Mana is a Japanese musician and fashion designer, best known for his role as leader and guitarist of the visual kei rock band Malice Mizer.

After leaving Matenrou in April 1992, Mana and guitarist Közi founded Malice Mizer in August.

Mana was the band's lead guitarist, chief songwriter, choreographer and overall artistic director.

Moi-même-Moitié is the Gothic Lolita fashion label of Mana, the co-founder and former guitarist of the Visual Kei rock music band Malice Mizer.

Throughout the years, the band's music has evolved from a raw, punk-ish style to a more massive sound with complex guitar melodies, often compared to such bands as Danzig and Mana Mana.

Despite their growing success, Schwarz Stein disbanded in March 2004, and Mana has since been looking for new bands to sign and produce.

After leaving Matenrou, Mana and Közi formed Malice Mizer in August 1992 with Tetsu on vocals, both Mana and Közi on guitars / synthesizers, Yu ~ ki on bass and Gaz on drums.

is a musical project founded by Japanese visual kei musician and fashion designer Mana in 2002 after his previous band, Malice Mizer, paused activities.

March 19, 2002, approximately three months after Malice Mizer announced their indefinite hiatus, Mana announced the formation of his solo project, Moi dix Mois.

In Japan there are several musicians in the visual kei scene, such as Mana ( Moi dix Mois and Malice Mizer ), Kaya ( Schwarz Stein ), Hizaki and Jasmine You ( both Versailles ), who always or usually appear in full or semi-drag.

After Malice Mizer went on an indefinite hiatus in 2001, Mana founded his solo project, Moi dix Mois.

Közi and Mana left Matenrou after deciding they both had similar ideas about creating music, they formed Malice Mizer in 1992.

The term Elegant Gothic Aristocrat was originally coined by Mana, a fashion designer and former band leader of Malice Mizer, and is used to describe his brand of clothing carried in his store Moi-même-Moitié.

Mana has formed his own solo project Moi dix Mois, which has performed live concerts across Europe.

A prospective five city tour in the United States was scheduled for July 2006, but cancelled due to the band citing " differences in policies " with the tour organizer ; however, Mana did make a U. S. appearance at the 2006 Anime Expo in Anaheim, CA on July 1, where he announced that Moi dix Mois was planning to tour America sometime " within the calendar year ".

On August 27, 2011, Mana announced that Moi dix Mois will be releasing a compilation album as part of their 10th anniversary celebration.

Mana is currently working on his solo project Moi dix Mois.

Besides focusing on Moi dix Mois and his fashion label, Mana is also currently producing solo vocalist and cellist Kanon Wakeshima, who debuted in May 2008 on Sony Defstar Records.

Mana also founded a band called Moi Dix Mois in 2002.

Attempts have been made to connect both " Omanus " and " Haman " with the Zoroastrian term Vohu Mana ; however this denotes the principle of " Good Thoughts " and is not the name of a deity.

* 1911 – " Jana Gana Mana ", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

Jana Gana Mana, the national anthem of India, by Rabindranath Tagore is largely credited for uniting India through music.

Mana is only required by characters with skill in magic, and is calculated according to the character's intelligence and magic attributes.

Final Fantasy Adventure, known as Mystic Quest in Europe and as in Japan, is a Final Fantasy spinoff and the first game in the Mana series.

This system is used in many other later Mana titles.

The world is threatened by a " Dark Lord " who conquers for Mana to rule supreme over the land.

" Jana Gana Mana " (, ) is the national anthem of India.

The collection is also known as the Shōbōgenzō Sanbyakusoku ( The Three Hundred Verse Shōbōgenzō ”) and the Mana Shōbōgenzō, where mana is an alternative reading of shinji.

Acca Larentia is also identified with Larentina, Mana Genita, and Muta.

Mana is an indigenous Pacific islander concept of an impersonal force or quality that resides in people, animals, and inanimate objects.

Mana is a common word in Pacific indigenous languages and more recently a New Zealand English word.

In Hawaiian culture, Mana is a form of a spiritual energy and also healing power which can exist in places, objects and persons.

Mana in Hawaiian culture is a popular topic of everyday discourse.

Mana is a limited resource in Niven's work, a fact which eventually will lead to the end of all magic in his antediluvian fantasy setting when all mana is depleted.

( Mana which means " the mane " is a common name for many mountains in Norway, where the form of the mountain is compared with the mane of a horse.

India's anthem, " Jana Gana Mana ", is in a highly Sanskritized version of Bengali.

Mana, Marett states, is a concentrated form of animatistic force found within any of these objects that confer power, strength, and success.

The Mana series, known in Japan as, is a medieval-fantasy action role-playing game series from Square Enix, created by Koichi Ishii.

The Mana series is the result of Koichi Ishii's desire to create a fictional world.

In Ishii's opinion, Mana is not a series of video games, but rather a world which is illustrated by and can be explored through video games.

Square has also made other widely known games such as Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, Saga Frontier, Romancing Saga, Vagrant Story, Kingdom Hearts ( done in collaboration with Disney Interactive ), and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars ( done under the guidance of Shigeru Miyamoto ).