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Dementia 21 Volume1 (Dementia 21)

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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."

  • Creators

  • Series

    Dementia 21

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    January 3, 2023

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781683965985
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  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 23, 2018
      Heroic but hapless home health aide Yukie Sakai falls into a rabbit hole of bizarre adventures in this demented manga, which collects 17 twisted tales. When a jealous colleague sabotages Yukie’s spotless service record, Yukie is forced to brave a series of absurd trials: caring for a senile patient with the power to destroy the world, escaping sentient dentures bent on mind control, participating in a battle royale of elderly people, forcefully aging a youthful woman for the National Standardized Senior Citizen Exam, and aiding and abetting a client who commits crimes by hiding everything (including a body) in her mother’s wrinkles. Showing influences from Salvador Dali to Katsuhiro Otomo, the combination of Kago’s precise, expressive, and kinetic line work with his wacky storytelling is at turns engrossing and repulsive. Although these unpredictable short episodes can become tedious if read in one sitting, mature fans of unconventional manga will appreciate the surreal spiral of body horror, tragicomedy, and dark humor.

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