Kago, Shintaro

Shintaro Kago (駕籠真太郎) is a Japanese manga artist born in Tokyo in 1969. He debuted in 1988 in the magazine Comic Box and has since worked primarily in adult manga magazines. Raised in an artistic household — his father was an oil painter — Kago did not attend art school, developing his distinctive style independently. His manga style has been called "fashionable paranoia," although he has stated the term stems from Western media and he doesn't use it himself.

Kago works in the ero-guro tradition, fusing grotesque body horror with satirical dark comedy and radical experiments in page layout and narrative structure. His work frequently breaks the fourth wall and treats the comics page itself as subject matter. He gained international visibility when Flying Lotus commissioned him to illustrate the 2014 album You're Dead!

Many of his manga have strongly satirical overtones often parodying Japanese and Russian politics. Separately, he deals extensively with grotesque subjects such as extreme sex, rape, scatology and body modification (to the extent of forniphilia). He has also written non-guro sci-fi manga, most notably Super-Conductive Brains Parataxis for Weekly Young Jump.

A relatively small number of works by Shintaro Kago have been published in English, and information about him in English is limited. Therefore, this list is likely incomplete.

1980s

1989
Ningen Ijou (人間以上) (1989 - 1990)

1990s

1992
Senkonsouki Naion (潜魂想記NIRVANA〈ナイオン)

1994
Hannya Haramita (ハンニャハラミタ) (1994 - 2005)

1995
Banji Kaichou (万事快調) (1995 - 1997)
Dekoboko Nymphomania (凸凹ニンフォマニア)

1997
Kagayake! Daitoua Kyoueiken (輝け！大東亜共栄圏) (1997 - 1999)
Kigeki Ekimae Gyakusatsu (喜劇 駅前虐殺) (1997 - 1999)

1998
Ekimae Hanayome (駅前花嫁) (1998 - 2000)

1999
Paranoiasutorīto (パラノイアストリート) | Published in English as "Paranoia Street" (1999 - 2002)

2000s

2000
Rokushiki Tensou Ataraxia (六識転想アタラクシア) (2000 - 2001)
Chō-den nō paratakushisu (超伝脳パラタクシス)

2002
Taisougi (大葬儀)
Nouka Suitai no Kikairon-teki Sekaikan ni Kansuru Ikkousatsu (脳下垂体の機械論的世界観に関する一考察)

2003
Kenkou no Sekkei (健康の設計)
Outotsu ninfomania (凸凹ニンフォマニア)
Odoru! Kremlin Kyuuden (踊る!クレムリン御殿)
Jigoku no Kisetsu: Gurolism Sengen (地獄の季節 ―グロリズム宣言―)

2004
Kijin Gahou (奇人画報)
Korokoro Soushi: Ooedo Kisou Tengai (殺殺草紙 大江戸奇想天外)
Yume no Omocha Koujou (夢のおもちゃ工場) (2004 - 2006)
Kasutoro Shiki (かすとろ式)

2006
Korokoro Soushi: Ooedo Muzan Juusanku (殺殺草紙 大江戸無残十三苦)

2007
Tadashii Hentai Seiyoku (正しい変態性欲)

2008
Ana, Moji, Ketsueki Nado ga Arawareru Manga (穴、文字、血液などが現れる漫画)
Anamorphosis no Meijuu (アナモルフォシスの冥獣) (2008 - 2010)

2009
Burakkushiatā o bāchan ga shitai kusai yo (ブラックシアターおばあちゃんが死体くさいよ)
Furakushon (フラクション)
Jisastsu yuugi (自殺遊戯)
Ari jigoku vs Barabara shoujo (アリ地獄vsバラバラ少女)

2011
Dimensha 21 (ディメンシャ 21) | Published in English as "Dementia 21" (2011 - 2013)

2012
Hāremuendo (ハーレムエンド)
Kago Shintarou kounou tanpenshuu: Ibutsu konnyuu (駕籠真太郎高濃短編集 異物混入) (2012 - 2015)

2013
Choudouryoku Mouko Daishuurai (超動力蒙古大襲来) (2013 - 2014)

2015
Shinsetsu★Sekaishi Taizen (真説★世界史大全) (2015 - 2017)
Koi no choujikuuhou (恋の超時空砲)
Toshi to Infrastructure: Kago Shintarou Sakuhinshuu (駕籠真太郎作品集 都市とインフラストラクチャー) (2015 - 2021)

2016
Bureindamēji (ブレインダメージ) (2016 - 2017)

2022
Ranpo Amnesia: 21-banme no Jinkaku (乱歩アムネシア 二十一番目の人格) (2022 - 2025)

2026
Ooedo Ukiyoe Kisou Tengai (大江戸浮世絵奇想天外)