Gengoroh Tagame

This is a good article. Click here for more information.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The native form of this personal name is Tagame Gengoroh. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Gengoroh Tagame
田亀 源五郎
Eisner Award (2018)
Websitetagame.org

Gengoroh Tagame (田亀 源五郎, Tagame Gengorō, born February 3, 1964) is a

manga artist. He is regarded as the most prolific and influential creator in the gay manga genre. Tagame began contributing manga and prose fiction to Japanese gay men's magazines in the 1980s, after making his debut as a manga artist in the yaoi (male-male romance) manga magazine June while in high school. As a student he studied graphic design at Tama Art University, and worked as a commercial graphic designer and art director to support his career as a manga artist. His manga series The Toyed Man (嬲り者, Naburi-Mono), originally serialized in the gay men's magazine Badi from 1992 to 1993, enjoyed breakout success after it was published as a book in 1994. After co-founding the gay men's magazine G-men
in 1995, Tagame began working as a gay manga artist full-time.

For much of his career Tagame exclusively created erotic and pornographic manga, works that are distinguished by their graphic depictions of

art historian
, through his multi-volume art anthology series Gay Erotic Art in Japan.

Biography

Early life and career

Tagame was born in

zines;[6] Tagame has remarked that he discovered his interest in BDSM before he realized he was gay.[7]

He became aware of his homosexuality after watching films featuring "naked and bound men" (such as the Italian

cross dresses" whose father is murdered by his boyfriend.[5][9] Tagame struggled with his sexuality and interest in sadomasochism through high school, and did not come out until his freshman year of college.[8]

Upon graduating high school Tagame moved to Tokyo to study graphic design at Tama Art University against the wishes of his parents, who expected him to attend the University of Tokyo and become a banker.[4][10] Throughout college he submitted gay erotic stories, illustrations, and manga to Barazoku, René, and other gay and BL magazines under a variety of pseudonyms.[8][2] He eventually settled on the pen name "Gengoroh Tagame"; both words are Japanese terms for different species of water bugs, which Tagame chose to differentiate himself from the "macho or romantic" pen names used by other gay Japanese artists.[11] While on a student art tour of Europe, Tagame discovered the American leather magazine Drummer at a bookshop in London.[11] The magazine featured homoerotic and fetishistic illustrations by western artists such as Tom of Finland, Rex, and Bill Ward, and would heavily influence Tagame's art.[8] After graduating university he began to work as a commercial graphic designer and later art director, while continuing to write manga and prose fiction.[2][12]

Gay erotic manga

The 1980s saw an increase in the popularity of gay media in Japan, a trend inspired by the cultural importation of works by American gay artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Edmund White.[13] As Japanese publishers sought to exploit this new interest in gay art created by gay artists, Tagame emerged as an influential artist on the basis of his work at June, Barazoku, and other magazines.[13] Tagame made his debut as a gay erotic manga artist in 1987, creating manga for Sabu.[2] In contrast to the heterosexual and female-oriented yaoi and BL magazines that had published Tagame's previous works, Sabu was produced by gay men for a gay male audience.[2] His manga series The Toyed Man (嬲り者, Naburi-Mono), originally serialized in the gay men's magazine Badi from 1992 to 1993, was published as a book in 1994 and became the first gay comic work in Japan to turn a profit.[13] The breakout success of The Toyed Man demonstrated the viability of gay manga – manga about gay relationships for a gay male audience, in contrast to yaoi – as a commercial category,[14] and established it as a genre "of cultural merit and artistic importance."[13] Tagame's second longform series, the 824-page, three-volume historical epic The Silver Flower (男女郎苦界草紙～銀の華, Shirogane-no-Hana), is noted by Graham Kolbeins as widening "the scope of what gay manga could be narratively" beyond stories focused largely on pornography to incorporate complex narrative and aesthetic elements.[13]

In 1995, Tagame and two editors from Badi founded the gay men's magazine G-men, a shorthand for "Gengoroh's Men".[13] The magazine focused on works depicting masculine, physically large men, and featured manga depicting older and muscular body types.[2] G-men was part of a concerted effort by Tagame to "change the status quo of gay magazines"[8] away from the aesthetic of bishōnen – delicate and androgynous boys and young men that were popular in gay media at the time.[2][13] G-men was a success, and by 1996, Tagame was working full-time as a gay manga artist.[12] The magazine serialized the bulk of Tagame's manga published during the 1990s and early 2000s, notably Do You Remember the South Island's POW Camp? and Pride.[15] Tagame continued to publish his serialized manga as books during this period, initially through gay pornography production companies, and later through formal publishers.[2] Beginning in 2003, Tagame began publishing the multi-volume gay erotic art anthology series Gay Erotic Art in Japan, which follows the history of Japanese gay erotic art from the 1950s to the present.[2]

International and crossover success

Tagame attracted an international audience beginning in the 2000s though the circulation of

Bruno Gmünder Verlag.[17]

In 2013, Tagame was approached by editors at the publishing company

autobiographical manga series, he had declined the offers, stating that he "didn't want to abandon my style and my audience by writing a more mainstream work."[10][18] Beginning in the early 2010s, Tagame noted that while same-sex marriage was rarely covered in the mainstream Japanese press, the issue generated significant interest among his heterosexual fans when he posted about the topic on his Twitter account.[10][18] Subsequently, Tagame pitched Futabasha for a series about same-sex marriage and LGBT rights in Japan from the perspective of a straight character;[10][19] the resulting series was My Brother's Husband, which was serialized in the seinen (manga for young adult men) magazine Monthly Action from 2014 to 2017.[8] The series was widely acclaimed, won numerous awards, and was adapted into a live-action television drama that aired on NHK in 2018.[20]

Tagame has continued to create erotic manga concurrently with all-ages manga, stating that the experience of creating My Brother's Husband made him "realize how much fun [all-ages manga] is to draw" and that balancing the creation of erotic works with the creation of all-ages works was "very healthy for me, mentally."[7] Our Colors, his second series aimed at a general audience, was serialized in Monthly Action from 2018 to 2020.[21]

Style and influences

An interview with Tagame by Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins, where he discusses his use of sci-fi, fantasy and historical fiction to portray "new worlds of S&M" in his manga

Tagame describes his style as kuma-kei (熊系, lit. "

fetishistic in nature, featuring depictions of bondage, discipline, leather, fisting[23] and sadomasochism.[15] These themes are often amplified through his use of science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction to create surreal and hyperreal sexual scenarios.[24] Tagame has acknowledged that his manga "represents a very small minority of the world. In the real world, the large majority of people don't like torture in their sex lives, invariably. But I'm not writing for them."[24] Tagame sparingly depicts extreme fetishistic material in work such as coprophilia or graphic violence, noting that the primary purpose of his pornographic works is to inspire sexual excitement and not disgust.[25]

While comic art featuring sexualized depictions of masculine men is not unique to Tagame, academic William Armour argues that his works are distinguished from his peers through his interest "in the way in which power relationships between men can be eroticised."[15] His manga have been noted for their aesthetic qualities and psychological complexity,[11] with Armour writing that "while on one level Tagame presents stories as graphic cartoon porn, on another level he weaves into the images and wording a much deeper sense of how homosociality can easily transform into homosexuality, despite his male characters being positioned as examples of hegemonic masculinity."[26] Tagame himself has stated that "what I have tried to do in my erotica is raise that to the level of art and think about it in terms of art being principally to the service of depicting humanity."[19]

While the majority of gay manga artists produce works targeting a gay male audience exclusively, Tagame is noted for having a significant heterosexual and female audience.[27] Tagame has stated that he adjusts his style if a work is being published in a format where it will be primarily read by a specific subset of his audience, noting that "when I write for gay men's magazines, it's primarily about the hero's initiative and interiority. When I know that women are also going to be reading it [...] they're more interested in seeing actual relationships and coupling."[28] In considering why Tagame's works attract a diverse audience, Anne Ishii hypothesizes that "something about what Tagame does isn't even about being gay [...] it's about desire and the darker side of desire. It doesn't fit into a sexual category to me."[27]

Tagame credits both Japanese and Western artists among his influences,[15][3] including Caravaggio, Michelangelo,[10] the Marquis de Sade,[4] Tsukioka Yoshitoshi,[3] Go Mishima, Sanshi Funayama, Oda Toshimi,[29] Suehiro Maruo, Kazuichi Hanawa, Hiromi Hiraguchi,[2] and Bill Ward.[8] Nude figures in Hellenistic and Baroque art, initially encountered by Tagame in classic art anthologies he read as a child, heavily influenced his works.[5][10] In considering his Western and Japanese influences, Tagame notes that Western Christian art has inspired his depictions of nudity and humiliation (such as Caravaggio's depictions of the crucifixion of Christ), whereas Japanese classical art such as shunga (woodcut erotic art originating in the Edo period) has inspired his depictions of violence.[5][8]

Themes and motifs

Hypermasculinity

The majority of Tagame's works depict men with personal and physical traits associated with

ejaculate, machismo,[31] and participation in extreme or violent sexual acts.[32][33] Tagame has stated that he is interested in how men who are perceived as masculine "respond to societal pressure" and "perform their manliness beyond what's necessary," and how those attitudes change "if a man loses his manliness [...] by participating in activity that normative society believes men would not normally participate in."[34] Armour identifies Pride, which depicts a dominant university student who is trained into submission by his masochistic professor, and The Gamefowl in Darkness, which is inspired by Yasujirō Ozu's A Hen in the Wind and Edogawa Ranpo's The Caterpillar, as representative examples of hypermasculine themes in Tagame's works.[35]

Tagame's artwork is often associated with bara, a colloquialism used by non-Japanese audiences to refer to Japanese erotic art featuring masculine men. Tagame has rejected this association, citing the term's historical use as a pejorative for gay men[a] and calling it "a very negative word that comes with bad connotations."[36] Tagame's works are often categorized alongside the "macho" gay art movement associated with artists such as Tom of Finland, which emerged in American biker culture in the early 1960s and was later adapted by gay men to counter stereotypes of effeteness and emasculation.[4] Designer Chip Kidd has contested this association, arguing that "as delightfully sturdy and game as Tom of Finland’s characters depicted, they never quite seem alive. Tagame’s characters are, by vivid contrast, almost unbearably so."[29]

Meiji period literature, specifically the character archetype of a man "who was homosexual because he was uncouth, not refined enough to be heterosexual and to please women, a warrior, a peasant from the south, not fit for decent society."[33] Armour notes that Tagame's works are distinguished from his Western gay comic peers through his subversion of stereotypical portrayals of East Asian men as emasculated and asexual, writing that "while there seems little difference in how Tagame’s men are drawn and how male characters in Western erotic gay comics are depicted [...] from a white, Western viewpoint, Tagame's depiction of hyper-masculine Japanese men can be considered to break down the stereotype within many Western gay cultures that Asian men in general are skinny, small-dicked, effete weaklings who are fucked for the pleasure of big-dicked, buff macho white guy."[30]

Sadomasochism and sexual violence

Though not all sexual depictions in Tagame's manga involve

German opera, and Japanese folktales that depict the "beauty of destruction" and a "person who’s falling apart".[4] For example, in his manga Missing, a man frees his kidnapped brother by killing the corrupt military officers who have captured him, though the murderous act is intentionally not directly depicted.[4]

Tagame's works focused on BDSM frequently depict a protagonist who goes through a process of self-discovery as a result of his participation in a BDSM or otherwise fetishistic relationship.

alpha" men who are sexually dominated and tortured[2] or who allow themselves to be sexually debased out of a sense of responsibility or duty.[3] Kolbeins argues that by depicting BDSM as a process of self-discovery, Tagame's stores are framed "within a relatable framework of human drama,"[22] while Kidd notes that "a typical Tagame character can be seen as the ultimate mature brute symbol of authority for whom the tide has abruptly turned."[29] Examples of these themes include Endless Game, where a man taken as a sex slave comes to enjoy his new status and forces his captors to obey his desires,[34] and Arena, where a Japanese karate champion becomes involved in an American fighting tournament where the winner of each match sodomizes the loser.[33][38]

Japanese traditionalism

Tagame's works often depict Japanese historical settings, or draw heavily on traditional

Meiji era (1868–1912), and forms of gay expression that were once accepted became pathologized and criminalized.[4] This tension between traditionalism and modernism manifests in Tagame's erotic manga through his rendering of hierarchies, such as works that focus on the patriarchal nature of Japanese society,[34] or samurai characters that serve as symbolic representations of an unjust feudal order.[3] Tagame has stated that he is "fascinated by how these hierarchies fail," describing his simultaneous frustration and attraction to hierarchies associated with Japanese traditionalism thusly:[34]

Falling from hierarchy is the ultimate act of sadomasochism. I find the Japanese ideas of beauty and tradition unappealing conceptually, but as an element of fiction, I feel extraordinary Eros in the destruction of those principles.[34]

One of Tagame's earliest long-form serialized works was The Silver Flower, a historical drama set in the Edo period that follows a formerly wealthy businessman who is forced into sexual slavery in order to resolve a debt.[8] Through the course of the abuse and humiliation he endures at the hands of his male clients, the character comes to realize that he is a masochist;[39] Kolbeins notes that the series "examines a time when male-male sexuality flourished in Japanese society, unfettered by Western notions of sin and 'sodomy'."[13] In Country Doctor, which focuses on a pre-modern Japanese village where western-imposed taboos on sex are absent,[40] Tagame states that he seeks to "spin on its head is this idea that we think people were more conservative in the past and are more liberated in the present."[5]

Themes of traditionalism similarly manifest in Tagame's all-ages manga, albeit in a non-sexual context, through their examination of contemporary Japanese social attitudes towards homosexuality.[8] In My Brother's Husband, protagonist Yaichi is forced to examine his own preconceived notions about gay people after meeting the husband of his deceased twin brother, with his initial homophobia mirroring the prevalent conservative attitudes towards LGBT rights in Japan.[41][17] Tagame notes that Yaichi's character arc towards tolerance and acceptance further mirrors themes in his BDSM manga, where characters are faced with a choice between acceptance of reality or the denial of their own desires and happiness.[10]

Works

Manga

The following is a list of Tagame's

anthologies.[44][45]

Serializations & one-shots
Year English title Original title Type Magazine Collected edition / Anthology
1987 The Judo Master 柔術教師 (Jujitsu-Kyoshi) One-shot Sabu [ja] —
The SM Bathhouse 淫虐浴場 (Ingyaku-Yokujo) One-shot Sabu —
1988 The Slave Trainer 調教師 (Chokyoshi) One-shot Sabu —
The Fallen Rugby Player ラガー失墜 (Raga-Shittsui) One-shot Sabu —
The Midnight Business 深夜営業 (Shinya-Eigyo) One-shot Sabu —
1989 The Boxer BOXER～栄光の代償 One-shot Sabu —
1990 The Song for Defeated Samurai 敗将賦 (Haisho-fu) One-shot Sabu —
The Rasp 軋む男 (Kishimu-Otoko) Serialization Sabu The Judo Master
The Ceremony 儀式 (Gishiki) One-shot Sabu —
The Slave Trainer 2 調教師～オーダーメイドされた男 (Chokyoshi 2) One-shot Sabu —
1991 Dedicated to Mr. Eikichi Adachi 芦立頌 (Adachi-Sho) One-shot Sabu —
The Mountain Cottage Training Camp SM同好会～山荘合宿 (Sanso-Gassyuku) One-shot Sabu The Prisoners
The Yoke of Shadow 陰の軛 (Kage-no-Kubiki) Serialization Sabu The Prisoners
The Construction Workers The Dokata One-shot Sabu The Judo Master
The Legend of Shiramine 白峯異聞 (Shiramine-Ibun) One-shot Sabu The Prisoners
Purgatory プルガトリオ (Purgatorio) One-shot Sabu The Judo Master
1992 The Legend of Hitotsuya 一つ家異聞 (Hitotsuya-Ibun) Serialization Sabu —
The Toyed Man 嬲り者 (Naburi-Mono) Serialization Sabu The Toyed Man
My Teacher 俺の先生 (Ore-no-Sensei) Serialization Sabu The Judo Master
The Legend of Koromogawa 衣川異聞 (Koromogawa-Ibun) One-shot Sabu Forbidden Works
1994 The Silver Flower 男女郎苦界草紙～銀の華 (Shirogane-no-Hana) Serialization Badi The Silver Flower vols. 1–3
The Echoes 谺 (Kodama) Serialization Sabu The Prisoners
The Judo Master Remix Version 谺 (Kodama) One-shot — The Judo Master
1995 The Prisoners 獲物 (Emono) Serialization G-men —
The Gamefowl in Darkness 闇の中の軍鶏 (Yami-no-Naka-no-Syamo) Serialization G-men Pride vol. 3
1996 The Silent Shore 沈黙の渚 (Chinmoku-no-Nagisa) Serialization G-men The Prisoners
Pride PRIDE Serialization G-men Pride vols. 1–3
1998 The After Story of The Mountain Cottage Training Camp 山荘合宿後日譚 (Sanso-Gassyuku-Gojitsutan) One-shot — The Prisoners
1999 The Secret Affair of the 43rd Floor 43階の情事 (43kai-no-Joji) Serialization Badi Country Doctor / Pochi
The Soldier's Brave Blood 猛き血潮～大日本帝國陸軍中尉、中里和馬の場合 (Take-ki-Chishio) One-shot SM-Z Forbidden Works
2000 The House of Brutes 外道の家 (Gedo-no-Ie) Serialization Badi The House of Brutes vols. 1–3
The Yakuza's Brave Blood 猛き血潮～釧路大谷組小頭・坂田彦造の場合 (Take-ki-Chishio) One-shot SM-Z Forbidden Works
The Melon Thief 瓜盗人 (Uri-Nusutto) One-shot SM-Z Forbidden Works
The Arena 闘技場～アリーナ Serialization G-men Forbidden Works
Zenith ZENITH One-shot SM-Z Forbidden Works
The Masochist 「マゾ」 (Mazo) Serialization G-men Flesh + Beard
2001 Nightmare NIGHTMARE One-shot SM-Z Forbidden Works
Do You Remember the South Island's POW Camp? 君よ知るや南の獄 (Kimi-yo-Shiru-ya-Minami-no-Goku) Serialization G-men Do You Remember the South Island's POW Camp? vols. 1 & 2
2002 Kranke Kranke One-shot SM-Z Forbidden Works
Gunji 軍次 One-shot Kinniku-Otoko Gunji / The Demon Who Lives in the Tower Keep
2003 Trap TRAP One-shot SM-Z Pride vol. 1
The Scar (Gunji 2) 傷痕 (Kizuato) One-shot Kinniku-Otoko Gunji / The Demon Who Lives in the Tower Keep
The Rain Shower (Gunji 3) 驟雨 (Syuuu) One-shot Kinniku-Otoko Gunji / The Demon Who Lives in the Tower Keep
The Pit of Fire 1 (Gunji 4) 火坑 1 (Kakou 1) One-shot Kinniku-Otoko Gunji / The Demon Who Lives in the Tower Keep
The Sow's Heaven メス豚の天国 (Mesubuta-no-Tengoku) One-shot SoMe Bizzarre Gunji / The Demon Who Lives in the Tower Keep
Trap 2 TRAP 2 One-shot SM-Z Pride vol. 2
The Pit of Fire 2 (Gunji 5) 火坑 2 (Kakou 2) One-shot Kinniku-Otoko Gunji / The Demon Who Lives in the Tower Keep
2004 The Demon Who Lives in the Tower Keep 天守に棲む鬼 (Tensyu-ni-Sumu-Oni) One-shot Kinniku-Otoko Gunji / The Demon Who Lives in the Tower Keep
The Hairy Oracle Hairy Oracle One-shot Kinniku-Otoko Gunji / The Demon Who Lives in the Tower Keep
The Unpatriotic Boy 非國民 (Hikokumin) One-shot SM-Z Pride vol. 3
The Flower Garden of Bondage 嗜虐の花園 (Shigyaku-no-Hanazono) One-shot Reijin Dramatic —
I Wanted to Say "I Love You" for the Whole ずっと好きだと言えなくて (Zutto-Sukida-to-Ienakute) One-shot Kinniku-Otoko Gunji / The Demon Who Lives in the Tower Keep
The Tumble Doll MP だるま憲兵 (Daruma-Kenpei) One-shot Super SM-Z Forbidden Works
The Ballad of Oeyama 大江山綺譚 (Oeyama-Kitan) One-shot Kinniku-Otoko Gunji / The Demon Who Lives in the Tower Keep
2005 Virtus 雄心～ウィルトゥース (Yushin~virtus) Serialization Gekidan Virtus
I Can't Tell Anybody 誰にも言えない (Darenimo-Ienai) One-shot Super SM-Z Virtus
2007 The Translucent Golden Eyes 透き通るような黄金（きん）の瞳 (Sukitooru-youna-Kin-no-Hitomi) One-shot Hontou-ni-Kowai-Douwa —
The Vast Snow Field 雪原渺々 (Setsugen-Byo-Byo) One-shot Nikutai-Ha Virtus
The Nonulcer Dyspepsia 神経性胃炎 (Shinkeisei-Ien) One-shot Nikutai-Ha Virtus
Piko's Inside ぴこのなかみ (Piko-no-Nakami) One-shot Oshiri-Club —
The Sunset: Xi Taihou and Dong Taihou 落日～西太后と東太后 (Rakujitsu~Seitaigou-to-Totaigou) One-shot Hontou-ni-Kowai-Douwa —
The Long Lonely Night 長夜寞々 (Choya-Baku-Baku) One-shot Nikutai-Ha Flesh + Beard
The Army of Fallen-Tears 哀酷義勇軍 (Aikoku-Giyuugun) One-shot Nikutai-Ha Boy in Hell / Father and Son in Hell
2008 The Protege 稚児 (Chigo) One-shot Nikutai-Ha Flesh + Beard
The Puppet Master 傀儡廻（くぐつまわし） (Kugutsu-mawashi) One-shot Badi Country Doctor / Pochi
The Gigolo ジゴロ (Jigoro) One-shot Badi Country Doctor / Pochi
The Confession 告白 (Kokuhaku) Serialization Badi Boy in Hell / Father and Son in Hell
The Pillory 晒し台 (Sarashidai) One-shot Nikutai-Ha Flesh + Beard
A Boy In Hell 童（わっぱ）地獄 (Wappa-Jigoku) Serialization Nikutai-Ha Boy in Hell / Father and Son in Hell
Run, My Horse, Run! 汗馬疾々（かんばとうとう） (Kanba-Tou-Tou) One-shot Nikutai-Ha Flesh + Beard
Pochi, My Dog ポチ (Pochi) Serialization Badi Country Doctor / Pochi
Dissolve DISSOLVE～ディゾルブ～ (Dhizorubu) One-shot Nikutai-Ha Flesh + Beard
2009 Father and Son in Hell 父子（おやこ）地獄 (Oyako-Jigoku) Serialization Badi Boy in Hell / Father and Son in Hell
Moon Shower 雨降りお月さん (Amefuri-Otsukisan) One-shot Nikutai-Ha Flesh + Beard
Butchering My Son 倅解体 (Segare-Kaitai) One-shot Manga Kono Mystery ga Omoshiroi! —
The Eclosion ECLOSION One-shot Nikutai-Ha Flesh + Beard
The Flying Dutchman Der Fliegende Hollander One-shot Badi Boy in Hell / Father and Son in Hell
Manimal Chronicles 人畜無骸 (Jinchiku Mugai) Serialization Badi —
Hot Oden おでんぐつぐつ (Oden Gutu-Gutsu) One-shot Nikutai-Ha Muscle Octameron
The Lover Boy Lover Boy Serialization Badi Country Doctor / Pochi
The Exorcism 鬼祓え (Oden Gutu-Gutsu) One-shot Nikutai-Ha Muscle Octameron
2010 Standing Ovations スタンディング・オベーション (Sutandhingu-obeisyon) One-shot Badi Country Doctor / Pochi
What Is This Thing Called Love? 恋とは何でしょう (Koi Towa Nandesyou) One-shot Nikutai-ha Tsutsui Manga Tokuhon Futatabi
The Job Switch 転職 (Tensyoku) One-shot Nikutai-ha Muscle Octameron
The Country Doctor 田舎医者 (Inaka Isya) Serialization Badi Country Doctor / Pochi
Company Slave Elegy 社畜哀歌 (Syachiku-Aika) One-shot Badi Muscle Octameron
In the Chest 長持の中 (Nagamochi no naka) Serialization Badi Winter Fisherman's Lodge / In The Chest
The Cretian Cow クレタの牝牛 (Kureta no Meushi) One-shot Nikutai-ha Muscle Octameron
Missing MISSING ～ミッシング～ (Missingu) One-shot Nikutai-ha Muscle Octameron
2011 The Winter Fisherman Lodge 冬の番家 (Fuyu no Ban-ya) Serialization Badi Winter Fisherman's Lodge / In The Chest
Man-Cunt ACTINIA Serialization Badi Winter Fisherman's Lodge / In The Chest
Monster Hunt Show モンスター・ハント・ショー One-shot Nikutai-ha Gachi! Muscle Octameron
2012 Endless Game エンドレス・ゲーム (Endoresu Gemu) Serialization Badi Endless Game
End Line END LINE One-shot Nikutai-ha Gachi! Muscle Octameron
My Favorite Things お気に入り☆萌えブーム (Okini-iri Moe-boom) One-shot Karen —
2013 Contracts of the Fall 転落の契約 (Tenraku no Keiyaku) Serialization Badi Endless Game
Thin Earlobe 転落の契約 (Fufukumimi) One-shot Hontou-ni-Kowai-Douwa —
Slave Training Summer Camp 奴隷調教合宿 (Dorei Chôkyô Gassyuku) Serialization Badi Slave Training Summer Camp
2014 My Brother's Husband 弟の夫 (Otouto no Otto) Serialization Monthly Action My Brother's Husband vols. 1–4
2015 On All Four on Friday Nights 金曜の夜は四つん這いで (Kinyo no Yoru ha Yotsunbai De) Serialization Badi Slave Training Summer Camp
Planet Brobdingnag プラネット・ブロブディンナグ (Puranetto Burobudin-nagu) Serialization Badi —
2016 Khoz, The Spellbound Slave 呪縛の性奴 (Jubaku no Seido) Serialization Self-published Khoz, The Spellbound Slave
2017 Meat Carrot 肉人参 (Niku Ninjin) Serialization Badi —
Grandpa's Meat Carrot じっちゃんの肉人参 (Jicchan no Niku Ninjin) Serialization Badi —
2018 King of the Sun 日輪の王 (Nichirin no Oh) Serialization Badi —
Our Colors 僕らの色彩 (Bokura no Shikisai) Serialization Monthly Action Our Colors vols. 1–3
Bitch of the Jungle Bitch of the Jungle Serialization Self-published Bitch of the Jungle
My Summer Holidays 俺の夏休み (Ore no Natsu Yasumi) One-shot Badi —
I Became A Bitch Of My Best Friend's Dad 親友の親父に雌にされて (Dachi no Oyaji ni Mesu ni Sarete) Serialization Badi —
2019 Khoz 2: A Report on a Slave Training Under a Spell 呪縛の性奴：呪的口肛調教録 (Jubaku no Seido: Juteki Koukou Choukyou Roku) One-shot Self-published —
False Detective – Resurgence: Fancy Homosexual Boy 新・刑事もどき　ゲイボーイ (Shin Deka Modoki: Gei boi) One-shot Tezucomi —
2022 Fish and Water 魚と水 (Uo to Mizu) Serialization Web Action —
Collected editions
Anthologies
English-translated collected editions & anthologies

Art books and novels

Reception and influence

Tagame is regarded as the most prolific and influential creator of gay manga.[3][17][22][46] The manga anthology Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It notes Tagame as "without a doubt the individual most directly responsible for the success of gay manga,"[14] while Kidd has compared his oeuvre to that of the Marquis de Sade, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Yukio Mishima.[29]

Anthropologist Wim Lunsing credits the "bear-type" aesthetic pioneered by Tagame

gay neighborhood of Tokyo. Following the publication of G-men, the "slender and slick" clean-shaven style popular among gay men was replaced with "stubble, beards and moustaches [...] extremely short became the most common hair style and the broad muscular body, soon to evolve to chubby and outright fat, became highly fashionable."[46] Tagame's work in establishing G-men is further credited as providing an incubator for up-and-coming talent in the gay manga genre, and launching the careers of artists such as Jiraiya.[14] His archival efforts in producing Gay Erotic Art in Japan are further credited with developing a "gay art canon" of Japanese erotic art.[47] Among Tagame's critics are gay erotic artist Susumu Hirosegawa, who has described his art as "S&M theater" and criticized his manga as "simple emanations of the SM-shumiō [hobby] of Tagame."[48] Lunsing concurs that "it is hard to counter [Hirosegawa's] argument, as [Tagame's] stories are not very elaborate."[48]

Tagame has won multiple awards for his work, primarily My Brother's Husband. The series was awarded excellence awards at the 19th

Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia in 2018.[51] Works by Tagame were exhibited at the British Museum in 2019, as part of its exhibition on the history of manga.[11]

Notes

  1. ^ The term bara (薔薇), which translates literally to "rose" in Japanese, is roughly equivalent to the English language pejorative "pansy" used to refer to gay men.[36]
  2. ^
    direct sales to gay stores in Japan, and thus lack ISBN codes.[2]

References

  1. ISBN 978-2-215-07931-6
    .
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Guilbert, Xavier (May 9, 2013). "Tagame Gengoroh". du9. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Giard, Agnes (April 29, 2009). "Les 400 culs: Le SM est-il transgressif?" (in French). Libération. Retrieved August 5, 2009.
  4. ^
    Hazlitt
    . Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Freeman, Max (May 28, 2013). "Gengoroh Tagame, the Master of Gay Erotic Manga". HuffPost. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  6. ^ a b Kolbeins 2013, p. 273.
  7. ^ a b Kolbeins, Graham (June 5, 2017). Queer Japan: Gengoroh Tagame Clip. Queer Japan (Video clip). Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Senju, Kaz (March 6, 2016). "Inside the Taboo-Filled Mind of Japan's Best BDSM Manga Artist". Vice. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  9. ^ Takagi, Masahiko (December 3, 2010). "Interview with Gengoroh Tagame". Japanese Gay Art. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h "Abbiamo incontrato alla manifestazione bolognese il maestro dei manga LGBT". AnimeClick (in Italian). June 22, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  11. ^ a b c d Wise, Louis (December 7, 2019). "Life Drawing with Erotic Manga Artist Gengorah Tagame". Ten Men (10).
  12. ^ a b "Gengoroh Tagame". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h Kolbeins 2013, p. 272.
  14. ^ a b c Ishii et al. 2014, p. 39.
  15. ^ a b c d Armour 2010, p. 446.
  16. ^ Ishii et al. 2014, p. 42.
  17. ^ a b c Washington, Bryan (July 12, 2017). "The Radical Grace of Gengoroh Tagame". The Awl. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  18. ^ a b Matsuoka, Munetsugu (February 26, 2018). "「マイク役を探すのは絶対無理だろうと思っていた」田亀源五郎さんとNHKプロデューサーが語る「弟の夫」ドラマ化の裏話". HuffPost Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  19. ^ a b Alverson, Brigid (June 29, 2017). "Openly Gay Manga Creator Gengoroh Tagame Talks Breaking Barriers with My Brother's Husband". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  20. ^ Ashcraft, Bryan (December 5, 2017). "Manga Confronting Homophobia In Japan Getting Live-Action TV Drama". Kotaku. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
  21. ^ Pineda, Antonio Rafael (May 25, 2020). "Gengoroh Tagame's Bokura no Shikisai Manga Ends". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  22. ^ a b c d Kolbeins 2013, p. 271.
  23. ^ Bayly, Zac (August 22, 2014). "Gengoroh Tagame: Japanese Author of Brutal Sadomasochistic Comics Is Actually a Big Softy". Butt Magazine. Issue 33. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
  24. ^ a b Kolbeins 2013, p. 270.
  25. ^ Lunsing 2006, 22.
  26. ^ Armour 2010, p. 443.
  27. ^ a b Spurgeon, Tom (May 4, 2013). "CR Sunday Interview: Anne Ishii". The Comics Reporter. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  28. ^ Ishii et al. 2013, p. 29.
  29. ^ a b c d Kidd 2013, p. 11.
  30. ^ a b Armour 2010, pp. 446–447.
  31. ^ Armour 2010, p. 447.
  32. ^ Armour 2010, p. 444.
  33. ^ a b c d White 2013, p. 9.
  34. ^
    Lambda Literary
    . Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  35. ^ Armour 2010, p. 446–448.
  36. ^ a b Ishii, Kidd & Kolbeins 2014, p. 40.
  37. ^ Kidd 2013, p. 9.
  38. ^ Ishii et al. 2013, p. 111.
  39. ^ Lunsing 2006, 24.
  40. ^ Ishii et al. 2013, p. 193.
  41. ^ Weldon, Glen (October 12, 2018). "In 'My Brother's Husband Vol. 2,' Family Values (And The Value Of Family)". NPR. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  42. ^ "Complete List of Comics Works of Gengoroh Tagame". Gay Erotic Art of Gengoroh Tagame. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  43. ^ "田亀源五郎全マンガ作品リスト". Gay Erotic Art of Gengoroh Tagame (in Japanese). Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  44. ^ "English Books". Gay Erotic Art of Gengoroh Tagame. April 15, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  45. ^ "Japanese Books". Gay Erotic Art of Gengoroh Tagame. April 15, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  46. ^ a b Lunsing 2006, 21.
  47. ^ Randle, Chris (December 31, 2014). "Size Matters: An Interview With Anne Ishii". The Hairpin. Archived from the original on September 30, 2023. Retrieved September 2, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  48. ^ a b Lunsing 2006, 23.
  49. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (November 27, 2015). "Akiko Higashimura's Kakukaku Shikajika Manga Wins Media Arts Award". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
  50. ^ Sherman, Jennifer (May 7, 2018). "Daijiro Morohoshi's Manga Book Wins Japan Cartoonists Association Award". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
  51. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (July 21, 2018). "Gengoroh Tagame's My Brother's Husband Manga Wins Eisner Award". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 6, 2021.

Bibliography

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gengoroh_Tagame&oldid=1216023581"