well I have been reading a few 'horror' titles, and was suggested this after reading vulgar ghost daydream (reviewed here elsewhere) so here is my review on this title
Kurosagi Shitai Takuhaibin
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service ( Kurosagi Shitai Takuhaibin ) is a horror Manga series written by Eiji Otsuka and drawn by Housui Yamazaki. First published in Kadokawa Mystery manga, the strip later (October 2006) transferred to the companion publication Shonen Ace. The English translation is published by Dark Horse Comics.
The series follows five recently graduated students who have formed a company which specialises in dealing with the dead and their last wishes.
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!
The characters are
Kuro Karatsu - A student Buddist monk with average grades. He has the ability to "speak" with the recently deceased allowing the team to learn their "clients'" desires.
Makato Numata - A dowser for the dead, his role is to find the bodies needed for the team's delivery work.
Ao Sasaki - The brains behind the company. A skilled hacker and general computer expert.
Yuji Yata - Another student, wears a felt puppet on his left hand which apparently channels an alien intelligence.
Keiko Makino - A licensed embalmer who handles the corpse found by Karatsu and Makato. She studied her trade in America since embalmers are rare in Japan where most bodies are cremated rather than buried.
