guro

See also: Guro

English

Etymology

Reborrowed from Japanese グロ, from grotesque.

Noun

guro (uncountable)

  1. A subgenre of manga and anime focusing on gore and mutilation.
    • 2009, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?: Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction
      And maybe the Moravecian dream would be especially exciting for fans of guro manga who want to live out all the fantasies to have sex like the immortal Mai in Waita Uziga's Mai-chan's Daily Life, who stay alive even after being violently mutilated []
    • 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Animation & Cartoons
      The scope of hentai encompasses the entire range of sexual fetishes, including [] Guro, focusing on imaginative gore and mutilation.

Anagrams


Japanese

Romanization

guro

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぐろ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of グロ

Tagalog

Etymology

From Sanskrit गुरु (gūru)

Noun

gurò

  1. teacher
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