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  • Awesome Music: Pretty much all of Mars, Rebirth, and Crescent, especially "Birdcage," "Oasis," and "Orenji no Taiyou." Single-only songs include mentions also go to "Cube," "Blue," and "Uncertain Memory."
    • Although NEVER to replace Ai wo Torimodose as Fist of the North Star's iconic song, the song for New is widely recognized by fans as the best song the series had since.
    • "Until The Last Day" is an awesome battleworthy theme.
  • Fandom Rivalry: Gackt vs. Mana. This one has some very deep roots and enough anger and bitterness to go around for all, to the point where it has resulted in many a Flame War, and unlike many other such events and scenarios, both parties still actively hate each other. Gackt fans will see Mana as an egotistical perfectionist who destroyed his band for the sake of a personal feud, and Mana fans will see Gackt as the egotistical band-destroying jerkass who screws over nearly everyone with whom he works at some point and Mana being the only one with enough balls to call him on it and kick him from the band before he left.
  • Fan Nickname:
    • His fans and staff sometimes refer to him as "Maou-sama". Which is Japanese for "Devil King."
    • He is also known as "Gacchan," "Gakkun," and other such variations, particularly by his Japanese fans.
    • He has recently been given nicknames like "Troll King" and "Troll Aniki" for his habit of trolling his fans.
  • Memetic Mutation: A dark version of this. Gackt's decade old joke about being a 496 year old vampire has been quoted out of context for so long that even presumably legitimate news sources have treated this as a serious belief of his. He has since corrected this at the Nemuri Kyoshiro press conference, where he released his actual age to the public so the joke would die.
    • Also, within the fandom: his love of Hyde, his pronounciation of the word "fire"note  and his unceasing use of the word "dakishimete" (抱きしめて, "hold/embrace me/it") in nearly every song he has ever written are memes.
      • ''"I need joh fiyaa fiyaa fiyaa to keep me wahm / I gah too fill za fiyaa / Tu keep me wahm, I gah to feel it...fiyaaaaaa!!"
    • Kamen Rider fans got a lot of mileage from the Gackt card shown at the end of the Journey Through the Decade music video, since it comes out of nowhere and results in Decade exploding.
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: "Vanilla" sounds awfully similar to "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin.
  • Viewer Gender Confusion: Show someone who has never heard of Gackt a picture of Gackt. Odds are they will not figure out his gender.

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