Does anyone know facts about the members of RAZOR? Unfortunately, I can’t find any interviews or things that would be interesting and worth knowing 
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Most of the members came from pretty established bands before this. Ryoga was from BORN, Kouryu and their now ex-drummer Tetsuya was from My Bacteria Heat Island, Tsurugi from Sadie (which recently became active again!) and their current drummer Nikky was from Alsdead.
Kouryu’s Chinese, he moved to Japan when he was about 14. I had a Rock and Read interview on this but never really had the time to run through it fully (and I probs can’t find the magazine…)
His parents run a Chinese restaurant at Koiwa in Tokyo, it’s a famous spot for fans haha and Kouryu has bought his bandmates to eat there too, one time he even got them fried rice takeout from there.
Kouryu’s dad appeared at their live once!
Kouryu often plays soccer with other vkei guys in some kind of soccer club involving vkei bandmen. I think Nikky’s super into soccer as well and is kinda buddy-buddy with Kouryu.
I feel like I know quite little about the rest, but they’re interesting and very colourful characters.
Surely there is a lot of stuff about Ryoga from folks who’ve known him from BORN xD
Iza has a thing for hedgehogs maybe? That comes out in his goods a lot. I think some of his music accessories are by this brand called Modern Pirates. They also very kindly replaced Hitsugi of Nightmare’s guitar strap recently.
Tsurugi’s surprisingly loud, has beautiful handwriting (there were times I think during Sadie’s hiatus or something he would write beautiful handwritten posts on his thoughts) and has a pet axolotl that’s really cute.
If I recall anything else I might update but yeah that’s about it from me!
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Thank you very much 
that’s such a cute pet choice. Tsurugi was already I member I loved very much in Sadie.
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It is! His pet axolotl would “lag” as well, and not even realise that the food pellet had landed on its head. it’s been a long while since he took videos/photos of the cutie though 
Ah yes! There’s also a gelato shop in Osaka that is run by a friend of Tsurugi’s, some of Sadie’s fans stopped by before the Osaka stop of their comeback lives earlier this year :)) and wrote in their guestbook too!
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I wanna drop by, too, next time I am in Japan (which might be soonish)
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https://x.com/ruggeri2011/status/1777344525301899655
Gelato shop (and said guestbook) here! Not sure if they still have the guestbook up but yeah their gelatos look nice!
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I guess other than the facts here, I could post about Iza a bit(even though Kouryu is my favorite lol)? When Razor first started, I thought maybe Ryoga or Tsurugi would be leader of the band but actually Iza’s the leader. Iza really loves horror, especially Chucky stuff.
Kouryu has a tattoo of Sun Wukong from Journey to the West on one of his hands, and when asked about the owl tattoo on the neck he said it’s an Illuminati reference(Kouryu is a bit of a jokester at times though, so who knows lol). He’s also friends with Tomo from The Madna. Kouryu and Nikky like video games a lot, so Kouryu sometimes livestreams gaming.
Tetsuya(their ex-drummer) is composing and doing support for underground idols now. But, I heard he seems happy^^.
Age-wise, Kouryu is the youngest in the band and Tsurugi’s the oldest. If I remember correctly, Ryoga and Iza are the same age and I think Nikky as well.
I’ll post more if I come up with other things.
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TIL Iza is the leader!! Thank you for the info too!!
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No problem! I didn’t know for the longest time about Iza being leader, but he is pretty reliable I think? So, it makes sense.
Also for the gelato place, that guestbook is actually the 2nd one so I’m sure the owner’ll get another one when that one is full 
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Some facts about Nikky from Cure Vol. 200 (2020). This interview was conducted not too long after he replaced Tetsuya.
- Nikky had already been working a normal job for about a year before he was asked about joining the band
- Tetsuya was the one who recommended Nikky
- Nikky initally found Iza to have an intimidating presence
- Nikky jokes that he wasn’t ‘officially’ invited to join the band. Basically he was invited to a rehearsal that went very well and once everyone was headed home he stopped them and asked, ‘hey wait a minute, am I in the band?’ The other members just sort of assumed this was already the case lol
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How old are the Guys?
I didn‘t found anything about it
and I have the feeling that Ryoga and Kouryu are very close 
Thank you for this detailed write up and sharing!!
Nikky’s reaction in that anecdote is so hilarious. Iza can be quite intimidating for sure, he does have that aura.
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Kouryu turns 36 later this year, Iza’s 39 and Tsurugi’s 43(but that makes sense for Tsurugi since all the Sadie members are 40+ and he isn’t the youngest Sadie member). They sometimes have age info on their birthday merch or talk about it at lives, so those are kinda the only ways to find out sadly.
Ryoga’s the most intimidating one to me, Iza’s too friendly lol
Kouryu has 3 cats, I dunno if all of them are still around or not but he used to have a twitter account for them? He’s not good with reptiles save for maybe bearded dragons.
Tsurugi’s pretty good with art and he’s into science. I feel like since Ryoga’s into sci-fi(especially the Alien movies) they kinda bond over that.
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Kouryu has 3 cats, I dunno if all of them are still around or not
One of them passed, he keeps the ashes in his room with the photos of the cat. 
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Ahhhh
Thank you very much 
I heard, Ryoga is younger than Mejibrays Tsuzuku and Tsuzuku turn into 38 in December. I don‘t know it‘s true or something
i get the vibe that Ryoga was born in like 86. He’s never hinted towards his age but with his history in the vk biz, hes pushing right at the 40-42 year old mark. Damn , I wonder what normal job Nikky had between bands? Imagine getting soda at a 7-11 and seeing Alsdead drummer in uniform there.
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Does anyone know anything about the necklace that Ryoga has been wearing since his time at Born? It seems that he is very attached to the piece of jewelry. Perhaps he got it from his mother because they have a very good relationship. But I’m not sure 
And does anyone know the height of the boys? I know that’s a lot of questions
But that would either make it to him being born between 81 - 84 or him being 37/38 (I don’t know when it’s his birthday, so depending on whether it’s still to come or not).
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His year of birth is not known But I think he is between 37-39 years old
But I remember that IZA joked about 48 when Ryoga had his birthday. Maybe that means he turned 38. That would be my speculation
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