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8	In the manga subgenre known as Ero-guro (Erotic-grotesque), Suehiro Maruo (born January 28, 1956) is renown for his beautifully-composed, exquisitely-crafted scenes influenced by Japanese ''Ukiyo-e'' prints on one hand, and the canon of Western fine art on the other.
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10	Maruo started his career by providing short strips for porn magazines, because, as he says, they would publish anything [[PornWithoutPlot as long as there is nudity and sex]]. Indeed, many of his early strips are [[MindScrew incomprehensible]]. The America-published anthology ''Ultra-Gash Inferno'' contains the more "readable" stories of early Maruo, while the rest are sometimes available as {{Scanlation}}.
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12	Maruo's growing fame then allowed him to publish longer stories, of which ''Manga/MrArashisAmazingFreakShow'' has garnered him an international cult following.
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14	Maruo's important works include:
15	* ''Manga/MrArashisAmazingFreakShow'' (1984)
16	* ''New Atrocities In Blood'' (1988) -- a modern reworking of ''Muzan-e'' (atrocity prints) genre of ''Ukiyo-e''.
17	* ''Inugami Expert'' (1994)
18	* ''Manga/TheLaughingVampire'' (1998)
19	* ''The Strange Tale of Panorama Island'' (2008) -- adaptation of a novel by Edogawa Rampo.
20	* ''Imomushi'' (''The Caterpillar'') (2009) -- another Rampo adaptation.
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22	His official site is [[http://www.maruojigoku.com/ here]]
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25	!! Tropes commonly found in the works of Suehiro Maruo:
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27	* ArtImitatesArt: His mangas contain so many homages to Western paintings and German cinema, you can play a DrinkingGame with them.
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29	* EnfantTerrible: Most of the atrocities in his stories are committed by children or teenagers.
30	* EyeScream: Eyeballs are good for licking, and stabbing, and forking out.
31	%% * {{Gorn}}
32	* MindScrew: His early stories were borderline incomprehensible and didn't seem to follow a plot structure of any kind.
33	* NoEnding: His one-shot stories tend to end abruptly with no conclusion or resolution to the plot.
34	* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: The reason why he is often associated with the eroguro manga scene.
35	%% * KarmaHoudini
36	%% * TheMurderAfter
37	* ThoseWackyNazis: For nostalgic values and fetish fuel.
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