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Death Sweeper

Alternative Titles

Japanese: デス・スウィーパー


Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 5
Chapters: 43
Status: Finished
Published: Mar 2007 to Jan 2009
Genres: Drama Drama, Horror Horror, Supernatural Supernatural
Theme: Psychological Psychological
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Comic Charge
Authors: Kitagawa, Shou (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 7.101 (scored by 12591,259 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #73152
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #4282
Members: 5,026
Favorites: 34
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Volumes: /5
Chapters: /43

Synopsis

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)

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Reviews

Aug 1, 2012
Preliminary (4/43 eps)
Over 150,000 people die each day...
In those deaths we have accidents, murders and even suicides...

Let me ask you, when someone commits a suicide, what goes on in their minds? Have they lost the will to live? Why? Because there's nothing to live for? Questions are bombarded onto us about these people that do commit, but we actually don't think about the deceased do we now?

We can never dig into the mind of the person that wants to die. We can never fully understand them, we can also never tell them they have to live. Life is so fragile that we can kill our selves ...
Jul 13, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Like the name of this short series suggests, the manga deals with a crew of cleaners who specialize mostly in taking care of places where people have died. Most of the usually decomposed remains they clean are either of suicides or of elderly people who've died alone. This allows for some very poignant observations about the state of neoliberal society where people are abused by corporations, everyone has to fight with everyone else for the little space and resource allotted to the masses. There are also numerous references to the bust of the bubble economy at the end of the 80s and the decades-long suffering ...
Jun 15, 2023
Mixed Feelings
When i finished the last chapter, the only thought that came to my head was "Oh boy, what a waste".

But I'm getting ahead of myself. What is "Death Sweeper" really about? Well, it happens that Japan has so many cases of suicide and people who die alone in their houses that there are several private companies whose main job is to clean the location where the person died. It's a nasty job, and unfortanatelly, a necessary one.

Interesting, right? Well, the only reason I felt disappointed is because the mangaka had a really good chance to exploit some deep rooted social problems in modern japan: ...

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Recent Forum Discussion

Will anyone resume the translation of this wonderful manga?
DawningFog - Jun 8, 2016
8 repliesby Marloges »»
May 6, 10:00 AM
Poll: Death Sweeper Chapter 43 Discussion
Ittan_Momen - Mar 15, 2023
4 repliesby Pande91 »»
Oct 2, 2023 2:47 PM
Poll: Death Sweeper Chapter 13 Discussion
Ittan_Momen - Aug 24, 2018
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Aug 24, 2018 8:31 PM
Poll: Death Sweeper Chapter 9 Discussion
-Karoshi- - Dec 14, 2013
5 repliesby Nolri »»
Apr 5, 2016 8:12 AM
Poll: Death Sweeper Chapter 8 Discussion
-Karoshi- - Dec 14, 2013
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Dec 14, 2013 1:49 PM