Looking at this “disposable” homoerotic artwork-once sold in vending machines-the artist knew he had found his calling. Tagame was a high school student when he first came across gay images from the old hentai zasshi (perverse magazines), collected in Renaissance magazine. He’s centrally responsible for preserving the history of Japanese gay artwork from the generations that precede his own. Tagame is deeply concerned with the historical. Tagame’s artwork has been exhibited around the globe, and his epic tales of muscled, mustachioed masochists (and so many sadists) have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and English. Not long after, he cofounded G-men magazine, which has served as an incubator for up-and-coming gay mangaka. His first standalone manga collection, Naburi Mono (The Toyed Man), published in 1992, proved that gay content could be profitable in the commercial manga marketplace. Gengoroh Tagame, the legendary gay erotic artist whose expert draftmanship and dark BDSM fantasies have captured the imaginations of a worldwide audience, is without a doubt the individual most directly responsible for the success of gay manga. Gay magazines, manga, and doujinshi on display at the Ueno branch of Big Gymīadi magazine on the front door of gay bookstore Lumiere, in Shinjuku Ni-chome
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