Original Language: Japanese
Original title (volume): Toshi To Infrastructure
Translation: Victor Iillera Kanaya
Year of publication (volume): 2021
Valoración: Alright
Cities and infrastructure It is a collection of stories of Mangaka Shintaro Kago, originally published in Ax Magazine magazine. Most are very short; They last between four pages and four vignettes. While they work, given their modest pretensions and their visual solvency, they are not counted among the best that its author has to offer us, because their premises, although creative, have limited interest and route.
My favorites would be “in the dentist”, “Contest of people with lack of presence”, “Market cracks”, “Walled City” and “Postiza Manos”, because they sprout around extravagant or hilarious concepts. I have also enjoyed the stories without a title that we find in half and at the end of the volume respectively, because they build the suspense with success and deliver very original and grotesque “gore” scenes.
Summarizing: Cities and infrastructure It is an anthology that will delight Kago’s complexes. And it is that Japanese holds, even in his less inspired works, an extraordinary drawing, delusional ideas, absurd scenarios, depraved sex, “gore”, eschatology, black humor and a healthy dose of irreverence and bad taste.
Source: https://unlibroaldia.blogspot.com/2025/06/shintaro-kago-ciudades-e.html
