Heta-uma

Heta-uma (ヘタウマ or ヘタうま) is a Japanese underground manga movement started in the 1970s with the magazine Garo.

[2] Heta-uma can be translated as "bad but good", designating a work which looks poorly drawn, but with an aesthetically conscious quality, opposed to the polished look of mainstream manga.

Some of heta-uma's main artists are Teruhiko Yumura (pen name "King Terry"),[3] Yoshikazu Ebisu[4] and Takashi Nemoto.

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Tokugawa Iemitsu 's "Rabbit painting" is considered by modern viewers to be a pioneering example of heta-uma. [ 1 ]