Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service 5
Posted: January 7, 2008 Filed under: Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Leave a comment »I love this series. I really genuinely enjoy reading each volume of it at this point. There isn’t very much forward momentum, but it is extremely entertaining, and the formula is just so weird that I feel it could go on like this for a long time.
There is a decidedly Egyptian bend to this volume. The first story is extremely detailed-oriented in all aspects of the burial ceremony. The corpse that is recovered at the beginning of the chapter can’t speak through Karatsu, and this is because the mouth-opening ceremony hasn’t been performed. There are lots of other cool details like that where I always feel like I learn something about the burial procedure when reading. In a later chapter, there is a lengthy explanation about how bodies can turn into soap in the right conditions, which apparently includes every embalmed body in the US.
In addition to the reappearance of the Nire Ceremony company, there is also an old woman who claims “the dead call out to her” who is hired on by Kurosagi and is apparently a professional funeral mourner. She can get everyone at a service to cry somehow, including the main characters. She apparently helped deliver a baby at one point too, which may be explained a bit later on in the series. We also get a little more of an explanation behind the ghost that appears behind Karatsu often, too. There’s also a new employee at Nire who has a prominent role… but he’s a little corny. He seemed to take an interest in Karatsu, so maybe he’ll be important later, too.
