The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service is published by Dark Horse Comics. Current price per volume is $11.99.
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- The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service(黒鷺死体宅配便Kurosagi Shitai Takuhaibin) is a horror manga series written by Eiji Otsuka and drawn by Housui Yamazaki. First published in Kadokawa Mystery, the series later (October 2006) transferred to the companion publication Shōnen Ace, and now published in the magazine Young Ace. As of March 2009, 11 volumes have been published in Japan. The English translation is published by Dark Horse Comics. The series follows five recently graduated university students who have formed a company which specializes in dealing with the dead and their last wishes.
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| - In "Less than Happy" Karatsu first meets and joins up with the rest of the group after Sasaki recognized his ability. The group find a body in Aokigahara who has recently committed suicide and wants to be reunited with his girlfriend. In "Lonely People" the group finds an old closet with a body in it on a dump. The body wishes to be taken to a place called "Dendera". During an expedition to a wrecking yard in "Magician of Lost Love", the group finds the body of a woman with severe scars stashed in the trunk of a car. However, after Makino examined the body she recognizes that the body had already been embalmed and that the scars are actually sewings. The corpse actually consists of various body parts from multiple deceased. Finally during "September Rain" the Delivery service finds a body in a sewer drain that appears to have drowned but reveals to have been killed by her partner in an insurance scam, an actuary. The group contacts the actuary but multiple attempts to meet with him fail as accidents occur to Numata and Yata.
- Description: Heads up! That's what the Kurosagi crew sees floating in mid-air...above a moving motorcycle! But this headless horseman in reverse is linked to a corpse that can be smelled and feltbut not seen! Then, the mystery moves from sight to sound, as the last words of an elderly verteran reveals the hideous crime behind a secret program of World War Two - whose effects can still be heard...
- Summary: "Key to an apartment" and "A lonely singing doll" are one story about an idol being sent dolls by a stalker. The group finds one of these dolls which Numata's pendulum reacts to as if it was a dead body. "Grape-colored experience" and "Tears that disappear into the sand" deal with the group trying to find out something about a ghost rider they encountered: A motorcycle being ridden by nothing but a floating head. The next three chapters are one continuous story in which Ms. Kikuchi listened to the last words of a politician. Via Sasayama the Kurosagi team also gets involved in this. Finally, in "My sadness" Yata and Makino are doing a part-time job doing entertainment at a Kindergarten. After the job they talk about their past and some of their backstory is revealed.
- The entirety of this volume follows one storyline that also reveals Sasaki's backstory. By accident the group picks up the casket of an executed criminal from a prison while running a normal delivery job. The casket was actually meant to be picked up Nire Ceremony, a funeral home that cremates criminals as a public service. Sasaki later identifies that man to be the convicted murderer of her parents and one of her sisters with herself and another sister surviving the incident. Meanwhile Yata is hired for a part time job by that same funeral home and meets a girl named Mutsumi, the adopted daughter of the owner of the funeral home. She seems to also possess an unusually ability: To revive the dead.
- The first chapter has the crew return to Aokigahara to search for the corpses of suicides only to find that the service they want to perform is already being done in that region by the local post office. The next three chapters are one continuous storyline. Numata and Karatsu drive through Tokyo following Numata's dowsing and find a house where recently a corpse was discovered. A team of "corpse cleaners" named Shirosagi, a company specializing in cleaning up crime and suicide scenes, also shows up on the scene lead by a man in safety goggles and a breathing mask. Later the recently evicted Numata is looking for a new place to stay and ends up in the very same room, now completely disinfected, except he finds another corpse above the ceiling tiles.
The final two chapters are a side story dabbling in historical fiction set in the Japan of the Meiji era. A young Kunio Yanagita, then called Kunio Matsuoka, is visited by a scarred boy named Yaichi and that boys caretaker, one of Sasayama's ancestors with strong resemblance, while attempting to solve the mystery of a crime spree involving mutilated corpses.
- "Stand Still" has the characters find a dead person in a retirement home while they did an odd job there as entertainers. The corpse claims to be from a village called Tumani, a place from an urban legend in which murderer killed everybody in the town and does the same to anyone who dares to enter it. While clearing out the apartment of a deceased person in "Password to Tomorrow", the boys come across a mummy in a sarcophagus. In the meantime Nire attempts to recruit a professor of ancient history named Nishimura from the university for his new business model offering a burial service in the manner of ancient Egypt. The next story has Makino, Karatsu, Numata and Yata become professional mourners, actors who attend funerals of largely disliked people for a fee, in an attempt to get some money. They come across a woman that seems also to attend those same funerals and her emotional display seems to affect everyone else in the room as well. In the final chapter Sasayama hires the three boys over the summer to scout out a countryside area belonging to a senile resident of a Shinjuku public care facility said to have made billions of yen in the stock market. They come across a man in winter coat and a cave with a group of severed heads in capsules buried inside. The chapter has Nire make a return appearance, now in the business of Cryonics.
- During "Thank you, dear.", Karatsu, Numata, Yata and Makino get a summer job in a rural town called Oyamada under the lead of Sasayama's cousin who bears a striking resemblance to him, including baldness and pegleg. The town is trying to get tourism from ufology enthusiasts so the three guys spend their days making crop circles while Makino is restoring the body of an "alien" that supposedly crash landed nearby years ago. Makino identifies the body to belong to a monkey but Karatsu's ability reveals that the corpse does in fact house the spirit of an alien lifeform. In "If you should die" all of the group except Sasaki visit an exhibition of preserved but dissected corpses for which Makino recently completed a job. After a touch by Karatsu he grew suspicious and asks Makino to pretend to have to work on one of the corpses severed heads. After further "talk" the corpse claims to have been a japanese student that was abducted in China. Meanwhile the exhibition leaves town without a trace. In "The look I had 'til yesterday" Numata finds the key to a coin locker in a park. The group seeks out a locker and finds a dead baby in a duffel bag inside. The chapter also contains an appearance by Reiji Akiba, main character of Housui Yamazaki's previous manga Mail. Finally "Humble Desires" has the trio of guys make a trip into the country on Numata's Get-Rich-Quick-Scheme to catch rare bugs and sell them to collectors. They meet a blonde american girl named Reina who studies forensic entomology as well as a corpse hanging in a tree with the desire to become a bird. Apparently that corpse has not been the only recent case of such behavior as they would later find out.
- In "Fight with my heart" the boys are doing a delivery job for a cemetery and test out a robotic suit for a research group. In "Pretty Pretty" and "My Happiness, Part II" the Kurosagis investigate a case in which cosmetic surgery transplants have developed a mind of their own. In the final three chapters of the volume the boys accompany Makino to a gig as a make-up artist for a new movie that is being shot, trying to get some odd jobs on the set. However, the shoot is overshadowed when one of the actors turns up dead.
- The first and second chapter are a single story. At the beginning of it Karatsu attempts to speak to a homeless person with multiple scars and eyes that have been sewn shut identified by Numata as dead. However, the person turns out to be actually alive and walks off from the two who are fighting over the matter. About half a year later the Delivery Service finds a body that died off organ from rejected transplants failure and after turning him in at a hospital meet Sasayama for the first time. "X+Y=Love" starts on the other hand starts out with a person answering a doorbell just to be struck with a baton and killed. Yata and Numata, on a part time job trying to get newspaper subscriptions, come across the body but the corpse appears to have suffered amnesia from the attack as Karatsu finds out when he attempts to speak to it. In "Waltz" Numata finds an ear with his dowsing ability stick inside a manga anthology. Karatsu finds that the only thing the ear can "remember" is song that seems to have more behind it than it appears.
- In "a café in a campus town" it's the start of a new semester on campus and the clubs are trying to recruit new members. So does the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, disguised as the "Kurosagi Cash-Money-Makin' Club". Almost all interested students though seem to not be able to withstand the subject matter though, except for one girl Karatsu invited. The next three chapters are one story. The Kurosagi company has hired a part-timer due to Yata being sick. On a normal job delivering a fridge to an uptown apartment the part-timer, a homeless amateur artist, loses one of his drawings which is found by the owner of that apartment and the part-timer is hired to draw portraits for post-mortal wedding ceremonies. The final three chapters start with Ms. Kikuchi, a nurse in training who has a dead body spring back to live while examining it. The body then shows the behavior typical to a baby.
- Description: The dead don't walk in Kurosagi - that is, not without a little help... and it's a shock to the system when the delivery service finds out what's making their clients rise up! Then, for Numata to take off his sunglasses for anyone, it must be a grave matter...or more, likely, a matter of someone not yet in their grave...
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| - All chapters are named for songs by Kei Ogura.
The cover picture for each character except for Karatsu is a quarter-view headshot from behind.
- *"Dangerous Duo"
*"I don't care if I die"
*"Watch out for that girl"
*"Tonight I will pour wine all over you"
*"Mona Lisa Smile"
*"Do what you want"
*"As time goes by"
- All chapters are named for songs by Momoe Yamaguchi.
The cover picture for each character shows their feet except for Karatsu.
- *"Key to an apartment"
*"A lonely singing doll"
*"Grape-colored experience"
*"Tears that disappear into the sand"
*"White house by the sea"
*"A certain situation"
*"What lies after the dream"
*"My sadness"
- Chapter 3 is named for a song by Carol. Chapter 4's title is a song by Akai Tori. The title of the 5th chapter is derived from a song by The Boom and the 6th chapter is named after a short story by Yukio Mishima rather than a song.
The cover picture for each character except for Karatsu is an X-Ray of their "head". In Kere Ellis' case it shows Yata's hand.
- Color Theme: Light Gray
- *"A letter for you"
*"If you're with me"
*"The two of us"
*"For whose good"
*"Like a chid - Kunio Matsuoka demon hunting side story "
*"Too long a spring - Kunio Matsuoka demon hunting side story "
- *"Fight with my heart"
*"Pretty Pretty"
*"My Happiness, Part II"
*"My Don"
*"I'm not afraid of the big bad wolf"
*"Sundas is a stranger"
- *"Stand Still"
*"Password to Tomorrow"
*"Please give me a little love"
*"Preparing for a journey"
- All chapters are named for songs by Naomi Chiaki.
The characters with the exception of Karatsu on the cover appear in a profile.
- All chapters are named for songs by Hiromi Ota.
The back of the head of each character, except for Karatsu who appears in a portrait view, is shown on the cover.
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