The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
English version, Volume 1.
黒鷺死体宅配便 (Kurosagi Shitai Takuhaibin)
Genre	Horror
Manga
Written by	Eiji Ōtsuka
Illustrated by	Housui Yamazaki
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
English publisher	NA Dark Horse Manga
Demographic	Shōnen, Seinen
Magazine	Shōnen Ace (2002–2009) Young Ace (2009–present)
Original run	2002 – present
Volumes	21

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (黒鷺死体宅配便, Kurosagi Shitai Takuhaibin) is a horror manga series written by Eiji Ōtsuka and drawn by Housui Yamazaki. First published in Kadokawa Mystery, the series later (October 2006) transferred to the companion publication Shōnen Ace, and now published in the magazine Young Ace. As of April 2016, 21 volumes have been published in Japan. An English adaptation is being published by Dark Horse Comics.

The series follows five recently graduated university students who have formed a company which specializes in dealing with the dead and their last wishes.

A U.S. live-action film based on The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service is now in development.

The series deals with the exploits of five young graduates of a Buddhist college, all of which have a special skill, some of them supernatural and/or involving dead bodies. Most notable is Kuro Karatsu who has the ability to "speak" to the recently deceased and hear their last wishes. On this basis the group forms a business venture to fulfill said wishes in hopes for compensation. However, because corpses do not always die of natural causes or accidents, the group often encounters criminal activity or such compensation is unattainable.

The series is ostensibly set in modern-day Japan with the main characters hanging around the Buddhist college near Tokyo the main characters attended, though the characters often travel elsewhere for summer jobs or to fulfill their "clients" wishes. Tokyo, usually Shinjuku, is often visited though it is not known exactly where the college is located in relation to the greater Tokyo metropolitan area. The manga also seems to be set in the same universe as MPD Psycho and Mail, other series that the authors Otsuka and Yamazaki respectively have worked on, as characters of these series appear in it.