Urotsukidōji

Urotsukidoji
Cover of the 2004 reprint of the first manga volume
超神伝説うろつき童子 (Choujin Densetsu Urotsukidouji)
Genre	Horror, Action, Paranormal, Erotic, Science Fiction
Manga
Written by	Toshio Maeda
Published by	Wani Magazine
English publisher	NA Manga 18
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Manga Erotopia
Original run	1 December 1986 – 1 April 1989
Volumes	6
Original video animation
Directed by	Hideki Takayama
Written by	Shō Aikawa (as Noboru Aikawa)
Music by	Masamichi Amano
Studio	West Cape, Team Mu
Released	21 January 1987 – 21 February 1994
Episodes	6 series (16 episodes)

Urotsukidōji (Japanese: 超神伝説うろつき童子, Hepburn: Chōjin Densetsu Urotsukidōji^?) is a Japanese erotic horror manga series written and illustrated by Toshio Maeda and a series of original video animation (OVA) anime releases.

Urotsukidōji was created by Toshio Maeda in 1986 and was a huge departure from his earlier works in that it mixed erotica with dark humor and the supernatural. He was commissioned to do the series for Manga Erotopia, a pornographic manga magazine published by Wani Magazine that deals mostly with avant garde stories. Maeda was picked because of his artistic style which paid incredible attention to detail and for his ability to tell rather good stories with complex plots, unlike most erotic manga artists at the time.

Although the manga would grow a cult following, it was the anime which became notorious. Anime director Hideki Takayama took great artistic liberties with the Urotsukidōji story, mixing elements of horror, violence, and sadistic scenes of rape not present in the original work. Maeda himself stated in an issue of Playboy Japan that he found the anime to be repugnant, cruel and sadistic, yet brilliant. He also said he admires Takayama's take on his vision. The anime series is most famous for being the first in the tentacle rape genre, though only one scene in the first OAV actually contains any tentacle rape. Tentacle rape was not present in the Urotsukidōji manga but was featured in a series that he would publish years later called Demon Beast Invasion. Takayama was incredibly influenced by this work of Maeda's but thought that the Urotsukidōji story was stronger.