Some facts about our favorite drummer Meto

Credits to: http://mejibray-fans.livejournal.com/20519.html

Admin's note: Made some correction with some of the ff. info below because it was a late post of the blog from April.

- Blood type is A

- Born on January 17th, the year is not known

- Is a fan of the anime K-ON! which he has several firgurines of on his desk

- Has 11 piercings and chest tattoo

- Is friends with Rem, the drummer of the jrock band Vanish

- Is friends with Sora, the drummer from the jrock band Dezert

- Is a Manga fan, not sure which specific titles he reads

- Appears to love sweet things, as he is shown eating them in many pictures

- Meto is a smoker, Hi-Life menthols

- All of his jewelry comes from a Japanese shop called DealDesign

- Much of his clothing is from an online store called ankoROCK

- It appears that he also plays either the bass or guitar

- Meto's height is 167 cm

- The other members of the band have all been in other bands or roadies for other bands, there is no information that Meto was ever a roadie or in another band. This might be his first band ever. Not known for sure sure.

Koichi TRIVIA

- He was born on Dec. 22'nd at Takaoyama, Japan

- His blood type is B

- His favorite brands are Vivienne Westwood, LAZY HAZY PLANET

- His favorite cigarette is Philip Morris Super Menthol

- He has a total of 14 piercings (but that doesn’t include his left ear and belly)

- He has a tattoo MCCXXII at the lower left side of his belly and a number 2 to his right foot (which I think everyone knows about)

- He used to dye his hair since Elementary and the first person who helped it dyed was his mother.

- He used to be a strange child and even called wierd by his teachers and friends

- He had a lot of friends since childhood and always wanted to be the center of attraction around people

- He was actually liked by older people and made friends with senpais when he was in Highschool

- He wasn't really interested in music back then

- He started listening to music because of his father such as the COOLS

- He admitted of being bad on sports because he preferred kateika (home economics) in Highschool

- He liked sewing and even had a sewing machine

- He was into fashion since he was young and stated that he wanted to wear clothes that no one else would be wearing

- He continued to go to College after graduation but eventually stopped and worked in a clothes shop

- He decided to start making music after he got into a very serious accident that had him confined in an intensive care which also became a turning point in his life

- First bass he bought was a G&L L2000

- He wanted to play the bass because of his father and Koori

- He got into Visual Kei because of a band called SHAZNA

- When he decided to do Visual Kei it was also through his friends that introduced him to Tsuzuku

- His favorite phrase is Avant-garde! (which I also think everyone knows about)

Credit: ROCK AND READ Vol. 045

Admin's Note: Big thanks to Italian Slivers for translating the interview (from French). Again, pls. free to share! Thanks to other misc. resources such as tumblr, twitter. Haven't included here that Koichi grieved a lot when his beloved cat Mozuku died. Koichi also adopted a kitten recently aaand also, he said himself that he isn't into dating (sorry) so there! If you have any additional info pls. comment here freely thank you! BTW, I just found out that Tsuzuku had a band called DIS with Ken and Suzune (ex. And -Eccentric Agent-). I found an old cheki of them here with other ex. VanessA membas cool^^

Tzk TRIVIA

- He was born on Dec. 15'th at Yokohama, Japan

- His blood type is O

- His favorite brands are CRAZY PIG, HYSTERIC GLAMOUR

- His favorite cigarette is Marlboro BLACK MENTHOL

- He has a total of 10 piercings (other body parts including his right ear and chest implant are not included)

- He has tattoos in his right fingers, a pentagram symbol in his left wrist, left chest and waist, arms and a butterfly tattoo in his back.

- He used to hate singing in the past but he liked to sing songs of Kinki Kids, Chemistry and Sex Machine Guns when he was younger.

- He started listening to music when he was into superheroes. His first CDs were the theme song of Eccentric Shounen Boy, “Gottsuee Kanji”.

- He's a total Kamen Rider fan 'til now.

- He's also a music fan and likes to listen to other JRock bands such as Dir en grey, the GazettE.

- He admitted of being a brat when he was a kid and even got into fights.

- He had been elected as a head of the student council back way when he was still studying.

- He likes to write and has a great talent with it.

- When he was in Elementary he got a certificate in writing and his work was even putted in a poetry book in their school.

- More than 90% of his lyrics are based on real experiences.

- He got into visual Kei when he went High school.

- The song “Butterfly” by Baroque made him decided to play in a band.

- He used to borrow live DVDs of Dir en grey, which changed his world in one go.

- He has an attached relationship with his mother who raised him alone.

- When he graduated in High school he got a job that his parents wanted for him but he quitted after a week and didn't tell it to them.

- He left home and went to Tokyo by himself but he had absolutely nothing.

- When VanessA disbanded he thought of quitting music and worked as a part time waiter in a restaurant.

- He had struggled a rough life before forming MEJIBRAY 'til it became a huge success.

Credit: ROCK AND READ Vol. 045

Admin's note: Pls. feel free to share! There might be additional info. in the future. If you have any corrections and/or other facts about Tsuzuku let me know. I have rare info. about his previous bands and he might said something personal in his blog/twitter that must be included. I would really appreciate if you message me about it, thanks! All I'm waiting is for the other band members personal interview too.^^