{"product_id":"the-kurosagi-corpse-delivery-service-book-one-omnibus-isbn-9781616557546","title":"The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: Book One Omnibus","description":"Five students at a Buddhist college in Japan realize the job market is tough these days...among the living, that is! But their unique spiritual and scientific talents might help them get work from the \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003edead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, for they can contact the spirits of corpses and speak with them. And if a body is found hanging from a tree or lying in an alley, it's probably got a story to tell! The five form The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, specializing in carrying out the last wishes of their dead clients, so their souls can move on. But the Kurosagi gang are magnets for weirdness--not just corpses--and every case gets them involved in disturbing personal obsessions, bizarre modern Tokyo fads, and strange rituals of old Japan...and often all at once!\"Pick of the Week... The tales of five Buddhist university students who help free souls trapped in their corpses are, at turns, disturbing, touching and funny.\"\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eKevin Melrose, \u003ci\u003eBlog@Newsarama\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the ongoing series I most look forward to, in all its goofy, gruesome glory.”—Shaenon Garrity, \u003ci\u003eAnime News Network\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I was sold by the first few pages...it's a lot of fun. It's a warped Saturday-morning cartoon for grown-ups.\"—David Welsh, \u003ci\u003eComic World News\u003c\/i\u003eEiji Otsuka is a social critic and novelist. He graduated from college with a degree in anthropology, women's folklore, human sacrifice and post-war manga. In addition to his work with manga he is a critic, essayist, and author of several successful non-fiction books on Japanese popular and otaku sub-cultures. He writes the \u003ci\u003eMultiple Personality Detective Psycho \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service\u003c\/i\u003e manga series. One of his first animation script works was \u003ci\u003eMahō no Rouge Lipstick\u003c\/i\u003e, an adult lolicon OVA. Ōtsuka was the editor for the bishōjo lolicon manga series \u003ci\u003ePetit Apple Pie\u003c\/i\u003e. In the 80s, Otsuka was editor-in-chief of Manga Burikko, a leading women's manga magazine where he pioneered research on otaku sub-cultures in modern Japan. He has published a host of books and articles about the manga industry. The author lives in Tokyo, Japan.","brand":"Dark Horse Manga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301830611173,"sku":"NP9781616557546","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781616557546.jpg?v=1767740084","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-kurosagi-corpse-delivery-service-book-one-omnibus-isbn-9781616557546","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}