• A veritable flood of outre, eerie, darkly comedic tales that strain the bounds of the imagination.
• Fantagraphics don't publish much manga, but when they do you know it's going to be excellent and wholly unique.
• Absurdist, surreal manga is trending as readers grow up, as evinced by the success of Ito's Dissolving Classroom.
• Shintaro Kago's work has appeared in the West previously in anthologies such as Ax.
• He is respected for inventing his own genre, which has come to be known as 'fashionable paranoia.'