History VisualNovel / CorpseParty

* PantyShot: Mayu. [[spoiler: In one scene, two ghost children grab her feet and lift her up in the air, causing her skirt to fall down over her hips and exposing her striped blue and white panties. The children spread Mayu's legs apart wide, pulling the cloth of her panties tightly over her genitals and showing the shape of her labia on the fabric. She needn't have worried about exposing herself though, as the children then brutally kill her shortly after.]]

** ''Tortured Souls'' is even worse. [[spoiler: ''[[DeathByAdaptation Only]]'' Naomi and Ayumi survive. The final scene shows that the horrors of her ordeal has turned Naomi into a broken, catatonic EmptyShell who spends the rest of her life just staring into nothing.]]

* ''Corpse Party Cemetery'' focuses on Naho and her paranormal investigations.

* [[spoiler:BuryYourGays: [[SchoolgirlLesbians Poor Seiko...]]]]

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: Even in the True Ending only Satoshi, Naomi, Ayumi, Yoshiki and Yuka survive. Yep, about half of the main cast consists of [[DoomedProtagonist Doomed Protagonists]] and can't be saved by any means whatsoever. And don't get started with all the secondary characters that die or have died. Oh, and it's still possible for others to fuck up the ritual and get thrown into the Nightmare School Dimension even if Sachiko passes on. Not to mention that the friends they lost will not only relive their deaths in eternal suffering, but they [[RetGone also are completely forgotten by the world at large except their friends who survived]]. Quite possibly one of the harshest, most horrifying afterlives anyone could exist in, to be sure. And in the sequel... well, the protagonists only manage to mess things even more.]]

* [[spoiler: GroundhogDayLoop]]: In the final Wrong End of ''Blood Covered'', [[spoiler: Satoshi finds himself about to repeat the nightmare all over again, unable to prevent it from starting...]]

* [[spoiler: NeverSuicide:]] This is played straight by [[spoiler: Seiko, who really didn't kill herself]]. Averted by [[spoiler:Sakutarou, who did]].

* [[spoiler:RetGone]]: In ''Blood Covered'' and ''Book of Shadows'', this is the fate of [[spoiler:the classmates killed in Tenjin. Only the survivors remember them; for everyone else, it's like they never existed in the first place]].
* [[spoiler:{{Retirony}}: If Mayu had only transferred out sooner...]]

** Secondly, if [[spoiler:Naomi saves Yuka from the stall]], this leads to her [[spoiler:DemonicPossession, where she ultimately kills Yuka with her own hands]].

* [[spoiler:SpiritAdvisor: Seiko becomes this for Naomi after her death.]]

8 ''Corpse Party Cemetery'' focuses on Naho on her paranormal investigations.

* TheCanKickedHim: Bathrooms are dangerous in these games. Further reinforced by Ayumi in Book Of Shadows where she explains that rooms that have anything inside that give out reflection tend to be bad news as they can be mediums for spirits to manifest.

* TheCorruption: The 'darkening' which corrupts the souls of those who lose hope in Tenjin. [[spoiler:This is how Naho and her friend Sayaka died. Kokuhaku Akaboshi died similarly. It's also what makes Naomi BrainwashedAndCrazy enough to murder Seiko.]]

* TheCanKickedHim: Bathrooms are dangerous in these games.

* GenkiGirl: Seiko Shinohara.

** [[spoiler: There's another, more story-related red herring example. If you really look at it, in the original storyline, trying to tell who exactly the bad guy is is rather complex. Is it the children? No. Is it the mentally-challenged man who killed them? No, and he wasn't even the true villain! Was it the real killer, Sachiko, for whom the curse is named? Sort of. Is it her mother? Sort of, but no. Is it the Principal? Sort of, but no! The truly evil entity (read: Not crazy) may very well be Heavenly Host Elementary School itself, as even when Sachiko, whom was supposedly the keystone in causing all of this, is gone, the school just makes another one and then seals itself away even tighter so that it's even less possible to escape than it was before! Oh, and it doesn't end there either. This whole ordeal, at least for all of the recently-killed students, was caused by Naho in an attempt to please Kibiki by providing him with more 'samples' of sorts for his investigation by purposely posting the WRONG version of the Sachiko Ever After ritual on her paranormal blog, and so everyone (normally high or middle schoolers) who tries it appears in the Closed Spaces. It would've ended when the original school was demolished had it not been for her.]]

** The first example of such is a real PlayerPunch: [[spoiler: If the player heeds the dying words of a previous victim -- found in a room you're warned it's a bad idea to even enter, at that -- and does not read the newspaper clipping in chapter 1, not only is Seiko lynched, Naomi herself is possessed and commits influenced suicide by swallowing a pair of scissors]]. What a way to shake up the player's expectations.

** Chapter 5: [[spoiler: Satoshi, Naomi, Yoshiki, Yuka, and Naomi escape, but they later learn the next day that those who died had their existences erased and that the five are the only ones who remember them.]]

* ActorAllusion: SatomiArai voices Seiko Shinohara, a [[GenkiGirl cheerful]] and [[CovertPervert perverted]] SchoolGirlLesbian who has a crush on her best friend Naomi Nakashima who is voiced by Creator/RinaSato, similar to ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''.
** [[OneeSama ONEE-SAMA!!!]]

The next planned entries into the series are ''Corpse Party: Blood Drive'' and ''[[VisualNovel/CorpseParty2DeadPatient Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient]]''. ''Blood Drive'' will continue the story of ''Blood Covered'' and ''Book of Shadows'', while ''Dead Patient'' will be set in a hospital and feature a new central cast, while still set in the same universe.

** IkueOhtani as Sachiko Shinozaki. (Yeah, they got Pikachu's voice actor play her. Wrap your head around that.)

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Although Yoshiki, Yuka, and Satoshi all make it out alive in the "True End" of the game, they don't make it out in the ''Tortured Souls'' OVA.]]

* SymbolicMutilation: A cross between this and DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything - [[spoilers:The first ritual has the students rip a proxy doll apart, which is supposed to correspond to Sachiko, as the ritual carries her name. The correct ritual has the survivors '''unite''' said paper doll, begging her (for her forgiveness) so as to appease her wrath in order for her to pass on at last.]]

** HiroShimono as Satoshi Mochida

** TetsuyaKakihara as Sakutarou Morishige

* ActorAllusion: SatomiArai voices Seiko Shinohara, a [[GenkiGirl cheerful]] and [[CovertPervert perverted]] SchoolGirlLesbian who has a crush on her best friend Naomi Nakashima who is voiced by RinaSatou, similar to ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''.