Purgatory Kabuki - Recommendations

• Vol: 1
• 2006

Thaddeus and Mercutio are guardians in the Afterlife, maintaining the peace in this strange world of the dead that gets more crowded every day. As the population reaches its limit, the organic mass that is the body of this world begins to show signs of sickness and decay! The inquisitive Thaddeus yearns for an answer to it all, much to the chagrin of his best friend Mercutio, who is consumed with the need to find his one true love, Arabella.

• One Shot
• 2015

After an accident, a young man wakes up next to the Sanzu River, only to find himself not alone there.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 15
• 2003 - 2004

Skyhigh Shinshou presents the stories of those souls who get to the Gate of Grudges. Izuko, keeper of the Gate of Grudges presents each soul with three choices: pass through the Gate of Grudges to heaven and be reborn, refuse to admit death and remain as a ghost on earth, or haunt and kill one person and then proceed to hell and eternal suffering. What does each soul choose and why?

• Vol: 8; Ch: 84
• 2011 - 2013

After the body dies, the soul lives on. Many spirits progress toward the world of light, through the levels of the spirit world where they study how to improve their souls. These spirits are sometimes reincarnated into the physical world, and sometimes they are sent back as guardian spirits for other living people. Guardian spirits must protect their charge's souls from the blackness that oozes up from the world of darkness below. Riyon is a very laid-back spirit, who often skips her spirit classes to fool around. To train her further, she is sent back to the physical world as a guardian spirit. Instead of following a human from birth, she is helping a beleaguered man, the Japanese Prime Minister Kasuga Soichiro, in the last year and a half of his life. After an unexpected close call with death, Kasuga gains some unusual talents, including the ability to see Riyon. Will Riyon and Kasuga together be able to protect his battered soul?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 3
• 2019

“Someday, I wish I could stumble across the memories of certain people that exist in the abyss by gazing at their pain, their sorrow, and the movements of their souls…” Follows ambiguous figures that stride through the snowy lands adjacent to the realm of the dead. 

• Ch: 156+
• 2019 - ?

On earth there are bad people, and then there are REALLY BAD people. If you’re one of the latter, you don’t just get sent to Hell, you get sent to Hell and get assigned a job collecting the souls of some of the worst people on Earth. Such is the career path of a young woman named Scarlet, who dies and is delivered down to the fiery underworld only to find herself in an entry-level position as…The Grim Reaper!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 1986 - 1987

Middle-aged housewife Tatsuko dies after being hit by a runaway taxi, but before moving on she gets to return to life for one week by borrowing the body of Akihiko, a high school girl who survived the same accident.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 22
• 2012 - 2013

The borderline between living and death. Who would be there… and where would it be.

• Vol: 6; Ch: 24
• 2015 - 2017

Meet Sakai Hiroaki, a high school teenage mastermind with a genius-level intelligence and a lack of interest in anything that is easy to him. During one unlucky day, in an attempt to stop a student from committing suicide, he ends up committing suicide himself. After he awakens, he finds himself not in the real world, nor in heaven, but in purgatory, along with a group of others who did the same: commit suicide. Sakai discovers that he and his peers are subjected to never-ending intense death games in this world for reasons unknown to him, and he tries to find a way to escape.

• Vol: 22+; Ch: 107+
• 2013 - ?

When people die, they end up in the Ministry of Death, where they must fill out the necessary forms (the paperwork doesn't end at death!) to be able to ascend to heaven. Depending on the lives these people lived, their application may not be approved by the employees of the Ministry of Death, and they may be sentenced to hell instead! Follow the daily lives of the employees as they judge and assist the dead in the afterlife.