Abstraction

A collection of some of Kago Shintaro's works. 1. **Oral Cavity Infectious Syndrome** On the surreal premise that women's mouths take the often weird shape of their partner's penis, Yoriko starts an investigation to discover with whom her boyfriend is cheating. 2. **Local Tourist Information** A guide to an extraterritorial region of Japan. 3. **Back Streets in Front of the Station** A girl goes crazy about reverse sides of different things, including streets, cars, and animals. 4. **Genesis** The biblical story of the Genesis revised and depicted with the usual unholy irony of Kago, with delirious situations quickly following one each other. 5. **Superglue** What happens when you step on something so disgusting that you never want to uncover it. 6. **Akutagawa in Front of the Station** A surreal homage to the writings of Ryunosuke Akutagawa. 7. **When All's Said and Done** A gruesome tale of hardened faeces, and a limbless girl. 8. **Multiplication** A panel of a manga on an otherwise blank page becomes self-aware and decides to create other panels so it won't be lonely. What begins as a single panel quickly turns into a story of infinite possibilities. 9. **Abstraction** A one-shot that utilizes distilled surrealism to smash the fourth wall and every other wall it throws up. An experiment in the distinctly non-linear nature of comics. The story is not important; its visual presentation is its substance. 10. **Blow-Up** Macrocosm in a microcosm in a macrocosm. That's what this one-shot is about. 11. **No Need for Caution** The action of the comic happens outside of the panels, literally, in the white space. 12. **The Memories of Others** Imagine your past would float after you as a series of comic panels. 13. **Lord of the Ring** An incompetent sumo wrestler uses the powers of a forbidden pair of pants to overcome and shame his competition, until one day someone rises to attempt to crush him and take the pants for himself. 14. **Spinning Thoughts** Wearing urinary calculi is the latest fashion trend.