The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Book Three Omnibus (Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus) - Softcover

Otsuka, Eiji

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616558873 ISBN 13: 9781616558871

Publisher: Dark Horse Manga, 2016

Synopsis

Some manga offer you stories about zombies...others, robots...others, otaku--but only The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service would offer you a story about a zombie robot otaku! And that's just the first of ten cases the Kurosagi gang encounters in Book Three, as strange-but-true rituals and incidents of Japan's past reemerge into tales of bizarre modern horror! Marriages to the dead...human air defense radar...the souls of babies in the bodies of yakuza! And even as a cabal of phantoms seeks to imprison Karatsu's familiar spirit Yaichi, the Delivery Service faces perhaps their greatest challenge yet...convince somebody else to join their club, so they don't lose their meeting space on campus!

"Acquire this manga for adult collections for the naturalistic artwork that shows attention to human emotion, the social observation, and the banter between the members of the delivery service." --Christine Gertz, Library Journal

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

About this title

About the Author:

Eiji Ōtsuka is a social critic, anthropologist and novelist. He is currently a professor at International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto. 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. The author lives in Tokyo, Japan.

Review:

"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

"It actually reminds me a lot of Mike Allred's work...it's an attractive book, and the stories are just beginning to really showcase Yamazaki's abilities as an artist." -Greg McElhatton, Read About Comics

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Dark Horse Manga
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1616558873
• ISBN 13: 9781616558871
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 632
• Illustrator: Housui Yamazaki