Delivery of the Dead

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A horror absurd social commentary comedy mixed with ecchi? Count me in.

At first, this manga may seem like it's all about zombie prostitutes of 'The Working Dead', however, it's not. Things start to be clear in the third chapter. 'Delivery of the Dead' is a huge satire on our real modern world and how twisted it is. Even though this setting sounds serious, in fact, manga doesn't take itself that way and instead finds opportunities to reflect social troubles like the dishonesty of politics, social perversion ('Dead Lives Matter'); how one can blame the innocent because of their unhappiness; how people can't acknowledge the death ... of a close person; etc.

The characters are either not hateable or likable but are not really developed. We have enough of them and a major of them actually matter for the plot.

The art is great. Character designs are decent to memorable. Backgrounds are neat.

Overall, 'Delivery of the Dead' is absurd to a big degree. It's funny because it's insane, it's gross because it's insane, it's enjoyable because it's insane. If you don't like sick things like this one or, for some reason, hate translations full of British slang, I highly recommend you to avoid reading. Otherwise, welcome to the club, you psycho.

tl;dr: A bizarre and absurd manga.

This manga is a series of stories centered around a service that provides zombie call girls where in each chapter after having sex with the undead prostitute the character in focus in the short story goes through character growth. The entire thing is completely utterly absurd and moronic, but also taken seriously, or rather the author seems to be trying to frame things as absurd and serious as possible. The author seems to be trying to use that imbalance for humorous purposes. It works to a degree, but not that well. The other thing of importance to mention is the ... fan translation floating around. The translators also seem to be on the same page, trying to make the dialogue both as absurd and serious as possible, throwing in random accents and political memes. That works okay at first but as it goes on I think the translators leaned too much into making the dialogue ridiculous to the point it didn’t seem serious at all which killed the humor. The art was also ridiculous, being half erotic half horrific, which I suppose fits the tone. Honestly, the only reason to read this manga is that it’s so stupid it’s worth experiencing how utterly stupid it is.

Curiosity got the better of me, and I ended up reading this boring manga. Not a single one the stories told were interesting or fun to look at or know about. The dead characters (Fuyuko, Kasumi, and Sayuki) were actually more interesting than the characters who were alive. Which is sad, because they don't do anything.

Also, there is also barely any intimate moments between the zombies and the purchasers. Why not make it about a young man (like Kakashi or Kinji) who has a secret love for necrophilia - and has sex with zombies to help keep his dark urges at bay.

Yes, it's ... gross, but it would have made the story more interesting than what we got. I don't recommend this to anyone, but I suppose people should at least give it a chance.