Death Sweeper

Description

"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."

Type

Manga

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Associated Names

Death Sweepers

DEATH SWEEPER死亡清扫人

Чистильщик

ผู้เก็บกวาดความตาย (SIC)

デス・スウィーパー

Groups Scanlating

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Latest Release(s)

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Status in Country of Origin

5 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

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User Rating

Average: 7.7 / 10.0 (80 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.31 / 10.0

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Last Updated

July 2nd, 2025 9:05pm PDT - 2 months ago

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Genre

Drama Mature Psychological Seinen Supernatural Tragedy
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Original Publisher

Kadokawa Shoten

Serialized In (magazine)

Comic Charge (Kadokawa Shoten)

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English Publisher

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Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #645

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Monthly Pos #1575 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3166 (No change)

6 Month Pos #4682

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Year Pos #6971

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List Stats

On 332 reading lists

On 324 wish lists

On 103 completed lists

On 13 unfinished lists

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Starts off good, ends terribly

by bahgua
1 year ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

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 it forced onto people. The majority of the suicides or their neighbors/landlords/etc, for example, are directly hit by it, mostly in the form of extreme loans, or are indirectly suffering because of it, through the way labor and education changed. As expected, the atmosphere in most of the chapters is defined by despair, depression, and alienation.

Structurally, the manga is split into two parts. The first one consists of short stories. Each one lasts for two to four chapters and deals with a different case taken by the company. The stories develop pretty fast and their focus is less on the act of cleaning or the story how the person dies, but on the conversations between the cleaners and their insights into life and death. This is by far the much better part of the manga.

The second part continues to be somewhat episodic but a few overarching plots about a cult and the end of the world start appearing. None of them are given enough time to develop naturally, they are just crammed into the story, develop incredibly fast, and just kind of finish. As such, they leave a lot of questions but not in the way a thoughtfully constructed narrative would. The same can be said about the characters. They are very enigmatic but in the worst way possible. We not only learn almost nothing about them, but also don't witness any growth in them. They are just there, tokens to kind of make the manga supposedly interesting and strange.

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Gripping, nosedives in the last two chapters.

by sweetdevil
2 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

A word of warning: this manga is a fascinating exploration of how society views death—prejudices, disgust, fascination, yearning...until the last two chapters. I am not joking when I say that this took a sharp turn for the worst at that point. The only reason I can find is that it was axed, and the mangaka had to scramble and find a resolution for all the loose plot points.

I'm still giving it 8/10 because the ride is gripping, but...oh man, that destination do be rough.

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Too short!

by femalecorpse
3 years ago

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I really like this series. The theme is unusual but hooking. I wonder why this manga ends with just 5 volumes. Also the ending didn’t sit well with me. I need a closure for the story.

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Social Commentary without real plot

by YuriTachikawa
3 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

If anyone comes here looking for a story, it really is just a social commentary on the thin line between life and death. Despite being 5 Volumes I read it easily in one go, the chapters were more like short stories about different takes on death.
This work is just really to make you think about and understand people more, I quiet enjoyed it.

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