Love of the Brute [COMING SOON]

NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER. This title is tentatively scheduled to arrive Autumn 2026. We will update when we have more information.

Note: release dates and prices are tentative and subject to change at the publisher's whim and fluctuating currency exchange rates.

The most extreme and controversial ERO GURO book ever published by the sensei Hiroaki Samura, the author of the cult the Blade of the Immortal.

Hitodenashi no Koi - the Love of the Brute (or Brute Love).

The Love of the Brute (人でなしの恋, Hitodenashi no Koi), an illustration series of adult themed pencil drawings (extreme violence and sexual material).

The illustrations were published from 1998 to 2006.

The series jumped from one publication to the next and featured in both erotic and pornographic tankōbon such as "Tokyo H" and "Manga Erotics F", youth and art magazines such as "QuickJapan" and "Comickers".

Finally collected and reprinted after about 20 years by Hollow Press, including a long interview to the Sensei by translator Paolo La Marca.

In reversed printing signature like vintage japanese books for which they were used to solve the problem of transparency due to the use of light rice papers.

Author/Artist: Samura Hiroaki
Editor: Michele Nitri
Publisher: Hollow Press
Pages: 112pp
Size: 11.75 x 16.5
Notes: ADULTS ONLY, imported, Bodonian hardcover, stitched binding with handmade thread, b/w, limited
Edition: 4000
Date of Publication: October 2025