Lady Business

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!

Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki's Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service is a horror/mystery manga series about karma, justice,  resolving the last requests of the dead, and the truest horror of all: trying to get a job after university with an arts degree. It follows a group of students who've recently graduated  from a Buddhist college, who combine their special talents to go into business together, except their talents are hacking, embalming, dowsing for corpses, channelling aliens through a handpuppet (maybe), and speaking to the dead. Together they find corpses and take them to the place they want to go! As you might expect, because it’s me: anthology horror series! With stories that are mostly only connected by this cast of misfits attempting to bring peace to the dead! This is my kryptonite. Especially because it’s almost like a morality play in its formula; something deeply unethical happens, a usually-likeable person dies, and after some investigation the corpse gets up to ruin someone’s day, although there's usually enough variations that it doesn't get boring.

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