Shintaro Kago

Infobox Artist
bgcolour = #6495ED
name = Shintaro Kago
birthname = 駕籠 真太郎; "Kago Shintarō"
birthdate = 1969
location = Tokyo, Japan
nationality = Japanese
field = Japanese guro manga

Shintaro Kago (駕籠 真太郎; "Kago Shintarō"), born 1969 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese guro manga artist. He debuted in 1988 on the magazine COMIC BOX.

tyle

Shintaro Kago's style has been called "fashionable paranoia". He has been published in several adult manga magazines, gaining him considerable popularity. Many of his manga have strongly satirical overtones, and deal with grotesque subjects such as extreme sex, scatology and body modification.

He also wrote some Sci-Fi non-guro manga, most notably Super-Conductive Brains Parataxis (超伝脳パラタクシス, "Choutennou Paratakushisu") 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.(see his shorts "Abstraction", "Blow-Up", "Multiplication" and "The Memories of Others" for examples).

Trivia

Kago likes to describe his works as "Shit" (うんこ, "Unko").

On April 4, 2006 an exhibition of his works, called "Unsanitary Condition Exhibition" (不衛生博覧会, "Fueisei Hakurankai") was opened. Similarly, in the same month the first edition of his personal movie convention called "Shit Film Festival" (うんこ映画祭, "Unko Eigasai") was held by him.From September 3 - September 15, 2007, the Vanilla Gallery in Tokyo held another exhibition of his works, called "Unsanitary Festival in the Cool of the Night" (納涼不衛生まつり, "Nōryō fueisei matsuri".)

List of Printed Works (Published in Japan)

* 輝け!大東亜共栄圏 (Shine! Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere)
* アイコ十六歳 (Aiko, the 16 year old girl)
* 六識転想アタラクシア (Six Consciusnesses Thought Changing Ataraxia)
* 万事快調 (Everything's Peaceful)
* 大葬儀 (The Big Funeral)
* 殺殺草紙 (Notebook of Murder and Killing)
* 喜劇駅前虐殺 (Atrocious Comedy in Front of the Station)
* 駅前花嫁 (Bride in Front of the Station)
* 駅前浪漫奇行 (Wandering Cartoon Eccentricities in Front of the Station)
* 踊る！クレムリン御殿 (Dance! Kremlin Palace)
* かすとろ式 (Kasutoru Shiki)
* 健康の設計 (Health Plan)
* 奇人画報 (Eccentric People Magazine)
* 超伝脳パラタクシス (Super-Conductive Brains Parataxis)
* パラノイアストリート (Paranoia Street)
* 凸凹ニンフォマニア (Ruggedness Nymphomania)
* 人間以上 (Superhuman)
* ハンニャハラミタ (Hannya Haramita)
* 飛び出す妄想 (Sudden Delusion)
* 殺殺草紙・大江戸無残十三苦 (Notebook of Murder and Killing - The 13 Cruel Sufferings of the Great Edo)
* 新装・万事快調 (Refurbishment - Everything's Peaceful)
* 夢のおもちゃ工場 (Dream Toy's Factory)

Links

* [http://kagosin.exblog.jp/ おぼろ駕籠] Shintaro Kago's blog (Japanese Only)
* [http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~adc52520/] Official webpage
* [http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n2/htdocs/shintaro_kago_shit_gold.php] An interview with Shintaro Kago conducted by Vice magazine
* [http://www.ondergrond.tv/de_ondergrond/2008/04/shintaro-kago-w.html] TV interview with Shintaro Kago by Ondergrond.TV