Teruo Kakuta (born February 18), pen name , is a

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and creator of . His pen name is a multilingual pun, meaning "little insect" in Japanese and "condom" in English. Kondom's manga stories are centred around

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creatures such as insects, amphibians, and reptiles. He is married to fellow manga artist

Career

Kondom is best known for his long-running ''Bondage Fairies'' manga series. The series began in 1990 as ''Insect Hunter'', but it was quickly banned from sale by the Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance. Under a new title, the manga was serialized in

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manga magazine ''Lemon Kids''. In 1994, Antarctic Press localized ''Bondage Fairies'' through their Venus Comics imprint, and began publishing the manga in comic book instalments. It was later published by

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and Eros Comics, along with sequel series ''The New Bondage Fairies'', ''Bondage Fairies Extreme'', and ''Fairy Fetish''. In recent decades, Kondom's erotic short manga ''Keyhole'' reached

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tic status online. The story revolves around a doorknob, interpreted as a young woman, interacting with a homeowner's key. ''Keyhole'' was drawn in the late 1990s but published in Kondom's 2005 story collection . In 2012, ''Keyhole'' was adapted into a feature-length

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, retitled ''"I'm a Doorknob...": Keyhole Pu*sy''.

Selected works

* (20 February 1990) * (5 April 1993) * (20 October 1993) * or The New Bondage Fairies (25 November 1994) * or Bondage Fairies Extreme (25 September 1995) * (10 November 2004) * (20 July 2005)

References

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