Pride, Volume 1

Pride #1

by Gengoroh Tagame

Ohashi is a hot hunk and a top man, who comes on strong at the midnight cruising park. One day, Ohashi meets Dr. Shibazaki, who is a professor of psychology and an expert in BDSM. By the various techniques of this slave-training maestro, a top turns into a bottom, and a young hunk turns into a slave. The Young Kazuma is tricked into a gang-bang at a street gang's underground clubhouse.

Genres: Manga, Erotica, Queer, Comics, Graphic Novels, M M Romance, BDSM

252 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Gengoroh Tagame is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in gay BDSM erotic manga, many of which depict graphic violence. The men he depicts are hypermasculine, and tend to be on the bearish side.

Born into a family descended from samurai, Tagame began his career as a manga artist in 1982, while he was studying graphic design at Tama Art University (多摩美術大学). His works have been published in several Japanese gay magazines, including Sabu, G-men and SM-Z. Since 1986, he has used the pen-name Gengoroh Tagame, and since 1994 Tagame has lived off the profits of his art and writings. In recent years, Tagame has edited a two volume artbook series about the history of gay erotic art in Japan from the 1950s to the present, 日本のゲイ・エロティック・アート (Nihon no gei, erotikku āto, Gay Erotic Art in Japan) volumes 1 and 2.

All his works contain "virile males, or youths, and their apprenticeship of physical and mental submission". Works of his include: Jujitsu Kyoshi at B Product; Emono, Shirogane no Hana (3 vol.) and Pride (3 vol.) at G-Project.

His manga Gunji (軍次) was translated into French in 2005, followed by Arena in 2006 and Goku in 2009. An artbook of his works has also been published in France by H&O Editions. An exhibition of his works was held in France in May 2009. Tagame is openly gay.

Tagame has been called the most influential creator of gay manga in Japan to date, and "the most talented and most famous author of sado-masochistic gay manga". Most of his work first appeared in gay magazines and usually feature sexual abuse. Tagame's depiction of men as muscular and hairy has been cited as a catalyst for a shift in fashion amongst gay men in 1995, away from the clean-shaven and slender bishōnen stereotypes and towards a tendency for masculinity and chubbiness. Tagame's work has been criticised by notable gay manga writer Susumu Hirosegawa as "SM gekijō" (S&M theater) for its violence and lack of complex storylines.

A small amount of Tagame's work has been licensed in English; a short story, "Standing Ovations", was included in the third issue of the erotic comics anthology Thickness, and in July 2012, Picturebox announced a short story collection, The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame, for 2013 release, which will be the first completely bara work published in English in a print format. The book will collect short works spanning 15 years of Tagame's career, including a new story commissioned especially for the book by book designer Chip Kidd.

(notes : everything else can be read on wikipedia)

Reviews

[Cassie Rauch]

im horny for hentai i simply need more - fishmonger here i come

[BookAddict ✒ La Crimson Femme · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ohashi is a 3rd year student who enjoys public sex with men. He pitches with a lot of fun, males dancing to his tune. This is until he meets Professor Shibazaki, a psychology professor. He enjoys a good tryst only to find out the Prof thinks he's just "okay" and doesn't want to have sex with him again. This messes him up and he's not able to have random sex. Pissed off, he goes back to the professor and demand why he is only good enough for one fuck. This is where the mind fuck begins.

Volume one is testing Ohashi with a bit of obedience. The bondage, chastity, anal sex violation is great. Watching Ohashi be pulled into being a catcher rather than a pitcher is delicious. What I really like about this is the guys are big bears. They also like it dirty, hard and filled with grunting and pain. There is no pussyfooting around here. Will Ohashi continue to bottom or will he pull back? Recommended for bear lovers looking for a fast pace intense masochistic initiation. Add it to your spank bank. (My GR depraved buddies, you know who you are. *Eyebrow raised at Vivian and Kynthos*

[Nathan Fox · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the horniest thing I’ve ever read in my life it was hot bitch!!!!

That being said every fear I’ve ever had of a master/slave dynamic has been heightened I am not cut out of that shit lmao

[noosha]

hentai hive rise up

[Helena · Rating 3 out of 5]

Why. Whyyyyy did I read this?

The actual answer is, because I'm going to TCAF this weekend for an unrelated reason, and a friend begged me to get his autograph as he'll also be there, so I had to check it out.

The real reason is...it's surprisingly perfect for what it is.

It's not really my thing, even amongst what is basically just porn... I don't read/watch a lot of porn (I really don't, I'm not saying that as a prude, I have no issue with it, I just...I prefer 'literature' porn like Story of O or de Sade rather than manga or actual LA porn or really graphic imagery...if I am gonna experience any kind of porn, I prefer that kind of written language), but even if I were going to, I probably wouldn't go for hardcore bear S&M gay porn.
I do love eroguro nasty fetishy lurid manga. But that stops juuuust this shy of porn, while this is full on hardcore just straight up porn.

That said...
For being what it is, it captures really reeeeeally good BDSM really well.

Putting aside that I'm a cis female for a second, the actual power dynamics and power plays/relationships/scenes are really well-done. Minus the scat (cuz that goes too far even for me) and the specifics of the anal-play (because even though girls can be into that, it doesn't happen to be my thing), the scenes could be played out almost as-is in a scene with a female or two females (in any positions) just as well...because the specific genital actions are not as important as the power play, even if the genitalia is VERY front and center in this.

So. It was surprisingly enjoyable. To the point that I read all 3 volumes when I meant to just get a brief idea of who the heck Gengoroh Tagame was.


Oops. Well, there went my evening.

[Clare]

*If anyone is looking for my jaw.... It's on the floor*

See.. Every now and then, I read something and think to myself, "Clare, this right here is why you'll be going straight to hell. This is what they'll show you at the gates of heaven as they kick your ass straight into the fiery pits of hell".... And then I go and find something worse to read. This was the something worse

If you were to ask me why I read this, I'd say 'curiosity'. Like how do you turn a top into a bottom? Well... Now I know.

If you are into half of the things shown in this volume...

1. Kudos to you
2. I am afraid of you

I don't even know what to rate this🤣

[Hagendickson604 · Rating 4 out of 5]

i think the book is great

[ℂ ✧ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Too much per mi. Il·lustracions xulíssimes i cossos estil bear estupendos, però TOO MUCH ^^'

[Kags · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tagame is such an icon in gay Japanese literature. Thank you for the delicious meal, sir.