Shintaro Kago – An Inquiry…

Commissioned Release #19
Commissioned by Gurotaku

The full title is “An Inquiry Concerning a Mechanistic World View of the Pituitary Gland”
This is a short comic by Kago that portrays a dystopian future where human beings are mostly mostly manufactured instead of born, except for in ghettos where they are mostly abandoned at birth. The story starts with a woman complaining to her doctor/ therapist that her husband won’t have sex with her and then it goes off on a tangent explaining what happened to her husband and how it came to pass. Involves a car accident that set lose a dangerous breed of genetically engineered hyper-intelligent killer babies.

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Junji Ito – Hellstar Remina Chapter 1

Commissioned Release #18
Commissioned by: Gurotaku

This is a horror/sci-fi story about a giant planet consuming creature from another dimension that a scientist discovers and mistakenly identifies as a planet. Being given the honor to name it as its discover, the professor chooses to name it after his only daughter, Remina, but when Hellstar Remina is headed on a direct collision course with Earth the world goes nuts and all the people in the city start a witch hunt to kill Remina, thinking she is somehow to blame.

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