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OverviewFive students at a Buddhist college in Japan find there's little call for their job skills... among the living, that is! But their unique talents allow them to work with the dead... carrying out the last wishes of those whose spirits are still trapped in their corpses, and can't move on to the next life! Book Five has the Kurosagi gang running into ever more bizarre incidents of modern horror, from mind-control mouse hats, to taxpayer-supported torture museums, to the most feared calamity of all... jury duty Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eiji Otsuka , Housui Yamazaki , Bunpei YorifujiPublisher: Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Imprint: Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Weight: 0.368kg ISBN: 9781506714844ISBN 10: 1506714846 Pages: 632 Publication Date: 30 August 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""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.""—Kevin Melrose, Blog@Newsarama “One of the ongoing series I most look forward to, in all its goofy, gruesome glory.”—Shaenon Garrity, Anime News Network ""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, Comic World News" Author InformationEiji 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 Multiple Personality Detective Psycho and The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service manga series. One of his first animation script works was Maho no Rouge Lipstick, an adult lolicon OVA. Otsuka was the editor for the bishojo lolicon manga series Petit Apple Pie. 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |