Shintaro Kago


Shintaro Kago is a Japanese guro manga artist. He debuted in 1988 on the magazine COMIC BOX.

Style

Shintaro Kago's style has been called "fashionable paranoia," although he has stated the term stems from Western media and he doesn't use it himself. He has been published in several adult manga magazines, gaining him considerable popularity. Many of his manga have strongly satirical overtones, often parodying Japanese and Russian politics. Separately, he deals extensively with grotesque subjects such as extreme sex, rape, scatology and body modification.
He has also written non-guro sci-fi manga, most notably Super-Conductive Brains Parataxis for Weekly Young Jump. Many of his shorts are experimental and bizarre. He frequently breaks the fourth wall, and he likes to play with the page layout in extreme ways, mostly for comedic effect.
When asked about his influences, he's mentioned Shigeru Mizuki, Fujiko Fujio, Masamune Shiro, and Katsuhiro Otomo.
When not working in manga, he sculpts gag figurines of the same themes.

In popular culture

On April 4, 2006, an exhibition of his works, Unsanitary Condition Exhibition was opened. The same month he held the opening of his movie convention: Shit Film Festival.
From September 3–15, 2007, the Vanilla Gallery in Tokyo held another exhibition of his works, Unsanitary Festival in the Cool of the Night. In 2013, Kago Shintaro was invited for a new exhibition outside of Japan titled Unsanitary Hong Kong Exhibition at CIA.
His work has been seen as album material for the 2014 Flying Lotus release You're Dead!, released via Warp. He designed the album's cover artwork and provided illustrations for each of the album's songs, which are featured on the inner sleeves of the vinyl album. In addition, Kago designed the album cover for Offset's Bent Benevolence.
On June 17 2022, Kago announced the development of his first anime, Abstraction, produced by DRP. The animated film will be based on tales from the Bible. To fund the work, Kago held a digital exhibition, Desiccation, for the purpose of selling NFT's of his work. It was followed by another exhibition, Eve of Revolution, showing behind-the-scenes content.

List of works

  • Brain Damage
  • * Collects: 4 Labyrinth, Blood Harvest, Curse Room, and Portrait of Family
  • Bride in Front of the Station
  • * Collects: Bride, Drawers, Excavations, Faucets, Fixation, The Flying Bride, Labyrinth, Particles, Pyromania, Reflexions, Saws, and Quartering
  • Contamination with Foreign Matter
  • * Collects: History Lesson #1-7, The Abandoned Children Championship, Angel, The Anteater, The App From Hell, The Bang Wall, Cataclysm, The Dentist, Explosive Sexual Satisfaction Syndrome, The Genius of Cunnilingus, Grains of Rice, High Noon, Just Married, Maternal Instinct, A New Athletic Discipline, The New Minamida Funeral Services, New Product; Panda! Go, Panda; Phimosis Hunters, The Prison Guard, SM Temptation, Snot, and Stomatitis
  • Dance! Kremlin Palace
  • * Collects: Borscht Fight; Call The Storm!! Violent Soviet Land Strikes Back!!; The Cossacks, Perestroika and Me; His Excellency the Daredevil; I Can Hear The Warsaw Anthem; Let's Go Gorbies! Baseball Tournament; Let's Ride a Bicycle!; Love Beyond the Tundra; The Overthrown USSR; Summer Of Stress, Russian Summer; ''Under the Star of the Red Flag, and The What and Why Encyclopedia: What is Communism?!
  • Dream Toy Factory
  • * Collects: The How and What #1-4, Closed Hospital, Drafting a Water Goddess, Dream Toy Factory, Lament of the Headless, Mr. Urashima, Sweet Fashion Notes, Tale of Reversed Oddity, White String, and White Teeth are Nice
  • Eccentric Pictorial
  • * Collects: Collecting #1-6, Harakiri, Holy Night, and Voracious Itches
  • Hannya Haramita
  • * Collects: Animal Kingdom, Aogeba Totoshi, Ataraxia, Demon Seed, Hannya Haramita, The Summer Bugs that Fly into Your Eyes, Tail Study
  • Kasutoru Shiki
  • * Collects: Abstraction, Akutagawa, Back Streets, Blow-Up, Communicable Mouth Disease, Genesis, Local Tourist Information, Lord of the Ring, Memories of Others, Multiplication, No Need for Caution, Spinning Thoughts, Superglue, and When All's Said and Done
  • Is It Possible for a Collision on the Way to School to Result in a Kiss? Experiment
  • * Collects: 19 art pieces, five Paranoia Street spin-off shorts, and 21 one-shots
  • More than Human
  • * Collects: Godzilla #1-4, More than Human #1-3, An Inquiry Concerning the Mechanistic World View of the Pituitary Gland, Japanese Fairy Tales, Rebellion, and Strange Land
  • Murder Techniques Throughout the Ages
  • * Collects: The Artist's Hellscape, Blood Magic and the Spell of Love, A Convex World, The Dwarves and the Shoemaker, Gipangu Products Don't Break, Malice of the Void, The Mystery of Sanae-san, Nice Balls, Super-Dimensional Love Gun, Vampirism Through the Ages, and Violent Homicide Friend Park
  • Super-Dimensional Love Gun
  • * Collects: Collecting #1: Touch ; Collecting #6: Loss ; Communicable Mouth Disease, ''India Station, Inviz, Lament of the Headless, Local Tourist Information, Miss Tomezuka's Refined Hobby, Ready-to-Assemble Super-Dimensional Love Gun, Shigure Konno's Blessed Life, The Summer Bugs that Fly into Your Eyes, Super-Dimensional Love Gun, Tono Station, The Town of Japan's Best Beauties, and White String
  • Uneven Nymphomania
  • * Collects: The Power Plant #1-3, A Certain Hero's Death, and Guard Your Left
  • A Lot of Sweets Jammed in the Head of a Girl
  • * A collection of 96 Pretty Girl watercolor pieces set in Kago's absurdist playland featuring all your favorite scenes depicting over-the-top scenes of depravity, surreal dreamscapes, cannibalism, decapitation and, of course, dark comedy.
  • Anamorphosis: Hell Beast
  • * Anamorphosis revolves around a group of people invited to a contest wherein they have to stay in a supposedly haunted set for 48 hours after an evil murderous spirit is summoned to produce a recreation of the murder scene.
  • * Includes nine bonus stories: Behind, Bishoujo Tantei Tengai Sagiri, Changes, Hikikomori, Previous Life, Rainy Girl, Salesman, Small Present, and Weightlessness
  • Dementia 21
  • * Yukie Sakai is a sprightly young home health aide eager to help her elderly clients. But what seems like a straightforward job quickly turns into a series of increasingly surreal and bizarre adventures that put Yukie’s wits to the test!
  • Fraction
  • * A serial killer known as The Slicing Devil is butchering young women, interspaced by a Kago self-insert explaining comic narrative manipulation.
  • * Includes a bonus Interview With Shintaro Kago & Ryuichi Kasumi, and four bonus stories: Back From the Front, Collapse, Tremors, and Voracious Itches
  • Harem End
  • * Itou Seita was supposed to be an ordinary college student, but suddenly he found himself in an anime-like situation when five girls – alien, little sister, childhood friend, tsundere, and fiancé – showed up in his apartment and decided to start living with him. Is this your typical harem or is there something else going on behind the scenes? A formerly popular but now disgraced and unemployed seiyuu and idol Hirahara Aya gets a generous proposal to voice the lead part, magical girl Killemall, in a mysterious animation company production. But is that company harboring certain secrets? Finally, how do these two stories connect together to lead to a perfect harem ending?
  • * Includes bonus stories: Pretty Girl Detective Tengai Sagiri, Eraser, and Godly Ramen
  • Panna Cotta
  • * Another collection of 96 Pretty Girl watercolor pieces set in Kago's absurdist playland featuring all your favorite scenes depicting mischievous murder, amusing amputations and of course, heads exploding with candy goodness.
  • Paranoia Street
  • * Paranoia Street‘s story follows the fantastically absurd exploits of a wannabe detective and his female assistant who roam the Japanese countryside looking for work. Each chapter has them arriving at a new town plagued by some bizarre problem.
  • The Princess of The Never-Ending Castle
  • * The Princess of The Never-Ending Castle takes place in an alternate timeline during the Japanese War for Unification. In true history, warlord Oda Nobunaga was betrayed and assassinated by his closest general, Akechi Mitsuhide. This story explores what would have happened if Nobunaga had defeated Mitsuhide and continued his rule.
  • Shine! Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • * This early work from Kago is an alternative history of World War 2, in which the fighting nations discover a way to turn women into giant-sized biomechanical weapons and use them as the primary method of warfare.
  • Soul Diver Saga: Nirvana
  • Super-Conductive Brains Parataxis
  • * This manga presents different stories settled in a future world in which biomechanoids of any kind are created for every purpose. All the stories, through different angles and in a somewhat bizarre fashion, explore the same theme: are they mere machines or do they dream of electric sheep?
  • Tract
  • * A surreal and loose story of a world overwhelmed by a destructive strings and wires motif, told without any text.
  • Ultra Power Mongol Invasion
  • * For a long time, giants have existed in this world. They were used as tools and played an important role during turning points in history. The key to the secret lies in Mongolia. Discover Kago's peculiar vision of world history!
  • Aiko, the 16 Year Old Girl
  • Antlion vs Girl in Pieces
  • Atrocious Comedy in Front of the Station
  • Black Theater: Grandma Smells Like a Corpse
  • Correct Perverted Sexual Desires
  • Delusions That Jump Out at You: Kago Shintaro's Factorization
  • Eccentric People Magazine
  • Health Plan
  • Industrial Revolution and World War
  • Manga of Hole, Character, Blood, Etc. Appearances
  • Notebook of Murder and Killing
  • The Book of Killing and Killing - Thirteen Horrible Sufferings in Great Edo
  • Six Consciousnesses Thought Changing Ataraxia
  • Sudden Delusion
  • Superhuman
  • Wandering Cartoon Eccentricities in Front of the Station
  • Specials and Uncollected One-Shots
  • * Battle in Outer Space
  • * The Big Funeral
  • * Communication
  • * The Desperate Sadness of a Cross-Section
  • * Disc
  • * Drunkard Condo Syndrome
  • * Erotic Game
  • * Everything's Peaceful
  • * Funeral Views
  • * Ghosts
  • * Giant Girl Explosion
  • * Godzilla vs. Gigan
  • * Harakiri Girls
  • * How to Suicide
  • * Iwa and Izaemon
  • * Many Times of Joy and Sorrow
  • * Moshi – Daily Life of the Schoolgirl Zombies
  • * My Beloved Lady
  • * The Pleasure of a Slippery Cross-Section
  • * Pretty Girl Picture Book
  • * Punctures
  • * Safety Hit
  • * Springs
  • * Supergirl Begins
  • * ''White Spectacle''

Interviews

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