Dementia 21, Volume One

By Shintaro Kago. Published by Fantagraphics. 

Softcover, 300 pages, B&W, 2018. 

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."