Influences: Toshio Maeda is an admitted fan of "American Comics" and "Horror- and Science fiction" Movies. Comics such were Mighty Mouse, Spider-Man and Batman. He was also a reader of all genres of literature and has said that he read more than 10,000 books before he was 20 years old. He incorporates all these personal tastes in his stories, and later-on had his Debut in the monthly magazine Erotopia in 1985.
Manga: Maeda was self-taught about manga, having been a voracious reader of comics since he was 5 or 6 years old, At 16 he left Osaka to go to Tokyo as an assistant to a professional cartoonist. He became interested in manga for adults to avoid all the strictures, sexual, political and religious, that were placed on manga for children. In 2001, a motorbike accident left him with a limited ability in his drawing hand to apply the proper pressure needed to draw with ink.
Maeda's groundbreaking work, Urotsukidōji, came out in 1986 and it has been claimed that "No other title apart from Akira has been so influential in the English-language market." and later-on credited with the proliferation of the tentacle rape genre. But he did not implement the use of the "tentacle" as an erotic device until the 1989 Demon Beast Invasion. Even though his most famous work, Urotsukidoji, is credited as being the first tentacle rape manga it was only in the anime version that tentacle rape was featured.
October 2001. He was acclaimed as "the most influential erotic manga artist in Japan" and his masterpiece Urotsukidoji was described as " the foundation for the entire 'erotic-grotesque' genre of Japanese anime".
In 2003, he was planning his contributions to a Japanese women's hentai magazine and learning to look at eroticism from a woman's point of view.
It should not be ignored that Maeda has done just as much sex comedy and BDSM-themed manga stories as erotic horror and even a few books perfectly suited for and targeted at younger readers. Early in his career, with the likes of Evil Spirit Island and Ashita-e Kick Off, he only provided the illustrations while someone else wrote the text for the manga.As of September 2010 Toshio Maeda has now opened his official website, with the Tentacle club- whereby users can sign up and view his full length manga for a small monthly fee of 500 yen. Toshio has also made the opportunity available to the public to come stay at his apartment and have the opportunity to discus manga, anime and japan in general over a beer for a small fee, together with a tour of Akihabara and various otaku hot spots in Tokyo.
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http://users.skynet.be/mangaguide/au1093.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Maeda
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0535353/
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