The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: Book One Omnibus - (Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus) by Eiji Otsuka (Paperback)

About the Book

The omnibus collects the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service volumes 1-3. Because each individual volume has a numbered sound FX glossary and story notes section at its end, the original page numbers have been kept for this omnibus, so the page numbers start over again at the beginning of each volume.

Book Synopsis

Five students at a Buddhist college in Japan realize the job market is tough these days...among the living, that is! But their unique spiritual and scientific talents might help them get work from the dead, for they can contact the spirits of corpses and speak with them. And if a body is found hanging from a tree or lying in an alley, it's probably got a story to tell! The five form The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, specializing in carrying out the last wishes of their dead clients, so their souls can move on. But the Kurosagi gang are magnets for weirdness--not just corpses--and every case gets them involved in disturbing personal obsessions, bizarre modern Tokyo fads, and strange rituals of old Japan...and often all at once!

Review Quotes

"Pick of the Week... The tales of five Buddhist university students who help free souls trapped in their corpses are, at turns, disturbing, touching and funny."--Kevin Melrose, Blog@Newsarama

"One of the ongoing series I most look forward to, in all its goofy, gruesome glory."--Shaenon Garrity, Anime News Network

"I was sold by the first few pages...it's a lot of fun. It's a warped Saturday-morning cartoon for grown-ups."--David Welsh, Comic World News

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 post-war manga. In addition to his work with manga he is a critic, essayist, and author of several successful non-fiction books on Japanese popular and otaku sub-cultures. He writes the Multiple Personality Detective Psycho and The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service manga series. One of his first animation script works was Mahō no Rouge Lipstick, an adult lolicon OVA. Ōtsuka was the editor for the bishōjo lolicon manga series Petit Apple Pie. In the 80s, Otsuka was editor-in-chief of Manga Burikko, a leading women's manga magazine where he pioneered research on otaku sub-cultures in modern Japan. He has published a host of books and articles about the manga industry. The author lives in Tokyo, Japan.