{"id":1503,"date":"2007-11-01T17:14:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:03:44","slug":"the-kurosagi-corpse-delivery-service-by-eiji-otsuka-art-by-housui-yamazaki-translated-by-toshifumi-yoshia-edited-by-carl-gustav-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-kurosagi-corpse-delivery-service-by-eiji-otsuka-art-by-housui-yamazaki-translated-by-toshifumi-yoshia-edited-by-carl-gustav-horn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (vols. 1-4) by Eiji Otsuka, art by Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida, edited by Carl Gustav Horn [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/11\/Kurosagi-1-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27035 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/11\/Kurosagi-1-4-576x800.jpg\" alt=\"Kurosagi 1-4\" width=\"576\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/11\/Kurosagi-1-4-576x800.jpg 576w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/11\/Kurosagi-1-4.jpg 803w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a>Four fabulous volumes (the fourth just out) about a mismatched clan that makes up the fantastically talented Kurosagi (\u201cblack crane\u201d) Corpse Delivery Service. Five unemployed Buddhist university students band together to help corpses find eternal peace, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Numata finds the dead, Karatsu talks to the dead, Sasaki hacks any necessary background information about the dead, Makino preserves the dead, and Yata channels an alien voice that speaks through a handheld sock puppet that is often the lone voice of reason.<\/p>\n<p>Irreverent dark humor \u2013\u00a0with plenty of gore, so don\u2019t read it late at night\u00a0\u2013\u00a0fills these addictive volumes as the fivesome help suffering souls find everlasting closure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/200711tbrfavorites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;<em>TBR<\/em>\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2007,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review, <\/em>November\/December 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2006-2007 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1506\" title=\"kurosagi142\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/03\/kurosagi142.jpg\" alt=\"kurosagi142\" width=\"374\" height=\"122\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Four fabulous volumes (the fourth just out) about a mismatched clan that makes up the fantastically talented Kurosagi (\u201cblack crane\u201d) Corpse Delivery Service. 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