Though your images often depict extremely violent acts – mutilation of genitalia and so forth – the characters experiencing them, both men and women, however, do not often seem to show pain – do you see the figures as consenting?
Toshio Saeki: Let’s not forget that the images I draw are fictional. Depicting the character’s faces without pain or suffering brings out the effect of the “unusual and extraordinary.” Whether or not the figures are consenting or not does not really matter to me.