Dementia 21 Vol.1 [Paperback]

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 Yukies 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. Showing influences from Salvador Dali to Katsuhiro Otomo, the combination of Kagos precise, expressive, and kinetic line work with his wacky storytelling is at turns engrossing and repulsive. Mature fans of unconventional manga will appreciate the surreal spiral of body horror, tragicomedy, and dark humor.Kago deftly combines realism and absurdity for a manga title thats equal parts joyful, evocative, and jarring.Part social commentary and satire, part menacing story colored by greed and selfishness, part narrative on thankless work,Charming, hilarious, and thought-provoking.This is a disturbingly funny manga about plucky home aide tasked with caring for a series of bizarre patients, from one of Japans most twisted cartoonists.