Real name: Gloria.
Nicknames: Minhea and Hagane.
Physical appearance: Brown hair and eyes, short and slender. Click here to see some photos.
Name and nick meanings: Gloria is my birth name, it means "Universal praise" in latin. Minhea is my nickname since I started to use Internet. It belonged to Prince Minhea Dracul, son of Vlad Tepes, who lived in Transylvania in 1500. I immediately fell in love with the sound of this name, and since I love horror and gothic tales I decided to use it for me. Instead Hagane is a japanese word that means "Steel". It's also a manga about the life of a girl which is the reincarnation of the great swordsman Musashi Miyamoto. I really like this name it for its beautiful sound and proud meaning.
Birthday: 19th December 1980.
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius.
Status: In a relationship.
Lives in: Venezia, Italy.
Works as: I worked 1 year as a barmaid, 4 years as a dental assistant and 6 months as a web-master/web-designer. Then, after a journey in Japan in summer 2005, I decided to go back to school. So now I'm studying Japanese Language and Culture at University Ca' Foscari in Venice, and hopefully I'll graduate at the end of 2008.
Languages: Italian, english, french and japanese.
Religion: Agnostic.
Personality: Intuitive, lazy, extremely moody, open-minded, passional, faithful, generous, sincere, curious, impatient, stubborn, proud, witty.
Loves: My boyfriend Takuma, my friends, my family, japanese language and culture, mythology, poetry, art, books, videogames, comics, manga and anime, originality, fantasy, horror and gothic genres, cinema, music, web graphic, cats, hamsters and snakes, singing, dreaming, cuddles.
Hates: Violence, injustice, politicians, racism, hypocrites, liars, superficials, annoying, rude, ignorant and sexist people, blood-test, injections, waking up early in the morning, bugs like spiders and coackroaches.
Fears: Hate, illness, physical pain.
Dreams: Living in Japan and working there as a teacher, being serene and proud of myself.

Movies: Zatoichi, Kurosawa's Dreams, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Versus, Ichi the Killer, The Lord of the Rings, Interview with the Vampire, Dracula, Suspiria, Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, The Exorcist, The Sixth Sense, The Others, The Ring, A Tale of Two Sisters, Ju-On, Seven, Blade Runner, Edward Scissorhands, Fight Club, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Sin City, The Last Samurai, Donnie Darko, Peter Pan, Harry Potter, Old Boy, Lady Vengeance, Sweeney Todd and many others.
Actors: Johnny Depp, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tak Sakaguchi, Tadanobu Asano, Tom Cruise, Gary Oldman, Edward Norton, Jean Reno, Jack Nicholson, Malcolm McDowell, Orlando Bloom, Brad Pitt.
Actresses: Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Uma Thurman, Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci, Natalie Portman, Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Directors: Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, Dario Argento, Peter Jackson, Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Akira Kurosawa, Ryuhei Kitamura, Takeshi Kitano, Takashi Miike, Shinya Tsukamoto, Hideo Nakata, Wong Kar Wai, Park Chan Wook.
Animation movies: Nightmare Before Christmas, Akira, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Alice in Wonderland, Mulan, Peter Pan, Yellow Submarine, Shrek movies, The Ice Age.
Anime series: Rurouni Kenshin, Cowboy Bebop, Boogiepop Phantom, Hellsing.
Books: All novels by Stephen King and J.R.R. Tolkien, The Mysts of Avalon (M.Z. Bradley), Peter Pan (J.M. Barry), American Gods (Neil Gaiman), Lives of the Mayfair Witches and Vampires Chronicles (Anne Rice), The Perfume (Patrick Suskind), Dracula (Bram Stoker), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and Necronomicon (H.P. Lovecraft), Horror Tales (E.A. Poe), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), The Count of Montecristo (Alexandre Dumas), Titus Andronicus and Hamlet (William Shakespeare), Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert), Therese Raquin (Emile Zola), Notre Dame de Paris (Victor Hugo), Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden), The Girl with the Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier), Les Fleurs du Mal (Charles Baudelaire), all Rimbaud's poems, Hagakure (Yamamoto Tsunetomo), Kuroi Ame (Masuji Ibuse), Rashomon and Other Stories (Ryunosuke Akutagawa), The Golden Pavillion (Yukio Mishima), Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto), Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami), Haiku poems by Bashou, and many others.
Writers: Stephen King, Anne Rice, J.R.R. Tolkien, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Neil Gaiman, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Alexandre Dumas, Herman Hesse, Haruki Murakami, Yukio Mishima, Banana Yoshimoto, Kazuo Ishiguro.
Historical characters: Musashi Miyamoto, Alexander the Great, Vlad Tepes, Elizabeth Bathory, Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Yoshimitsu Ashikaga.
Artists: Salvador Dali', Paul Gauguin, Auguste Renoir, Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, Dante Gabriele Rossetti, Sandro Botticelli, Katsushika Hokusai, Luis Royo', H.R.Giger, Yoshitaka Amano, Takehiko Inoue, Kentaro Miura, Katsuhiro Otomo.
Videogames: Final Fantasy, The Legend of Zelda, Kingdom Hearts, Baldur's Gate, Onimusha, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, Resident Evil, Phantasmagoria, Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider, Oddworld.
Comics and manga: Sandman, Elfquest, Kabuki, Rat-Man, Vagabond, Berserk, Monster.
Music: All kinds of metal, hard rock, punk, classical, soundtracks.
Bands: Iron Maiden, Metallica, Helloween, Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation, Megadeth, Pantera, Sepultura, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody, Nightwish, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, The Ramones, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Muse, etc.
Motto: "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you". I really believe in this ancient chinese teaching and I always try to respect it.

More?

- My online photo album
- My joined and created fanlistings
- My profile on MySpace
- My profile on Mixi (for registered users and in japanese only)
- My YouTube channel