Parasitic City #1 (English Edition) - 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 enough Haramitsu points. The premise is handled as a system rather than a metaphor, with rules that stay visible on the page.

Parasitic City #1 is built for duration. Kago’s panel construction is tight and mechanical, but the surface remains unstable: grotesque comedy, abrupt violence, and conceptual detours sit inside a carefully engineered narrative machine. References to comics and Western philosophy are present, but the book doesn’t lecture. It uses those signals as texture, then keeps moving.

This is the English Edition, limited to 1,000 copies. The book is printed in black-and-white offset and bound with stitched binding in a large A4 format, with 160 pages. Credits include editor Michele Nitri, design by Marco Cirillo Pedri & Christian Dolz Bayarri, and English translation by Iain Halliday.

Publisher / Manufacturer: Hollow Press
Country of origin: Italy
Website: https://hollow-press.net/

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