Adventure Kid - The Original Manga Book 2: Hard Drive

by Toshio Maeda

It's erotic comedy in a sci-fi setting with an emphasis on the erotic. No one does it better than Toshio Maeda, the originator of the "erotic grotesque" style of manga and anime. Key Selling Point: Left to Right (American style format). Cyber-Sex With No Back-up! Created in a time of war, an evil computer program has been unleashed on the unwary world, and it's trying to remake things in its own image...of sex and debauchery. Can our heroes stop this evil force, or will they succumb to the sexual urges generated by this sinister program?

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2003

About the author

A controversial erotic manga artist who was most prolific in the 1980s and 90s. Several of Maeda's works have been used as a basis for Original Video Animations including the well known La Blue Girl, Adventure Kid, Demon Beast Invasion, Demon Warrior Koji and his most famous work, Urotsukidōji (Legend of the Overfiend). One interviewer commented that Urotsukidōji "firmly placed him in the history books - in Japan and abroad - as the pioneer of the genre known as hentai, or perverted".

Maeda is proud of his role in popularizing the genre and in a blog interview stated that he would like "Tentacle Master" inscribed on his tombstone.