Genre: Ero Guro

Ero guro is an artistic genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and decadence. 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 “ero(tic)”, guro from “gro(tesque)”, and nansensu from “nonsense”. In actuality 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 used incorrectly by audiences to mean “gore”—depictions of horror, blood, and guts.

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Mr. Arashi’s Amazing Freak Show

by Jamieupdated on July 2, 2021December 8, 2020Leave a Comment

My Thoughts There is no genre of manga that is more avant-garde than the ero guro movement. Ero Guro nansensu is a movement famed for depicting extreme gorey horror with themes of sexual violence. No ero guro manga is more famous than Shoujo Tsubaki, translated to Mr. Arashi’s Amazing Freak Show in the west. The …

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Fragments of Horror

by Jamieupdated on February 7, 2021January 7, 2020Leave a Comment

Also by this author: Gyo, Tomie, Venus in the Blind Spot My Thoughts Fragments of Horror is currently the last of Ito’s works to be published and I have to say that it is one of his most unusual collections. It is very different from his typical body of work in both good and bad …