
Gackt Facts and Rummers
- Q: If you could have an item that nobody could get, what
would you want?
- Q: If you could be another creature, what would you be?
- G: A roach because it s the thing that I hate the most
in the world. I want to overcome my fear. Once I become a roach and
understand its feelings, I guess I might be able to like it slightly
more. To overcome roaches is my big hope.
- Q: What is your ideal way of dying?
- G: I want to die with a smile.
- Gackt Hates electric lights because the hurt his eyes,
so he prefers to use candles.
- Gackt is competitive. He always wants to be the best at
everything.
- Gackt prefers written mail to e-mail. He says that written
letters say a lot about the writer's persona. Ex: choice of stationary.
- He composes his own music and originally wanted to be a
conductor
- He reads all of his fan mail and occasionally responds
to lucky fans
- Gackt wrote a song called "For You" as an elegy to the
late Kami, former fellow band member of Malice Miser. It may not be released
to the public. (Though it may actually be the track "Emu~for my dear~" on
Gackt's MARS album.
- Gackt says that he became psychic after a near-death experience
during his childhood.
- He claims he use to be possessed by sprits.
- His parents were very strict. They only allowed him to
watch educational TV programs and listen to classical music.
- His favorite song of his on his MARS album is "Leeca."
- Rumored to have been married once
- He bends backwards (like in the "Matrix") to take a shower.
He insists that it is "exercise" and it is good for the waist area.
- He uses a Crotch-Splitter to stretch with.
- He is not afraid to revel his body.
- When at home or at a hotel he walks around nude.
- Kaori Yuki (manga artist for a "Angel Sanctuary") likes
him
- He said if he weren't a singer he would be a professional
killer.
- During the 5/28 concert, he was pressing Ren's face into
his groin, then he sat on Ren's and hips around, and lied on top of him!
- U+K stands for Ukyou Kami.
- Gackt tried drowning himself in his uncle's lake when he
was a kid, but was saved.
- Supposedly he married an American woman, but he denies
any and all accounts of being married.
- At the beginning of "Leeca; if you cranking it up you can
hear him sing "Happy Birthday" in English.
- In an interview, he was asked how he felt about homosexuality.
He went on about his girlfriends and how there were not only emotional feelings,
but also a sexual connection. The he said that with his "boyfriends" that
there was never anything sexual because they're both males, and there are
only really strong feelings. Then at the end, "And if anyone thinks I'm
bi after reading this interview, go ahead."
- He is convinced that Squall of Final Fantasy VIII" was
modeled after him, and calls Squall "Gackt #2"
- At the end of a Malice Mizer concert once, he huddled into
a corner and drew around the floor and asked, "Will someone play with me?"
- Gackt likes dressing like "Alucard" from Castlevania
- His tong is his favorite body part, because it makes people
feel good.
- The naked guy with Gackt in his photo book "Mizérable ~UNMEI"
is his violinist You (pro: yoh).In the picture (the Grape one) Gackt's elbow
is on You's nipple
- In an interview he was asked which part of his body he
washed first when he takes a bath/shower. He said, "I don't know, I have
someone else do it for me."
- He is friends with Taka (La'cryma Christi) who rigged their
bands together to play back in 96/97~Kami and Shuse became pales too
- Gackt and Mana both say they were born about 400 years
ago in Europe.
- Shazna and Gackt both have used the same drummer (a guy
named Eby).
- Gackt did admit to smoking a pack a day
- Gackt's impressed with this saying: "You look generous,
not same as in TV."
- He used to say that if he has a chance, he would like to
ride a horse
- There's an interviewer asked him that "Between a woman
that is perfect and another that is very shy, which one will you choose?"
He said he would choose the perfect one.
- When he has to break up with a woman, he likes to be the
one who says goodbye.
- He often says: "Please ask me frankly."
- Gackt likes Tatsuya Ishii, "Carl Smokey Ishii", lead vocalist
of Kome Kome Club. He likes Ishii's personality.
- He says that the best weight for a woman is "her height
minus 117."
- Although he doesn't like sweets, he said if he performs
a commercial, he would choose "Glico."
- Gackt, You, and Ren were Takibist (Takibi means making
a wood fire). They used to drive to a dam among mountains, make a fire and
then played their instruments
- Gackt said that his parents studied martial arts and music
theory at Sparta (the ancient city of Greek). So when Gackt was young, he
studied many kinds of martial arts. He studied: boxing, judo, wrestling,
karate, and kendo. Gackt was practicing karate and boxing. He could play
judo and beat his friend too.
- The cross pendant he's wears is from his previous girl
friend. It is a no-brand name, and was bought at a street store. The original
chain was broken in the spring of 1999, and a new one had to bought for
it.
- The ONYX c he's always wearing is his charm. When his
girl friend went abroad, he gave her an ONYX ring. While traveling, she
was in an accident, a fellow passenger got hurt hard, but she didn't. Since
then, he's always wears his ONYX bracelet and gives them to his company.
He says he when it breaks he buys a new one.
- All four of the fortune-tellers he has been to have told
him that in previous life he was Amakusa-Shiro, the captain of the Shimabara
Rebellion in the latter term of Edo-jidai, in Kyushu, Christian, worked
miracles, and the hero of sharecropper.
- In his room, there are many skeleton moneyboxes.
- He has a to-do-list. It'll take 400 years to do all the
things on the list.
- On September 14, at his birthday party, he was playing
billiards with You in the room without air conditioning.
- Once, Gackt went to Nagano for skiing, he had to buy skiwear
and skis. Gackt was thinking, "What is inconspicuous color..." Then he chose
BLACK! Everything was black (except for his glasses, which were red). "Why
everyone looked back," Gackt asked in wonder.
- From the MARS tour pamphlet: An event programmer of "Merveilles"
Live talked about the Gackt's wiring in "Le ciel". There was a big problem
in the concert hall of Kobe. In the last part of "Le ciel," Gackt must go
up and disappear. The hall in Kobe is so small that if Gackt falls down
to be released from the wire, the audience can see him again!
[Gackt = G, Programmer = P]
G: I will be hanging until all the audiences are gone.
P: It may take over 30 minutes until all the audiences get out of the hall.
G: It doesn't matter.
So Gackt must have waited with wiring for 30 minutes. On the day of concert....
P: Gackt, you can get down!
G: All the audience are gone?
P: Actually, NO, a couple of them are there.
G: Then I will be here till they are gone.
P: ...