Tora

Amano Shinji (天野真志), better known by his stage name Tora (虎), is the guitarist of Alice Nine. In 2015, along with his band-mate Shou, he formed DIAWOLF, in which he goes under the name of Amano Tora. Tora was born in the outskirts of the city of Kawasaki. At first he was a redhead, but then his hair gradually darkened. He is 1/4 American-German from his grandfather - however Tora refers to this as 'apparently 1/4' as he does not truly know himself.

At age 3 he moved to Yokohama.

He was severely bullied since kindergarten to the end of elementary school. Although his family was well-off, the school he went to was full of delinquents, it was also Buddhist school. In the first grade of middle school he did some extreme dieting and lost about 30 kilos in a year. He played football since before kindergarten up until middle school. He was elected as student council president for 2 years in a row. As a child he liked to draw his own manga, and he also wrote the script for a play for a school festival.

He's not good with kanji and people complain he often write messages with kana alone. He first tried smoking in 5th grade (about 11?). Was in the swimming club in middle school, but admittedly he wasn't that good at it. Was really good at sensing spirits when he was little, still is. Since he was a child his family always called him a "Caged Monkey", apparently because he's restless.

The first instrument he bought was a second-hand 9800 yen Gibson Flying V. Originally he wanted to buy a bass, but he didn't have enough money. He can play a bit of piano. He can play drums. He did this at some of the fanclub special lives. Once he worked at KFC as a part-time job, also at a shoe store.