Shintaro Kago (駕籠 真太郎) is a Japanese guro manga artist. He debuted in 1988 on the magazine COMIC BOX.

Style

Shintaro Kago's style has been called "fashionable paranoia," although he has stated the term stems from Western media and he doesn't use it himself. He has been published in several adult manga magazines, gaining him considerable popularity. Many of his manga have strongly satirical overtones (heavily influenced by Monty Python), 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 (超伝脳パラタクシス) for Weekly Young Jump. Many of his shorts are experimental and bizarre. He frequently breaks the fourth wall, and he likes to play with the page layout in extreme ways, mostly for comedic effect. When asked about his influences, he's mentioned Shigeru Mizuki, Fujiko Fujio, Masamune Shiro, and Katsuhiro Otomo. When not working in manga, he sculpts gag figurines of the same themes.

In popular culture

On April 4, 2006, an exhibition of his works, Unsanitary Condition Exhibition (不衛生博覧会) was opened. The same month he held the opening of his movie convention: Shit Film Festival (うんこ映画祭). From September 3–15, 2007, the Vanilla Gallery in Tokyo held another exhibition of his works, Unsanitary Festival in the Cool of the Night (納涼不衛生まつり). In 2013, Kago Shintaro was invited for a new exhibition outside of Japan titled Unsanitary Hong Kong Exhibition at CIA (Culture Industries Association). His work has been seen as album material for the 2014 Flying Lotus release You're Dead!, released via Warp. He designed the album's cover artwork and provided illustrations for each of the album's songs, which are featured on the inner sleeves of the vinyl album. In addition, Kago designed the album cover for Offset's Bent Benevolence. On June 17 2022, Kago announced the development of his first anime, Abstraction, produced by DRP. The animated film will be based on tales from the Bible. To fund the work, Kago held a digital exhibition, Desiccation, for the purpose of selling NFT's of his work. It was followed by another exhibition, Eve of Revolution, showing behind-the-scenes content.

List of works

Interviews