Summon Monsters? Open the Door? Heal? Or Die? documents a pivotal body of work in which Japanese artist Takashi Murakami leans into the collision of contemporary art, anime, religion, and consumer culture. Produced around a large-scale exhibition of the same name at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, the book captures Murakami at a moment when spectacle, trauma, and mythology are inseparable. The works reproduced here move between painting, sculpture, and installation, populated by Murakami’s instantly recognisable characters alongside more chaotic, grotesque, and apocalyptic imagery. Drawing from Japanese folklore, otaku culture, and postwar history, the book reflects Murakami’s ongoing interest in how fantasy, violence, and healing coexist within popular visual language. Lavishly illustrated and unapologetically maximalist, the publication frames Murakami’s practice as both playful and deeply serious, positioning his work within broader conversations around mass production, cultural memory, and the blurred line between fine art and commercial imagery.