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Dir En Grey

Kyo

Real name: Nishimura Tooru ( there are much discussions over his real name. Some say Tooru Nishimura, but a lot say Tooru Niimura.!!!But he signed"西 村 亨"in his Poem Book.

Position: Vocal and lyricist

Born: 16th February 1976

Blood: B

Hometown: Kyoto, which is also his favorite town

Cigaretts: he quit, but used to smoke JPS, Phillip Morris

Ex bands: Gesshoku (stagename was known to be Yoma), Visun (from Yoma to Hotoma), MASQUERADE, Haijin Kurobarazoku (finally stage name Kyo), La:Sadies

Star Sign: Aquarius
Zodiac: Dragon
Height: 5'2″-5'3″
Weight: 96
Shoe Size: 5
Likes: Video games, Anime, Sleeping
Dislikes: People and violence
Favorite Foods: Scorpion, Muffins, Sausage, Pens (take it as a joke! maybe the muffs are no joke...)
Disliked Foods: Liver, Carrots
Favorite Sports: Terrorising the others (once said, he doesn't like sports; at school he signed in for Shogi (chess) club, but actually never shown up. He also tried fishing...for a few minutes and quit *haha*)

Favorite Color[s]: "Homo" (Black and White)
Collects: Doraemon & Warumono figurines
Favorite Music: X-Japan, The Stalin, Buck-Tick, Shiina Ringo

Favorite Movies: Holy Mountain, OldBoy, Fetish, Star Wars etc.

-states that he's a negative person: "I'm a very negative person. So if something good is happening, I always think, that it can't be permanent. It will disappear."

-Lies, Betray and superficial friendship are the things, that make him angry and cry at the same time

-meeting a person who has things in common with him makes him laugh

-he's most close to Shinya in Dir en grey

-he was asked what he would do, if someone told him, that the world's going under the next day. He said "I would laugh."

-he doesn't want to meet someone, who can't understand his being

-he describes his honesty as a good and also as a bad thing about his character

-he once was in a situation where he "saw the death" but he didn't want to explain it

-"It marked a point, where I really wanted to push myself to try to convey on my own self more in my lyrics. Now everything just happens as it happens on stage. It doesn't frighten me, but I lose control a lot."

-Hates his birth name

-Stage name comes from birthplace (Kyoto)

-His nickname is Warumono

-Writes all lyrics

-Writes sad and twisted lyrics which never end happy, but doesn't state, if they are his own experiences or of a friend's (I read in a forum times ago, that they are his feelings, coming up, when he writes or listens to others when they are talking about what happened to them)

-Kyo composed the music for three songs: "The Domestic Fucker Family", "Hades" and "S"

-in 2001, Kyo released his first poem book titled "Jigyaku, Rensou Furan Shinema", accompanied with a CD with 4 songs that were inspired by some of the poems. Its popularity was so great, that Kyo released a secong poem book titled: "Zenryaku, Ogenki Desu ka? Saihate no Chi Yori Namonaki Kimi ni Ai wo Komete..." which is also accompanied by a CD. This CD has only one song inspired by one of the poems. A lot of his poems are much like his lyrics