Corpse Party: Tortured Souls - Bougyakusareta Tamashii no Jukyou

Nine students gather in their high school at night to bid farewell to a friend. As is customary among many high school students, they perform a sort of ritual for them to remain friends forever, using small paper charms shaped like dolls.

However, the students do not realize that these charms are connected to Heavenly Host Academy—an elementary school that was destroyed years ago after a series of gruesome murders took place, a school that rests under the foundation of their very own Kisaragi Academy. Now, trapped in an alternate dimension with vengeful ghosts of the past, the students must work together to escape—or join the spirits of the damned forever.

A feast for mystery fanatics, gore-hounds, and horror fans alike, Corpse Party: Tortured Souls - Bougyakusareta Tamashii no Jukyou shows a sobering look at redemption, sacrifice, and how the past is always right behind, sometimes a little too close for comfort.

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Shinohara, Seiko Main

Arai, Satomi Japanese

Kishinuma, Yoshiki Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Shinozaki, Sachiko Main

Ootani, Ikue Japanese

Shinozaki, Ayumi Main

Imai, Asami Japanese

Morishige, Sakutarou Main

Kakihara, Tetsuya Japanese

Nakashima, Naomi Main

Satou, Rina Japanese

Mochida, Satoshi Main

Shimono, Hiro Japanese

Mochida, Yuka Main

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Suzumoto, Mayu Main

Nanri, Yuuka Japanese

Shishido, Yui Main

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Kananiwa, Kozue Producer

Naya, Ryousuke Producer

Tanaka, Shinsaku Producer

Iwanaga, Akira Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

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Apr 19, 2025

mattm118

Recommended

Corpse party is short and bitter, horrifying to the bitter end.

Just enough detail is provided every episode to make everything coherent and no questions are really left hanging by the end and extra 10 minute OVA. A large group of friends enter a ghost thriller, with a lot of gore, and unfolds a quick story about love and loss.

Nothing is romanticized, this show did not waste any time. There are very few tropes, yet this story is not very original. It was a condensed horror experience that I recommend you watch if you like ghost anime, gory thrillers, psychological horror, or just a good ... thriller. It is less than a few hours to get the whole experience, so give it a go if this sounds like what you're looking for.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 22, 2024

laynedoll

Mixed Feelings

Pretty crucial watch for gore lovers b/c it kinda popped off when it first came out! It's a decent anime but the plot and general ability to follow what is happening gets a little confusing because of the whole "fitting a 10+ hour video game into four 25 minute episodes" thing, I can't totally blame that on them though they work with what they got. I think sometimes the gore gets so excessive that it takes you out of it a little, like it's so much that it's like wut is going on even. There's a lot of harm done to children so if that's ... something that really upsets you, I would avoid this one. There's also so much unnecessary panty shots of teenage girls, but at least there's no SA other than a random boob groping in the beginning. Morishige is a little nasty freak which was fun to watch, and the ending was absolutely grim which I enjoyed. Opening song goes crazy hard.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 10, 2024

Moshimochi284

Not Recommended

Videogame-to-anime adaptations are always kind of iffy. They can range from a fun and action-packed ride (like Akiba's Trip: The Animation) to a forgettable piece of mediocrity (like Stand My Heroes: Piece of Truth). And horror anime, well, they're even more iffy. So when you set out to make a horror anime based on a videogame, the odds are already stacked against you. Those of you reading those of you reading this review have probably also noticed the rather small episode count this show has, even though the game it is supposedly adapting takes hours upon hours to complete, and has multiple well-crafted endings. All ... of the aforementioned details led to an anime that, well, let's just say, dropped the ball in just about every way. This show was really hard for me to get through, and now I think its time to go over exactly why.

Visuals: The visuals for CPTS are. . . alright, I suppose. The character designs are very generic, but since most of the show takes place in almost total darkness, it probably doesn't matter much anyway. Speaking of visuals, I should probably address the massive amounts of gore and violence in this show. I'm not one of those people who really like or dislike gore, but I still feel like it could have been used more effectively, which leads right into the next category.

Horror: Horror tends to be subjective, so keep that in mind for the duration of this section. In my opinion, Corpse Party: Tortured Souls is not even a remotely scary anime. It falls into the same trap that a majority of the SAW movies fall into, which is using excessive amounts of blood, guts, and bodily violence to freak out the viewer. And that, in my eyes is scraping the bottom of the horror barrel. I really don't think any lower form of horror exists, and this show's frequent use of such horror is one of the main reasons I dislike this anime so much.

Characters: As I mentioned before, some corners will inevitably be cut when adapting a multihour game into a 4 episode anime. One major corner, in this case, ended up being virtually all character development. The characters are at best, underdeveloped, and at worst, terribly written. The characters are in fact probably one of the worst aspects of this show.

Overall Thoughts: Corpse Party: Tortured Souls is not only a disappointment to videogame-to-anime adaptations and horror anime everywhere, but also a disappointment tot the horror genre as a whole.

Final Score: 4

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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