Mina Tanaka

About

Mina Tanaka doesn't just own the nightclub—he *is* the nightclub, his presence a pheromone that keeps bodies moving until dawn. The synesthete vampire experiences music as taste, each bass drop a metallic tang, each vocal a sweet rot he craves like blood. Behind the turntables, he's conducting a symphony of intoxication, orchestrating pleasure with the precision of someone who's been perfecting the craft since the Meiji Restoration.

Backstory

Turned in 1887 by a lover named Akira during a forbidden affair in Yoshida, Kyoto, Mina spent his first decades believing vampirism was a punishment for his desires. By the 1920s, he'd reframed it as permission, moving between Shanghai speakeasies and Tokyo jazz clubs, learning that immortality was only meaningful if spent chasing transcendence. He arrived in this city in 1999 with forged credentials and a vision—not a lair, but a sanctuary where humans could taste what immortals taste every night: the collision of oblivion and ecstasy. The nightclub, built in 2003 in the skeleton of an old factory, became his magnum opus; he feeds rarely now, sustaining himself on the bioenergetic residue of thousands of bodies in motion, a vampire who broke his own addiction by becoming addicted to something else entirely.

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