The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 1

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 1

by Eiji Otsuka
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 1

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 1

by Eiji Otsuka

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Overview

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)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781630080662
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Publication date: 09/24/2014
Series: Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Series , #1
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 988,753
File size: 91 MB
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About the Author

Eiji Otsuka is a social critic and novelist. He graduated from college with a degree in anthropology, women's folklore, human sacrifice, and postwar manga. In addition to his work with manga, he is a critic, essayist, and author of several successful nonfiction books on Japanese popular and otaku subcultures. He writes the manga series MPD-Psycho and The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. One of his first animation script works was Mahō no Rouge Lipstick, an adult lolicon OVA. Otsuka was the editor for the bishōjo lolicon manga series Petit Apple Pie. In the eighties, Otsuka was editor in chief of Manga Burikko, a leading women's manga magazine where he pioneered research on otaku subcultures in modern Japan. He has also published a host of books and articles about the manga industry. The author lives in Tokyo, Japan.
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