• Front cover of “Parasitic City #3” English edition by Shintaro Kago with kaleidoscopic nude figures and pink maze pattern.
  • Interior spread from “Parasitic City #3” showing soldiers in a rocky landscape attacked by worm-like parasites in black-and-white manga panels.
  • Interior spread from “Parasitic City #3” with a restrained patient covered by segmented parasites in a clinical room, drawn in grey-scale.
  • Interior pages from “Parasitic City #3” where parasites crawl over a sweating man while a woman administers injections as part of a treatment ritual.
  • Interior spread from “Parasitic City #3” showing an intimate conversation between two characters in a hospital bed and a beetle-like parasite on the floor.
  • Interior pages from “Parasitic City #3” with a group discussion about reincarnation and a small insect-shaped surveillance parasite following a woman through a crowd.
  • Action spread from “Parasitic City #3” where masked figures fight and a body bursts open in a graphic parasite explosion.
  • Interior spread from “Parasitic City #3” showing futuristic city architecture, a sleeping woman, and smoke-like parasite matter rising into the air.
  • Interior pages from “Parasitic City #3” depicting a woman infiltrating a hideout, structural collapse, and a frantic rescue sequence in dynamic manga panels.
  • Interior spread from Parasitic City #3 showing security forces fighting intruders and a grotesque mass of bodies and limbs.
  • Spine of Parasitic City #3 English edition with Hollow Press logo and title on a pink patterned cover.
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Parasitic City #3 (English Edition) - Shintaro Kago

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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 #3 (English Edition) continues Shintaro Kago’s long-form Hollow Press dystopia in a 160-page A4 volume, issued as a limited first printing with stitched binding.

  • English Edition, first printing, limited to 1,000 copies
  • 160 pages • large A4 format • stitched binding
  • Black-and-white offset print
  • Dystopian series: sins managed through parasites and “Haramitsu points”
  • Artwork: Shintaro Kago • editor: Michele Nitri
  • Graphic design: Nicola “Nic” Alessandrini & Marco Cirillo Pedri
  • English translation by Iain Halliday
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About the Book

Parasitic City #3 is the 2025 chapter of Shintaro Kago’s serialized dystopia for Hollow Press. The series runs on a single premise treated as an administrative system: sins are regulated through parasites, and future reincarnations can be bought—if enough Haramitsu points have been accumulated. The logic stays visible, like a ledger that has become a world.

In Parasitic City #3, Kago’s approach remains exacting. Panel architecture is controlled, yet the surface is unstable: grotesque humour, abrupt violence, and conceptual detours arrive without warning. References to comics and Western philosophy (from Moebius to Kant) sit alongside Eastern doctrinal signals, used as material rather than explanation. The book keeps its pace by refusing comfort.

This is the English Edition, first printing, limited to 1,000 copies. It is produced as a 160-page volume in large A4 format, with stitched binding and black-and-white offset print. Editorial and design credits include Michele Nitri (editor), Nicola “Nic” Alessandrini and Marco Cirillo Pedri (graphic design), plus English translation by Iain Halliday.

About the Author

Shintaro Kago is a Japanese manga artist associated with ero-guro and formal experimentation. His work often treats narrative as a mechanism: bodies become systems, and the panel grid becomes a visible device that can enforce order or collapse it. Across the Parasitic City series, Kago extends these methods into sustained world-building, where ethics, desire, and control are drawn as procedures rather than themes.

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