The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service - List of Chapters

List of Chapters

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 November, 2002 ISBN 978-4-04713-527-7 August 23, 2006 ISBN 978-1-59307-555-2
  • "Less than Happy"
  • "Lonely People"
  • "Magician of Lost Love"
  • "September Rain"
In "Less than Happy" Karatsu first meets and joins up with the rest of the group after Sasaki recognized his ability. The group find a body in Aokigahara who has recently committed suicide and wants to be reunited with his girlfriend. In "Lonely People" the group finds an old closet with a body in it on a dump. The body wishes to be taken to a place called "Dendera". During an expedition to a wrecking yard in "Magician of Lost Love", the group finds the body of a woman with severe scars stashed in the trunk of a car. However, after Makino examined the body she recognizes that the body had already been embalmed and that the scars are actually sewings. The corpse actually consists of various body parts from multiple deceased. Finally during "September Rain" the Delivery service finds a body in a sewer drain that appears to have drowned but reveals to have been killed by her partner in an insurance scam, an actuary. The group contacts the actuary but multiple attempts to meet with him fail as accidents occur to Numata and Yata.
2 November, 2002 ISBN 978-4-04713-528-4 February 7, 2007 ISBN 978-1-59307-593-4
  • "Dangerous Duo"
  • "I don't care if I die"
  • "Watch out for that girl"
  • "Tonight I will pour wine all over you"
  • "Mona Lisa Smile"
  • "Do what you want"
  • "As time goes by"
The entirety of this volume follows one storyline that also reveals Sasaki's backstory. By accident the group picks up the casket of an executed criminal from a prison while running a normal delivery job. The casket was actually meant to be picked up by Nire Ceremony, a funeral home that cremates criminals as a public service. Sasaki later identifies the corpse to be of the man convicted of murdering her parents and one of her sisters, while she herself and another sister surviving the incident. This sister approaches Sasaki to ask her to be part of a special funeral service only Nire offers. Meanwhile Yata is hired for a part time job by that same funeral home and meets a girl named Mutsumi, the adopted daughter of the owner of the funeral home. She seems to also possess an unusually ability: To revive the dead.
3 February 2, 2004 ISBN 978-4-04713-600-7 March 21, 2007 ISBN 978-1-59307-594-1
  • "Crossing the River"
  • "Applause"
  • "X+Y=Love"
  • "Waltz"
The first and second chapter are a single story. At the beginning of it Karatsu attempts to speak to a homeless person with multiple scars and eyes that have been sewn shut identified by Numata as dead. However, the person turns out to be actually alive and walks off from the two who are fighting over the matter. About half a year later the Delivery Service finds a body that died of organ failure from rejected transplants and after turning him in at a hospital meet Sasayama for the first time. "X+Y=Love" starts out with a person answering a doorbell just to be struck with a baton and killed. Yata and Numata, on a part time job trying to get newspaper subscriptions, come across the body but the corpse appears to have suffered amnesia from the attack as Karatsu finds out when he attempts to speak to it. In "Waltz" Numata finds an ear with his dowsing ability stuck inside a manga anthology. Karatsu finds that the only thing the ear can "remember" is song that seems to have more behind it than it appears.
4 October 29, 2004 ISBN 978-4-04713-676-2 October 3, 2007 ISBN 978-1-59307-595-8
  • "Thank you, dear"
  • "If you should die"
  • "The look I had 'til yesterday"
  • "Humble desires"
During "Thank you, dear.", the clubmembers (except Sasaki) get a summer job in a rural town called Oyamada under the lead of Sasayama's cousin who bears a striking resemblance to him, including baldness and pegleg. The town is trying to get tourism from ufology enthusiasts so the three guys spend their days making crop circles while Makino is restoring the body of an "alien" that supposedly crash landed nearby years ago. In "If you should die" all of the group except Sasaki visit an exhibition of preserved but dissected corpses for which Makino recently completed a job. After touching one of the bodies, Karatsu grows suspicious and asks Makino to pretend to have to work on one of the corpses severed heads. After further "talk" the corpse claims to have been a Japanese student that was abducted in China. Meanwhile the exhibition leaves town without a trace. In "The look I had 'til yesterday" Numata finds the key to a coin locker in a park. The group seeks out a locker and finds a dead baby in a duffel bag inside. The chapter also contains an appearance by Reiji Akiba, main character of Housui Yamazaki's previous manga Mail. Finally "Humble Desires" has the trio of guys make a trip into the country on Numata's Get-Rich-Quick-Scheme to catch rare bugs and sell them to collectors. They meet a blonde American girl named Reina who studies forensic entomology, as well as a corpse with the desire to become a bird hanging in a tree.
5 August 26, 2005 ISBN 978-4-04713-749-3 December 12, 2007 ISBN 978-1-59307-596-5
  • "Stand Still"
  • "Password to Tomorrow"
  • "Please give me a little love"
  • "Preparing for a journey"
"Stand Still" has the group finding a dead person in a retirement home. The corpse claims to be from a village called Tumani, a place from an urban legend in which a murderer killed everybody in the town and does the same to anyone who dares to enter it. While clearing out the apartment of a deceased person in "Password to Tomorrow", the boys come across a mummy in a sarcophagus. In the meantime Nire attempts to recruit a professor of ancient history named Nishimura from the university for his new business model offering a burial service in the manner of ancient Egypt. The next story has Makino, Karatsu, Numata and Yata become professional mourners, actors who attend funerals of largely disliked people for a fee. They come across a woman that seems also to attend those same funerals and her emotional display seems to affect everyone else in the room as well. In the final chapter Sasayama hires the three boys over the summer to scout out a countryside area belonging to a senile resident of a Shinjuku public care facility said to have made billions of yen in the stock market. They come across a man in winter coat and a cave with a group of severed heads in capsules buried inside. The chapter has Nire make a return appearance, now in the business of Cryonics.
6 January 26, 2007 ISBN 978-4-04713-895-7 February 27, 2008 ISBN 978-1-59307-892-8
  • "A letter for you"
  • "If you're with me"
  • "The two of us"
  • "For whose good"
  • "Like a chid - Kunio Matsuoka demon hunting side story (Part one)"
  • "Too long a spring - Kunio Matsuoka demon hunting side story (Part two)"
The first chapter has the crew return to Aokigahara to search for the corpses of suicides only to find that the service they want to perform is already being done in that region by the local post office. The next three chapters are one continuous storyline. Numata and Karatsu drive through Tokyo following Numata's dowsing and find a house where recently a corpse was discovered. A team of "corpse cleaners" named Shirosagi, a company specializing in cleaning up crime and suicide scenes, also shows up on the scene led by a man in safety goggles and a breathing mask. Later the recently evicted Numata is looking for a new place to stay and ends up in the very same room, now completely disinfected, except he finds another corpse above the ceiling tiles. The final two chapters are a side story dabbling in historical fiction set in the Japan of the Meiji era. A young Kunio Yanagita, then called Kunio Matsuoka, is visited by a scarred boy named Yaichi and that boys caretaker, one of Sasayama's ancestors with strong resemblance, while attempting to solve the mystery of a crime spree involving mutilated corpses.
7 August 25, 2007 ISBN 978-4-04713-961-9 September 3, 2008 ISBN 978-1-59307-982-6
  • "Fight with my heart"
  • "Pretty Pretty"
  • "My Happiness, Part II"
  • "My Don"
  • "I'm not afraid of the big bad wolf"
  • "Sundas is a stranger"
In "Fight with my heart" the boys are doing a delivery job for a cemetery and test out a robotic suit for a research group. In "Pretty Pretty" and "My Happiness, Part II" the Kurosagis investigate a case in which cosmetic surgery transplants have developed a mind of their own. In the final three chapters of the volume the boys accompany Makino to a gig as a make-up artist for a new movie that is being shot, trying to get some odd jobs on the set. However, the shoot is overshadowed when one of the actors turns up dead.
8 March 5, 2008 ISBN 978-4-04715-052-2 January 7, 2009 ISBN 978-1-59582-235-2
  • "A café in a campus town"
  • "Romance"
  • "I probably won't die"
  • "No need for a love song"
  • "An afternoon with just the two of us"
  • "Princess's Mirror"
  • "I'll go alone"
In "a café in a campus town" it's the start of a new semester on campus and the clubs are trying to recruit new members. So does the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, disguised as the "Kurosagi Cash-Money-Makin' Club". Almost all interested students though seem to not be able to withstand the subject matter though, except for one girl Karatsu invited. The next three chapters are one story. The Kurosagi company has hired a part-timer due to Yata being sick. On a normal job delivering a fridge to an uptown apartment the part-timer, a homeless amateur artist, loses one of his drawings which is found by the owner of that apartment and the part-timer is hired to draw portraits for postmortem wedding ceremonies. The final three chapters start with Ms. Kikuchi, a nurse in training who has a dead body spring back to live while examining it. The body then shows the behavior typical to a baby.
9 August 5, 2008 ISBN 978-4-04715-093-5 May 20, 2009 ISBN 978-1-59582-306-9
  • "Key to an apartment"
  • "A lonely singing doll"
  • "Grape-colored experience"
  • "Tears that disappear into the sand"
  • "White house by the sea"
  • "A certain situation"
  • "What lies after the dream"
  • "My sadness"
"Key to an apartment" and "A lonely singing doll" are one story about an idol being sent dolls by a stalker. The group finds one of these dolls which Numata's pendulum reacts to as if it was a dead body. "Grape-colored experience" and "Tears that disappear into the sand" deal with the group trying to find out something about a ghost rider they encountered: A motorcycle being ridden by nothing but a floating head. The next three chapters are one continuous story in which Ms. Kikuchi listened to the last words of a politician. Via Sasayama the Kurosagi team also gets involved in this. Finally, in "My sadness" Yata and Makino are doing a part-time job doing entertainment at a Kindergarten. After the job they talk about their past and some of their backstory is revealed.
10 November 5, 2008 ISBN 978-4-04715-128-4 February 17, 2010 ISBN 978-1-59582-446-2
  • "Sweet challenge"
  • "Not on a Sunday!"
  • "The unreturned salinger"
  • "A kiss after the tears"
  • "Moonlight story"
  • "Seaside memory"
  • "The heart's season off"
  • "A mirror at 2 a.m."
  • "Delivery: rainbow-colored canon"
In the first four chapters the club meets up with a bike messenger who is capable of using a defibrillator to reanimate the recently diseased. In the next three chapters Karatsu and Co. help Sasayama bring a retired police dog to a former colleague and uncover an urban legend. The remainder of the volume deal with Numata's backstory while he is trying to tie up things with his old master who taught him dowsing.
11 March 5, 2009 ISBN 978-4-04715-204-5 September 8, 2010 ISBN 978-1-59582-528-5
  • "Something missing"
  • "This is my hometown"
  • "Ugly duckling"
  • "We who should be loved"
  • "In the past, it was all day long"
  • "Let's make some memories"
  • "In order to say goodbye"
  • "It was sunny when I woke up"
  • "Angels dance"
The first six chapters are one story which begins with Sasayama hiring Makino and Yata as temp teachers (and in the process Numata as a security guard) for a private middle school, though the club quickly becomes aware that they were hired for a different purpose than teaching as a student of the school is sending warnings about attempted murders via an internet message board similar to 2channel. The story also features an incident highly reminiscent of the 2008 Akihabara massacre. The rest of the volume is a single story in which the club find a swimmer face down in a closed pool, suspected of having drowned. The person however reawakens at night and seems to be hibernating during the day.
12 November 26, 2009 ISBN 978-4-04715-336-3 Mar 28, 2012 ISBN 978-1-59582-686-2
  • "Picnic Boogie"
  • "Arienu Republic"
  • "Shadow Show"
  • "I'm sitin' on the edge of the skies"
  • "A single bound to the moat"
  • "In deep hurt"
  • "To the land of ink paintings"
  • "Time Machine"
In the first three chapters the KCDS encounter an insurance saleswoman who is trying to find one of her customers who she believes to have been replaced by an impostor. The next three chapters deal with a boy who lives in apartments in which people recently died, and a girl whose ghost can leave and re-enter her body at will. In the last two chapters Numata, Yata and Makino run into a doll manufacturer whose favorite doll sets off Numata's pendulum.
13 July 2, 2010 ISBN 978-4-04715-380-6 December 11, 2012 ISBN 978-1-61655-067-7
  • "Paper Moon"
  • "Silhouette Romance"
  • "Safari Night"
  • "Return My Key!"
  • "White Requiem"
  • "Island of Dreams for Two"
In "Paper Moon", "Silhouette Romance" and "Safari Night" the Kurosagi group finds out about a girl who uses a mind control device disguised as a theme park hat to punish users of online sites who attempt to pick up teenage runaways for sexual exploitation. In the next two chapters Sasaki becomes member of a jury in a murder case and meets a man who has Grapheme-color synesthesia serving on the same jury. The final chapter of the volume the group took an odd job helping to clean up a construction site where Numata promptly finds a dismembered body.
14 November 4, 2010 ISBN 978-4-04715-555-8 - —
15 October 1, 2011 ISBN 978-4-04715-790-3 - —
16 July 2, 2012 ISBN 978-4-04120-288-3 - —
17 February 1, 2013 ISBN 978-4-04120-562-4 - —

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