Edogawa Ranpo
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Tarō Hirai, better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo or Edogawa Rampo, was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. Many of h
Hirai in 1947
Ero guro nansensu
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Ero guro nansensu is a specific set of cultural trends that arose during the Shōwa era in Japan. Ero guro nansensu is a wasei-eigo word derived from the English words erotic, grotesque, and nonsense.
Edogawa Ranpo
…seemingly insolvable crimes, during the 1930s, he began to turn increasingly to stories that involved a combination of sensibilities often called "ero guro nansensu", from the three words "eroticism, grotesquerie, and the nonsensical". The presence of these sensibilities helped him sell his stories to the public…
"The Sada Abe Panic" May 1936. Newspapers of the time reported on crowds gathered in the streets following news of the Sada Abe Incident, noting the nonsensical nature of the incident.