Parasitic City #3

Parasitic City #3 – Shintaro Kago, English Edition

Parasitic City #3 is the 2025 instalment of Shintaro Kago's serialised long-form dystopia, published by Hollow Press. The series operates on a single premise held to its logical extreme: sins are administered through parasites, and future reincarnations can be purchased — provided enough Haramitsu points have been accumulated. The system is not metaphor. It is the world's actual structure, rendered as procedure.

In this volume, Kago's formal discipline remains intact. Panel architecture is controlled and deliberate, while the surface stays volatile: grotesque humour, abrupt violence, and conceptual interruptions arrive without preparation. References drawn from Western philosophy — Kant among them — and from comics history, including Moebius, sit alongside Eastern doctrinal material. These are used as compositional elements rather than as commentary. The book sustains its pace by withholding comfort at the structural level.

This is the English Edition, first printing, limited to 1,000 copies. The volume runs to 160 pages in large A4 format, with stitched binding and black-and-white offset printing. Editorial credits: Michele Nitri (editor); Nicola "Nic" Alessandrini and Marco Cirillo Pedri (graphic design); Iain Halliday (English translation). Published 2025.

Parasitic City – Series

The arc begins with three prequel volumes before moving into the main numbered sequence. All titles in the series are part of the Surreal & Experimental Comics catalogue at Lokator100.

• Parasitic City #0.1
• Parasitic City #0.2
• Parasitic City #0.3
• Parasitic City #1
• Parasitic City #2
• Parasitic City #3 — current volume