Manga Monday: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus Book Three

02/15/2016 4:14pm
My man Ryan Gavigan (you may have seen him hosting “Anime Hell” at a con) once told me that The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service was like a cross between Genshiken and The X-Files. Now that The X-Files is back on TV, more people will understand that remark—but you’ll really feel it in Kurosagi Book Three, in stores this week.
 
The X-Files comparison resonates, as one of the ten stories in Book Three involves a decades-long government conspiracy centered around a dead clairaudient whose powers are linked to a bizarre Japanese WWII project that used young boys to detect the sound of approaching American firebombers (and as you might expect in a Kurosagi story, the project was real).
But its resemblance to Genshiken comes in with the way Kurosagi takes full advantage of its college setting to portray one of my favorite genres of manga, campus comedy. In Book Three, Kurosagi begins to expand beyond the school of Buddhism that our main cast attends to one of the other schools at their university—namely the school of robotics, which, as Karatsu notes, “you need better grades” to get into. This, of course, allows the manga to introduce some mad scientist students into the Kurosagi gang’s life (technically, you could call them mad engineers, but mad scientists are expected to take a hands-on approach). If you’re wondering what building robots has to do with dead people, don’t worry. This manga will find a way to bring them together. 
A favorite story in Book Three re-introduces the main cast as they face perhaps their greatest challenge ever: getting the student affairs office to renew their meeting space for another semester—which means they have to somehow recruit another member during the campus festival! Naturally, their college sticks them in the basement, but if they can lure some new freshmen down there, and manage not to scare every one of them off… (the “must like corpses” requirement might be a problem).
There are, of course, seven other stories in The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Book Three—some of them even weirder than the ones I’ve described. But don’t take my word for it, see for yourself! 
Manga Editor
Carl Horn
My man Ryan Gavigan (you may have seen him hosting “Anime Hell” at a con) once told me that The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service was like a cross between Genshiken and The X-Files. Now that The X-Files is back on TV, more people will understand that remark—but you’ll really feel it in Kurosagi Book Three, in stores this week. 
 
The X-Files comparison resonates, as one of the ten stories in Book Three involves a decades-long government conspiracy centered around a dead clairaudient whose powers are linked to a bizarre Japanese WWII project that used young boys to detect the sound of approaching American firebombers (and as you might expect in a Kurosagi story, the project was real).

But its resemblance to Genshiken comes in with the way Kurosagi takes full advantage of its college setting to portray one of my favorite genres of manga, campus comedy. In Book Three, Kurosagi begins to expand beyond the school of Buddhism that our main cast attends to one of the other schools at their university—namely the school of robotics, which, as Karatsu notes, “you need better grades” to get into. This, of course, allows the manga to introduce some mad scientist students into the Kurosagi gang’s life (technically, you could call them mad engineers, but mad scientists are expected to take a hands-on approach). If you’re wondering what building robots has to do with dead people, don’t worry. This manga will find a way to bring them together. 

A favorite story in Book Three re-introduces the main cast as they face perhaps their greatest challenge ever: getting the student affairs office to renew their meeting space for another semester—which means they have to somehow recruit another member during the campus festival! Naturally, their college sticks them in the basement, but if they can lure some new freshmen down there, and manage not to scare every one of them off… (the “must like corpses” requirement might be a problem).

There are, of course, seven other stories in The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Book Three—some of them even weirder than the ones I’ve described. But don’t take my word for it, see for yourself! 

Manga Editor
Carl Horn

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