Parasitic City #2 (English Edition) - Shintaro Kago

Parasitic City #2 continues Shintaro Kago’s annual dystopian series for Hollow Press, where sin is monitored through parasites and future lives can be purchased with accumulated Haramitsu points.

Set as a large A4 volume, Parasitic City #2 reads like a controlled archive: panel virtuosity, abrupt tonal shifts, and a dense field of references that moves from comics history to Western philosophy. The work sits in Kago’s ero-guro register, but the emphasis is on structure—systems, bodies, and rules, rendered with clinical clarity.

This is the second printing of the English version, limited to 1,000 copies. The book is 160 pages with stitched binding, printed in black-and-white offset. Editorial and design work is credited to Michele Nitri and Marco Cirillo Pedri & Christian Dolz Bayarri, with English translation by Iain Halliday.

Parasitic City #2 is part of an ongoing sequence (2022–2026). Placed beside the earlier issues, it functions as a chapter you can handle, shelve, and revisit—less a compilation than a sustained, engineered narrative.

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

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