The native form of this personal name is Tagame Gengoroh. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Gengoroh Tagame
田亀 源五郎
Tagame at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2017
Born
(1964-02-03) February 3, 1964 (age 60)
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Known for
Gay manga
Awards
Japan Media Arts Festival Award (2015), Japan Cartoonists Association Award (2018), Eisner Award (2018)
Website
tagame.org
Gengoroh Tagame (田亀 源五郎, Tagame Gengorō, born February 3, 1964) is a pseudonymous Japanese manga artist. He is regarded as the most prolific and influential creator in the gay manga genre. Tagame began contributing manga and prose fiction to Japanese gay men's magazines in the 1980s, after making his debut as a manga artist in the yaoi (male-male romance) manga magazine June while in high school. As a student he studied graphic design at Tama Art University, and worked as a commercial graphic designer and art director to support his career as a manga artist. His manga series The Toyed Man (嬲り者, Naburi-Mono), originally serialized in the gay men's magazine Badi from 1992 to 1993, enjoyed breakout success after it was published as a book in 1994. After co-founding the gay men's magazine G-men in 1995, Tagame began working as a gay manga artist full-time.
For much of his career Tagame exclusively created erotic and pornographic manga, works that are distinguished by their graphic depictions of sadomasochism, sexual violence, and hypermasculinity. Beginning in the 2010s, Tagame gained mainstream recognition after he began to concurrently produce non-pornographic manga depicting LGBT themes and subject material; his 2014 manga series My Brother's Husband, his first series aimed at a general audience, received widespread critical acclaim and was awarded a Japan Media Arts Festival Prize, a Japan Cartoonists Association Award, and an Eisner Award. Tagame is further noted for his contributions as an art historian, through his multi-volume art anthology series Gay Erotic Art in Japan.
GengorohTagame (田亀 源五郎, Tagame Gengorō, born February 3, 1964) is a pseudonymous Japanese manga artist. He is regarded as the most prolific and influential...
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no Shikisai) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by GengorohTagame. It was serialized in Futabasha's Monthly Action magazine from March...
Body" (1978) Erotica by Tom of Finland, Dom Orejudos, Bill Schmeling, GengorohTagame, and Drubskin Hanky Panky (2020) by Kent Monkman In Solar Anus (1999)...
as Tamotsu Yatō (photography artist), Sadao Hasegawa (painter) and GengorohTagame (manga artist). Female–female examples are most historically noticeable...
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relationships, many of which are sexually explicit. In the 1980s, GengorohTagame began producing erotic manga drawn from his own sexual interests, featuring...
which are puns of similar construction to fujoshi. Bara manga author GengorohTagame has said that men may choose a fudanshi label because it is more socially...
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Sanshi Funayama, and Go Hirano, is regarded by artist and historian GengorohTagame as a central figure in the first wave of contemporary gay artists in...
artists who exploit hypermasculine types include Tom of Finland and GengorohTagame. An article titled "Marketing Manhood in a 'Post-Feminist' Age" by...
Ishii and Chip Kidd: The Passion of GengorohTagame, the first English-language publication of works by GengorohTagame, and Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and...
by GengorohTagame (2014–2017) Nobunaga Teacher's Young Bride by Azure Konno (2017–2019) Orange by Ichigo Takano (2013–2017) Our Colors by Gengoroh Tagame...
The Cardboard Valise by Ben Katchor (2011) My Brother's Husband by GengorohTagame (2014) McGuire, William. Bollingen An Adventure in Collecting the Past...
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large increase in the production of such works written by gay men. GengorohTagame has been called the most influential creator of gay manga in Japan...
artwork while in high school, after discovering the works of artists GengorohTagame and Jiraiya in the gay men's magazines G-men, Badi, and Barazoku. Matsu...
reminiscent of Ukiyo-e; his drawings are detailed and dark. Manga artist GengorohTagame cites Hanawa's depictions of extreme violence as an influence for his...
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