Shintaro Kago

Shintaro Kago (b. 1969) is a Japanese guro manga artist. While much of his work can be classified as pornographic even his more extreme works, appearing only in adult publications, have a high degree of artistic merit. He uses comic format and conventions to complex and interesting ends pushing the limits of meta-fiction both in dialogue and in visual form. The work is odd, extremely so, even the more... masturbatory works are highly self aware, playing with the topoi of hentai and making numerous nods to their own peculiarity and perhaps even perverse nature. His Style is also gorgeous, almost anti-manga in its construction and craft.