NSFW: Suehiro Maruo’s Ero Guro art
Ero Guro? What’s that shit, you say? Well, it’s an art that combines erotica (not pornography, just erotica) with elements of macabre and grotesque, which explains it’s other name, “erotico-grotesque.” It comes in many forms and shapes, like novels, short stories or movies, but today we are taking interest in the visual arts. Suehiro Maruo is a mangaka internationally recognized for its work as an ero guro artist.
With works like Imomushi, Bindzume no jigoku or Mr. Arashi’s Amazing Freak Show, he created himself an inspired universe influenced by surrealism, German expressionism, Edgar Poe, Georges Bataille or Otto Dix paintings. From horrific murders by Japanese serial killers to erotic tortures, each scene he depicts has a sense of fearful beauty in its own way. It’s not all blood and sex.
Perversion is a guilty pleasure for some, and the feeling you’ll get from him might remind you of the fascinating disgust you felt when you first read Marquis de Sade. If you want suffering, you will get it; if you want crude, you will get it; if you want macabre drawings and the embodiment of darkness, guess what? You will get it. Who said manga was for children?
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While I think it’s important to be familiar with Japanese art, which includes, Ero Guro Nansensu….this isn’t well researched (suprise) and misses the importance of the movement. Just showing the works without context is fruitless.
Chris Miller
Also, thanks to John Zorn for introducing a bunch of Americans to this artwork! Naked City etc……..
This is just a cartoon for children.
Awesome shit man.. eyes coming out from the ass, razorblade fuckin’…
Nobody has ever said that
Bradley Ellison
Prasad Jayaruwan
Guaggg
<3
Mr Arashi’s Amazing Freakshow is my shit
Nicole
Perry Hall
Casey Max Campbell
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”.
battle royale is beyond godlike
Eeeeeew
Hailey Elizabeth Bence
Hurr.
Okay, fuck this.
Let’s get married.
I have one of his books after me and my friend went to his exhibition in Kyoto. I got a pin of this art somewhere in my house.
into this hard
WHOA!
Nana Osaki
look at this! Un Pájaro Azul
Hannah Gates
Sharon Blankstein
Angelo Antonio Dilengite Francesco Dilengite Iacopo Panarese
Yves Schneider 😉
Torture Garden
meh…
Fox Leite
os mangas do suehiro maruo são bem famosos no gênero ero guro, mas nunca li ;;
Joseph Horowitz
I love his stuff
Emily Long Nonio Grenes
Dang
Dean Fudoshintattoos Greg Loveman Steve Howard Morante
Jovana Erzsébet Kalkan
Michael D. Quinn check it
Ethan McBride
Naked City
Right when I saw this I thought Naked City art, turns out it’s actually the same person.
Same here!
Chris King
Doomed Megalopolis
If you like this look up toshio saeki. Last gasp puts out an art book by him. It’s out of bananas.
Laura Jelsma
I can’t say I’ve read anything like that….
Brittany Cat
Kim Pope
“The Laughing Vampire” is a piece of art <3
And the hipsters are eating this stuff up like worms, like they do with everything else as soon as it gets popular on the internet. 🙁 It’s a double-edged sword when someone writes an article about something interesting. We can’t have nice things.
yes… same happened when they put pictures of saeki
True.
yeah, really sucks when people get into new things
I guess that’s like assuming that Cvlt Nation is meant for metalheads
Suehiro Maruo’s ‘DDT’ has a story about raping and murdering a mentally disabled toddler. Edgy.
Nice super cool buzzword
Iva Gustinčič