it became a huge hit and has been imitated widelyver otr manga and in live-action films. a whole genre of lurid and extraordinarily well-drawn madness. at this restaurant, toshio tries to explain. toshio: you know, this girl seems like, uh, a high school girl. so anthony: mm-hmm? toshio: basically, it s forbidden. it s our sense anthony: notice, by the way, the distinguished owner and her complete lack of shock or offense at the graphic, frankly, horrifying images of rape, violation, and murder spread casually across the table for all to see. japanese manga, ones that everyone reads on the subway home, even, well, they re different. the big breakthrough was you couldn t draw penises, you couldn t draw specifically orifices, you couldn t actually show humans penetrating each other.