Talk:Ero-guro

Should be merged under 4chan's board descriptions, since this is the main location where the term became popular.
 * I think it has been popular earlier than that board.

According to http://www.angelfire.com/sk3/asianhorror/e.html Ero-guro : Japanese shorthand expression for erotic-grotesque. "It has been common among avant-garde manga artists, but actually dating back to early Showa (1920’s and 30’s) era’s mainstream decadent art. It also applied to a school of anti-Marxist literature, ero guro nansensu bungaku, or erotic, grotesque nonsense literature and later to film-making and even anime.  See also Garo, Hanawa Kazuichi, Hanawa Waichi." I believe Frederick L. Schodt writes about something similar in "Manga! Manga!"

Since the article is not the best place for this note, I will place it here. Guro is deliciously fucked up. Normal people will vomit after seeing guro, that is how you know what it is.

I think that mention of tentacles is un-needed, because 1.) This is no longer the case. 2.) Guro is more gore, severed limbs, and buzz-saw through the genitial region.

May be worth mentioning Guro is also an Indonesian word for Teacher. Used often in the Martial Arts world.
 * Uh, no, that's Guru. I would know, I'm Indonesian. :P
 * From the Sanskrit word? 81.232.72.148 14:54, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Sample Image... (And a point on Guro itself)
If you look closely, you'll see that the limbs have parts similar to a doll. This mostly looks like an image of a full-size human doll, like a mannequin of some sort.

However, I have seen guro art that doesn't involve human characters before, such as androids or humanoid robots (who look completely human apart from their innards) being torn apart and so on... So if these android-torture images are acceptable on the various guro image boards, then I would imagine that the mannequin thing also qualifies. Even so, I just thought I should note it.

I would imagine the best way to know would be to find the artist and see if they intended it as a guro artwork, or if it's some kind of odd abstract art piece. It would be handy to know if the artist has created other guro-like material.

By the way, this is my first 'Discussion' post ever (I sure picked a weird subject eh?) so if I did something incorrectly, I apologize. :)

Also, I noticed someone mentioned that "guro is fucked up" above, I know I should probably reply up there instead of saying this here... but in any case... Guro is definitely very extreme, however I've noticed that most people who tend to hang out on those image boards are not evil hateful people as some might expect. The vast majority seem to have an incredible respect for life, and most seem like the last people in the world that would wish for someone's life to be taken. Most are sadenned by real-life tales of people being murdered, which really makes you think about how the human mind works. Since it's possible for a human to be perfectly good-natured and kind, and have empathy for others, but still view such horrible imagery with incredible interest. Anyways, maybe this information, if a bit more researched and polished, could become a part of the main article. Like a "Criticism of Guro" section, and a section emmediately afterwards offering counter-arguments that show that most people who view guro are not closet psychos or whatever. &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.202.123.37 (talk &bull; contribs). 15:16, 14 December 2005

Not sure where else to post this... An analysis of the psychology behind the guro phenomenon of 'stub girls' would be of great value to those trying to understand it.

Merge discussion
agree, merge them together, but with or without the hyphen? Chris 21:40, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

My vote's on without the hyphen - expanded, the phrase would be "erotic grotesque", not "erotic-grotesque". Tzaquiel 23:15, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

I think that an image would be instructive
Does anyone know where one could find a free image?--A (talk) 05:41, 19 December 2007 (UTC)