Silent and taciturn, a cat demon wanders through the world of humans, meeting creatures as monstrous as they are desperate. Mixing references to Japanese mythology and surrealist quotations, this collection of short stories gives a glimpse of the author's graphic acuity. Black humor, disillusioned cynicism or onirism, all rendered by a loaded black line, it is all the strength of the author that appears in Neko Kappa. 
 
Note: Some chapters are remakes of chapters from MaMaFuFu.

Enter the strange world of Imiri Sakabashira, whose denizens are zoomorphic creatures that emerge from one another as well as their equally bizarre environs. The Box Man follows its protagonists along a scooter trip through a complex landscape that oscillates between a dense city, a countryside simplified to near abstraction, and hybrids of the two; the theme of hybridity permeates throughout. One is unsurprised to encounter a creature that is half elderly man, half crab, or a flying frog in this world where our guide apparent is an anthropomorphic, mollusk-like cat. Sakabashira weaves this absurdist tale into a seamless tapestry constructed of elements as seemingly disparate as Japanese folklore, pop culture, and surrealism.Within these panels, it becomes difficult to distinguish between the animate and the inanimate, the real and the imagined—a tension that adds a layer of complexity to this near-wordless psychedelic travelogue.
 
(Source: Drawn & Quarterly)

Note: Serialized in Monthly Manga Garo. Ten chapters were published from 1995 to 1996 and collected in a tankoubon in 1997 together with a kakioroshi chapter and a chapter that had been originally published in English as part of the anthology Sake Jock. Five more chapters, which were never collected in a tankoubon, were published in 1998.

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