Dementia 21 Vol.1 Paperback by Kago

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2018-09-25)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 300 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781683961062
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

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.

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."

About the Author

Shintaro Kago is a manga artist who has gained a cult following for his transgressive work marked by horror, sci-fi, psychedelic erotica, and a keen sense of the grotesque. His comics include Fraction (2009), Super-Dimensional Love Gun (2019), Dementia 21 (2020), and Brain Damage (2025). He lives in Tokyo.