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In 2018, manga artist Shintaro Kago made his English debut with
Dementia 21, a collection of absurdist manga short stories. Readers
found themselves delighted and disgusted by his penchant
for body horror, black comedy, and the surreal paired with his
emphatic, kinetic art style. Kago returns at the height of his powers
with Brain Damage, where he dials up the gore and absurdity
to new heights.
Brain Damage collects four new short manga stories, a tantalizing
blend of the hilarious and the macabre. In “Labyrinth Quartet,”
four identical young women trapped in an eerie building must solve
the mystery of why they’ve been gathered there — while being
hunted by a knife-wielding stalker. In “Curse Room,” a plucky
health aide is tasked with keeping zombies peaceful, lest they go
on a brain-eating rampage. In “Family Portrait,” people throughout
town are strangely disappearing without a trace, and the key to it all is
a senile and perverted old man. Finally, in “Blood Harvest” a series of
gruesomely mangled bodies are found in pristine cars — and it appears
something sinister lurks within these masses of glass and steel.