Kuso Miso Technique
A page with "Kuso Miso Technique" and "Junichi Yamakawa" in Japanese characters above a comic panel with an illustration of a man pressing his face against another man's buttocks.
Title page of Kuso Miso Technique, featuring Takakazu Abe (left) and Masaki Michishita (right)
くそみそテクニック
GenreGay manga, comedy
Manga
Written byJunichi Yamakawa
Published byDaini Shobō
MagazineBara-Komi
Published1987
Original video animation
Directed byMaki Itō
Studio
  • Anime Tokyo
  • Studio Kingyoiro
ReleasedApril 1, 2024

Kuso Miso Technique (Japanese: くそみそテクニック)[a] is a Japanese gay manga one-shot written and illustrated by Junichi Yamakawa. It was originally published in 1987 in Bara-Komi, a manga supplement of the gay men's magazine Barazoku. The manga depicts a sexual encounter between two men in a public restroom that is complicated by the need of one of the men to relieve himself. Published in Bara-Komi to relative obscurity, Kuso Miso Technique gained notoriety as an Internet meme in the early 2000s after scanned copies of the manga were posted on Japanese imageboards and online forums.

Plot

Masaki Michishita, a "typical guy" enrolled in preparatory school, is running to a restroom in a public park when he spots a man wearing a jumpsuit sitting on a nearby bench. The man, Takakazu Abe, unzips his jumpsuit and exposes his penis, asking Masaki, "Why don't we do it?" (やらないか, yaranai ka). They proceed to the restroom to have sexual intercourse.

Abe performs fellatio on Michishita, upon which Michishita informs him that he needs to urinate. Abe asks Michishita to take the dominant position in anal sex and urinate inside of him, which Michishita obliges. The pair switch positions, and Michishita informs Abe that he now needs to defecate. Abe is annoyed, but nevertheless suggests to a horrified Michishita to defecate while he penetrates him. The ending is left ambiguous, with Michishita commenting through narration that the encounter with Abe "turned out to be a shit show" (くそみそな結果に終わってしまった, kuso miso na kekka ni owatte shimatta).

Characters

Masaki Michishita (道下 正樹, Michishita Masaki)
A prep school student with no prior sexual experience with men, though he often fantasizes about them. He is strongly attracted to Takakazu Abe at first sight, prompting him to think, "Whoa! Hot guy!" (ウホッ! いい男…, Uho! Ii otoko...).
Takakazu Abe (阿部 高和, Abe Takakazu)
An auto mechanic. In the story, he sits provocatively on a park bench looking for sex. He is well-endowed and an experienced sexual partner.

Publication

Kuso Miso Technique was originally published in 1987 in Bara-Komi, a manga supplement of the gay men's magazine Barazoku.[2] The series has subsequently been re-published in two anthologies of works by Yamakawa: Uho~tsu!! Ī Otoko-tachi ~ Yamajun Pāfekuto Yamakawa Jun'ichi Komikku (ウホッ！！いい男たち~ヤマジュン・パーフェクト 山川 純一 コミック), published by Fukkan.com in 2003;[3] and Uho~tsu! ! Ī Otoko-tachi 2 Yamajun mi Happyō Sakuhin-shū Yamakawa Jun'ichi (ウホッ!!いい男たち2 ヤマジュン・未発表作品集　 山川 純一), published by Booking [ja] in 2009.[4]

Copyrights for Yamakawa's works were held by Barazoku editor-in-chief Ito Bungaku, who in 2013 transferred the copyright for Kuso Miso Technique to the production company IKD International.[5] In 2018, the copyrights for all of Yamakawa's works, including Kuso Miso Technique, were transferred to the entertainment company Cyzo [ja].[6]

Impact

A a comic panel composed of a closeup of the faces of two men engaged in anal sex. The active partner has an exertive expression, with a furrowed brow and an open mouth; the receptive partner has an almost serene expression, his eyes closed and his mouth slightly agape.
Takakazu Abe (left) and Masaki Michishita (right). Their faces in this panel are prominently featured in parodies.

Published to relative obscurity in 1987, Kuso Miso Technique gained notoriety as an Internet meme beginning in 2002 after scanned copies of the manga were posted on the imageboards 2channel and Futaba Channel.[2][7] The memeifcation of the series, particularly the posting of images edited to include Abe and Michishita's faces mid-coitus, trigged the so-called "Yamajun boom" that saw significant public interest in Junichi Yamakawa's manga, with several anthologies of Yamakawa's works selling out the entirety of their print runs.[7] Shift_JIS art of the manga produced on 2channel also contributed to the boom.[citation needed]

Lines from the manga such as "uho! Ii otoko", "yaranai ka", and the interjection "uho!" became popular Internet slang on Japanese forums and imageboards, as well as among the Japanese gay community.[7] "Yaranai" was ranked the 16th in 2007's "Net Slang of the Year" in Japan.[8] In 2009, in a survey by Gadget News [ja] asking respondents "which manga do you think is the most interesting?", Kuso Miso Technique placed 11th.[9] A variety of official merchandise related to Kuso Miso Technique has been produced, including t-shirts[10] and body pillow covers.[11]

A parody song inspired by the series, "Yaranaika", was created by a 2channel user; the song is composed of homoerotic lyrics set to the melody of "Balalaika" by Koharu Kusumi of Morning Musume. The song became popular on video sites such as Nico Nico Douga, where it has been integrated into one of the site's most popular medleys. Yuichiro Nagashima, a kickboxer famous for cosplaying during matches, once entered the ring dressed in Abe's jumpsuit with the parody song as background music.[12]

Adaptations

Japanese pornography studio Moodyz released a live-action adaptation of Kuso Miso Technique in 2012. Billed as a "pinnacle of futanari anal", the film stars female pornographic actresses Reiko Sawamura [jp] and Uta Kohaku [jp] as Abe and Michishita, respectively.[13]

On April 1, 2023, it was announced that Anime Tokyo would produce a "medium-length" anime film adaptation of Kuso Miso Technique directed by Maki Itō.[b] Itō, a director at Studio Kingyorio, created a live-action fan video adaptation of Kuso Miso Technique while in junior high school, which by 2023 had over 550,000 views on YouTube.[15] The film will reportedly be developed as an all-ages title, and will expand on the story of the original manga and incorporate elements from Yamakawa's other manga.[15] The adaptation was funded through a crowdfunding campaign commenced in Q3 2023.[14] The film is set to be released on DVD and Blu-Ray April 1, 2024.[16]

Notes

  1. ^ "Kuso" (くそ) means "crap", though the word is often used simply as interjection, while miso refers to the Japanese seasoning paste. Kuso miso is an idiomatic expression describing an inability to distinguish between something of value and something of no value, referencing the similar visual appearance of brown miso paste and feces.[1]
  2. ^ Despite the timing of the announcement coinciding with April Fools' Day, Comic Natalie confirmed that the announcement was genuine.[14]

References

  1. ^ 糞味噌 [Kuso miso]. Kotobank (in Japanese). Archived from the original on April 1, 2023. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
  2. ^ a b Kidd, Chip; Kolbeins, Graham; Ishii, Anne, eds. (2014). Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It (Kindle ed.). Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. p. 277. ISBN 978-1-60699-785-7. 1987: Bara-Komi publishes Junichi Yamakawa's one-shot manga 'Kuso Miso Technique' – a matter of little consequence in 1987, yet the comic will rise to worldwide notoriety in 2002, when bootleg scans go viral on the Japanese message board 2channel.
  3. ^ ウホッ！！いい男たち~ヤマジュン・パーフェクト [Uho~tsu!! Ī Otoko-tachi ~ Yamajun Pāfekuto Yamakawa Jun'ichi Komikku]. ASIN 4835440676.
  4. ^ ウホッ!!いい男たち2 ヤマジュン・未発表作品集 [Uho~tsu! ! Ī Otoko-tachi 2 Yamajun mi Happyō Sakuhin-shū Yamakawa Jun'ichi]. ASIN 483544406X.
  5. ^ "IKDI公式くそみそテクニック" [IKDI Official Kuso Miso Technique]. IKD International (in Japanese). May 19, 2013. Archived from the original on January 16, 2014. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
  6. ^ くそみそテクニックをはじめとする山川純一作品の著作権管理業務を株式会社サイゾーに移管致しました。 [Copyright management operations for Junichi Yamakawa's works, including Kuso Miso Technique, has been transferred to Cyzo Co.]. FMC Entertainment (in Japanese). March 19, 2018. Archived from the original on May 9, 2021. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
  7. ^ a b c ネット人気でホモマンガ復刻…ヤマジュンって誰だ？ [The comeback of homo manga popularity on the Internet... who is Yamajun?]. Zakzak (in Japanese). February 9, 2008. Archived from the original on February 9, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
  8. ^ こんな言葉も流行りました 07年ネット用語大全 [Slang of the Year]. ITmedia News (in Japanese). December 28, 2007. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
  9. ^ 今いちばん面白いと思う漫画はコレだ！ 6000人アンケートで決定！ [The most interesting manga of the moment is this one! Decided by a survey of 6,000 people!]. getnews.jp (in Japanese). May 6, 2009. Archived from the original on May 23, 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
  10. ^ Itō, Bungaku (November 14, 2008). 山川純一作品の名場面「やらないか」を使ったTシャツが出来たぞ！. 『薔薇族』編集長　伊藤文學の談話室「祭」 (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 6, 2010. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
  11. ^ "すごく大きいことで有名な「阿部さん」の抱き枕が満を持して発売". Gigazine (in Japanese). July 26, 2009. Archived from the original on December 20, 2023. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
  12. ^ 地上最強のアニヲタ長島☆自演乙、谷川FEG代表の目前でK-1制圧を宣言！. livedoor Sports (in Japanese). December 23, 2008. Archived from the original on February 6, 2009. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
  13. ^ くそみそテクニック [Kuso Miso Technique] (in Japanese). Moodyz. August 13, 2008. Archived from the original on June 25, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  14. ^ a b "「やらないか」の「くそみそテクニック」がアニメ化、エイプリルフールだが事実". Comic Natalie. April 1, 2023. Archived from the original on March 31, 2023. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  15. ^ a b Loo, Egan (March 31, 2022). "Kuso Miso Technique Gay Manga Has Original Video Anime Planned With Crowdfunding". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on April 3, 2023. Retrieved April 3, 2023.
  16. ^ Tai, Anita (October 30, 2023). "Kuso Miso Technique Manga's Shin Yaranai ka Anime Slated for April 1, 2024". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on October 30, 2023. Retrieved October 30, 2023.

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