soccer moms find compelling in the thousands of these titles, something of a mystery to outsiders looking in, but there they are. whole sections of manga book shops dedicated to basically one direction type boy band figures having sex with each other. yowi isn't generally explicit, though it can be. some of the most popular manga are, however, lurid, over-the-top illustrated stories of incredible violence, rape, murder, and sexual fetishes. toshiyo is a manga creator like few others, the father of what could only be described as tentacle porn. his 1986 manga was about half-human, half-bestial space invaders in search of an evil supreme being. it contained unbelievably graphic, lurid, violent, and one would argue offensive images of sex acts involving not sexual organs, but other protruberances. it became a huge hit and has