The
Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
volume 1
Authors: Eiji Otsuka, Housui Yamazaki
Dark Horse Comics
208 pages
Authors: Eiji Otsuka, Housui Yamazaki
Dark Horse Comics
208 pages
'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.
Content/spoiler
warning: Review
contains spoilers for some of the plot points in the first volume.
Review also discusses the more dark/twisted aspects of Kurosagi,
including dismemberment, incest, assault, suicide and death. Read on
with caution.
Re-reading
the first book of this ongoing Eiji Otsuka horror series is like
playing a game of How Absolutely Macabre Is This Series, Really? and
losing every time. Somehow, through the fog of memory, I forgot how
far Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service goes in showing what kind of
explicit and horrible ways people can kill other people, the unending
ways it finds to illustrate the darkest, most desperate side of
humanity.
Not
the kid with the talking hand puppet, though. I'd never forget Yata
and his crude backtalking puppet who can channel the dead. But in
this book, Yata seems almost normal compared to the cases that the
Service investigate every chapter.
