Dementia 21 Vol.1

A disturbingly funny manga about a plucky home aide tasked with caring for a series of bizarre patients, from one of Japan's most twisted and experimental cartoonists.

Publisher Marketing: If you want to cozy up with a good manga this Halloween that's less Zach Creggor Barbarian scary and more Weapons funny scary--with a hint of madcap Smiling Friends humor to ease the unease-- Dementia 21 is the perfect manga for you.-- "Gizmodo" Review Quotes : Showing influences from Salvador Dali to Katsuhiro Otomo, the combination of Kago's precise, expressive, and kinetic line work with his wacky storytelling is at turns engrossing and repulsive. Mature fans of unconventional manga will appreciate the surreal spiral of body horror, tragicomedy, and dark humor.-- "Publishers Weekly" Review Quotes : Charming, hilarious, and thought-provoking. Dementia 21 proves that Kago is a cutting satirist with a deft touch for black comedy.-- "Broken Frontier" Review Quotes : Dementia 21 revels in bodily irreverence and pushes corporeality to the limits of the imagination. It is a fine introduction to the strange world of Kago.-- "Run Spot Run" Review Quotes : As much as I admire Kago's oddness as a writer, his artistic pen is even sharper. [His characters] retain a realistic edge that intensifies their horror-tinged universe.-- "PopMatters" Brief Description : Yukie Sakai is a sprightly young home health aide eager to help her elderly clients. But what seems like a straightforward job quickly turns into a series of increasingly surreal and bizarre adventures that put Yukie's wits to the test. Review Quotes : Kago deftly combines realism and absurdity for a manga title that's equal parts joyful, evocative, and jarring.-- "Adventures in Poor Taste" Review Quotes : Part social commentary and satire, part menacing story colored by greed and selfishness, part narrative on thankless work, Dementia 21 is a transgressive form of graphic medicine.-- "Intima" Review Quotes : Dementia 21 is a great way to introduce the world to Kago's brilliant work. If you're looking for amazing manga, look no further.-- "Kitty Sneezes" Publisher Marketing : Yukie Sakai is a sprightly young home health aide eager to help her elderly clients. But what seems like a straightforward job quickly turns into a series of increasingly surreal and bizarre adventures that put Yukie's wits to the test! Cartoonist Kago, who is well known for combining a more traditional manga style with hyper realistic illustration technique, an experimental visual storytelling approach, and outrageously sexual and scatological subject matter, has single-handedly created his own genre: "fashionable paranoia."

Format: Paperback | Pages: 300 | Publication Date: 2018-09-25