SM King SMキング
SM magazine launched in 1972 by Dan Oniroku's company Oni Production, which stopped making pink films to publish it and was wound up in 1974.
SM King was the magazine of Oni Production (“Oni Pro”), the company the novelist Dan Oniroku set up in 1969 to make pink films. According to the official Dan Oniroku chronology, Oni Pro stopped film production in 1972 and launched SM King instead, at a time when SM magazines had become a mainstream newsstand category. Japanese Wikipedia’s article on Dan says the magazine helped lead the early SM scene of the 1970s.
The venture was short in its original form. The same chronology records that in 1974, after Dan took on a large debt by guaranteeing a friend’s promissory notes, he dissolved Oni Pro and threw a farewell party for the magazine’s writers. The sources consulted here do not say when the magazine itself ended or who published it afterward.
Two sources give a glimpse of who worked on it. Kawade Shobō Shinsha’s author note for the painter Ozuma Yōko says he drew covers and illustrations for SM King, and the historian Kawahara Azumi notes that Iida Toyoichi (Nureki Chimuo) occasionally tied for its photo shoots in 1974.