† Malice Mizer †

Malice Mizer is really what got Mana where he is today. This band truely is a real legend in Jrock history and there are still fans today whom wish to see them reform back together. Who knows, maybe they will some day.

To start off, Mana and Kozi formed the band in 1992. It consisted of Mana (g), Kozi (g), Tetsu (v), Yu~ki (b), and Gaz (d). Shortly after the band formed, Gaz was fired and never really made much of an appearance with the band. Kami was then appointed to do the drumming for the band. Tetsu was also eventually fired from Malice Mizer and replaced a couple years later by Gackt.

With Gackt and Kami as the newest additions to the band, Malice Mizer was ready to take on the Visual Kei and Jrock scene. They performed a variety of music; one minute it may have sounded like hard rock and the next it would go to a fun, happy, French popish style. Malice Mizer was never based around just one style. The band members were constantly experimenting with new styles and conseptions to their music. The blend of not only music but band members and their creative ideas drew in thousands of fans and created them as a legend.

Through their years together, Malice Mizer had become exceptionally well known among many fans around the world but, trouble arose and tables started to turn when Gackt decided to leave Malice Mizer to persue a solo career due to his success with Malice Mizer as a vocalist. This was the first time the band got into a real fight and couldn't even look each other in the eyes.

It was around that same time tragedy arose. Malice Mizer's drummer, Kami, passed away from a sub-arachnoid hemmorhage in his brain. A weakness in his brain which has no symptoms (an anneurysm) burst while he was sleeping. No one knew it was going to happen but at least he didn't really die a painful death (after all, he was asleep when it happened). Kami's body was found about 3-4 days after he died. A small funeral was held that day with Kami's closest friends and family.

After the Kami tragedy, Malice Mizer decided to never have an official drummer in honor of him. The band played without any real drummer or singer for a while, but Klaha was soon found; first as a guest singer then, eventually the newest addition to the Malice Mizer family.

As a group, Malice Mizer played for one more year now with Klaha, Mana, Yu~ki, and Kozi as the remaining members. After that year, the group broke up in December 2001, and each member went their separate way.

Mana-Now leader and founder of his own solo project- Moi dix Mois

Kozi-Also working on his own solo career and Eve of Destiny.

Yu~ki-Yu~ki was helping out Kozi for a while with some of his music but there is no information available right now as of what he is doing or his where-abouts precisely.

Klaha-Klaha also was working on a solo career of his own but shut down everything in Fall 2004 to take a break. He came back in winter of 2005, but nobody has heard much of anything on him since then.

Klaha Era