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Though beloved by Bara fans, Mr. Pontaro does not have any Wikipedia page. Even the information on his contributions to the Japanese gay magazines such as Samson (サムソン) or Sabu (さぶ) is very limited. I tried to dig up any info from the DB files from now-closed Doujinsh and Manga Lexicon , but the better result could be found at the "Back Issues" pages of Samson . You can search the infos in the following link and you can search infos on the back issues from different years. http://www.kaimeikan.co.jp/samson/samson_bk2004.html   Following is the list of his works, the best that I can offer right now. 1. Cover arts for Samson Mr. Pontaro drew covers for Samson from 2003 to 2004. His first cover for Samson is as follows. (c) Pontaro The man in the cover wears a Santa Claus hat, for Japanese publishers tend to issue magazines months earlier. The January issue featuring the cover must have been out in the stores in November or December of 2002. 2. Comics Though incomplete, these...

Recently I found a fascinationg drawing by Mr. Daisuke Takakura . *Beware that there is another Daisuke Takakura , who is a renowned photographer. I had the chance to look through his works before. But those works did not fascinate me much like the following drawing, even though all his works are very skillfully drawn. Some of his works are very realistic, almost like he drew or traced from real pictures. (c) 高蔵大介(Takakura, Daisuke) (detail) But other works are drawn like comics, which makes it hard to realize that all those works are from the same artist. He did not have any Japanese Wikipedia page, so I don't have much information about him. He is just introduced as an artist who from time to time contributed illustrations to the Japanese gay magazines such as  Samson and Sabu . Some of his works can be found in the Gengoroh Tagame 's erotic art compilation book, Gay Erotic Art in Japan Vol. 3 . (c) 田亀源五郎(Tagame Gengoroh) et al I hope to have more chance to see vintage...

For last month, my article about Pontaro was the most popular one among my posts. See the link. Click the link That's why I decided to post another article on Pontaro . I found that he draw covers of Samson , a Japanese gay magazine, all through 2003 and 2004. I could not find wikipedia page of his in Japanese wikipedia so all I could find about him is from Doujinshi & Manga Lexicon. I guess that he chose his penname ' Pontaro ' from a Japanese word, ぽん太郎(written as pontarou, but sounded as pontaroː with long "o"), meaning a fool, as a joke.

G-men #172 Another comic by Jiraiya, which was published after his latest comic book. It is called Kinta no Kintama(金太のキンタマ), which means Kinta's balls in Japanese. Followings are the images that I've found regarding this comic.

G-men1月号 No.178 One of the most influential Japanese gay magazines, G-Men reveals gay spots in Seoul, Korea. The details of the first "G-men" of 2011 follows: ■速報！ アジア中のガチムチ野郎注目の新イベント 「FANTASY」誕生！ ＆台湾ゲイパレード2010 10/29に台北で誕生したアジア最大の ガチムチ野郎イベント「FANTASY」と、 10/30の台湾ゲイパレード2010を総力取材。 アジア中のナイスなガチムチ野郎が集結した その天国のような空間をイチ早くお届け！ 表紙に登場するのは、FANTASY BOYS。 その模様と台北レポートは2月号で たっぷりと掲載します。 ■総力特集　 Gay Traveller ASIA SEOUL 男の旅 ～あなたの知らないソウル Seoul, Men's trip, ~ Seoul which you don't know そして今号の目玉はソウルの大特集。 もっとも近い海外、韓国・ソウルの 日本では知られていないゲイスポットを 完全取材。 And this month's edition's focus point is Seoul Special Report. We covered all the gay spots of Seoul, Korea (which is the closest overseas country) which are unknown for Japanese yet. もちろんソウル・カバーボーイズの 特写グラビアもたっぷり御用意しました。 Of course, we provide specially photographed gravures of Seoul, cover boys' with plenty.さらに、漢流イラストレーターが 熱筆を揮ったカラー男絵とコミックもご紹介！ ソウル・カバーボーイズ 特写グラビア5本立て ナイトタウン＠ソウル ・ナイスガイ・マスター登場 ・日本初紹介のバー＆居酒屋 　+高雄の日本語OKのバーも取材 ・最新人気ハッテン・スポッ...