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“Tomboy Kuro, coffin on back, seeks witch with bat Sen in dark, endearing 4-koma manga.”
Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro
棺担ぎのクロ。～懐中旅話～
8.24
420 rank · 8,633 readers · 233 favorites
Adventure
Fantasy
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Synopsis
Tomboy Kuro, coffin on back, seeks witch with bat Sen in dark, endearing 4-koma manga.
Kuro, a little tomboy garbed in pitch-black with a little-tomboy-sized coffin on her back, heads out on a journey to find a certain witch. In the company of her faithful bat friend, Sen, Kuro encounters all manners of people and places which fire the reader's imagination. Told in 4-koma style with beautifully rendered art, Hitsugikatsugi no Kuro. is a manga that manages both dark and gothic and irresistibly endearing on just about every page!
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Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
9.3
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 10
mode 10
σ 1.30
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.30 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 2.25
Running avg · Nov 2020 → Jun 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “So, since this lovely manga doesn ´t have any reviews I will do my best to write one. This manga deserves it. So I will start with the most important question of all: Is this manga worth reading?...”
- 10 “Shoulder-A-Coffin Kuro is a manga that is quite underrated. Having heard rave reviews from a fan, I had high hopes reading this, and it delivered. Story: 10/10 Kuro's story is simply beautiful....”
- 10 “Story: 9/10 Pretty damn good, the anthology type chapters are good and the over-arching plot had me hooked. Many characters turn up in other chapters too so it doesn’t just feel like a bunch of...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 86 × 7 ch × vol
- Total read 11h 28m approx
- Published Dec 2004 – May 2018
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M3683 catalog