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October 11th 2006
by Dark Horse
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Paperback, 208 pages
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1593075553
(isbn13: 9781593075552)
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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 ...more
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Overall Rating: A
Synopsis: Your body is their business! From writer, Eiji Otsuka, and artist, Housui Yamazaki, <i>Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service 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 college students as they start up a unique service, one that serves the dead. Using unique skills, like dowsing and speaking to the dead, they find the dead and help them free their...more
Synopsis: Your body is their business! From writer, Eiji Otsuka, and artist, Housui Yamazaki, <i>Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service 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 college students as they start up a unique service, one that serves the dead. Using unique skills, like dowsing and speaking to the dead, they find the dead and help them free their...more
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Read in September, 2008
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 rest. I liked the black comedy of the series (seriously, the puppet that speaks for aliens?!), which made me laugh out loud at several points. However, after just a few chapters, I was already becoming ...more
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Read in December, 2007
It started out as a volunteer project for credit at the Buddhist University. It turned out to be a profitable business aptly named "The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service". The staff is comprised of 5 students with special powers suited to the business: Numata is a dowser; he can find dead bodies with his dowsing pendulum: sweet demure Makino studied embalming in America (a subject not offered in Japan): Yata channels aliens through his hand puppet: Karatsu can hear the voices of the dea...more
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
Manga fans, horror fans
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. There's very little set up for this group and we seem to jump right into the corpse-related-mystery-of-the-week plots. These are usually interesting and have some strong horror elements. I just wish t...more
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Read in June, 2008
The first two "deliveries" 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, alien puppets, and Heart. This group of people aren't friends at first and as each chapter they learn a little more about each other and become better friends, they also get to discuss philosophical ...more
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
Adults who enjoy laid-back horror
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 itself or, rather, the spirit trapped in it, is the Kurosagi group’s client.
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Read in November, 2008
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.
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
manga fans, people looking to read manga for the first time
I"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 apparently an alien. The book reads a bit like Scooby-Doo for older kids, which is totally a good thing.
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Read in January, 2008
It's hard to say what kind of series this is. The obvious choice would be "horror grossout comedy", 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 there you go.
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recommends it for:
horror fans, weird manga fans
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
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Read in May, 2007
recommends it for:
fans of Mary Roach and Lady Snowblood
O Japanese version of the Ghost Whisperer...
The mostly stand-alone chapters in this manga are darkly amusing and provide a unique peek into Japanese death customs. There is some necro-nudity that was an odd bonus surprise on the squished bus ride home.
The mostly stand-alone chapters in this manga are darkly amusing and provide a unique peek into Japanese death customs. There is some necro-nudity that was an odd bonus surprise on the squished bus ride home.
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Read in August, 2007
I like the idea of this. The storylines are pretty good, but just when you think, well that wasn't too graphic, there's some naked girl tied up with her leg amputated. hmm, i could kind of do without that.
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An interesting group of college students making money on the side as a band of individuals "delivering" souls and corpses to their final resting place. Quirky and unique.
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Read in June, 2008
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This was really sick, but it was also funny and interesting. I don't think I'll feel obliged to read more of it though-- a little goes a long way.
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A surprisingly well done series. I was not expecting much when I picked this book up in Barnes and Noble, but enjoyed it so much I bought it on the spot.
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Read in May, 2008
Cover caught my eye, inside didn't really go anywhere. Warning: this is a bad book to read on the bus. Some unexpected spreads of nudity + gore.
Read in February, 2008
I devoured this series last night, quite enjoyable! Amusing characters, interesting storyline, bizarre moments - good stuff!
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I would love to play the embalmer-chick were this ever made into a television series. Which is probably should be. Joss?
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A rather dark manga with very realistic art - great sense of both humor and drama.
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