Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro

is a japanese 4-koma manga series written by Kiyuzuki Satoko. It began serialisation in the January 2005 issue of Manga Time Kirara.

The series was released under 7 volumes from March 2006 to July 2018. A Side Story Volume released on February 2019.

The series was licensed and released in English by Yen Press between May 2008 and April 2020.

Synopsis
Black-clad, bespectacled Kuro wanders the land with nothing but a large coffin and bat named Sen at her side. During her travels Kuro finds Nijuku and Sanju, two abandoned experiments of a long-gone professor, and takes them along on her journey. Together, they move from place to place, experiencing the joys and hardships of life along the way - for the townspeople always tend to think Kuro is a witch, has bad intentions, or worse…