Corpse Party: Tortured Souls REVIEW!

Last night i dedicated my time to watching Corpse Party: Tortured Souls, a 5 episode anime series about 8 students and their teacher who preform a charm that goes horribly wrong.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!

I was hooked on this anime from the beginning where we start in a classroom after school hours where class rep Ayumi Shinozaki is telling a ghost story about the history of the land their school is built on which is a major plot point as this history is the basis of the story. After a slight scare from their teacher Ayumi suggests preforming a charm as their friend Mayu is moving away and this would be her last day at Kisaragi Academy. The charm was called "Sachiko Ever After" It involved repeating "Sachiko Please" in their head nine times then pulling apart the paper doll and keeping the scrap of paper as a symbol of friendship. This is when they are sucked into another dimension and the real story begins.

I won't go into too much detail about the rest of the story because you have either already watched it or plan to. If  you are planning to watch it i suggest you do not go any further as i am about to go into characters and their deaths. Well, It's called Corpse Party. What did you expect?
So let me list these in order of my favourite characters.


1. Seiko Shinohara

Seiko is a sweet somewhat hyper and outgoing girl who always seems to be laughing and smiling even at the darkest times. She is without a doubt my favourite character of them all! i feel like i relate to her more in the sense that she likes to laugh everything off to make her friends feel better. She clearly is very affectionate towards Naomi on both a best friend level and maybe a bit sexually attracted to her (I am taking this from the Anime, the game and the extras for the anime that here not in the series) I was so disappointed to find she dies so early on in the series but maybe that's why she's my favourite character. Because She wasn't around long enough to go crazy or become annoying. Who knows?!









2. Yoshiki Kishinuma

Ok, so maybe i'm just a sucker for a bad boy but i did develop a little crush on Yoshiki while watching this anime (More so in the game where you find out more about him) I absolutely loved how he seemed to try and keep his cool throughout the series and how he braved going back to the school to save Ayumi. I was honestly shocked when he died trying to confess his love for Ayumi. I thought Yoshiki would be a survivor but he died saving the one he loved so i guess it's kind of grossly romantic.








3. Ayumi Shinozaki

Ayumi is a big fan of occult culture and horror. She hints at having feelings for Satoshi thought it's not exactly confirmed though it is possible she grew feelings for Yoshiki in their time spent in the school trapped with only each other though it's not really clear. I preferred Ayumi more to the end of the series, I'm not sure why but i just grew a lot more fond of her. Ayumi is one of the survivors which i was quite content with because she could prevent anyone using "Sachiko Ever After" again. And i just would've been a shame to see her die.






4. Satoshi Mochida

Satoshi is another character that grew on me. When it started i thought he would be one of the first to die because of his cowardly nature but as the anime progresses he gets (Or tries to act) braver for his sister and his friends and you find out just how much he really does care for his friends which is nice. I find he is definitely one of the more purer characters and i was really disappointed about only his arms making it back to their world. (I have heard he can survive in the game but i'm only on chapter 3 of the game so far). Satoshi has feelings for Naomi. This is undeniable! i maybe mixing the game with the series here but it was very obvious that he had a thing for Naomi. Though it was a shame he could never express that. some might even debate he gave his life so that Naomi could live by giving her his bit of paper to return.



5. Ms. Yui Shishido

There is only one reason Ms. Yui isn't nearer the top and that's because i felts she didn't get a big enough part in the anime. I felt like her death was more accidental and unjustified and just ridiculous because it actually made me chuckle a bit, but i think that's because we didn't have enough time to grow attached to her. What i did love about her was her actual selflessness and concern for her students and i feel that if she were my teacher she would probably be a favourite just because of her kind nature and general concern. She died while trying to give her student (Ayumi) An inspirational speech to maker her feel better. That's a pretty bad time to die but it was the thought that counts?? there's not really much else that i can say about Ms. Yui other than i wish we had got to see more of her.








6. Mayu Suzimoto

I think Mayu was very cute but was another character who didn't get the screen time she deserved so i cannot write too much on her. She seemed to have some kind of relationship with Sakutaro weather that is more of a brother kind of relationship or romantic i couldn't exactly tell. I have a feeling if she had more screen time she would've annoyed me but i would've liked to see how the ghosts got to her and how she was when she first arrived to the haunted school. Though it was a shame about her being splattered against the wall this definitely gave the story later on more depth and made it a bit creepier.





7. Naomi Nakashima

Now we're onto characters that annoyed me. Oh no!
I found that naomi was a bit useless throughout the series though through no fault of her own because she obviously got possessed. On thing i did like was that i was actually shocked that she was the one who killed Seiko. Well done to whoever came up with that idea! To be honest i'm not a fan of the kind of more dare i say Mary-Sue characters? Now before you go guns blazing at me let me just explain why i thought this of her character. I thought she more there for a love interest (for Satoshi and Seiko) more than anything and she seemed brave then wimpy then became a hero once again so i was very mixed on how to feel about her. Maybe she just annoyed me a bit because she killed Seiko. Hopefully you get where i'm coming from with this...




8. Yuka Mochida

Yuka is Satoshi's younger sister. Now, I don't think she would have annoyed me so much if i hadn't found out she was SUPPOSED to be 14!!! Characters like this DO annoy me because they are very childish and act as if they are 6. I also didn't like her co-dependency throughout the series  and it honestly didn't bother me when she died (That sounds awful but it's true). If they had put her age younger i might like her more and her actions would be a lot more justifiable but i find her a really hard character to like also because of how naive she was and it seemed she would trust ANYONE with a clean shirt.






9. Sakutaro Morishige


OOOH! How i hated this guy! From the very beginning i knew he was going to be trouble! I have no idea why i did i just did! I could rant for ages about this guy but i wont. as much as i hated him and felt Copious amounts of satisfaction when he died i was glad he was in the story simple because of the scene where he is looking though the pictures on his phone and he gets the call from Mayu asking him to stop looking at her insides. That scene was creepy as hell and i loved it! I also felt he was quite a big part of the story line because we needed someone to go insane and turn on his friends! Did we not?

















I am not going to go into the other characters though we can all agree that this is the hottest supporting psychopathic character ever, right?Well, that's my opinion at least!         >>>>>                      >>>>>>>                             >>>>         >>>>>











Overall i really enjoyed Corpse Party: Tortured Souls. I have already recommended it to all my anime loving friends and they have also loved it (Maybe we are just a messed up bunch of people o.O) and now i'm recommending it to you! If you're a fan of horror, gore, animes with plot twists this is the perfect anime! This has even got me playing the games which, let's face it. I'll probably end up reviewing that and comparing it to the anime, So keep your eyes peeled for that. Also if these end up getting quite a few views i am considering making review video's as well as blogs (this is my summer project if you cannot tell) But i don't want to make video's if nobody is going to watch them. Who would, right? (Unless you just enjoy making them yourself then by all means vlog to your hearts content!)

Thanks for reading! and Here's a charming picture to leave you with!