produce as a genre of Japanese pornography and hentai involving blood, gore, disfiguration, violence, mutilation, urine, enemas, or feces. This genre of pornography is colloquially known among internet circles simply as "guro". Well-known manga artists include Suehiro Maruo, Hajime Yamano, Jun Hayami, Go Nagai, Shintaro Kago, Toshio Maeda, Henmaru Machino, Yamamoto Takato, Horihone Saizō, Katsuhisa Kigitsu, Uziga Waita, and Rei Mikamoto. The modern genre of tentacle rape began within the category of (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. In music Some visual kei bands have a concept or theme relating to , most notably Cali Gari. Western visual kei fans assumed their theme was a subgenre of visual kei and linked it with other similar bands. The 2014 Flying Lotus album You're Dead! prominently featured 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. See also Grotesque Urotsukidoji Marquis de Sade Mnemosyne (TV series) Tokyo Red Hood List of genres Notes Aguilar, Carlos (editor). Bizarre Sinema! Japanese Ero Gro & Pinku Eiga 1956–1979. Firenze, Italy: Glittering Images, 2005. . McLelland, Mark. "A Short History of 'Hentai'" (PDF version). Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, issue 12 (January 2006). . Silverberg, Miriam Rom. Galley copy of the table of contents and preface for Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. December 12, 2005. Silverberg, Miriam Rom. Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times . Asia Pacific modern, 1. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. . Visual arts genres Arts in Japan Hentai Japanese pornography Visual kei Erotic horror Japanese sex terms