History Creator / Gackt

* ''Film/TheNutcrackerIn3D'' (Japanese dub)

Gackt has also been used to model several characters for video games, including Genesis Rhapsodos for ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus: VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' and Lau the protaganist of ''VideoGame/{{Bujingai}}''. Recently he has been cast as a voice actor for Seishirou Kirishiki in the ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'' anime and as Nemuri Kyoshiro in a theater play, after performing his first concert tour in Europe "Attack of the YELLOW FRIED CHICKENZ." Oh, and he's also playing UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga in the ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara [[http://tinyurl.com/cntrgnc Moonlight Party]]'' TV Drama.

** You do ''not'' mention Gackt to Mana fans. Unless you ''really'' like InternetBackdraft. This one even goes into RealLife because the bad feelings between them are still there -- making the mistake of defending Gackt to someone who actually knows Mana could even lead to a BarBrawl.

Gackt Camui is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} Japanese]] musician within the VisualKei subculture.

* {{Defictionalization}}: Kamui Gakupo is a Music/{{Vocaloid}} created by Creator/KentaroMiura (better known for his work on ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'') based on voice samples from Gackt. Video site Website/NicoNicoDouga once held a vocaloid contest hosted by Gackt were he would sing the winning songs, which used Gakupo as the singer. The result was that Gackt not only created and released covers of the winning songs, "Episode.0" and "Paranoid doll," but he also created a music video that was identical to the original "Episode.0" video, replacing art of Gakupo with ''himself dressed as Gakupo''. Here is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DQpbHzRlwo original video]], and here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8hpHw-3lXk Gackt's cover of it]].
* DevelopmentHell: S.K.I.N played one concert and then... Nothing.

* FanNickname:
** 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.

* OneOfUs: Gackt's fanboying is legendary. He has memorized all of the dialogue of the first ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' series (he once [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome recited Gihren Zabi's speech from Garma's funeral at a concert, getting the whole crowd to respond with chants of "Sieg Zeon!"]]). His hairstyle for the "Vanilla" music video is based off of [[Anime/DragonBallZ Super Saiyan Goku]]. The song "Asrun Dream" is about the characters Ash and Eiji from Manga/BananaFish. He even once spent three days straight playing video games.
** His role as UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara: Moonlight Party'' is basically an extended Creator/NorioWakamoto impression.
** Plus he got to play an alternate dimensional version of [[Series/KamenRiderV3 Riderman]] in ''Series/KamenRiderDecade''.
** He's a huge fan of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', to the point where he even requested that Creator/KentaroMiura design his vocaloid, Gakupo.

Gackt has also been used to model several characters for video games, including Genesis Rhapsodos for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'' and Lau the protaganist of ''VideoGame/{{Bujingai}}''. Recently he has been cast as a voice actor for Seishirou Kirishiki in the ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'' anime and as Nemuri Kyoshiro in a theater play, after performing his first concert tour in Europe "Attack of the YELLOW FRIED CHICKENZ." Oh, and he's also playing UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga in the ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara [[http://tinyurl.com/cntrgnc Moonlight Party]]'' TV Drama.

[[caption-width-right:236:He's nicknamed "The King of Devils," really.]]

* OneOfUs: Gackt's fanboying is legendary. He has memorized all of the dialogue of the first ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' series (he once [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome recited Gihren Zabi's speech from Garma's funeral at a concert, getting the whole crowd to respond with chants of "Sieg Zeon!"]]). His hairstyle for the Vanilla music video is based off of [[DragonBallZ Super Saiyan Goku]]. The song Asrun Dream is about the characters Ash and Eiji from Banana Fish. He even once spent three days straight playing video games.
** His role as OdaNobunaga in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara: Moonlight Party'' is basically an extended NorioWakamoto impression.

** He's a huge fan of ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'', to the point where he even requested that Creator/KentaroMiura design his vocaloid, Gakupo.

* {{Samurai}}: After his appearance in ''Fuurin Kazan'' Gackt started getting cast in roles as samurai. Since then he has been cast as Yoshi, a samurai in the film noir movie ''Film/{{Bunraku}}'', Nemuri Kyoshiro in a theater play, and even as OdaNobunaga in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara: Moonlight Party''.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX0cGumbuFk This commercial]] is of particular note.
* StudentCouncilPresident: He plays during the Camui Gakuen concerts
* {{Vocaloid}}: Gackt provided the voice for Gakupo.
* WeakenedByTheLight: His eyes are especially sensitive to light as he wears shades in bright light
* {{Workaholic}}: Is usually doing at least a dozen jobs at once

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Gackt Camui is a Japanese musician within the Visual Kei subculture.

Gackt has also been used to model several characters for video games, including Genesis Rhapsodos for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'' and Lau the protaganist of ''VideoGame/{{Bujingai}}''. Recently he has been cast as a voice actor for Seishirō Kirishiki in the ''{{Shiki}}'' anime and as Nemuri Kyoshiro in a theater play, after performing his first concert tour in Europe "Attack of the YELLOW FRIED CHICKENZ". Oh, and he's also playing OdaNobunaga in the ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara [[http://www.siliconera.com/2012/06/17/sengoku-basara-moonlight-party-tv-drama-to-begin-airing-this-july/ Moonlight Party]]'' TV Drama.

He is also known to speak well in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh3WwIFz8fw Chinese]].

* [[Music/CainsFeel Cains:Feel]]: his first band
* Music/MaliceMizer: The band he became famous with
* [[Music/{{SKIN}} S.K.I.N.]]: a superband that he performed with Music/YoshikiHayashi, {{Miyavi}}, and {{Sugizo}}
* Music/YellowFriedChickenz: A band he started for his international performances

* ''Mizerable'' (1999)

* ''The Sixth day single collection'' (2004)
* ''Seventh night unplugged'' (2004)
* ''Jūnigatsu no Love Song: Complete Box'' (2006)
* ''0079?0088'' (2007)
* ''nine* nine'' (2008)

* ''Requiem et Reminiscence ~Shuuen to Seijyaku~'' (2001)
* ''Kagen no Tsuki ~Seiya no Shirabe~'' (2002)

* ''MoonChild''

* Gackt was the BigBad in an arc of ''ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'', where he released [[TheVirus a virus]] that turned rugged manly men into Bishounen. It's also implied that many ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' characters are just alternate forms of him (a joke on how he inspired some character models from that series). [[spoiler: Gackt appears to be dead after a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Hyper Beam]] to the face, but Rain notes that in a month or so he'll find a way to put himself back to life-slash-in the spotlight]].
** [[spoiler: And as it turns out, he had been hired by CommanderBadass's superiors to release the virus. Why? [[FelonyMisdemeanor So they could market new Commander Badass merchandise.]]]]
* After much pleading from the director, he agreed to voice UsefulNotes/UesugiKenshin in ''Manga/TonoToIssho''.

* BackStory: His autobiographic works "Jihaku" ("Confession") and "GACKTIONARY"
* BadassBaritone: He's well known for his sexy deep singing voice
* ChivalrousPervert: Brags on twitter on how big a pervert he is usually followed by SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
* {{Defictionalization}}: Kamui Gakupo is a {{vocaloid}} created by Creator/KentaroMiura (better known for his work on ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'') based on voice samples from {{Gackt}}. Video site Nico Nico Douga once held a vocaloid contest hosted by {{Gackt}} were he would sing the winning songs, which used Gakupo as the singer. The result was that {{Gackt}} not only created and released covers of the winning songs, "Episode.0" and "Paranoid doll", but he also created a music video that was identical to the original "Episode.0" video, replacing art of Gakupo with ''himself dressed as Gakupo''. Here is the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DQpbHzRlwo&feature=player_embedded original video]], and here's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8hpHw-3lXk&feature=player_embedded Gackt's cover of it.]]
* DevelopmentHell: S.K.I.N played one concert and then... nothing.

** 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

** You do ''not'' mention Gackt to Music/{{Mana}} fans. Unless you ''really'' like InternetBackdraft. This one even goes into RealLife because the bad feelings between them are still there - making the mistake of defending Gackt to someone who actually knows Mana could even lead to a BarBrawl.

* FormerTeenRebel: Gackt spent most of his childhood getting into fist fights
* HamToHamCombat: With [[Music/YoshikiHayashi Yoshiki of X-Japan]].
* HotBlooded:

* JapaneseDelinquents: Gackt was a trouble maker during his childhood constantly getting into fist fights and skipping school
* MeaningfulName: Gackt's name tends to sound weird to, well... people in general. But his name has an actual meaning. Gackt Camui is a modification of Kamui Gakuto which can either mean "Divine power of music" or "Divine being made of music".

* OneOfUs: Gackt's fanboying is legendary. He has memorized all of the dialogue of the first ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' series (he once [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome recited Gihren Zabi's speech from Garma's funeral at a concert, getting the whole crowd to respond with chants of "Sieg Zeon!"]]). His hairstyle for the Vanilla music video is based off of [[DragonBallZ Super Saiyan Goku]]. The song Asrun Dream is about the characters Ash and Eiji from Banana Fish. He even once spent three days straight playing video games.

* After much pleading from the director, he agreed to voice UsefulNotes/UesugiKenshin in ''Anime/TonoToIssho''.

* ''Series/{{Akumu-Chan}}''

* Gackt was the BigBad in an arc of ''ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'', where he released [[TheVirus a virus]] that turned rugged manly men into Bishounen. It's also implied that many FinalFantasy characters are just alternate forms of him (a joke on how he inspired some character models from that series). [[spoiler: Gackt appears to be dead after a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Hyper Beam]] to the face, but Rain notes that in a month or so he'll find a way to put himself back to life-slash-in the spotlight]].

* MemeticSexGod: Those nude photoshoots exist for a reason

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Show someone who has never herd of Gackt a picture of Gackt. Odds are they will not figure out their gender

** The Gackt scandals are ''all'' fertile ground for repeated FlameWar as Dears will unquestioningly defend Gackt no matter what, and haters and Mana fans will occasionally pile in to unquestioningly insult Gackt.

* BadassBaritone:

* {{Defictionalization}}: Kamui Gakupo is a {{vocaloid}} created by KentaroMiura (better known for his work on ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'') based on voice samples from {{Gackt}}. Video site Nico Nico Douga once held a vocaloid contest hosted by {{Gackt}} were he would sing the winning songs, which used Gakupo as the singer. The result was that {{Gackt}} not only created and released covers of the winning songs, "Episode.0" and "Paranoid doll", but he also created a music video that was identical to the original "Episode.0" video, replacing art of Gakupo with ''himself dressed as Gakupo''. Here is the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DQpbHzRlwo&feature=player_embedded original video]], and here's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8hpHw-3lXk&feature=player_embedded Gackt's cover of it.]]

* Gackt was the BigBad in an arc of ''ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'', where he released [[TheVirus a virus]] that turned rugged manly men into Bishounen. It's also implied that many FinalFantasy characters are just alternate forms of him (a joke on how he inspired some character models from that series). [[spoiler: Gackt appears to be dead after a [[{{Pokemon}} Hyper Beam]] to the face, but Rain notes that in a month or so he'll find a way to put himself back to life-slash-in the spotlight]].

* ''KamenRiderDecade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker''

** Plus he got to play an alternate dimensional version of [[Series/KamenRiderV3 Riderman]] in ''KamenRiderDecade''.

* After much pleading from the director, he agreed to voice UesugiKenshin in ''Anime/TonoToIssho''.

Gackt Camui is a Japanese musician.

* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud