"This manga is about the job of cleaning up scenes of death, and discusses the meaning of life and death. Through interactions between the deceased's... more>> family and friends with the death sweepers, we understand the meaning of death. No matter is it is a peaceful death at the ends of one's life, murder, suicide, death from illnesses, when death comes, who would be able to predict it, or prevent it? That is why we have to try our best to live on." <<less

The main character is a detective, Kazuhiko Amamiya, suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder (a.k.a. Dissociative Identity Disorder). Starting out as a violent detective series with... more>> a twist (the twist being the variant personalities that take over Detective Amamiya at various intervals), the series evolves into an exceptionally complex and involved sci-fi conspiracy story. <<less

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.... more>>

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! <<less

Young Yamane Rin just finished her training and officially became a flight attendant for Fuji Airlines. On her first day, she thought it was going to be a pleasant flight. Not so fast, Yamane. Apart from struggling to learn how to deal with difficult passengers, Rin meets the Chief Attendant, Hanazono Hinako, who appears to be sweet. However, that is just one of her many facets. In fact, she's a dauntless and win-by-a-large-margin kind of girl, who becomes a completely different person after work.... more>>

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Bucchigiri means "winning (a race) by a wide margin" or #1, but it has other meanings. At one point, it was a degraded form of English's "break." These days, however, it describes an automobile's/motorcycle's extreme acceleration, which refers to delinquents. <<less

Ninomiya Naoto has just gained his license for working as a male nurse and is now looking for a job. Luckily for him, Sakajou Saori,... more>> the doctor known for her "batting treatment" is willing to lend him a hand. <<less