guro

noun

guro

noun

Etymology Reborrowed from Japanese グロ (guro), from English grotesque.

1

A subgenre of manga and anime focusing on gore and mutilation.

  • And maybe the Moravecian dream would be especially exciting for fans of guro manga who want to live out all the fantasies to have sex like the immortal Mai in Waita Uziga's Mai-chan's Daily Life, who stay alive even after being violently mutilated […]2009, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?: Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction:
  • The scope of hentai encompasses the entire range of sexual fetishes, including […] Guro, focusing on imaginative gore and mutilation.2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Animation & Cartoons:
Related terms
ero-guro, gorn

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