The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Vol. 8 (v. 8) [Paperback]

Eiji Otsuka (Author), Housui Yamazaki (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 20, 2009

Shigo kekkon-marrying the dead! It's a quaint old country custom in Japan that's becoming the next big fad in Tokyo . . . and that makes it the business of the Corpse Delivery Service! And meanwhile back on campus, since they're technically a college club, the kids from Kurosagi host a membership drive at the start of the new semester! But you've got to like corpses, you know.

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The new set of “deliveries” (chapters) about five contemporary Buddhist students using paranormal powers to solve murder mysteries serves romance with the usual chills and laughter. In the first, single-delivery story, the group tries recruiting new members to get a bigger campus meeting room; the one good prospect is pretty but spectrally elusive. In the following three-delivery adventure, they have to deal with big-time Yakuza, and the three-parter after it involves encountering an enterprise tangential to theirs. In all three stories, a KCDS-er becomes smitten as the plot unfolds, and distinctive Japanese funerary traditions are illustrated as well as explained. What a rich series this is. --Ray Olson

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (January 20, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1595822356
• ISBN-13: 978-1595822352
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #424,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars I <3 this volume!, November 4, 2009

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This review is from: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Vol. 8 (v. 8) (Paperback)

Once in a while, you'll find that one volume of a series that you really just love. That you keep reading over & over because you just like one or all of the stories in it. For this series, it's volume 8. (So far, anyway.)

This volume has what is quite possibly my favorite story of the series. In order to keep their club room & maybe even get some funding from the school, the members of KCDS attempt to gain new members. The requirements for entry are a little strict, but even so... only about 5 people show any interest in joining. After being insulted & horrified by the club members, most of the new recruits end up running off, except for one very special recruit! The stories after this one are just as good, although they didn't tickle my funny bone like the first story did. There's a story about weddings for the dead as well as a mystery surrounding deceased infants being placed inside a hospital dropbox.

The stories in this volume really do make this my favorite volume of the series. They're all well plotted out & you get a really nice feeling for all of the characters. The artwork is well done in this volume & you can see where it's improved over previous volumes. The only sour note for this volume is knowing that the next volume wasn't quite as good, which isn't this volume's fault at all.