Signed In Person At SacAnime Summer 2015

TOSHIO MAEDA "Tentacle Master"

Extremely Limited Edition Art Print Available To VIP Ticket Holders Only
8.5" x 11"

Toshio Maeda (前田俊夫 is an erotic manga artist who was prolific in the 1980s and 90s. Several of Maeda's works have been used as a basis for Original Video Animations (OVA) including La Blue Girl,Adventure Kid, Demon Beast Invasion,Demon Warrior Koji and his most infamous work, Urotsukidōji (Legend of the Overfiend). A particular interviewer commented that Urotsukidōji "firmly placed him in the history books - in Japan and abroad - as the pioneer of the genre known as hentai, or perverted".

Early in his career, with the likes of Evil Spirit Island and Ashita-e Kick Off, he only provided the illustrations while someone else wrote the text for the manga.

Maeda's most well-known series, Urotsukidōji, came out in 1986 and gained popularity abroad. The Erotic Anime Movie Guide claimed that "No other title apart from Akira has been so influential in the English-language market." Maeda was working for an adult magazine at the time and wanted to create something different in terms of erotica.

Maeda is credited with the proliferation of the tentacle rape genre mostly on the reputation of the animated versions of his manga, but he did not implement the use of the "tentacle" as an erotic device until the 1989 Demon Beast Invasion. Although Urotsukidoji is often labeled as being the first tentacle rape manga, it was in fact only featured the anime version. Maeda has mentioned that since portraying genitals was illegal in Japan, artists would use any trick they could to get by the censors and he could say that a creature's tentacle was not a penis. Maeda is proud of his role in popularizing the genre and in a blog interview stated that he would like "Tentacle Master" inscribed on his tombstone.

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