In a more straight example, one of the consequences of helping their "clients" is that someone will end up paying for their crimes, usually at the hands of the Kurosagi gang's aforementioned clients.It turns out to be just enough money for starting capital for the service, and the group continues to do their good deeds for promises of karmic payoff. Karmic Jackpot: After helping their first suicide victim and (with his permission) taking a lottery ticket from his corpse as "payment", the group discover it's a winning ticket.Dysfunction Junction: All of them have personal issues and bad pasts that shaped them into the people they are today.Deadpan Snarker: Applied liberally by all members, but Kereellis, Yata's felt hand puppet, is the worst offender.7, many students at the Buddhist university the main heroes go to think that the Kurosagi gang is some sort of cult. However, to other (living) people, they appear as a bunch of macabre weirdoes who like dead bodies a little too much. They specialize in helping the dead finish any Unfinished Business so they can move on. Dark Is Not Evil: The gang's callsign is kurosagi, the black heron who brings souls to the afterlife.
Makino also counts since she's a licensed embalmer in a country where cremation is the norm, so she's not likely to get any business due to cultural reasons. Crippling Overspecialization: Outside of Sasaki's computer-hacking and social skills, they've all got death-related or plain outlandish skills that don't translate to "normal" jobs.
Numata, Karatsu, and Yata are the most obvious with their odd abilities, but Sasaki and Makino, who otherwise have legitimate skills that can be applied to society, also count (Sasaki is essentially Grave Robbing who will likely be arrested for evidence tampering and failing to notify police if word got out, while Makino happens to be a licensed embalmer in a country where cremation is the norm). As mentioned below, all members of Kurosagi specialize in one thing and one thing only, which is working with corpses.
Animal Motifs: The gang identifies with the black heron, the Psychopomp who brings departed souls to the afterlife.note Japan is a country that strongly prefers cremation, so the thought of walking on soil where preserved bodies are buried freaks the hell out of people The only reasons they're successful is due to having Psychic Powers (usually Numata's dowsing and Karatsu's I See Dead People) and they have Sasayama, a former police detective, helping them.
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