and imageboards, as well as in homosexual circles, the interjection "uho!", along with other lines from his manga, is often taken in a homoerotic context for the above reason. "Yaranaika" itself was ranked the 16th in 2007's "Net Slang of the Year" in Japan. Parody art of the manga, usually achieved by photoshopping the characters' expressions of pleasure onto other images, are often seen at various imageboards. Similarly, Takakazu Abe makes several (unnamed) comic-relief cameos in the hentai manga Alignment You! You!, saying his famous line in most of them. The manga was also referenced in the 2012 anime series Joshiraku. A theme song ("Yaranaika") has also been attributed to Takakazu Abe, using homoerotic lyrics to the melody of "Balalaika", a song by Morning Musume member Koharu Kusumi. Yuichiro Nagashima, the cosplay kickboxer, once entered the ring in Abe's eponymous jumpsuit with the parody song as background music. The song remains popular on video sites such as Nico Nico Douga, where it has been integrated into one of the site's most popular medleys. In 2009, in a survey asking its respondents "which manga do you think is the most interesting?" in a pool of 6000, Kuso Miso Technique came at 11th, beating popular manga such as Gin Tama and Case Closed. Japanese pornography maker Moodyz released a live-action adaptation in 2012, describing it as a collaboration work with Junichi Yamakawa and a "pinnacle of anal". Female porn stars were cast as the characters Takakazu Abe () and Masaki Michishita (), despite the characters referring to themselves as male in the adult video. In 2014, American manga publishing firm Digital Manga Publishing created an April Fools' joke where they claimed that their pornographic label Project-H would release Kuso Miso Technique in English. References See also 1987 manga 1980s LGBT literature Hentai anime and manga Internet memes introduced in 2002 LGBT in anime and manga One-shot manga Works published under a pseudonym