October is Fetish Month #6 Bizarre – Only in Japan?
Posted on | October 23, 2007 | 9 Comments |
And from the mind-meltingly common to the absolutely bizarre. Japanese has always been a buzzword worldwide for strangeness in its inventions, popular culture and most importantly, erotica.
Though the most well known strangety in Japanese blue-material is the aforementioned tentacle rape type affair, delve more deeply into the dark world of the Japanese doujinshi artist’s mind and more and more bizarre things come to light. As a fetish itself, i would use the term “kikai” to refer to all things found in doujinshi related to sex but more in the realms of imagination and fantasy rather than even remotely possible – but not including tentacles, which have their own fanbase, merchandise and presumably, bumper sticker. In fact, you could summarise it in one sentence – Anything which makes a seasoned doujinshi reader inexplicably yell “WHAT.THE.FUCK?!???!??” is probably kikai.
If kikai was similar to the Japanese mindset, then one would expect that there would be strange private backstreet surgery shops with shady men in green, bloodstained scrubs with light creeping through murky windows into plush waiting rooms with affluent shifty clientele leafing through albums full of body modifications and two for one offers on extra limbs. (Ooh! Chest hands!)
Thank god only a very miniscule section of the doujinshi artists association subscribe to this particular subtype – since not only is kikai often strange beyond measure, but also can be intimately linked with guro and elsewise rather sickening scenes of weirdness.
The mainstay of kikai in doujinshi – the running theme through a vast proportion of strange and wonderful works is *nikutaikaijou* or “body modification” – the main link to guro. According to Hentai Dictionary body modification stems from a post WW2 novel “Kachikunin yapuu” (Human cattle) in which the West invaded Japan and thereafter started modifying the indiginous population – presumably because they were too lazy to make furniture and utensils. (I’m talking humans modiied to function as tables, chairs etc.)
Its not a huge jump to think that doujinshi artists might have picked this up and think – if they could be turned into furniture, then why not into throwaway sex objects? Why can’t the blowup doll I bought for $500 on ebay have been a real life woman who sits around in the corner until I want to have sex with her but otherwise doubles as a coffee table, ashtray and trampoline?
And so spawned the most widespread body modification – the suitcase girl. Suitcase girl is a subtype of the larger genre of body modification in which doujinshi depict a girl, surgically amputated of all limbs (sometimes these are reattachable), and able to be carried around in a bag or suitcase for carnal purposes. (Mmm, portable!). Somehow, in most cases, the girls seem fairly happy to live this kind of life – though you have to consider that in doujinshi, girls look happy when tentacled monsters are raping their nostrils.
| You have no iddea how difficult it is to find non-ero WTF pictures that are relevant on the interweb… -_-
From there, it seems, artists’ imaginations ran wild. Prehensile manhoods, men climbing up into girls through various orifices, vaginas lined with anemone type creatures, cross breeding animal transformation and girls steadily mutating into a mass of breasts, tentacles and sexual orifices to name but a few that I dare mention. It is indeed the source of much fear that minds exist that can think up the abominations that some of these poor girls end up as – not to mention actually attempting intercourse with them for fear of endangering your own life.
If we take a step back and compare this to previous contentious topics, it would be safe to say that although artists like Henmaru Machino draw such brain-oozingly blood-draining freaks of imagination, if someone came up to them in real life and said – I have a way of turning your girlfriend into a gibbering mass of breast tissue or I have a way of making your penis prehensile and of infinite length, I doubt he would concur. Well, perhaps that last example wasn’t the best one ^_^. Just like how 99% of the people who enjoy Lolicon would not dream of acting out that kind of material in real life.
If we look in other forms of media worldwide, bizarre things – both violent and weird – exist fairly commonly elsewhere. You only have to look as far as the common or garden American violent cartoon to find strangeness – perhaps not on par with, but along the same lines as some doujinshi. If we get into the world of the niche graphic novel, there are lots and lots of non-erotic examples of abject weirdness which serve purposes from comedy through black drama and even into contemporary “art”. It is only in the world of pornography that physical limitations are placed on material – not so present in the medium of doujinshi. It seems inevitable, then, that artists would plumb the very darkest depths of their imagination to come up with all the impossible things that might be possible – as long as you disregard a few biological restraints, of course.
The other advantage of the doujinshi as a medium is that with something as low in taste as kikai, the artist does not have to worry about such things as decency or popularity, since doujinshi circulation is so small as to cater for the niche group of fans without having to pander for the tastes of the larger population (therefore allowing niche fetishes to thrive).
In conclusion, kikai is another theme that could only exist in doujinshi. Because it nurtures fetishes with small fanbases, kikai material is allowed to circulate, even though it may not have many die-hard fans. So is that good, or bad? You decide for yourself – download some kikai doujinshi, read with caution and then incinerate your head in an Aperture Science emergency AI incinerator. You know it’s for the best.
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October 24th, 2007 @ 12:22 am
Life-size dolls are creepy.I can imagine they went alive at midnight and strangles me…
October 24th, 2007 @ 11:19 am
After incinerating your head in an Aperture Science Emergency AI Incinerator, don’t forget to have some cake.
October 24th, 2007 @ 7:17 pm
Its funny since a guro artist did a doujinshi of to heart i think somehow the fans of said series began sending him death threats. So quite a few fans of mainstream works tend to be protective of their favorite series so it does backfire for guro doujinshi artists
October 25th, 2007 @ 2:29 am
Do you know any way I can get my hands on a copy of “Kachikunin yapuu” translated when I do a google search I keep getting this page and the hentai dictionary mention of it. They said it was famous but I can’t find any mention of it.
October 25th, 2007 @ 4:40 am
There is one thing to see Rei in the anime, and completely other to see the life-size puppet, I happened to encounter in downtown Osaka. It simply gave me the chills. You have to be really into it to even consider buying such a thing. The more I live in Japan, the more the otaku stuff gives me the chills. Just walking around in Akiba or Nipponbashi (after the initial zOMG I’m in Akiba shock) becomes really disgusting. Being an Otaku outside Japan and inside Japan are two *very* different things. The background of each case is entirely different, and the latter case points only to great sadness and loneliness.
October 25th, 2007 @ 5:30 am
Never mind about the translation, I found some more info on the book and found out that it was really underground in japan and only had a cult following. It seems that it was just translated into french this past august. I doubt it will ever make it here, it isn’t even on the american wikipedia, if anyone feels like looking it up it is by Shozo Numa and is just called “Yapou” by most.
October 25th, 2007 @ 9:54 am
Here’s a french review of the 1 volume of “Yapou, bétail humain”, manga adapted from the novel “Kachikunin yapuu”. The artist is Tatsuya Egawa.
October 26th, 2007 @ 6:37 am
“…vaginas lined with anemone type creatures, cross breeding animal transformation and girls steadily mutating into a mass of breasts, tentacles and sexual orifices…” Wow… I don’t think I can stomach such bizarreness, but I guess that’s fetishism. Some people find it kinky and sexy, while others find it disgusting.
October 27th, 2007 @ 3:21 am
The cake is a lie…
The cake is a lie…
The cake is a lie…
*bzzt*
The Aperture Science AI Incinerator does hold cake at the end. Please do enjoy your kikai!