Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volume 2
Reviews / August 10, 2009

One of the announcements made at this year’s Comic-Con International was the live-action production of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Dark Horse and Universal. (Actually, I seem to remember some talk of this a couple of years ago, but regardless, it is good news.) Does the story of a rag-tag group of Buddhist diviners and dead talkers trying to make a living delivering corpses to their proper final resting places merit a big screen release? Written by Eiji Ōtsuka; Illustrated by Housui Yamazaki Age Rating: 18+ Genre: Horror Price: 10.95 USD I didn’t expect so much blood…Did you? Summarizing it like that, it seems like it might, but I am even more hopeful that the news of the big screen production will bring people to this excellent manga series now. Nine volumes are available now from Dark Horse Manga, but I realized that we have only a spattering of reviews here at Comics Village, so I am going to try to fill in the blanks as I painstakingly reread some of the earlier volumes of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. The first volume of Kurosagi is not my favorite, but it is the necessary introduction of thankfully small band…