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MR.

JAPANESE, BORN 1969

Mr. is a Japanese contemporary artist and a former protégé of Takashi Murakami. He works in a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, and video, though his works are all closely related in aesthetics, style, and theme. His pieces depict young boys and girls in an anime/manga style, drawing upon the aesthetics and attitudes of otaku culture, and lolicon themes.

While quite cute and innocent on the surface, many of his works are also quite sexualized, tying into the anime phenomenon of fanservice, and leaving it an open question as to how innocent his works are in the end.