Daisuke Andou (Die)

Full name: 安滕 大助 (Andou Daisuke)

Nicknames: Die, Dai, Dai-suki

In the band, he is a guitarist 

Date of birth: 12.20,1974. (Mie)

Astrological sign: Sagittarius

Zodiac sign: Tiger

Blood type: B

Height: 178cm / 5'10"

Weight: 61 kg

Clothes' size: L

Shoe size: 41 (8)

Favourite cigarette brand: Salm Light

Favourite sport: soccer, baseball

Favourite music: Sakai Noriko, Hide

His former bands: ka･za･ri → La:Sadie's 

Personality: sincere and honest ... and impudent, because he likes to tease peopleHe sees himself as a hard-working, sincere, honest personLikes: cheese, sake, tease ShinyaDislikes: raw things, rainAccording to him, the most important thing is lifeFavourite food: tofu, potatoes, bacon, cheese omlett, milk, cheese, spaghetti, roasted meat, okonomiyaki, curry, pizza, hamburger, ramen, pastries etc...Food that he detests: seafood, thorny animals, raw foodsHe likes to get: cigarettesHe likes not to get: raw things, candy Fun facts: His breast is especially ticklish. He is near-sighted, he wears contactlenses. He is the most serene and easy-going member.Die was disgusted of some Chinese food served on their tour once, he was not impressed with the chicken-head soup. He was not able to look at it! Kyo and Toshiya on the other hand, thought it cool and Toshiya was playing with a head!There was a fire in Die's apartment once. He tried to smother it with a fire extinguisher, but he just succeeded spraying the foam all around his feet and then he ran outside. He said: "That was so uncool!". *** Altough Die is the second guitarist in the group, he is no less talented than our leader-sama, Kaoru. By the way, he is pretty amazing guitarist, the way he and Kaoru play together makes really gorgeous music. For some of their songs - especially in older ones like "Ash" and "Zan" - Die even sings backup vocals; he has a lovely, definite but soft voice. During concerts, Die is just like any other guitarist: he struts accross the stage to pump the crowd up, or just stands beside Kyo while he is singing. His idol is Takigawa Ichiro, the guitarist of Craze. He is the most talkative member of the band, also extremely playful, and quite a joker, too: he likes to tease the others especially Shinya, together with Kaoru. On the video taken in Osaka-Jou Hall, Toshiya pushed Shinya to the ground, and pounced on top of him, while Die covered them with feathers. So, he can make the others laugh almost any time. Die's real name is Daisuke, and the nickname for it is Dai. Some say that he changed the spelling of it to that of the English word "die", aiming to a more serious aspect. So Die is to be pronounced as "dai", not "di-eh". He is very proud of his mane which he had grown since high-school. It is almost dyed in red, often use to defy the laws of gravity - sticking upwards in all directions - making for a punkish hairstyle. But nowadays he wears his hair short and dark chestnut-coloured, also he uses less hair-styler. Die confesses: if someone state that he looks awful, he takes it as a compliment ^_^. After some of his fans complained that he was too fat - Die supposedly had eating and weight problems, because he took their ramblings to his heart, and became heavily underweighted. When Dir en grey was still dressing up in Visual Kei style, Die was quite extreme when it came to his looks and fashion; though his makeup was not always as daub-like as Kyo's. He was almost always leather-clad with lots of silver accessories - he always looked like a tough J-Rocker. Even though his music and scary outfits give off a hardcore attitude, Die is an extremely sweet and caring person. He has a kid hidden in himself, the way he seems to always be up to something. One world: kawaii.    "Don't run away from things, make your own decisions for your own self...." Die Facts     * When asked to list his 3 most precious things, Die responded with: 1. Dir en Grey; 2. fans; 3. staff    * When asked to say something to each of his bandmates, Die responded with: Kyo, please don't pierce any more holes!  Kaoru, get a haircut!  Toshiya, please fix your room.  Shinya, for how long do you intend to hide yourself?"    * Die describes his most blissful moment of the day as right before he goes to sleep.  He frequently has nightmares, so before he goes to sleep, he tells himself "I am going to sleep now; whatever happens after, however terrifying, will only be nightmares."    * Die's nightmares are usually about running for life with friends.  His friends "run speedily" while he runs slow like he has "eaten some lard."    * Favorite time of year is the Christmas season.    * Die loves drinking with his younger brother, quite often to the point where he babbles incoherently and is too drunk to leave the bar.    * Die describes himself as "baka."    * Audrey is his signature song.    * At the Tokyo NKH Hall concert there was a large pink rat head sitting just in front of Shinya`s drums. Die kept looking at it near the end of the show, debating popping it on his head, but it wasn`t built as a mask, so he had to forget that idea.    * Die likes getting things from the fans that he can use.  Like underwear.  Apparently a fan once sent him some.    * Die is very straightforward and talkative, yet he is the "joker"; he can make any of the other members laugh at any time.  He teases Shinya mercilessly.    * Die does not like sashimi or seafood; he likes Western food, especially Italian.    * Die likes cute girls with big eyes.  When he was younger he was very nervous and shy, especially when he had to talk to girls.    * He has a black belt in Kendo.  He took it from elementary to high school, then stopped when he learned to play guitar because there was not enough time for both.    * Of all the band members, Die is the one most likely to count calories.  Other random facts:His type of girl is Nori-P who was the popular Japanese pop idol in the 80s. When he performed Zan in Music Station, his grandmother was watching the program but because she had not seen Die for a long time, she could not recognize who was her grandson. He likes winter. ‘Winter has a lot of fantasy…” says Die. He was so upset with fans pulling his hair at the gig in small live house. ‘My hair gets damaged,” says Die. He agrees that he looks like a Siberian Husky (I think he does too, but I always saw more of a hyena because of the black eye make up). He is a mood maker in the band. Kaoru is his pub mate. On stage, he disappears from people’s view quite often. He doesn’t go anywhere, he just falls. His guitar strap becomes undone sometimes because of his intensive performance. He walks around until his roadie fixes it for him. He falls onto stage and falls from the stage. When he comes back to the stage, Kaoru makes fun of him. He breaks guitar strings easily. Kaoru cut Die’s yange ( hair that Die kept long for nine years) ‘I loved doing it,’ says Kaoru. He jokes. Mr. Inoue (manager) tells him off when he overdoes it. He speaks a lot. Drinks a lot. Once he was drinking until 11:00am (tour finished previous day) then he to a photo shoot (he was still drunk) and worked until the morning. He can’t eat a lot of things. His worst experience ever was when he was forced to eat Sashimi (he lost a bet). He hates raw fish more than anything else. He has a very lovely character and is a very kind person but once he abandoned stage because some fans left their seats and thronged to the stage (that time thronging and diving were about to be banned). Diru had to stop the gig in the middle and never come back. He couldn’t play acoustic guitar. Engineers told him that it would take another five years to master it, but he practiced hard and played in the gig without any major mistakes. He has guts. He can throw an empty water bottle to the third floor. He spends 30 minutes in the bathroom. 

His dialect is from Kansai.