“If you see the GazettE’s PV, no matter where you watch it from, all the angles are cool. The members’ actions, the performance’s phrases, they are really cool. That’s why i think to their music fans, they are like cool people. To their fans, they can’t be fooled. As I thought, one after another, their creations are like brimming over, they keep producing things. They steadily produce songs. But people often say things like, the fans only like their image, they don’t care about the music… there’s really no such thing. The most splendid points are, talking about the music, the really catchy guitar phrases that make people want to play guitar, the drumming is powerful and cool. (They produce) music that makes people want to become musician. As I thought, with the GazettE as the start, many other new musicians were born, right. That’s why I think they are also the foundation of rock, be it Japanese or non Japanese. How to say it, when you listen to them (the GazettE), it will make you also want to do it. That sort of feeling is as I thought visual kei.”
— Marty Friedman about the GazettE (on DECADE Documentary, 2012)
Ayu. Has been 20. Phlegmatic B-type. Likes to see things from various perspectives but tends to just draw a line and goes into her bubble when feeling insecure. Better communicates with writings than spoken words. Speaks Indonesian, English, and Japanese. Studies accounting and economics. Regularly obsesses over stringed instruments, fashion, visual design, photography, food, gentle rain, warm drinks, arts, and music.
