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Included one-shot: Volume 4: Tamagawa nite

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 Corpse Delivery Service: whether suicide, murder, accident, or illness, they'll carry your body wherever it needs to go to free your soul! (Source: Dark Horse)

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 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. (Source: MU)

Shinjuurou Mamiya works as an embalmer—a profession seen as "unclean" by Japanese society due to religious traditions and lack of demand for the service. Driven by his passion to preserve the dignity of the deceased, he has resigned himself to the outcast lifestyle that comes with his job. Though his clientele is lacking, he is exceptionally skilled. Shinjuurou does not shy away from opportunities to show off his ability to transform a corpse into a state that makes a loved one believe they are just sleeping peacefully. Shigeshoushi explores the delicate psychological relationships between life, death, loss, and mourning. With each embalming, Shinjuurou brings the inner beauty of the deceased back to life to give their loved ones a chance to properly say goodbye. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Because of the recent...corruption of selling corpses for the purpose of organ commerce, each public department is obligated to quickly collect the remains of every average citizen that had been confirmed dead. Those who guarded the safety of the dead were local organization members nicknamed...funeral welcomers. (Source: emerald-eyes) A collection of Minekura Kazuya's short stories that contains all published chapters of Hachi no Su and several oneshots from the Arcana anthologies, including: 1) Spider's Nest from Arcana - Shitsuji 2) FLIES from Arcana - Zoku ・ Kaitou 3) Prince of Stars from Arcana - Ouji & Hime 4) The Overnight Rain Stops from Arcana - Wafuu / Samurai 5) The Wolf and the 7 Baby Goats from Arcana - Henka☆Gijinka

This is the story of a family who works in the funeral business. Jiro has to take over from his father the family work. He does not like his job very much because of the bad reputation it caused him when he was younger. Included one-shots: Volume 2: Karasu Tai Ningen, Working Class Gaiden

Since becoming a vampire, Albert's life has fallen into an unchanging cycle—day to night, bat to vampire, USA to... Japan? After a mishap at a meat-processing plant in Nebraska, bat-Al is flash-frozen alongside his midday snack and shipped to a foreign land! Explaining to police how he really ended up wandering naked is out of the question, not to mention he doesn't know a word of Japanese! Al will have to rely on the kindness (?) of his new companions if he's going to get by in Tokyo—that is, if he can convince them he's the bat! (Source: Yen Press)

"Smile for me with all your wrinkles."

Meme is working part time at a funeral parlor. However, being a bit of an airhead she's having a hard time with her rather strict supervisor Kurokawa. That is until the two of them get to know each other better and learn to come to terms with their pasts.

Sari Remington is a funeral manager by day and a banished angel put on Earth as punishment. When a young girl comes in to schedule her own funeral a week in advance, what is a devil to do? (Source: MU) Included one-shot: Hajimari no Requiem

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Kaoru has second sight: he sees things other people can't. At the funeral of a murder victim, he runs into two people. One is out for vengeance, and the other is the murderer... (Source: Lovely Strange Dark)

When newlywed Takako accompanies her husband to his remote hometown for his grandfather's funeral, she is uncertain what to make of their strange customs. (Source: MU)

Our average heroine, Himukai Tamako, fell for the handsome Kishikawa Meguru, the very first time she set her eyes on him during the inauguration ceremony of her University. She tried to confess to him many times, but she had failed with flying colors every single time. And now, three years have already passed since she fell for him! One day, Tamako noticed one of the most beautiful women in her University approaching Kishikawa! Tamako didn't think twice before finding herself spying on them as her instincts told her it was confession time! "Will he accept? Will he reject?" Just when Tamako's mind was about to go blank, Kishikawa surprised her by saying he had no plans to go out with anyone. As she tried to make a sense out of what she had just heard, Kishikawa caught her spying on him! Her instincts took her over yet again as she ran away from the scene. Before she could properly apologize, the summer vacation has already started. If this couldn't have been any worse, in her first day after the vacation, she comes to know that Kishikawa has dropped out from the University. But she didn't even get the chance to confess to him once! This time she is determined to find Kishikawa and let him know about her feelings no matter what!

Hajime leads an unremarkable life as an undertaker, but he likes his job and has no reason to complain. Nor can he complain of being always called "onii-san" by one of the top star actresses in the country, Kotone Kidou, a childhood friend. Their relationship has always had a touch of awkwardness due to the parents of both having died violent deaths, but nothing could have prepared Hajime—or Japan—to the deed Kotone decides to perpetrate seemingly out of the blue. (Source: Death Toll Scans)

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Having inherited her late father's funeral parlor, Huo Fa is assisted by the walking corpse, Hei Xiong. Hei Xiong died a long time ago, yet she does not know the method to truly pass on. She spends these days concerned for the happiness of Huo Fa, who lost her parents long ago. At the same time, Hei Xiong searches the memories of her lost life, searching for the meaning of her existence. (Source: Ichijinsha, translated)

The god Yomi and the robotic maid Miko. This pair crosses to innumerable "ended worlds," passing along their funeral rites; it's a strange experience. Even so, the traces of those who once lived are all beautiful remnants to the god and the maid. Endless endings untold, this is the heartwarming story of two travelers, whose funeral rites bring a close to one tale after another. (Source: Mag Garden, translated)

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In search of her dreams, Lin Chu-sheng quits university, leaves home, and starts working for a funeral director. While she may work with the dead, most of her time is spent dealing with the emotions of those still living: a father unable to accept his son's suicide; a bigamist's families meeting only after his death; a mother unwilling to let a child go; and parents unsure if their son's body will ever be found. Lin Chu-sheng witnesses the full range of human experience and reflects on her own family and life. This is the story of the emotions that linger during a funeral process, told through the perspective of a new employee. (Source: Nazca Éditions, translated)

Two elderly women ponder the future at the funeral of a friend... (Source: Square Enix, translated)

Daigo Kobayashi is a cellist, but when his orchestra is dissolved he returns to his hometown in Yamagata prefecture with his wife Mika. He finds a classified ad for a company which provides assistance for "departures" and goes for an interview. The company has just two people, a female clerk and the president, and the business of the company turns out to be a preparation of deceased bodies for funerals by wiping them clean and putting makeup on them. Nonetheless, Daigo joins the company as a trainee, attracted by a good salary, and gradually realizes the value of the job of an encoffinner. (Source: JFDB, translated)