please believe me. It’s not fair.

It seems Kai didn’t mean to set the fire. What about Aoi san?- Aoi: Please don’t mess up my house when you come.- Kai: I will keep notice of that.

Is there any difference when it’s just two of you instead of all being together?- Ruki: He will be much more scrupulous. I think he is breezier when we are all together.- Reita: He will always look at me.

Kai’s expression: Don’t say something weird

- Reita: Kai always calls me “Rei chan, Rei chan.” when it’s only two of us, which is a little disgusting. (laugh). But we are friends who can talk everything with the others, I hope we can go on like this forever.- Uruha: He won’t talk with me if we can’t find topics.

Kai’s expression: Isn’t that the same with everyone? (self-murmuring)

- Uruha: If Kai sits beside me when I am driving, he will say a lot to keep me awake.- Aoi: When I am driving and Kai sitting beside me, we will chat a lot quietly because the others are sleeping and the conversation won’t last long. I don’t know if it is tedious to talk with me, but there are times that our conversation can’t last.- Ruki: May it be boring?- Aoi: I made him feel uneasy?- Reita: What? That’s bad, Kai is a nice person.

Kai’s expression: (looking depressed)

- Aoi: He is a good person actually.

Is there anything that Kai want to say after hearing this?- Kai: I think I have better understanding of everyone’s feelings. (tears)

What makes you feel cool of Kai recently?- Ruki: He will start working right after he has the idea.- Reita: It seems he is working hard on the drums recently. He even go practicing at the studio just by himself. How aggressive!- Uruha: I asked him what kind of drummer he is before, and he said he is the type that dislikes attention. I told him, “Isn’t that good to have some appeal?” And he said he is bad at that. But he has got more fascination recently. He doesn’t look like just part of the stage anymore.- Aoi: He has been more serious about drums than before. And he is working really hard. I can’t give in to him neither.

At last, please say a sentence to Kai.- Reita: We have said a lot of this and that, but it’s just because we all like Kai kun.- All: Kai kun is loved.

Kai’s expression: (smiling shyly and giving a happy grinning face to everyone)