Corpse Party (Japanese: コープスパーティー, Hepburn: Kōpusu Pātī) is a supernatural survival horror adventure and dōjin soft video game series originally created by Makoto Kedōin[1][2] and developed by Team GrisGris.
[4] Xseed Games planned to release a localized version Corpse Party Blood Covered for PC in North America in 2015,[5] but the title was delayed until 2016.
[11] Another sequel titled Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient[g] was created for the PC by GrindHouse, a dōjin circle founded by members affiliated with Team GrisGris.
The main playable character is Satoshi Mochida, a kind-hearted high school student who is teased by his classmates for his cowardly nature.
The game's antagonist is the ghost of a former student, a girl in a red dress who seeks vengeance for her and her mother's deaths at the hands of a teacher many years prior.
It was followed on August 12, 2010 by another enhanced remake, Blood Covered: Repeated Fear, which was released internationally as Corpse Party, which features updated art and the addition of professional voice actors/actresses.
The students are transported to Heavenly Host after performing a charm called "Sachiko Ever After (幸せのサチコさん, Shiawase no Sachiko-san)", which would supposedly allow them to remain friends for eternity.
In addition to the five protagonists of the original game, Blood Covered introduces four characters to the playable cast: Seiko Shinohara, Naomi's best friend; Mayu Suzumoto, a popular student due to transfer out of Kisaragi; Sakutaro Morishige, Mayu's best friend; and Yui Shishido, the class's homeroom teacher.
Two notable characters are Naho Saenoki, a selfish but helpful paranormalist from Paulownia Academy (桐章学園, Kirishō Gakuen) who discovered the "Sachiko Ever After" charm and came to investigate Heavenly Host; and Yuuya Kizami, a sadistic student from Byakudan Senior High School (白壇高等学校, Byakudan Kōtōgakkō) who accompanies Yuka as she is separated from her brother.
The red ghost is re-envisioned as a little girl named Sachiko Shinozaki who kills the students of Heavenly Host in anger over her and her mother's murder.
This 2011 sequel to Blood Covered, Book of Shadows features a series of nonlinear chapters that add new twists and backgrounds for various characters and details important to the storyline.
He fails to dissuade his classmates from performing the charm, but he joins them, not wanting to let them go alone, sending them on alternative course of actions and encountering several supporting victims in Heavenly Host.
Two weeks after escaping Heavenly Host, Ayumi and Naomi go to investigate the Shinozaki estate, Sachiko's birthplace, believing there is hope in reviving their dead friends since Naho and Kou Kibiki's existences were not erased like the other victims.
She uses the time loops as established in Corpse Party: Book of Shadows to force all survivors at that point to participate in activities she has set up.
Later, on her way home, a black hooded boy approaches Ayumi and tells her, "If you reclaim the "Book of Shadows" and use it at Heavenly Host, those who have died there will be revived.".
[15] The game Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient takes place five years after the events of Corpse Party Heavenly Host Arc, implied to be the consequences of the "Book of Shadows'" powers starting to bring about the end of the world by allowing the spirit realm and real world to start to converge together.
The opening theme for Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is "Hana no Saku Basho" by Imai, and the ending is "Pandora no Yoru", by Artery Vein.
An insert song, "Hanabi", sung by Yumi Hara, plays at the final scene where Sachiko's birthday has ended and she seemed to have only a brief memory of it, before screaming in agony and reverting to her malicious self.
In Corpse Party: Blood Drive, there are two openings; the first one being "In the Rain", by Hara, and the second being "Keshin" by Imai, which plays at Chapter 7 after Ayumi's retrieval of the "Book of Shadows".