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Sep 24, 2014 | ISBN 9781630080686 Buy
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Sep 24, 2014 | ISBN 9781630080686
The Corpse Delivery Service has been helping dead people move on to the afterlife . . . but what about interred internal organs? In Volume Three, Kuro is surprised to learn that the voice enlisting his help is coming not from a dead man, but a live man housing a necrotic organ, the result of a faulty transplant. The pursuit of putrid parts leads the kids of Kurosagi all the way to the war in Iraq!* In Kurosagi, the writer of the notorious MPD Psycho creates strange, shocking scenarios of contemporary horror drawn by Housui Yamazaki, whose clean, stylish approach has made him one of the hottest new young artists in Japan.“While there is cruelty, gore, violence, and implied unnatural sexual acts, the manga is also a complex and slyly ironic social commentary. Acquire this manga for adult collections for the naturalistic artwork that shows attention to human emotion, the social observation, and the banter between members of the delivery service. “(Christine Gertz, Library Journal)
Eiji Otsuka is a social critic and novelist. He graduated from college with a degree in anthropology, women’s folklore, human sacrifice, and postwar manga. In addition to his work with manga, he is a critic, essayist, and author of several… More about Eiji Otsuka
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