Dementia 21

Yukie Sakai is a bright, vivacious young caregiver who brings boundless energy and sincere devotion to her work tending to elderly patients in their homes. Yet what appears at first to be an ordinary line of employment soon unravels into a cascade of ever-stranger escapades. With each house call, Yukie is drawn deeper into scenarios that grow steadily more surreal and disorienting, and routine duties give way to bizarre trials that demand every ounce of her resourcefulness and quick thinking. Part dreamlike odyssey and part comedy of errors, the story transforms the humble world of home health care into fertile ground for the unexpected, ensuring that neither Yukie nor the reader can ever quite predict what awaits around the next corner. The volume showcases the talents of cartoonist Kago, an artist renowned for fusing a classically grounded manga aesthetic with hyper-realistic illustration, an experimental approach to visual storytelling, and unflinchingly outrageous—often sexual and scatological—subject matter. With this singular combination of elements, Kago has carved out a genre entirely his own: "fashionable paranoia."