Parasitic City #1 — Shintaro Kago
Parasitic City #1 opens Shintaro Kago's long-form dystopian series for Hollow Press. In this world, sins are administered through parasites, and the quality of future lives can be purchased — if you have accumulated enough Haramitsu points. The premise operates as a system rather than a metaphor: the rules remain visible on the page throughout.
Kago's panel construction is tight and mechanical, but the surface stays unstable. Grotesque comedy, abrupt violence, and conceptual detours are held inside a carefully engineered narrative structure. The book draws on ero-guro and formal experimentation without over-explaining either; references function as texture rather than argument.
This is the English Edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Printed in black-and-white offset, bound with stitched binding, in a large A4 format across 160 pages. Edited by Michele Nitri, designed by Marco Cirillo Pedri & Christian Dolz Bayarri, translated into English by Iain Halliday.
Parasitic City Series
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Shintaro Kago is a Japanese manga artist associated with ero-guro and formal experimentation. His work treats the page as a structure to be tested: bodies become mechanisms, narrative becomes a loop, and the panel grid functions as both container and weapon. In Parasitic City #1 (English Edition), these methods extend into serialized world-building, where control systems, belief systems, and desire are rendered with the same clinical attention.
