In practice, it's even less lucrative than it sounds. In theory, after finding the dead body and servicing the departed soul, generally delivering the corpse to the proper spot, the deceased will return the favor. Kuro Karatsu is present to perform the necessary rites and sutras, but, he can also act as an itako, speaking to and even raising the dead. In theory, Yuji Yata can channel an alien intelligence through his sock puppet, but that doesn't generally serve much purpose other than comic relief.
Given the Japanese culture's preference for cremation, there isn't that much call for the former. Keiko Makino will perform the necessary embalming/forensic deductions. Makoto Numata finds the body with his gift of dowsing for corpses. Generally, it works like this: Ao Sasaki performs the business and IT end of the operation (involving a bit of slightly exaggerated information gathering/hacking). The titular Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service are a quintet of students from a Buddhist university who decide that discovering and aiding corpses might be the solution to their slim job prospects. It sometimes pursues this path down roads that are too analytical or too convoluted to effectively function as horror. There are cases that are more fascinating for the concept that they are trying to work with or their sociological insight, when the manga spends its effort developing and connecting ideas to the detriment of its pacing. The shocking crimes and the intellectual curiosity do frequently complement each other, but from a horror-junkie perspective, it doesn't always work. In this case, work with illustrator Housyu Yamazaki, its human corpses bearing the marks of decay and/or vicious crimes every volume of the manga can be relied upon to provide plenty of acute unpleasantness. Like a number of Eiji Otsuka's other manga (MPD Psycho, Madara, Leviathan), the marquee attraction is the disturbing spectacle that Otsuka makes of the human body.
And, it's a bit aggravated about how education failed to open the door to a well paying job. It's conscious of the implications of those facts and history. There's a distinctive, liberal arts educated authorial voice to The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. Column by Scott Green Manga Spotlight: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
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