The tradition
Ero guro (Japanese: エログロ) is an artistic genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and decadence. As a term, it is used to denote something that is both erotic and grotesque. The term itself is an example of wasei-eigo, a Japanese combination of English words or abbreviated words: ero from erotic and guro from grotesque. The "grotesqueness" implied in the term refers to things that are malformed, unnatural, or horrific. Items that are pornographic and bloody are not necessarily ero guro, and vice versa. The term is often mistaken by Western audiences to mean "gore" – depictions of horror, blood, and guts.¶
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Ero guro”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.¶
ero guro is literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1¶
The source record links this tradition to 3 external registers, which can be verified through the citation.1¶
Images
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Conor Ryan from Emerald City, Oz · CC BY-SA 2.0
What it mixes with
Artists and institutions
Sources
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| Source | Type | Publisher |
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| Wikidata: ero guro (Q933272) | database | Wikidata |
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