“Gengoroh Tagame draws the human condition like no one else—in all its intensity, longing, ferocity, and passionate allure. He is a true master of masculine humility and its inspiring possibilities. His art is impossible not to gaze at, marvel in, and get lost in its voluptuous abandon.” — Chip Kidd “Here in Gengoroh Tagame’s beautiful manga, the delicate original and bold Japanese sense of rendering is brought to bear on pictures of cruelty, pain and bondage. But there is beauty too in how all those knots are tied.” – Edmund White