His satirical angle often makes Kago’s manga stand out and causes it to sometimes flow out of the typical ero guru circles.
It’s certainly disgusting and cruel, but Kago creates such absurd storylines with these ideas that it almost reads like a comedy at times, in spite off the horrific imagery. In this alternate history story, women have their bodies engineered into living machines of war that fire shells from their sexual organs and spray the enemy with mind-altering feces. Staples of Kago’s work include extreme (sexual) violence, body horror, harsh satire, and poop, all of which are present in abundance in his most renowned work Kagayake! Daitoua Kyoueiken. Many of these utilize themes of bullying, revenge, and animal cruelty, such as in one short story where a group of children are haunted by the skeleton of an anorexic classmate who died as a result of their relentless bullying. Many of his manga follow an anthology format, such Gallery of Horrors and Skin and Bone, which use a loose framework to tell various horrific stories. Hino’s manga are blood-soaked and depict gore in great detail, yet the deformed character design and simple stories make them seem deceptively kid-friendly. He even found himself in the director’s chair for the late-80s movie franchise Guinea Pig soon after. Hino’s distinct style and creepy stories caught on, and soon he was put in charge of publishing a recurring series of horror manga. Just as he was ready to give up, a new editor was brought in and decided to go through with publishing his work anyway. Growing up in Japan, Hino tried to become a manga artist in his early 20s, only for his last ditch effort to be rejected for being too disgusting to publish.
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