{"id":26278,"date":"2025-07-15T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/?p=26278"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:18:24","slug":"manga-brain-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/manga-brain-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"BrainTitle:<\/strong> Brain Damage
Author:<\/strong> Shintaro Kago<\/a>
First Published:<\/strong> July 15, 2025<\/span>
Publisher:<\/strong> Fantagraphics Books<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 200
Genre:<\/strong> Ero Guro<\/a>, Horror<\/a>
Format:<\/strong> eARC<\/a>
Source:<\/strong> NetGalley<\/a>
Rating:<\/strong> <\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span><\/a>
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Synopsis:<\/strong>

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 \u201cLabyrinth Quartet,\u201d four identical young women trapped in an eerie building must solve the mystery of why they\u2019ve been gathered there \u2014 while being hunted by a knife-wielding stalker. In \u201cCurse Room,\u201d a plucky health aide is tasked with keeping zombies peaceful, lest they go on a brain-eating rampage. In \u201cFamily Portrait,\u201d people throughout town are strangely disappearing without a trace, and the key to it all is a senile and perverted old man. Finally, in \u201cBlood Harvest\u201d a series of gruesomely mangled bodies are found in pristine cars \u2014 and it appears something sinister lurks within these masses of glass and steel.<\/p>\nGet the Book:<\/strong> Amazon<\/a>\r\n

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