Customer Reviews

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Vol. 7 (v. 7)

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This is such a great series. I own all nine (soon to be ten) books in this series, and I've never been disappointed. I'm not planning on selling these anytime soon either; I enjoy going back and re-reading them, mostly for the quick humor and well-written dialog.

This is a series that's not so seeped in Japanese lingo and balley-hoo that you can't keep up with all the stuff they're talking about. Most of the story-lines occur in Japan, and there are plenty of little things to pick up here and there about Japanese culture and lore from this series, but for your average non-Japanese reader (like me), it's easy to keep up.

Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service is not for kids (there are corpses after all), but that's what makes it so good!

About #7 specifically:
There are three major story arcs here. I'm always excited to read more about Karatsu's ghostly friend, so this one's definitely worth picking up!

While there are other stories in the series I like more (see my review of vol 8), this volume really contained some nice creepy stories. There's a nice mix of humor & horror, which is always a bonus for me.

The stories in this volume are a dead otaku turned work robot, plastic surgery gone horrifically wrong & a murder on the set of a big movie. The movie murder is the biggest story of the volume, but it's the one about plastic surgery that really creeped me out. The surgery episode is about a clinic that advertises that they can make you look exactly like a famous celebrity, starting with her ears. (When you do discover how they're growing the ears, it's pretty creepy looking.)

I really did enjoy this volume overall & it was nice to see more development surrounding a rival/opponent group for the Kurosagi crew. (the Shirosagi group) As always, the volume showed quite a bit of my current favorite character, Numata- who often serves as the comic relief, something that is often needed in this series. The return of Shirosagi really does bring the story level up a bit, making this more than a one-off series & giving the potential for longer story arcs. So far though, the stories are still mostly one-offs with a few threads that loop over the entire series.