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 seinen

Seinen

is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at a 20–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be older with some manga aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. In Japanese, the word Seinen means "young man" or "young men" and is not suggestive of sexual matters...

 manga artist

Mangaka

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 born in 1956 in Kyoto Prefecture

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, Japan

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. Some of his early work was published under the name . He has been publishing since 1986.

Yui is known for his computer-assisted drawings, manga, and web-images of pretty and sexy girls (bishōjo

Bishojo

is a Japanese term used to refer to young and pretty girls, usually below university age. Bishōjo is not listed as a word in the prominent Japanese dictionary Kōjien...

). He specializes in romantic comedies, sometimes supernatural and often sexually explicit, about these girls and their male and female friends.

Three of his works have been translated into English, Misty Girl Extreme, Hot Tails, and Wingding Orgy.
Writing about Kagome, Kagome, the French manga dictionary Dicomanga pointed to Yui's large usage of computer software which gives a particular yet slightly icy tone to his universe. Also writing about Kagome, Kagome, SplashComics noted that Yui used the technique of using photographs as backgrounds. Derek Guder, writing about Hot Tails, described Yui as "an adult manga king", enjoying his unique "mix of sex, humor, and bizarre imagination. He simply lets his id

Id, ego, and super-ego

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 run wild, and we stories that are as surreal as they are sexual". Guder found the artwork of Hot Tails "still a bit unpolished and busy in these older stories, but his style is undeniable. The art is gorgeous, the ladies are sexy, and the premises too bizarre not to enjoy", giving it a rating of four out of four stars. Yui's Hot Tails has been called the best known exponent of the futanari

Futanari

Futanari is the Japanese word for androgyny or hermaphrodite. Until 1644, the appeal of sexually ambiguous, futanari characters portrayed by onnagata actors was a popular element in Japanese drama, and there is a flourishing futanari anime and manga genre in Japan today.- History in Japanese...

genre in the West.

As Toshiki Yui

(1987) (1988) (1990) (1991) (1993) (Incorporated into Hot Tails, Vol. 1)

• Kirara
  Kirara (manga)
  is a manga series by Toshiki Yui first published in 1993 by Shueisha. It was later adapted as an original video animation in 2000.It was licensed in French by Panini Comics.-Plot:...
  
  (1993–1997) (1993–1994) (1995) (1996) (1990) (Incorporated into Hot Tails, Vol. 2) (1999)
• Yui Shop (1999–2003) Kodansha
• Re Yui (2000) (2000)
• X2 (2000)
• Princess Quest Saga (2000) (2000–2001) (2002) (2003–2005) (2004) (2006–2008) Kodansha

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