EroGuro (エログロ, Ero-guro^?) is a concept or movement or sub-genre, still somewhat loosely defined, that has emerged inside multiple schools of Japanese art and music. The word EroGuro or Ero Guro Nansensu is gairaigo derived from the English phrase "erotic grotesque nonsense", and is sometimes shortened to simply guro (though this shortening is usually used to describe pornography). Gairaigo (外来語) is Japanese for loan word or borrowed word, and indicates a transliteration (or transvocalization) into Japanese. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

History

EroGuro's first distinct appearance began in 1920s and 1930s Japanese literature. After World War I, many cultures in many countries saw a rise in liberation, especially with the cultural movements such as Jazz, the women's rights movements and Café culture. EroGuro can be seen as a byproduct of this worldwide relaxation of sexual taboos.^{[citation needed]} The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Japanese literature spans a period of almost two millennia. ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul von Hindenburg... Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The movement was generally supressed during World War II but has re-emerged in Post-WWII Japan [1], especially in Manga and Music. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... 2nd English edition of InuYasha Vol. ... crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...

Over time, the EroGuro movement's influence expanded into parts of Japanese theatre, art, Manga, and eventually film and music. Traditional Japanese theatre includes kabuki, noh and bunraku. ... Bronze statue of Amida Buddha at Kotokuin in Kamakura (1252 CE) Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper, and a myriad of other types of works of art. ... 2nd English edition of InuYasha Vol. ...

In art and manga

The typifying element of EroGuro visual art is the macabre intermingled with sexual overtones. Often the erotic element, even when not explicit, is merged with grotesque themes and features - rather similar to the works of H. R. Giger. Some visual artists who produce work classifiable as EroGuro intend for it to be a deconstruction of Otaku sexuality or a critique of Japanese consumer culture. Others produce EroGuro as a genre of Japanese pornography and hentai involving blood, gore, disfiguration, mutilation, urine, enemas, or feces. Birth machine Hans Ruedi Giger (IPA: ) (born at Chur, Grisons canton, February 5, 1940) is a Swiss painter best known for his design work on the film Alien. ... Overweight, unkempt, bespectacled and fantasizing about an anime heroine--a popular otaku stereotype. ... Pornographic movies Pornography (from Greek πόρνη (porni) prostitute and γραφή (grafi) writing), more informally referred to as porn or porno, is the representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ... Hentai magazines on display in Japan Hentai ) is a Japanese word that means strange appearance or abnormality. However, in colloquial situations it often means perverted and is subsequently used in many other countries to refer to anime, manga, and computer games with explicit sexual or pornographic content (see Japanese pornography). ... Human blood smear: a - erythrocytes; b - neutrophil; c - eosinophil; d - lymphocyte. ... Disembowelment is evisceration, or the removing of some or all of vital organs, usually from the abdomen. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), also known as Amputee Identity Disorder or Apotemnophilia (from Greek αποτέμνειν to cut off, and φιλία love of) is the overwhelming desire to amputate one or more healthy limbs or other parts of the body. ... Look up urolagnia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Klismaphilia (sometimes spelled Klysmaphilia) is the paraphilia of deriving sexual pleasure from enemas. ... Look up coprophilia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Examples of well-known guro visual manga artists include Suehiro Maruo, Shintaro Kago, Jun Hayami, Toshio Maeda, Henmaru Machino, and Waita Uziga. Maruo Suehiro (丸尾末広; Maruo Suehiro) (born January 28, 1956 in Nagasaki, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, and painter. ... Shintaro Kago (駕籠真太郎) (born 1969), sometimes also credited as Shintarou Kago or Shintarō Kago, is a Japanese manga/comic artist or mangaka who works primarily in the ero-guro and science fiction genres. ... Toshio Maeda (前田俊夫) is a Hentai mangaka who was most prolific in the 80s and 90s. ... Henmaru Machino (sometimes credited as Hanmaru Machino) is a Japanese artist whose works prominently feature themes of dysmorphic hermaphrodism and body transformation, as well as dozens of other sexual paraphilia. ... Waita Uziga (氏賀Ｙ太 Ujiga Waita) is well known artist in certain communities for being a guro shock mangaka. ...

The modern genre of tentacle rape began within the category of EroGuro (although it has much older roots in older Japanese art; see The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife), but was so successful that it is now usually considered separately. The Dream of the Fishermans Wife, an 1820 Hokusai woodcut depicting a woman engaging in sex with a pair of octopuses. ... The Dream of the Fishermans Wife is an erotic woodcut made circa 1820 by Hokusai, perhaps the first instance of tentacled creatures appearing in Japanese erotica (sometimes called tentacle sex). ...

EroGuro is also an element in many Japanese horror films and pinku eiga, particularly of the 1960s and 70s, such as Teruo Ishii's Horror of the Malformed Men (江戸川乱歩全集 恐怖奇形人間, 1969) and Giichi Nishihara's Grotesque Perverted Slaughter (現代猟奇性犯罪, 1976). Pinku eiga (ピンク映画, lit. ...

Legality

Many countries prohibit pornography that is deemed to incite violence. This may be specifically because of the concern that the portrayed acts might be copied by mentally disturbed sadists, or simply as an outgrowth of the belief that pornography, especially hardcore pornography, objectifies and dehumanizes people.

As such, Guro would likely be considered illegal in countries having such legislation. However, the fact that most guro artwork is clearly that - drawn or photomanipulated images not portraying reality - prevents most law enforcement agencies (especially online) from making the pursuit of such material a priority, concentrating instead on child pornography or simulated child pornography. Generally, child pornography (pornography featuring minors), is illegal in most jurisdictions. ...

In music

EroGuro bands (most often seen as a sub-genre within Visual Kei or Post Visual by some fans) typically use shock visuals, as well as lyrics and live imagery, but look less feminine than traditional Visual Kei. Within the Erotic and Shock Value of the bands' music and performance, there is also humour. It has long been rumoured that Cali≠Gari were responsible for the application of the term to music. Visual Kei , literally visual style) refers to a movement in Japanese rock which started in the 1980s and became widely popular in Japan by the 1990s. ... Cali≠Gari were a band that fathered the eroguro (erotic and grotesque) movement. ...

Bands described as EroGuro include Velvet Eden, Kinniku Shojyo Tai，Guruguru Eigakan, Inugami Circus-dan, Rauya, Merry, MUCC, Cali≠Gari, and more. Velvet Eden is a Japanese Darkwave/Visual Kei band, that formed in 1998. ... Inugami Cirus Dan (犬神サーカス団), which translates as `The Dog-God Circus Troupe are a rock band from Japan, who are visual kei and ero-guro. ... The members of Merry, from left to right: Nero,Kenichi, Yuu, Tetsu, and Gara. ... MUCC from left to right: Tatsurou, Satochi, Miya, and YUKKE. MUCC / MUKKU (ムック) are a Japanese rock (J-Rock) band formed in 1997. ... Cali≠Gari were a band that fathered the eroguro (erotic and grotesque) movement. ...

EroGuro and Angura Kei are two similar movements and in music are considered to be closely related. The distinction is that EroGuro puts the focus closer on eroticism, sexual corruption and decadence. [2]. Angura Kei (an anti-westernization movement that began in the 1960's) uses horror to return to something "uniquely Japanese" as Japan has a long tradition of ghost stories and monsters in their folklore. Angura Kei (アングラ系 Lit. ...

References

• [3] or *Paper by Mark McLelland of the University of Queensland
• Paper from UCLA website by Professor Miriam Silverberg
• Aguilar, Carlos (editor). Bizarre Sinema! Japanese Ero Gro & Pinku Eiga 1956-1979. Firenze, Italy: Glittering Images, 2005. ISBN 88-8275-065-5

External links

WARNING: Some of the visuals in the following links may be disturbing

• GreenCine primer on New Asian Horror
• An English imageboard dedicated to guro.
• A translated guro manga archive.
• A scanlation site featuring the guro manga Tokyo Akazukin.
• A scanlation site featuring several guro stories.
• [4].