Talk:Henmaru Machino

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"While porn-or-art debates have been occurring around a wide variety of works for centuries across the globe, the debates surrounding Machino are unique in that his subject matter is at the far fringes of human sexual experience, and even beyond it, in that much of what he draws could never occur in the real world. While many EroGuro artists create works that could have real-world analogues (S&M, mutilation, etc.), Machino's images of, for example, girls with dozens of phalli sprouting from each of the dozens of breasts that cover their body, are not something any viewer of his work could ever see in life, and thus the issue of "what is pornography?" strongly preempts the issue of "art or pornography?" in most of his work."

I can't help but feel that this is just an attempt to give artistic legitimacy to ALL of this guy's work. Honestly, is extremely common in hentai and does not make this guy's work stand out. It's true that some of his work could be seen as satire or an attempt at grotesque subversion of hentai... but the other half is pretty much completely unironic porn. Especially the image sets he drew.