The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

Dark Horse

14 comics

Soft cover

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Plot

Your body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university, three guys and two girls, find little call for their job skills in today's Tokyo . . . among the living, that is! But all that stuff in college they were told would never pay off-you know, channeling, dowsing, ESP-gives them a direct line to the dead . . . the dead who are still trapped in their corpses and can't move on to the next reincarnation. The five form the Kurosagi ("Black Heronî-their ominous bird logo) Corpse Delivery Service: whether suicide, murder, accident, or illness, they'll carry your body wherever it needs to go to free your soul! The kids from Kurosagi can smell a customer a mile away--it's a good thing one of the girls majored in embalming! • Original Japanese format. • 18+ content advisory. "While there is cruelty, gore, violence, and implied unnatural sexual acts, the manga is also a complex and slyly ironic social commentary. Acquire this manga for adult collections for the naturalistic artwork that shows attention to human emotion, the social observation, and the banter between members of the delivery service. " (Christine Gertz, Library Journal)

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Authors

Eiji Otsuka (Script), Housui Yamazaki (Drawing)

What readers say

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5 8/9/2023

A dark comedy that never takes itself too seriously, while always making its message clear; Death is inevitable, and you are strange only if you pretend otherwise. A series that I enjoy for the visceral images as much as character curiosity, you follow an odd assortment of people through their job to help the dead, and the lost, and sometimes each other, all while just wanting to pay the bills. It can be twisted, gross, and to some in poor taste, but I for one just find the grounded idea almost comforting. Having to get the last omnibus volume to finish it? Well worth it, even if kind of annoying.

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