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The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: Omnibus Edition Book Four

by Eiji Otsuka, Housui Yamazaki (Illustrator)

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Series: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (10-12)

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Five students at a Buddhist college in Japan realise 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, specialising in carrying out the last wishes of their dead clients, so their souls can move on.… (more)
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I'm still enjoying this series, but the stories have settled into a formulaic groove that could prove wearying in the long run. Every story here basically ends with a reanimated corpse seeking revenge on those who have done them wrong.

First Vol. 10 story arc:

The group meets a man who can briefly resurrect corpses with a special automated external defibrillator (AED). A police officer is tempted to use it for a little bit of vigilante justice for his son, who proves to have some daddy issues to work out.

Second Vol. 10 story arc:

A police officer has transferred to a small town to escape the strange and violent crimes of the big city. But when the delivery service arrives to gift him with a retired police dog with which he once partnered, they end up revealing the town isn't as peaceful as it appears. Does the dog die? Yes.

Third Vol. 10 story arc:

Numata is reunited with his dowsing mentor when the group helps out on a reality series being built around a fake psychic. A little of Numata's origin is teased.

First Vol. 11 story arc:

The group is tricked into becoming bodyguards for a girl who has just been released from juvenile detention after being accused of murdering her mother. To complicates matters, she has her own paranormal power.

Second Vol. 11 story arc:

The group discovers a swimmer who does a dead man's float all day, but then swims laps all night long.

First Vol. 12 story arc:

An overeager bill collector pulls the group into investigating in a complex scheme where people in debt sell their identities to rich people who want to escape into a new life. The operation is run by a (human) succubus, kicking off a volume where the fan service knob has gotten cranked to the right. Or some knob is getting cranked, anyhow.

Second Vol. 12 story arc:

A comedian who is paid to live in homes or apartments where the previous occupant has died to help clear their real estate reputation runs across a club hostess who can astral project. Things go bad in this Romeo and Juliet tale when they run athwart some ruthless real estate flippers.

Third Vol. 12 story arc:

An old man obsessed with his sister who died before his eyes during World War II has used her projected adult body as the basis for a legendary sex doll. Ummmmmmmmm, say what now? ( )
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Eiji Otsukaprimary authorall editionscalculated
Yamazaki, HousuiIllustratormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Horn, Carl GustavEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Yoshida, ToshifumiTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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A corpse is a corpse, of course, of course . . . And no one can talk to a corpse, of course . . . That is, of course, unless the corpse is, um, talked to by . . . the faaaaamous KCDS!!!
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This omnibus collects The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service volumes 10-12.
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Five students at a Buddhist college in Japan realise 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, specialising in carrying out the last wishes of their dead clients, so their souls can move on.

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