Toshio Maeda
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Toshio Maeda at Japan Expo 2012
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September 17, 1953 Osaka, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Area(s) | Manga artist |
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Notable works
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Urotsukidōji La Blue Girl Demon Beast Invasion Adventure Kid |
Toshio Maeda (前田俊夫 Maeda Toshio?, born September 17, 1953) is an erotic manga artist who was prolific in the 1980s and 90s. Several of Maeda's works have been used as a basis for Original Video Animations (OVA) including La Blue Girl,Adventure Kid,Demon Beast Invasion,Demon Warrior Koji and his most infamous work, Urotsukidōji (Legend of the Overfiend). A particular interviewer commented that Urotsukidōji "firmly placed him in the history books - in Japan and abroad - as the pioneer of the genre known as hentai, or perverted".
Toshio Maeda began reading manga when he was 5 or 6 years old, including American comics such as 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.
At 16 Maeda 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.
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.
Maeda's most well-known series, Urotsukidōji, came out in 1986 and gained popularity abroad. The Erotic Anime Movie Guide claimed that "No other title apart from Akira has been so influential in the English-language market." Maeda was working for an adult magazine at the time and wanted to create something different in terms of erotica.
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