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Gengoroh Tagame (田亀 源五郎 Tagame Gengorō, born 3 February 1964) is an openly gay Japanese manga artist. The bulk of his work has consisted of gay BDSM erotic manga, many of which depict graphic violence, featuring hypermasculine, often bearish men. His later work includes the all-ages family drama My Brother's Husband.
Tagame has been called the most influential creator of gay manga in Japan to date, and "the most talented and most famous author of sado-masochistic gay manga". Most of his work first appeared in gay magazines and usually feature sexual abuse. Tagame's depiction of men as muscular and hairy h
Gengoroh Tagame (田亀 源五郎 Tagame Gengorō, born 3 February 1964) is an openly gay Japanese manga artist. The bulk of his work has consisted of gay BDSM erotic manga, many of which depict graphic violence, featuring hypermasculine, often bearish men. His later work includes the all-ages family drama My Brother's Husband.
Tagame has been called the most influential creator of gay manga in Japan to date, and "the most talented and most famous author of sado-masochistic gay manga". Most of his work first appeared in gay magazines and usually feature sexual abuse. Tagame's depiction of men as muscular and hairy has been cited as a catalyst for a shift in fashion amongst gay men in 1995, away from the clean-shaven and slender bishōnen stereotypes and towards a tendency for masculinity and chubbiness. Tagame's work has been criticised by notable gay manga writer Susumu Hirosegawa as "SM gekijō" (S&M theater) for its violence and lack of complex storylines.
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