Manga like Death Sweeper

What is Death Sweeper about?

Status: Finished

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.

Tags: Seinen , Philosophy , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Suicide , Work
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The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

Kurosagi Shitai Takuhaibin

Also known as The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

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!



Tags: Gore , Detective , Ghost , Seinen , Episodic , Body Horror , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Demons , College , Foreign , Ensemble Cast , Aliens , Nudity , Mythology
The Embalmer

Shigeshoushi

Also known as The Embalmer.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Shinjyurou Mamiya is an embalmer, a profession seen as "unclean" in Japan. Shinjyurou has accepted the life of an outcast amongst most people; to him it is a job and nothing more. He has gained an exceptional understanding of death and its consequences, as well as what it means to live. Mitsukazu Mihara brings us another psychological masterpiece in several thought-provoking volumes, the first alone of which explores the meanings of beauty, love and loss.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Medicine , Philosophy , Josei , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Work , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Urban
Innocent

Innocent

Also known as Innocent.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

In the 18th century, seeking "freedom and equality," the event that gave birth to modern French society, the French Revolution, began. There was one protagonist that lived within the darkness, Charles-Henri Sanson. He was the fourth-generation head of the Sanson family, and the executioner of Paris. This is the story of a man nobly facing his harsh fate...



Note: Innocent was nominated for the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize "Reader Award" in 2014 and for the 8th Manga Taishou Award in 2015.

Tags: Historical , Seinen , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Politics , Foreign , Gore , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Work , Nudity , Bisexual , Time Skip , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Swordplay , Crossdressing , Philosophy
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Route End

Route End

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Thriller

Due to a harsh experience in life, Haruno eventually becomes a cleaning specialist in the field of clearing the remnants of the deceased. After a particular day, Haruno becomes involved in the curious case of 'END'.

Tags: Detective , Tragedy , Crime , Gore , Male Protagonist , Police , Clone , Shounen , Suicide
Owakare Hospital

Owakare Hospital

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Henmi is second-year nurse who works where death lies in wait - a hospital. She witnesses the naked tragedy concerning life and death of various patients.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Disability , Work , Seinen , Medicine , Heterosexual , Suicide , Crime
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