The Love of the Brute by Horaki Samura

Описание: The Love of the Brute
"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.

Available in three different languages, please select during the order.



an unique huge hard cover edition handmade in a true japanese binding!


B-W, off-set printing printed in a4 large format on 70g Munken paper

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

112 pages + folded centerfold double a3 format
Bodonian HARD cover in stitched binding
hand made red tread (just for esthetic purpose)
red pantone print on cover



published by Hollow Press -October 2025
limited edition of:
4000 copies (english version) - first printing
1000 copies (italian version) - first printing
500 copies (japanese version) - first printing

Artwork: Samura Hiroaki
Editor: Michele Nitri
Graphic Design and supervisor: Marco Cirillo Pedri
English Translation: Elettra Blandini
Italian Translation: Paolo La Marca

Hitodenashi no Koi -The love of the brute
Copyright 2025 Michele Nitri. All rights reserved.
All artwork, copyright 2025 Samura Hiroaki.
© Interview, Paolo La Marca, 2025
for the original japanese edition:
© Samura Hiroaki, 2006
© Issuisha, 2006
Translation made in arrangement with Am-Book (www.am-book.com) and Mitsuhiro Asakawa.