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Parasitic City #0.1
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Parasitic City by Shintaro Kago
A long-form dystopian arc from Hollow Press—parasites as moral control, reincarnation as currency.
- Parasitic City #0.1 (2022)
- Parasitic City #0.2 (2024)
- Parasitic City #0.3 (2025)
- Parasitic City #1 (2023)
- Parasitic City #2 (2024)
- Parasitic City #3 (2025)
Parasitic City #0.1 (English Edition) is a full-color A4 Hollow Press booklet by Shintaro Kago—24 pages, offset printed and stapled, issued as a limited third printing of 600 copies.
- Format: Stapled
- Pages: 24
- Size: A4
- Publisher: Hollow Press
- Language: English
- Edition: English Edition, 3rd printing, limited to 600 copies
Parasitic City #0.1 — Shintaro Kago
Parasitic City #0.1 is the entry point into Shintaro Kago's long-form dystopian series for Hollow Press. Issued as a compact A4 booklet ahead of the main numbered volumes, it functions as a prologue in object form—establishing the series' visual register and thematic logic in 24 pages. Parasites as instruments of moral control, reincarnation as currency: the premise is stated early and without softening.
The format keeps its construction visible. Full-color offset printing on an A4 sheet, finished with a stapled binding. At 24 pages, the issue sits closer to a pamphlet than a book, but it is produced and distributed as a collectible release within the Hollow Press catalogue.
This is the English Edition, issued as a third printing limited to 600 copies. Credits: edited by Michele Nitri, graphic design by Marco Cirillo Pedri, English translation by Iain Halliday.
Kago's approach to comics treats the page as a mechanism. Panel grids, repetition, and bodily transformation are not decorative choices—they are structural ones. In the Shintaro Kago body of work associated with ero-guro and formal experimentation, Parasitic City #0.1 represents the series in miniature: compressed, precise, and consistent with the methods carried through the later volumes.
The remaining issues in the series are available separately:
About Shintaro Kago
Shintaro Kago is a Japanese manga artist associated with ero-guro and formal experimentation. His work is engineered rather than illustrated: panel grids, repetition, and bodily transformation function as structural mechanisms, not decorative themes. In the Parasitic City series, Kago extends these methods into serialized world-building. Parasitic City #0.1 carries the same precision in compressed form—a short, full-color prologue that already demonstrates the approach sustained across the later volumes.
Format: Stapled
Pages: 24
Dimensions: A4
Weight: 0.2 kg
Language: English
Edition: English Edition, 3rd printing, limited to 600 copies
Publisher / Manufacturer:
Hollow Press
Country of origin:
Italy
Website:
https://hollow-press.net/
Address:
Hollow Press di Nitri Michele
Via A. Da Zara 8/H
71121 Foggia (FG)
Italy
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