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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Overall Rating: A</strong><br/><em>Synopsis: Your body is their business! From writer, Eiji Otsuka, and artist, Housui Yamazaki, <em>Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service</em> is a manga that combines horror, and humor. The surprising thing about the series is that it does a good job at both. The story follows five Buddhist ...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15225713">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Seemingly episodic horror series about five students at a Buddhist university who put otherwise unmarketable skills-- such as conversing psychically with the dead, embalming, dowsing, and channeling alien voices through puppets--to use in delivering corpses with unfinished business to their final re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32227159">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This series is about a group of people who deliver corpses.  It's delightfully morbid. Artwork is good.  Also if you are new to Japanese graphic novels this edition has a helpful guide in the back of the book giving instructions on how to read it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about a group of college kids who attend a Buddhist university, who decide to form a business called the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. All the kids have some kind of talent. There's the manager, the psychic, the dowser, the embalmer, and the kid who talks to the puppet on his hand. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10072739">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first two &quot;deliveries&quot; were not all that impressive.  I thought there was violence for the sake of it and the characters were... eccentric for the sake of being weird.  All empty tricks to grab the reader.  Then it got interesting.  It's Scooby Doo with poor college students, corpses, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26034876">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun comic about, well, corpse delivery.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 (&quot;Black Heron&quot; - 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!]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I rather enjoyed volume one of this manga. The characters are human and interesting people, the plots are engaging and there’s a touch of every day humor in the dialog. Each volume contains a series of corpse deliveries presented in an episodic short story style. In each delivery, the corpse itsel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13504420">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 (&quot;Black Heron&quot; - 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!]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think I'm quite morbid enough to fully appreciate this story of five weirdos from a Buddhist university who take the dead where their spirits want to go and trust in karma to get paid, but it's still interesting. Probably not suited to the faint of heart.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I&quot;m not well-versed in my manga, but I definitely plan on following this series for a few more volumes. College kids with special powers spend their free time finding corpses and making sure the bodies reach their final resting place. One of said kids wears a foul-mouthed puppet that is apparen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8561644">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard to say what kind of series this is. The obvious choice would be &quot;horror grossout comedy&quot;, but even that doesn't seem to fit. I'll admit, I'm not usually a fan of this kind of stuff, and the main reason I like this is because of the art. That's not much of a recommendation, but th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28332543">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I recommend listening to King Diamond - The Graveyeard while reading this book. I must also mention an excellent paper quality, translation and cultural and translation notes (there are even internet addreses present). Bravo Dark Horse! Oh, BTW, this manga is really weird]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The fact that I gave this 3 starts says a lot since I don't really like graphic novels, and I can't stand manga (I generally find all graphic novels to be over-dramatic).  But this was a manga I enjoyed.  If you like the movie Shaun of the Dead you'll like this. ]]></body>
    
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