The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

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name = The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service


caption = English version, Volume 1.
ja_name = 黒鷺死体宅配便
ja_name_trans = Kurosagi Shitai Takuhaibin
genre = HorrorInfobox animanga/Manga
title =
author = Eiji Otsuka
illustrator = Housui Yamazaki
publisher = flagicon|Japan Kadokawa Shoten
flagicon|USA Dark Horse Manga
flagicon|Brazil Conrad Editora
publisher_other =
demographic =
magazine = flagicon|Japan Shōnen Ace
first = 2006
last =
volumes = 8 (ongoing)

nihongo|"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 manga, the strip later (October 2006) transferred to the companion publication "Shōnen Ace". [Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Vol.2 authors afterword] 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.

A U.S. live-action film based on "The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service" is now in development. [ [http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=14-926 Dark Horse Comics > Profile > Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Vol. 6 TPB ] ]

Characters

;Kuro Karatsu :A student Buddhist monk with average grades. He has the ability to "speak" with the recently deceased by the means of touching their bodies, allowing the team to learn their "clients'" desires. This skill develops over the the course of the series and is often represented by a ghost with multiple facial scars. Involuntarily this can also lead to a temporal reanimation of the dead body touched and corpses in the immediate area, although Karatsu has no control over their actions afterwards. He is sometimes classified as an itako, although he is neither a woman nor blind.

;Makato Numata :He uses a pendulum to dowse for the dead which enables him to find the bodies needed for the team's delivery work. Numata puts on a tough guy image including leather jackets and sunglasses, although he enjoys sides of japanese pop culture which are rarely associated with such an image, such as interest in japanese idol singers.

;Ao Sasaki :The brains behind the company. A skilled hacker and general computer expert. She also has a large information network and sometimes uses bribes as the means to achieve the ends. Such bribes may also include pictures of dead idols. She also runs an internet chatroom entitled "Corpse-Chat".

;Yuji Yata :He wears a felt puppet on his left hand which he claims channels an alien intelligence. The alien is named Kareelis and is very fowl-mouthed for which Yata constantly apologizes. Yata's eyes are rarely seen as his hair almost always covers them.

;Keiko Makino :A licensed embalmer who handles the corpses found by Karatsu and Numata. She studied her trade in America since embalmers are rare in Japan where most bodies are cremated rather than buried. She dresses in a goth loli style and also works with her skills on part-time jobs, for example for on an american military base.

External links

* [http://www.darkhorse.com Dark Horse official site]

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