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lead=yes is an artistic genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and decadence.Silverberg, Miriam Rom. "By Way of a Preface: Defining Erotic Grotesque Nonsense". Galley copy of the preface for Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. December 12, 2005. As a term, it is used to denote something that is both erotic and grotesque.
The term itself is an example of wasei-eigo, a Japanese combination of English words or abbreviated words: ero from erotic and guro from grotesque. The "grotesqueness" implied in the term refers to things that are malformed, unnatural, or horrific. Items that are pornographic and bloody are not necessarily ero guro, and vice versa. The term is often mistaken by Western audiences to mean "Graphic violence" – depictions of horror, blood, and guts.
Ero guro nansensu's first distinct appearance began in the 1920s and 1930s Japanese literature. The Sada Abe of 1936, where a woman strangled her lover to death and castration his corpse, struck a chord with the ero guro nansensu movement but shortly led to the censorship of related media. Other similar activities and movements were generally suppressed in Japan during World War II, but re-emerged in the postwar period, especially in manga and music.McLelland, Mark. "A Short History of Hentai; ( PDF version). Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, issue 12 (January 2006). .
Over time, the ero guro nansensu movement's influence expanded into parts of Japanese theatre, Japanese art, manga, and eventually into film and music.
There are modern italic=no artists, some of whom cite ero guro nansensu as an influence on their work. These artists explore the macabre intermingled with sexual overtones. Often the erotic element, even when not explicit, is merged with grotesque themes and features similar to the works of H. R. Giger. Others produce italic=no as a subgenre of Japanese pornography and hentai involving blood, , disfiguration, violence, mutilation, Urolagnia, Klismaphilia, or Coprophilia. This subgenre of pornography is colloquially known among internet circles simply as "guro".
One of the most important and influential post-war ero guro illustrators was Toshio Saeki. Well-known italic=no Mangaka include Suehiro Maruo, Hideshi Hino, , , Go Nagai, Shintaro Kago, Toshio Maeda, Henmaru Machino, , , Katsuhisa Kigitsu, Uziga Waita, and Osada Not.
The modern genre of Tentacle erotica began within the category of italic=no (although it has much older roots in Japanese art; see Girl Diver and Octopi) but became so popular that it is now usually considered separately.
The 2014 Flying Lotus album You're Dead! prominently featured italic=no artwork from Japanese manga artist Shintaro Kago on the cover and inner sleeve, with further art being utilised in the accompanying live show. Much of the drawings featured men and women being disfigured and mutilated in unrealistic, hi-tech ways, with a significant amount of gore and nudity.
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