Matsumoto Takanori

RUKI ---

Real Name : Matsumoto Takanori (松本 たかのり) - Ruki (ルキ)

matsu-松 - a pine tree

moto-本- book/ main

松本 - i guess the right meaning would be " the pine's roots" i don't guarantee.^^

Birth Place : Kanagawa Prefecture (Kantou, southern Japan), 1 February 1982

Blood Type: B.

Height: 162cm.

Foot size: 25.5 cm

- Ruki has a chihuahua named Koron [Heresy blog and other interviews]

- Ruki didn't finished school. He just leaved the school when he was in middle of the last year.[Fool’s Mate I.S. No. 003 – April 2009]

- Ruki has a strawyberries trauma. When he was a kid he loved strawberries, but in one of his birthdays, he ate a lot of strawberries and went wrong. (I mean something like a stomachache) and in that day happened a fire too, so since this incidents he don't eat strawberries anymore. (xD) [Beath Shuflle and another interviews]

Distress and Coma PV recording was on Ruki's birthday in 2009. [Manager Blog]

- When Ruki was a drummer in his previous band, he was something like the "girl" of the band. (reffering to his visual) [Fool’s Mate I.S. No. 003 – April 2009]

- Ruki artistic name would be Rukia, but someone already had this name, so he decided to put "Ruki" 'cause he think it was cute. [Fool’s Mate I.S. No. 003 – April 2009]

- Ruki studied in a private school, because of that he couldn't dye his hair, so when he was on vacations, he always dyed his hair with exuberant colors like pink, blond... [Make on Holyday]

- Ruki had column problems since young, then he had to operate it in the first year of middle school.[SHOXX vol. 139 - Setembro/2004]

- Ruki wanted to be a tatto maker. [Fool’s Mate I.S. No. 003 – April 2009]

-Ruki hates that Reita trashes his house ,when comes to him.

- Ruki said he'll never get married [ i don’t believe him, as this is from an old interview]

For all that stuff about Ruki being disowned by his parents, that was true, as was the fact that Ruki's father disowned him. But... when Gazette started becoming popular, Ruki's father and he has seem to made up. Actually, Ruki said that when he calls home, his father would try to guess Gazette's new song, but he guesses wrong. As for the interview... it was a televised interview... "Hey! Hey! Hey!" and it was the Filth in the Beauty era... exact date unknown. ^^'

And he had another Chihuahua some times ago , his name was Sabu-chan~

REILA is Ruki’s ex-girlfriend Who commited sucide (Ruki always crying if singing this song)

NIGHTMARE : Ruki's nearly been killed by a cat

- he is very self conscience

- he hates showing chest

- he hates his sun spots/beauty marks, and he tries to cover them as much as he can.

- he had a pretty rough childhood

- his parents where kind of the equivalent of nazi's

- he use to as a child wake up in the middle of the night, grab his head phones, and plug them into the tv and watch horror films while his parents where asleep.

- his first favorite horror film was Child's Play

- designs jewelry sometimes

- current pet is Mr. Squidge, a cat. (rofl ^^)

- wore his bother's hand-me-downs

- parents and family wanted him to be a 'good child' so they made him always busy in school and at home with lessons

- was grounded and beaten frequently by his parents for his misbehavior

- use to skip classes that he did not like

- was in a private elementary school

- made a promise that if the GazettE where to break up it would be his, reita's and uruha's last band

- was hurt by an ex-girlfriend long ago (find the lyrics to zetsu, or zakurogata no yuutsu, and you will understand)

- likes to try new things

- very, very talkative

- when things get hard or diffucult, he just wants to run and hide away. (aaww ><)

- steals other members cigarette's when he has none

- makes bad lies about being somewhere, where he definitely isnt!

- paints the stripes on his neck because he's self-conscious about his jawline

- charming point is temple

- hates it when people are mean to tourists

- Rolls around on Uruha's bed, to make Uruha laugh.

- doesn't like acting like an adult, ie. "this is how adults fight!! {when manager and kai where fighting}"