The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Vol. 10 [Paperback]

Eiji Otsuka (Author), Housui Yamazaki (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 9, 2010

The dead don't walk in Kurosagi - that is, not without a little help... and it's a shock to the system when the delivery service finds out what's making their clients rise up! Then, for Numata to take off his sunglasses for anyone, it must be a grave matter... or, more likely, a matter of someone not yet in their grave...

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (March 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1595824464
• ISBN-13: 978-1595824462
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #831,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Mixed But Good Bag, September 28, 2010

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Jason Talley "Hard Travelin' Geek" (Icheon, South Korea) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Vol. 10 (Paperback)

This time around the stories we get seem mostly to be filler but with a few seeds also clearly planted. It makes for a solid volume but not an outstanding one.

Our first story starts off with what could be the funniest moment of the series with Numata doing his best Weird Al and knocking it out of the park. We're then presented with a pretty interesting mystery with the themes of choosing your own path, forgiveness and atonement clearly in the background. Some nice "Star Wars" references and the intro of a new player in the scheme of things later things come to a slightly cliched but enjoyable ending.

The next story has the KCDS on the road again, this time to Niigata. I like it when manga is willing to get outside of Tokyo and from having actually lived in rural Japan I saw a lot of things here that reminded me of the past. Anyway, the story is just so-so and we get another rather eye-roll worthy portrayal of white foreigners in Japan. Also, while the ending is creepy it isn't clearly carried out and leaves some key stuff to tell rather than show.

Lastly we get a story that takes some good digs at Japanese TV but mostly serves to tell us about Numata's past. As expected for KCDS it is not a happy tale but it does give his character some much-needed depth.

Overall, it's not the best volume of the series but still worth picking up.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Revived my love for the series!, July 1, 2010

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ChibiNeko "Sooo many books, so little time!" (Whereever I go, here I am.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Vol. 10 (Paperback)

I'll have to be honest that while I've always adored the series, I've kind of lost a little interest in the series so far. I'm collecting them for sure, but it isn't one of those series that I must buy as soon as the latest volume comes out. This volume has freshened up my interest in the series, even though it is admittedly mostly filler.

The stories in this volume involve a guy bringing people back from the dead to fulfill their dark vengeance as well as a wonderful background story on Numata. (Ok, I admit that I'm a Numata fangirl!) For me, the best story was easily the one surrounding Numata, as it explained how he got his diving powers & like the blurb promised, you get to see him without his trademark sunglasses on! There's also a nice story concerning a dog & an urban legend about a monk's curse.

Overall I enjoyed this volume, but I will admit that this was pretty much filler. There's no resolution or progress on the group's mysterious rivals & other than Numata, there's really not any true character development. I almost have a feeling that if Numata wasn't one of my favorite characters in the book, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed this volume as much as I did. Luckily for me, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Fans of the series will enjoy this volume while new fans will probably want to start with the first volume or an earlier volume. This probably won't draw them in, as the manga assumes that you've been following along. (The stories can be read as a standalone, but the readers will probably be lost as to the other parts of the book.