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Dance! Kremlin Palace
¡La esperada nueva obra del gurú del eroguro, Shintaro Kago (Fetus Collection, La formidable invasión mongola)! En esta sátira de la cultura comunista rusa y de la propia Rusa, narrada a través de diferentes relatos interconectados, Kago lleva al extremo los tópicos y el desconocimiento que existe sobre gran parte de las tradiciones y expresiones típicamente rusas. Déjate llevar por lo absurdo mientras asistes a la reconstrucción más peculiar de la trayectoria de líderes como Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachov o Putin.
204 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
About the author
Shintaro Kago
143 books348 followersKago Shintarō ( 駕籠真太郎) is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist. Kano was born in Tokyo in 1969. He debuted in 1988 on the magazine COMIC BOX. Since then his comics, usually short stories, have been published in several adult manga magazines, gaining him considerable popularity around the world.
Kago specialises in ero-guro, a Japanese visual genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and grotesque body horror. Many of Kago's manga have strongly satirical overtones, and deal with grotesque subjects such as extreme sex, scatology and body modification. His unique style has been called "fashionable paranoia".
Kago specialises in ero-guro, a Japanese visual genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and grotesque body horror. Many of Kago's manga have strongly satirical overtones, and deal with grotesque subjects such as extreme sex, scatology and body modification. His unique style has been called "fashionable paranoia".
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January 3, 2025
Solo puedo decir que kago es muy didáctico para lograr que entiendas los conceptos de capitalismo, socialismo, la unión sovietica y la revolución rusa. Utilizando situaciones dementes, grotescas y sexuales.
Aquí les dejo mi opinión más amplia de esta novela :
https://youtu.be/FnjT9cbUxL0?si=ySBKW...
Aquí les dejo mi opinión más amplia de esta novela :
https://youtu.be/FnjT9cbUxL0?si=ySBKW...
June 11, 2020
honestly fucking demented lol. Like Lars Von Trier if he was a manga artist. Shintaro Kago's MO seems to be crossing every line and boundary. Scatalogical, sexual, violent tendencies are blasted out of proportion. Crude and ugly Russian caricatures of communism and corrupt leaders are replete, so much in fact as to lose their shock value. Again I think the best comparison to Kago is maybe von Trier or even the Marquis de Sade, who use systems of transgression to play with the signs of our inherent but not natural ethical predisposition.
The basket story is perhaps the best example of Kago's work, in that it highlights the obsessive element of organization, the fascistic seed of human nature that delves into development without human oversight. Putin, perturbed by the persistence of people putting trash in his bicycle basket, realizes that people will put the same thing in any basket if theres already one item in there (A can, soon the basket is filled with cans, etc) this modest start begins to wreak havoc on the world at large as humans are unable to hide their desire to organize and basketize every part of themselves. Abandoned children profligate in one basket, in another are ugly women. Eventually all humans throw away their past in a basket, becoming children again, wandering the world drooling.
This is typical Kago, the obsessive element replayed again and again until the element becomes the whole. It's fucked up, but it's also very funny. To think of the politics here is funny as well, as Kago's constant invocation of starvation, corruption, bureaucratic incompetency begin to ring hollow as the comic continues. It's almost as if he's echoing the worst fears of a paranoid anti-communist, one so vehemently against anything resembling generosity or reciprocity that they become nearly fascistic in their hatred. The reference here would be Nikanor Teratologen, whose novel Assisted Living works in the very same shit-covered, fecund world that Kago's USSR inhibits.
Chaos reigns, and within (or maybe without, what can we do but run from this) is perhaps a shard of something else
The basket story is perhaps the best example of Kago's work, in that it highlights the obsessive element of organization, the fascistic seed of human nature that delves into development without human oversight. Putin, perturbed by the persistence of people putting trash in his bicycle basket, realizes that people will put the same thing in any basket if theres already one item in there (A can, soon the basket is filled with cans, etc) this modest start begins to wreak havoc on the world at large as humans are unable to hide their desire to organize and basketize every part of themselves. Abandoned children profligate in one basket, in another are ugly women. Eventually all humans throw away their past in a basket, becoming children again, wandering the world drooling.
This is typical Kago, the obsessive element replayed again and again until the element becomes the whole. It's fucked up, but it's also very funny. To think of the politics here is funny as well, as Kago's constant invocation of starvation, corruption, bureaucratic incompetency begin to ring hollow as the comic continues. It's almost as if he's echoing the worst fears of a paranoid anti-communist, one so vehemently against anything resembling generosity or reciprocity that they become nearly fascistic in their hatred. The reference here would be Nikanor Teratologen, whose novel Assisted Living works in the very same shit-covered, fecund world that Kago's USSR inhibits.
Chaos reigns, and within (or maybe without, what can we do but run from this) is perhaps a shard of something else
October 16, 2012
Абсолютно безбашенна історія. Не для читання на роботі! Багато фізіології, насильства, і, як пишуть у анотації, «поганого смаку».
Мені здається, що жодна з книжок Шінтаро Каґо не має (не має мати) 5 зірок. Але водночас він просто дивовижний оповідач і, е-е... візуалізатор.
Може знести мізки.
Мені здається, що жодна з книжок Шінтаро Каґо не має (не має мати) 5 зірок. Але водночас він просто дивовижний оповідач і, е-е... візуалізатор.
Може знести мізки.
December 20, 2022
Delightfully absurd.
July 14, 2016
Not that great. Its just kind of a silly one, but the length of the series doesnt justify it. I guess it would be fine if you only read 1 every few weeks in a serial form, but all at once its obvious that a lot of the jokes are just concentrating on one slightly absurd premise and carrying it out into a realm of total fantasy. A lot of the jokes are just classic russian tropes too, not insightful critiques about Communism or Putin's Russia or American imperialism something. The ero-guro aspects of it seem almost shoehorned in as well just to be there. One can pass this one up in Kago's library unless you want to read everything.
December 9, 2019
Siguiendo con las interpretaciones satíricas de la revolución rusa pero elevando el nivel bastante en grado adulto y grotesco, nos encontramos con el maestro mangaka del eroguro japonés, Shintaro Kago. En este tomo nos muestra un conjunto de historias independientes que ironiza en grado sumo la política y la sociedad en las últimas décadas de la extinta Unión Soviética. Kago es un artista que adora metamorfosear la realidad como nadie y en este tomo sigue esa línea, orientado a dicho país, su historia y sus políticos.
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Mi bloguecillo: https://queeselorm.blogspot.com/
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