The alien sock puppet (I can't believe I started a sentence like that) is often the most obvious comedy-bomb that gets dropped in a given scene. Anchored by Kuro who talks to the dead, they find out the last wishes of the deceased and see them fulfilled posthumously.Īnd it's damn funny. Other non-supernatural powers include an expert embalmer and a crack team-head who can find out anything about anything. The main character can speak to the spirits of the dead when he makes contact with them, another can dowse for corpses, and another has a sock puppet on his hand which channels the voice of an alien who likes to curse a lot. These are stories about a team of students at a Buddhist university who each have unique abilities, most of them supernatural, and all but one of them very useful. KCDS comes out swinging with four stand-alone stories, each of which carries its own weight.
#THE KUROSAGI CORPSE DELIVERY SERVICE OMNIBUS 2 SERIES#
Many series have to find their sea legs and then impress readers with their first major story arc (if they manage to impress readers at all, that is). The first volume introduces the world of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service in a fairly unorthodox fashion: it contains four stories on the longer side, but each of which are self-contained.
The first omnibus collection in this series collects the first three volumes, each of which showcases a big leap forward in the storytelling of writer Otsuka and artist Yamazaki. The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus Edition Book One is a pretty sizable bargain, containing well over 600 pages (for twenty bucks!) of this charmingly light-hearted horror-mystery-comedy mashup.