Dark Horse Comics has really kept plugging away at the manga release of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery when others may just give it up entirely, and they’re hoping to expand interest in it later this year with a new omnibus. Set for release in August, the manga series will collect the first two volumes of Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki’s into one volume with more to follow later. The release is priced at $19.99 and is listing 640 pages for the first volume according to Dark Horse comics. The series will retain its 18+ rating.
The original volumes run about 200 pages each, so we suspect the page count is wrong at the moment, though the number of volumes included could be three instead of two as well.
Plot concept: Your body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university, three guys and two girls, find little call for their job skills in today’s Tokyo… among the living, that is! But all that stuff in college they were told would never pay off – you know, channeling, dowsing, ESP – gives them a direct line to the dead… the dead who are still trapped in their corpses and can’t move on to the next reincarnation. The five form the Kurosagi (“Black Heron” – their ominous bird logo) Corpse Delivery Service: whether suicide, murder, accident, or illness, they’ll carry your body wherever it needs to go to free your soul! The kids from Kurosagi can smell a customer a mile away – it’s a good thing one of the girls majored in embalming!
