In the harsh world of artthere are not few artist careers that have to be supported by alternating vocational care work with illustrations for erotic publications. It is a classic for many cartoonists, who are forced to obtain a small bonus to help them make ends meet.
But also, in JapanAt the very least, it serves as a small springboard for young artists who have not had the opportunity to publish in other media. Sure, in the west, porn is an industry that is viewed with negative connotations, rude, and generally frowned upon by polite society. But there, porn is a multimedia industry that is acceptedspanning games, comics, anime, and of course, live action.
Therefore, the Japanese are much more open to accepting the almost cliché fact that many people started their careers in the world of porn. And if this is valid for stars “in action”, it is much more so for the authors who draw hentai.
The daily life of porn in Japan
In fact, virtually everyone in the manga industry has some ties to porn, either through a joint publisher like the doujinshi giant or directly to the actual porn made by many cartoonists at some point in their career. Nobody cares that, for example, Toshihiro Onoartist of the popular ‘Pokemon’, he drew under a pseudonym titles as reflective and interesting as ‘Anal Justice’.
This leads us to review the case of masamune shirow, the original creator of ‘Ghost in the Shell’. Born under the name of Masanori Ota, he was born on November 23, 1961 in the city of Kobe. He studies arts at Osaka University, where he graduated as a Professor with a specialty in classical painting. And at the same time he develops his taste for sleeve.
His first manga, ‘Black Magic’, combines cyberpunk elements with a controversial dehumanization of man in a dystopian future, which would serve as basis of all his work in the future.
Thanks to his success he saw the light ‘Appleseed’, which for many is Shirow’s best work. In an Earth torn apart by World War III, a dystopian utopia where androids and humans must live in harmony. Then I would follow her’Dominion’about a world destroyed by an environmental catastrophe where its inhabitants must live with permanent masks or androids with anthropomorphic forms to better resist abroad.
Hentai: obligation or devotion?
As we can see, these were before his most popular work, ‘Ghost in the Shell’. Although it was a relative success, of course, the laurels would not come until the anime adaptation. Meanwhile, Masamune Shirow prepares his most ambitious work: ‘Orion’which combines fantasy, mythology and science fiction in the form of an orgy of gods, elementals, beings of the universe, particle theories and wicks.
The host that he takes is so great that it leaves him without a job for the next 5 years and it is here, in this period, that the author start drawing in adult magazinessomething that some already saw coming and that would become his distinctive signature in the future.
The success of the anime brought Masamune Shirow back to work in the scifi genre with new manga of ‘Ghost in the Shell’a consulting contract for the adaptations and other anime such as ‘Real Drive’. Shirow is somewhat of a rebel against the slave publishing system, perhaps because he is slower and less prolific than other peers, juggling his work. manga with hentai.
But the real reason could be the “depraved” nature of the author. And it is that he has not only edited his own series of erotic art under the brand galgreasethe thing seems to have always been there.
In other words, his lack of modesty can be followed throughout all his work and as the years go by, his obsession with drawing tits and butts and its adult gender details, even with bestiality reflexes tinged with cybernetics give clues to the unprejudiced amorality of his work.
Examples like Motoko’s lesbian relationship in virtual reality of ‘Ghost in the Shell’ (with some mythical cartoons censored in later editions) or the usual nudes from the ‘Dominion’ saga. Moments from ‘Orion’ as Princess Kushinata tied to a giant octopus that fed on their feces are small loose details that reveal Shirow’s split personality, between Isaac Asimov and Robert Crumb, which is not limited to his purely hentai survival adventures.
Although we see it as the result of hardship, or low moments, in the Japanese industry it is considered almost a perfectly feasible step at some point in the mangaka career. normalized and habitualthe associated controversial factor impacts us, if anything, in the West.
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