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“Manga explores death-scene cleaners' encounters with grieving families, revealing life's fragility and urging readers to live fully.”
Death Sweeper
デス・スウィーパー
7.07
8,588 rank · 5,624 readers · 40 favorites
Seinen
Psychological
Drama
Horror
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Manga explores death-scene cleaners' encounters with grieving families, revealing life's fragility and urging readers to live fully.
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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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
6.7
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 4
σ 2.49
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.49 · split reception
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 3.33
Running avg · Aug 2012 → Jul 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “This manga excels through its incredibly detailed, visceral art and a profound, empathetic portrayal of characters grappling with the heavy reality of death. While the subject matter is intense and...”
- 6 “The manga offers poignant, atmospheric insights into the despair of neoliberal society and the lasting trauma of the bubble economy, particularly through the excellent short-story format of the...”
- 4 “The premise of "Death Sweeper" is genuinely interesting, and the first half effectively explores the philosophical weight of mortality and the grim reality of death cleaning. However, the story...”
Verbosity
Short · 0%
Medium · 67%
Long · 33%
Read Order & Related
A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Death Sweeper begins and ends here.
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A Manga Publication
- Format 43 × 5 ch × vol
- Total read 5h 44m approx
- Published Mar 2007 – Jan 2009
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M11153 catalog