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agro-carnist · 1 year

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You've mentioned the history of guro before, but I was wondering if you had any resources?

So, guro is a super niche thing outside of Japan so it's hard to research its history in any one particular place. If you want to learn more about ero guro as a genre in English you pretty much just have to go down separate rabbit holes piecing together what you can and looking at the art and literature of creatives of the genre like Shintaro Kago, Suehiro Maruo, Waita Uziga and Edogawa Ranpo. Most resources are going to be in Japanese. A lot of early ero guro was also destroyed so there are holes in its history.

I can offer a general summary of ero guro, but also mind you that I might not have everything exactly correct for the reasons stated above. Most of what I gather is just from being a fan of the genre and talking to other fans. Also apologies if this is kind of all over the place, I'm not going through and editing this, I'm just going to be a little autistic about this.

Ero guro has its roots in another art genre from the 19th century, muzan-e, which were woodblock prints that depicted violent acts in Japanese history. You also had the appearance of I-novels, semi-autobiographical works that described usually dark events in the author's life. Later ero guro gained popularity in the 1920s with the ero guro nansensu subculture. Ero guro nansensu focused on exploring violent and sexual themes that would have been considered shameful. There's the misconception in the west that guro means "gore," but it's instead a wasei-ego (borrowed English compound or abbreviated words) term for "grotesque." Ero guro and ero guro nansensu were not just blood and guts, and being bloody or violent doesn't make something guro. The art style focused on pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable, and featured horror-like themes, body horror, and body fluids. It's meant to explore what is deviant, taboo, or just outlandish or ridiculous. The contrast of eroticism and grotesque is the appeal.

Especially jut before and during WWII, the Japanese government heavily censored published media, and people were rebelling against that. A lot of ero guro works of this time were also tied to leftist publications. Kaizo magazine featured works from communists, anarchists, and other leftists, and as such, faced heavy censorship and was eventually completely banned. A lot of leftist literature at the time was anti-militarism, anti-authoritarianism, and anti-war while also embraced naturalism, humanism, and radical social and political views. Kaizo inspired other magazines and underground sale of media, which included ero guro. There was even more scrutiny for ero guro after a real event where a couple was practicing erotic asphyxiation and the woman ended up killing the man and castrating him. The Japanese blamed ero-guro books for the incident and decided to ban them. Unfortunately that means a lot of books and magazines were destroyed, and those that weren't were often printed on poor quality pulp paper, so little of it survives today. After the war and during American occupation, Kasutori became another magazine that inspired ero guro by publishing controversial sexual art and writing that also integrated horror themes. This was also a very traumatizing time in people's lives, so they were expressing this through horror. Both during and after the war, Japanese people were pushing for sexual liberation and freedom of expression, which is why I find ero guro so interesting. This was a time when even kissing was seen as a disgusting immoral act outside the bedrooms of married couples, and people were telling the government they couldn't be controlled. If anything they did was going to be judged they were going to hold no bars with what they could create. There are no confines to human expression. I was a fan of ero guro even before I became a leftist but it as an expression of progressive ideals and being intrinsically anti-fascist makes me love it even more. Taboo art has inseparable ties to leftism.

Another later influence of ero guro was Garo magazine, which was also started to promote Marxist artists and the gekiga art style, which differed from early manga art styles like Osamu Tezuka's that were more cartoony and whimsical. Gekiga focused on being more detailed and having more mature themes. Garo published several different bizarre themes during its publication. Ero guro also ended up influencing the rise of pink films (Japanese erotic movies) and exploitation films (movies that exploit the shocking or transgressive). Tentacle hentai also stems from ero guro media.

Hope this makes some sense to you and inspires you to look more into ero guro. The genre is so interesting and the random little paths you can find it taking you are very cool.

#guro

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canmom · 3 months

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brief comints on some comics

need to find energy to write some more Comics Comints but here are some very brief ones on some comics I read of late...

I read a bunch of Shintaro Kago stuff (The Princess of the Neverending Castle, Dementia 21). truly one of the best to ever do it, and I really need to do some kinda deep dive into what makes his stuff kick so much ass. but Kago's stuff has this absolutely ingenious playfulness to it - obvs it's got the 'fucked up body stuff' ero-guro aspect as a central pillar in which Shintaro Kago is uniquely inventive, but it's also constantly playing around with form in a way that like, you see the ideas getting developed from page to page from 'oh here's a fucked up thing' to the basis of an incredibly abstruse storyline that somehow feels fully coherent in its internal logic, even as the entire panel structure disintegrates into castle noodles.

he's also just both plain very funny and an absolute drawing monster. the two Neverending Castle books (Princess and Twelve Sisters - narratively disconnected but playing off the same ideas) are a special treat, gorgeous huge printings that really let you see all the crazy intricate little details, and the high concept is incredibly productive. Dementia 21 is bit more directly like... not so much commentary so much as using existing social tensions (in this case, caring for old people) as a jumping off point for darkly funny vignettes. also the interview at the back is great for Kago just completely no-selling most of the interviewer's attempts to pry.

started in on Oyasumi Punpun by Inio Asano. and guys. the expressions in this manga! honestly, the level of storytelling confidence is off the charts. I think I'm starting to get some idea of what it's doing and what the recurring interests are, but also damn, there is so much going on here. the manner of stylisation is really fascinating - it's like a great example of a sort of effect you can achieve if you understand realism forwards and backwards and then push it.

the eponymous punpun is heavily minimised in his own story - which is part of the premise, that he is so powerless and so completely failed by the adults who are too caught up in their own shit that he might as well be a cartoon bird. we have recurring invocations of the futility of human connection, it's doing a lot of stuff with religion-as-imaginary-friend and mixing sort of deliberately crude 2D graphical elements or really abstract compositions with the hyper detailed style. it's somehow like... moment to moment it looks super melodramatic but it's sort of processed through this dissociative haze which means the actual story ends up quite low-key.

I can see why people rate this one so highly, can't wait to get my hands on more.

I read some of the Sláine series - the Celtic barbarian character written by Pat Mills. in this case I had the Sláine the King arc, and some of the earlier comics, so I got a taste for the druid airships and stuff. Glenn Fabry's art is astonishing, it's as solid as an Otomo drawing but it doesn't feel sterile, it's got this incredibly expressive aspect, like it does so much to sell our sword-and-sorcery protagonist Sláine as a guy.

I'm someone who tends to read a lot more manga than Western comics in general, which is both a different approach to line and tone and also you tend to have the same artist drawing the whole series - in contrast, with 2000AD comic like this it's really striking seeing both how much value can be achieved with pure monotone, no greys, and also getting to see multiple artists tackle the same character in roughly the same idiom to highly varying results. there are approximately ten billion of these, but I haven't yet been able to track down the Horned God arc which is the one that was recced to me. hopefully soon.

comics are great

#comics #shintaro kago #neverending castle #oyasumi punpun #inio asano #pat mills #glenn fabry #sláine

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naerwenia · 2 years

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Maruograph DX Grandioso Ultimate arrived, thank you @akatako ❤️ I have been a Maruo fangirl for a while, loving the symbolism and detail, use of shadows and light. Seeing so many art pieces for the first time is exciting and even a quick look through the book took over an hour, as so many small details caught my eye and I started to analyse the art already. It fits well between my Shintaro Kago and Junji Ito books.

#maruo suehiro #suehiro maruo #eroguro #shintaro kago #Maruograph

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fantomcomics · 2 years

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What’s Out This Week? 10/5

Everybody’s wild and rockin’, wearin’ out their Sunday stockings, doin’ the Werewolf Rock..

Saga Vol 10 TP - Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

TRADE WAITERS, REJOICE!

Canis Dear Hatter GN Vol 1 - Zakk

After taking him in on that rainy day, the mysterious Ryou now lives with the mad hatter, Kutsuna. With his stellar staff's help, business has been booming. However, one fateful day, Kutsuna's rival and long-time friend Gotou informs him that he has been entered into New York Fashion Week. Initially Kutsuna was hesitant to travel, but over time he steels his resolve. Once in New York, Kutsuna encounters some of Ryou's old acquaintances.

3Keys #1 (of 5) - David Messina

Did the inhabitants of another dimension flee into our reality to save themselves from the terrible wrath of the Great Old Ones...or to help prepare us for a final devastating invasion? And what if humanity's only chance against these Great Old Ones is an impetuous, mischievous young woman and her sardonic, furry, and surprisingly violent mentor?

Air Book One TP - G. Willow Wilson & M. K. Perker

A new edition of the first of four thrilling volumes in this mind-bending, Eisner-nominated series! Acrophobic flight attendant Blythe has just fallen for a mysterious traveler-who may or may not be a terrorist-and she's about to embark on the strangest journey of her life. Searching for him, Blythe will crash-land into a web of technological conspiracies, dark politics and secret organizations. When she learns that she is the only person able to control flight and reality, with science so advanced it might be magic, she'll have to break the rules of time and space for answers.

Dark Ride #1 - Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan & Adriano Lucas

WELCOME TO THE SCARIEST PLACE ON EARTH!? Devil Land has been the world's premiere horror-themed amusement park for over 50 years, home to the scariest ride ever created - The Devil's Due.? But when lifelong fan Owen Seasons begins his first day on the job, he will discover the true horrors happening behind the scenes, the truth about the park's reclusive creator Arthur Dante, and that the job of his dreams might just be a living nightmare.

Be Very Afraid Of Kanako Inuki! GN - Inuki Kanako

From the mind of Japan's "queen of horror manga" comes a short story collection sure to put a grin on your face and send a chill down your spine. For more than 30 years, Inuki Kananko has been terrorizing girls and boys with twisted catch-22s and ghoulish monsters. Discover one of the best-kept secrets of global horror with this selection of some of Inuki's most popular short comics. The six hair-raising stories feature an array of unnerving characters and scenarios brought to life in Inuki's signature art style, in the tradition of Junji Ito, Kazuo Umezu, Shintaro Kago, and Junko Mizuno.

The West Moon Chronicles #1 - Frank Jun Kim & Joe Bocardo

The elusive creatures of mud and blood known as the dokkaebi live just off of Route 4 in east Texas, in the ancient pine forest known as the Tanglechase. Joon-Ho, a Korean immigrant with a shadowy past, and his estranged grandson Jae-Sun are the only people in the nearby town of Vane who know the true nature of the dokkaebi. Together, they must figure out what's causing the creatures to turn hostile. Perhaps it has something to do with the interdimensional portal at the heart of the Tanglechase, for it is from here that the past comes knocking, demanding a reckoning from both men.

40 Seconds TP - Jeremy Haun & Christopher Mitten

A science fiction/fantasy adventure about a brave team of science explorers traveling through a series of alien gateways to answer a distress call a galaxy away. They find themselves jumping across the universe through strange and beautiful landscapes only to be hunted by a vast, inexplicably unstoppable and dangerous horde. Amazing truths lie at the final gate. If only they can make it in time . . .

Kaya #1 - Wes Craig

A jam-packed series premiere with 31 gorgeous story pages, plus bonus material and a Jack Kirby-inspired variant cover by DEADLY CLASS co-creator WES CRAIG!

After the destruction of their village, a young girl with a magic arm and a fighting spirit is tasked with delivering her little brother to a faraway safe haven. There, he's destined to discover the secret to overthrowing the all-powerful empire that destroyed their home.

Night Of The Ghoul #1 (of 3) - Scott Snyder & Francesco Francavilla

Shot in 1936, Night of the Ghoul by writer/director T.F. Merritt was meant to sit beside Frankenstein and Dracula as an instant classic . . . But the legendary film never made it to the silver screen. Just before editing was finished, a mysterious studio fire destroyed the footage and killed the cast and crew celebrating at the wrap party. Forest Inman is a horror film obsessive who digitizes old films for the famed Aurora movie studio. When Forest stumbles across a seemingly forgotten canister of footage, he just might have discovered the remnants of the lost classic Night of the Ghoul. This discovery sends Forest on a dark odyssey, where he's warned by a mysterious old man that the film's ghoul is far more than a work of fiction: it's a very real monster who plans to kill him.

Unbreakable Red Sonja #1 - Jim Zub, Giovanni Valletta & Lucio Parrillo

As we head toward the 50th anniversary of the She-Devil With a Sword in 2023, Dynamite Entertainment is proud to present a sweeping story of sword and sorcery and high adventure by writer Jim Zub (Conan the Barbarian, Dungeons & Dragons, Avengers) and artist Giovanni Valletta (John Wick, James Bond)! In this debut issue, Red Sonja carries a hazy vision that lurks just out of reach in her memories. The answer to that mysterious moment will unlock a journey of forbidden magic and searing steel as Sonja's past and present collide in a quest beyond anything our scarlet-haired hero has faced before!

Revolvers #1 (of 4) - John Zuur Platten, Christian Dibari, & Simon Gough

Hampton Wales, a Detroit homicide detective, finds himself trapped in a mysterious and violent reality, only to find himself dead while attempting to solve a seemingly average and routine homicide. Confronted by an immortal tormenter known as La Piton (the Python), Hampton begins a dark and twisted quest to find out why and how he died. To do so, he must face off against a legion of gun-toting, deceased Revolvers within the Moratorium, a hellish version of Purgatory. Hampton will need to "kill or be killed" to have enough time to unravel his demise and discover it was by his own hand, someone else, or something more sinister.

Leonide The Vampyr: Miracle at The Crow’s Head one shot - Mike Mignola & Rachele Aragno

A small, coastal village is home to normal people living quiet and simple lives--until a shipwreck brings a small coffin and its smaller occupant into their midst. What begins as a miracle soon takes a turn toward the horrible in this ghostly tale from celebrated Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and artist extraordinaire Rachele Aragno (Mel the Chosen)! The first issue of a new series of stories, Leonide the Vampyr is shiveringly spectacular.

Imaginary GN Vol 1 - Niiro Ikuhana

A gorgeously illustrated tale about childhood friends, unrequited love, and the power of imagination! Back when Tasuku was a kid, he harbored a secret: he was in love with his friend Maika. But Maika moved away for school before he could gather his courage and confess. Now, as adults, they've reconnected as friends, and being together brings memories of their shared past rushing back. It was so easy to fantasize about wild things when they were children, but as adults, what are their fantasies now? This inventive and beautifully illustrated romantic drama explores the fantastical moments hiding in the everyday, and how a rich inner life can be a guide to a different future.

Monkey Meat TP - Juni Ba The Monkey Meat company made a fortune selling cans of...well, monkey meat. They're now ruling over a corporate empire and an island where they run all sorts of wacky supernatural experiments in a hyper-capitalist landscape. Follow the adventures of the citizens of Monkey Meat Island in this five-story anthology. Collects MONKEY MEAT #1-5.

Junkyard Joe #1 - Geoff Johns, Gary Frank & Brad Anderson

Throughout history, unlikely and strange heroes have risen and fallen, their identities and lives a secret. But for a Great Evil to be stopped, their stories must be told. They are The Unnamed fighting The Unknown War.

From the explosive pages of GEIGER comes JUNKYARD JOE! The world knows him as the comic strip by cartoonist Muddy Davis, but the truth stretches back to the Vietnam War. This is their story of sacrifice and brotherhood.

Joe Hill’s Rain TP - Joe Hill, David M. Booher & Zoe Thorogood On a seemingly normal August day in Boulder, Colorado, the skies are clear and Honeysuckle Speck couldn't be happier. She's finally moving in with her girlfriend Yolanda. But their world is literally torn apart when dark clouds roll in and release a downpour of nails-splinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover. RAIN makes vivid this escalating apocalyptic event, as the deluge of nails spreads across the country and around the world, threatening everything young lovers Honeysuckle and Yolanda hold dear.

Whatcha snagging this week, Fantomites?

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translationandbetrayals · 6 months

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Tenshi no Tamago: Searching for meaning.

Spoilers ahead.

As most teenagers do, when I was around 13 years old I was hyperfixated on searching for a sense of deeper meaning in every piece of media I consumed. Being a fan of anime and manga, I went down the "pretentious obscure anime" route: I read whole books of the Bible to wrap my head around the ending of Evangelion, watched anything with the Studio 4°C on it, got into old Japanese painting techniques just to say I appreciated Shōjo Tsubaki on a deeper level, and totally desensitized myself to gore via reading everything Junji Ito and Shintaro Kago had released. I filled notebooks with theories and observations, and started to surround myself only with media that I thought was profound and complex. This is the context in which I found Tenshi no Tamago (天使のたまご ), an 1985 OVA written and directed by Mamoru Oshii. At this point I was already familiar with Oshii's work, and I was an avid Ghost in the Shell fan. However, any expectations I had for this film were shattered, again and again, as I watched it.

I don't want to be misunderstood here, Tenshi no Tamago still is one of my favorite films ever made. But it did shift my perspective on the way I was consuming art and how, in my opinion, I was getting it wrong.

When the ending credits appeared on my computer screen, I found this weird feeling numbing my senses and blocking my thoughts. The only way I can describe it is as an uneasiness of sorts, a void in my stomach I had only gotten close to feeling when I finished watching Serial Experiments Lain, although it wasn't quite the same. The main difference was that I didn't want to go and read about it, I didn't want to organize my thoughts into carefully curated essays to post on the internet. I just wanted to sit with this discomfort, listening to the soundtrack of the film, but not really analyzing it.

Then, of course, my obsession with the film began. I wrote it's japanese title on my wall, I started filling my tumblr blog with gifs from my favorite scenes, I memorized its brief dialogues by heart. At the time I didn't have many friends, and I didn't know anyone who had seen the film, so everything remained inside my head like a buzzing that wouldn't stop. Of course at some point I tried getting into the lore of the film, reading what other people made of it, but they didn't really resonate with me. I got the Noah's Ark references as anyone would, and I could easily make connections between this post apocalyptic world and the others that Oshii had created, and yet it didn't sit right with me. At some point I thought "okay, maybe I'm just dumb and I didn't understand the plot at all".

But later in my life I would realize that over-intellectualizing everything was keeping me from actually enjoying art. You see, I was so caught by this search of deeper meaning, that I wasn't really paying attention to what these pieces of media made me feel. So, whenever I re watch Tenshi no Tamago, I don't try to link every stone fisherman's move to the human condition, neither do I try to break down every word spoken by the two main characters as an allegory to the end of the world. Instead, I watch the shadow fish and the water bottles and I allow myself to feel the emptiness of this abandoned Earth, the eerie sounds of the wind and every thread of the girl's hair moving with it. When I see those last ten minutes after the egg cracks, I focus on the movement of the feathers and the empty beach, and simply enjoy the beautiful pacing of the scene and the harmony it creates alongside the soundtrack.

So, in conclusion, I don't like explaining this film to other people, neither do I care for people explaining it to me. And maybe I truly didn't understand it, maybe I never will. But I'm okay with it, as long as I'm still allowed to watch it over and over again, searching for the unique feeling it can leave me with.

- Melián Trujillo.

#Anime #personalstory #submission

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psychoticwillgraham · 10 months

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shared that ‘what do I look like I collect’ meme on fb and one of my good friends said ‘dolls and hentai stuff’ and yeah ok that’s a good read on me lmao i rlly wanna get more physical hentai manga (my prized possession in that realm is a shintaro kago book, and kago is one of my surrealist and eroguro art idols) and more big tiddy anime girl figures that aren’t a small fortune. I’d absolutely never buy ahegao clothes tho and plus I fucking hate it when irl stuff has girls doing the fucking ahegao shit. THATS cringe

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irisleblanc6606 · 6 years

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Shintaro Kago ❤

#shintaro kago #ero-guro #comic books #art

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barbatusart · 2 years

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Your art is so amazing, I am in LOVE. What/who inspired your art style? If there were any.

hahaha shoot thank you so much!!! ive been working with MEANBOSS super closely on our collaborative freak comix since 2018 so over time i definitely starting aping off what he was doing & vice versa, i loved his hatching & studied what he was doing with faces super closely cus theyre amazing

ALSO im in my 30s & grew up back when they used to play old ultraviolent 80s anime movies at 6am on the scifi channel on saturdays, & one of my true loves to this day is yoshiaki kawajiri. he directed vampire hunter d bloodlust, bio-hunter, wicked city, demon city shinjuku, cyber city oedo 808, & like 5billion other weird movies with the word city in em LOL. im not a one-for-one copy but if you look at kawajiri's stuff you can absolutely see his fingerprint on what i do! the general influence of gritty weird cybernetics & overall cyber terror before technology became a normal thing to culture at large is also firmly from this era, & it's something i wanna continue to emulate going forward in LOVOS4017.

ALSO another big influence was masayuki taguchi's work on the 15 volume-long battle royale manga which is just about the most alienating & disgusting extreme gore comic you can find, significantly worse than anything uziga or kago is putting out imo. (quick addendum but fuck uziga.) i read this in highschool with my buddy at the time, we used to own different volumes & trade them back and forth during class depending on which one we were missing LOL. my roughs for sad sack had battle royale manga all over it, i LOVE how grotesque taguchi pushes faces, like not one person is pleasant to look at.

ALSOOOO definitely kouta hirano of hellsing fame but only the first 2 or 3 books when he was doing really sloppy inks as i only read the first couple books back in the day & didnt check out the rest of it until years later. my hair movement, inks with white outlines, & every tooth in the mouth thing are straight outta hirano's playbook!

ALSOOOOOOOOO id be a liar if i didnt give jhonen vasquez the credit he's due with johnny the homicidal maniac, hail to the king baby lol. i dont push it as hard as he does, but his stuff gave me total permission to completely shatter skull anatomy in the service of a Bigger More Crazy Facial Expression, & i still use that trick to this day!

there're smatterings of suehiro maruo, shintaro kago, junji ito, francisco goya (disasters of war era specifically), francis bacon, art spiegelman, & charles burns in there as well, but those up there in the list are the big influences! fun fact ive gotten comparisons to the old æon flux cartoon from mtv in the past, but i actually never saw æon flux until like Super recently so i just assume peter chung & i had similar inspirations lmao, like you can already follow the inspiration line pretty clearly with gustav klimt -> peter chung -> jhonen vasquez so i figure i just took my inspo from someone later down the line in that thread lol

ok thats all i got for this question THANK FOR PLAYIN i sincerely love getting the opportunity to talk shop!!!!!!

#q&a

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horrorjapan · 5 years

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Have you ever heard of a horror manga by Shintaro Kago called "Dimentia 21"?

Yeah, I just got it! It looks fantastic and I’m so happy that it’s an oversized release! More than anything though I’m glad Kago has delivered the surreal manga that was always in him. I love his art, always have, but I’ve never liked his manga because of the extremes it goes to. With this he finally lets the satirical and surrealist nature of his art do the talking rather than extremity. There’s an interview at the back of the book where Kago details his love for Katsuhiro Otomo and you can really feel it here, particularly the influence of Roujin Z.

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#Japanese horror #Shintaro Kago #manga #horror manga #dimentia 21

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rottenboysclub · 5 years

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torinomon replied to your post “Man, everybody keeps on repeating how conservative and insert-phobic...”

Doesnt Japan also have both maternity and paternity leave, two things I was absolutely shocked to discover the US doesn’t have? Regardless people saying Japan is conservative as an excuse for things (especially the people who think LGBT+ issues are a western concept) irk me as people don’t seem to understand how much of anime/manga is *counter culture*.

The US doesn’t even have regular nationalised health care, so it doesn’t entirely surprise me that they wouldn’t have parental leave either. It’s still fucked up, though.

In Japan, up until 2014, men who took parental leave were eligible for government benefits that covered up to 67% of their salaries, but only if they didn’t work more than 10 days a month. The current law is that they can work up to 80 hours and can receive up to 80% of their salaries.

Many companies in Japan do have more flexible paternity leave now, but a lot of men still don’t tend to take time off from work - only about 3%, and sometimes only for 1 or 2 weeks. There’s still that societal expectation that taking care of children is the “woman’s job”, but many Japanese men who have taken parental leave have talked about how their relationship with their wives was so much better and that they felt more connected to their family. The women themselves had nothing to say but positive things, as they were able to share the housework and taking care of the newborn with their husbands as a shared experience. The majority of pressure against paternity leave tends to be from the grandparents and older people who expect the man to put his work first, and not from the new father himself. [source]

And yeah, a lot like western comic books with the underground press of the 60s and 70s, niche anime and manga (meaning not mainstream, obvs) will usually be part of a counterculture in some way. Geicomi takes a lot of inspiration from western LGBT+ counterculture of the 70s and 80s, and I know that Tagame has specifically mentioned Tom of Finland as being a big influence in the development of his art.

I’ve also talked before about the development of “kawaii culture”- and how that was essentially counterculture to the “refined” expectations of modern Japanese women, and that’s just one among many Japanese countercultures.

If you’re curious about more, I suggest looking up Superflat and Ero Guro art movements, Go Nagai (of Devilman fame), Shintaro Kago and Suehiro Maruo, gekiga and underground manga magazines from the 60s, such as Garo, or even the works of Edogawa Ranpo - many of which contained that which was called “abnormal sexuality” at the time and thus was deemed ‘grotesque’. One example was The Demon of the Lonely Isle which involved a gay doctor that was in love with one of the other main characters - something very unheard of when it was written in the 1920s! (Ranpo and his friend Junichi Iwata actually had a friendly competition on who could find the most books about erotic desire between men - Ranpo focusing on western books, and Iwata focusing on Japanese books. Iwata passed away before the ‘competition’ could be finished, so Ranpo published Iwata’s findings in his memory.)

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newsintheshell · 5 years

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Le anteprime al Lucca Comics & Games 2018

Proiezioni, home video e albi presenti in anticipo alla fiera.

Parte domani la nuova edizione del Lucca Comics & Games e in occasione di questa cinque giorni straripante di cose da fare, vedere e comprare, abbiamo pensato di stilare, oltre alla guida agli ospiti, una lista delle anteprime presenti in fiera. Fra comunicati stampa e social, ecco cosa è venuto fuori.

DYNIT

Presso gli stand dell’editore saranno acquistabili il cofanetto home video della prima stagione di “My Hero Academia”, quello per il trentennale di “Akira”, quello del primo film di “Fate/stay night - Heaven’s Feel” e anche quello di “Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin VI: Rise of the Red Comet”, tutti in uscita ufficialmente il 7 novembre.

Per la collana Showcase della sezione manga invece sarà disponibile "Voglio Mangiare Il Tuo Pancreas!", tratto dal romanzo omonimo di Yoru Sumino (in uscita a gennaio), da cui è anche stato tratto il film anime che uscirà al cinema il il 21, 22, 23 gennaio 2019.

Venerdì 2 novembre alle ore 15:30, presso l’Auditorium San Girolamo verranno presentati i primi due episodi di “Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online”, spinoff della popolare serie tratta dall’opera di Reki Kawahara, trasmesso in simulcasst su VVVVID, che vedremo presto arrivare anche Blu-ray & DVD.

Sabato 3 novembre alle ore 11:00, presso il cinema Centrale in via del Poggio 36, potrete inoltre assistere in anteprima nazionale alla proiezione di “Penguin Highway”, il film d’animazione tratto dal romanzo di Tomihiko Morimi, che verrà distribuito da Nexo Digital il 20 e 21 novembre.

CRUNCHYROLL

Venerdì 2 novembre alle ore 11:00, presso il Cinema Astra, Crunchyroll mostrerà in anteprima l’episodio 5 di “Le bizzarre avventure di Jojo: Vento Aureo”, come regalo al pubblico italiano di Lucca Comics & Games. Gli spettatori saranno i primi al mondo a vedere l’episodio, intitolato “Alla ricerca del tesoro di Polpo!”.

Il nuovo capitolo della serie animata da David production e tratta dal celebre manga di Hirohiko Araki è attualmente in simulcast sulla piattaforma; gli episodi escono ogni venerdì alle 19:05.

YAMATO VIDEO

Allo stand troverete anche le ultime novità home video degli ultimi mesi, quali “Holly e Benji, due fuoriclasse”, “Holly e Benji Forever”, “Gun Frontier”, “General Daimos”, “Lupin III La prima serie” (per la prima volta in Blu-ray), “Devil Lady”, “Ken il guerriero - La leggenda di Hokuto” e i primi due box della serie storica di Ken il Guerriero. Troverete anche le esclusive Yamato Shop, come le edizioni deluxe di “Toriton”, “Il Prode Raideen”, “Devilman” e i due cofanetti in edizione limitata de “I Cinque Samurai”, il secondo atteso per il 6 novembre e presente in anteprima.

Anche Man-ga, canale 133 di Sky interamente dedicato all’animazione giapponese, presenterà le prossime novità della sua programmazione, come i doppiaggi di “Kyashan SINS” e “Sengoku Basara – Samurai Kings 2”, svelando le due misteriose prime tv, attese tra dicembre 2018 e gennaio 2019.

Sarà disponibile anche il cofanetto de “I Cavalieri dello Zodiaco - I Capitoli di Ade” dedicato alla serie che ha trasposto in animazione la saga finale dello storico manga di Masami Kurumada. Purtroppo però sarà presente solo la versione standard, a causa dei molto preordini (l’uscita ufficiale è prevista per il 22 novembre), l’azienda ha deciso di non portare in fiera la versione deluxe, date le scorte limitate.

Inoltre, per festeggiare i 40 anni di “UFO Robot Goldrake”, fra le varie iniziative e i gadget, sarà presente anche la nuova edizione home video in DVD e per la prima volta in Blu-ray della serie.

J-POP

Di seguito la corposa lista di volumi in anteprima che troverete presso lo stand dell’editore:

Il Poema del Vento e degli Alberi (Box) di Keiko Takemiya

Le Spaventose avventure di Kitaro di Shigeru Mizuki

Il libro delle Maledizioni di Souichi di Junji Ito

The Dragon Dentist di Outarou Maijou, Youko

Re:Zero 4 (Light Novel) di Tappei Nagatsuki, Shinichirou Ohtsuka

Killing Stalking - Seconda stagione 1 di Koogi

Super Robot Files 3 di Fabrizio Modina

Barbara di Osamu Tezuka

MW1 di Osamu Tezuka

I Tre Adolf 2 di Osamu Tezuka

Per quanto riguarda le altre serie a fumetti già in corso: Golden Kamui 13, Made in Abyss 5, Medaka Box 15, Neverland 6, Servamp 10, Truth of Zero 3, Wonderland 4, Armed Girls Machiavellism 5, Atom 6, Dagashi Kashi 11, Horimiya 4, Monster Musume 13, Oltre le Onde 4.

MANGASENPAI

In occasione delle seconda visita di Tony Valente alla fiera, in concomitanza con la trasmissione della serie animata prodotta in Giappone, troverete allo stand:

Radiant 7

Radiant 1 (Variant)

PLANET MANGA

Di seguito i volumi in anteprima che troverete presso lo stand dell’editore, che saranno poi disponibili a partire dall'8 novembre:

Boruto - Naruto Next Generations 5 (Standar/Variant) di Kodachi Ukio, Mikio Ikemoto

Boruto Welcome pack (vol.1-4) di Kodachi Ukio, Mikio Ikemoto

La promessa della rosa 1 di Kaho Miyasaka

Citrus 1 (Standard/Variant) di Saburouta

La cena di un mangaka di Yusuke Murata

Black Torch 1 di Tsuyoshi Takaki

Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu di Junji Ito

Shino non sa dire il suo nome di Shuzo Oshimi

Platinum End 7 di Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata

Berserk 26 (Maximum) di Kentaro Miura

Berserk Official Guide Book di Kentaro Miura

STAR COMICS

Di seguito alcune fra le novità presenti allo stand dell’editore, che quest’anno avrà un’intera piazza dedicata:

My Hero Academia Offical Character Book Ultra Archive di Kohei Horikoshi

Remina - L’astro infernale di Junji Ito

Lo Squalificato 1 di Junji Ito

Dissolving Classroom di Junji Ito

Gyo - Odore di morte di Junji Ito

Jagan 1 (Standard/Variant) di Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Kensuke Nishida

Dragon Ball Super 5 (Limited Edition) di Akira Toriyama, Toyotaro

Dr.Stone 1 (Limited/Variant/Standard) di Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi

Potete consultare l’elenco completo dei titoli in vendita in fiera passando per questo link.

KAPPALAB

Oltre ai LIBRIGHIBLI, ovvero i romanzi originali da cui sono tratti i film di Hayao Miyazaki e dello Studio Ghibli, troverete anche le novità autunnali in anteprima:

Penguin Highway di Tomihiko Morimi (il premiatissimo romanzo originale da cui è tratto l’omonimo film d’animazione in uscita a novembre nei cinema italiani)

Perfect Blue di Yoshikazu Takeuchi (il romanzo originale da cui Satoshi Kon ha tratto l’omonimo film d’animazione)

In Questo Angolo di Mondo di Fumiyo Kono (il romanzo originale da cui Sunao Katabuchi ha tratto l’omonimo film d’animazione)

Hiroshima di Fumiyo Kono

Cinestoria del Giappone di Giuliano Tani (la storia del Giappone attraverso i film animati e live action)

Godzilla di Shigeru Kayama (il romanzo originale delle prime due scorribande dell’iconico lucertolone)

Kiki Consegne a domicilio di Eiko Kadono (Premio Hans Christian Andersen 2018, il “Nobel” della letteratura per ragazzi)

Enciclopedia dei mostri giapponesi di Shigeru Mizuki

Enciclopedia degli spiriti giapponesi di Shirgeru Mizuki

Infine, presso gli stand Kappalab situati nell'area Japan e nell'area Editori potrete ottenere tutte le informazioni per la prima data italiana di Dragon Ball Symphonic Adventure, il grande concerto 'full immersion' che si terrà il 27 aprile 2019, suonato e cantato dal vivo in sincrono con le immagini dell'anime.

HOLLOW PRESS

In occasione delle nuova visita di Shintaro Kago in quel di Lucca, la casa editrice proporrà in fiera il quarto e ultimo volume della serie “Day of the Flying Head”. Sarà inoltre offerto, in anteprima e a prezzo speciale, il cofanetto che non conterrà gli albi del fumetto, bensì una tavola originale random tratta dal numero 3 o dal numero 4.

HIKARI EDIZIONI

Di seguito i volumi in anteprima che troverete presso lo stand dell’editore:

The Bird 1 e 2 di Go Nagai

Il leone nero 3 e 4 di Go Nagai

Nanairo Inko - Ara dai sette colori 1 e 2 di Osamu Tezuka

Shumari 3 e 4 di Osamu Tesuka

Gen di Hiroshima 1-3 (Ristampa) di Keiji Nakazawa

La sposa davanti alla stazione di Shintaro Kago

FLASHBOOK EDIZIONI

Mr. Nobody 1 di Gou Tanabe

Cousin 1 di Ryo Ikuemi

Ka Cho Fu Getsu 1 di Yuki Shimizu

COCONINO PRESS

Il fiume Shinano 1 di Kazuo Kamimura

Utsubora 2 di Asumiko Nakamura

MAGIC PRESS

O.B. 1 di Asumiko Nakamura

L’elenco non è da considerarsi completo al 100%, ma speriamo possa comunque tornarvi utile almeno per farvi un’idea delle sorprese che potrà riservare il festival.

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9, 15, 16, 27, and a couple of numbers I'm picking totally at random; 36, 54, 78, 93

9: Have you ever collected anything? What was it?

My biggest collection is video games, of which I have 1,100+. Within that, there are sub-collections where I branch out into other things such as figures, soundtracks, signed goods etc., such as Sonic, Danganronpa and Virtua Fighter.

Other than that, I collect old anime/manga things, like I have a complete collection of Manga Mania (also Manga Vizion, but I bought that as one lot so it hardly counts). Games mags too, funnily enough. I play trading card games on and off, and have a sizeable Magic: the Gathering collection from my 2010-2013 run when I went all-out and even played tournaments outside the UK.

15: Favorite food

Pizza. Toppings can vary, but definitely pizza. I couldn’t eat most foods day in, day out, but I will never go off pizza.

16: Favorite drink

Hmmm... for squash, blackcurrant. Fizzy drinks, root beer. Alcoholic, whiskey.

27:Favorite artist?

This changes day by day. Lately it’s been Shintaro Kago.

36:Where did you last go other than your room/home?

The office, which is where I am now. To my right, there are piles of games, DVDs and CDs that I brought in for a photo shoot and still haven’t taken home. A Retrode 2 sits next to them, for playing cartridge games on my PC (which is the only Windows machine in an office full of Macs). There’s also the current issue of the mag, various controllers, the final issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine and a book on the Bitmap Brothers. To my left, there’s a stack of clone consoles, my US SNES games, Saturn memory carts, a screwdriver set, a broken Amiga CD32, various books and magazines for photoshoots and reference, various Neo Geo Pocket, Virtual Boy and N64 games and a wallet full of Saturn games. There was an Xbox 360 there but I’ve put that in my bag as I really should take it home.

54:What is your favorite medium of art? (Music, dance, painting, etc.)

I think video games are art (and that’s as valid for Pong as it is for some pretentious indie hit), so video games.

78:If you could say one thing to the world, what would you say?

Try not to make anyone’s life more difficult without a damned good reason.

93:What is the weirdest thing you have ever seen?

Probably a bloke in a cartoon bear costume kicking the shit out of some teenagers at a holiday park. Either that or a Scottish stand-up comedian trying to perform a long-form joke to a packed Central line tube train on a Saturday night.

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