sentences:  After the publishing of Edogawa Ranpo's short story, , in the magazine "Shinseinen" in 1928, Japanese society saw a boom of bizarre and grotesque media.That same year, Yumeno Kyūsaku published his novel .Around this time, "nansensu" was added to "ero guro" as a buzzword that draws from the established sense of erotic grotesqueness to convey a certain style of media, culture and lifestyle.