Characters / Corpse Party (PC-98)

This page lists the main characters from the Corpse Party series, first introduced in the PC-98 game. Return to the main character page for Corpse Party here.

Warning!! Due to the nature of this series, there will be a lot of Death Tropes and spoiler tropes. Spoilers will be unmarked and detailed gruesome notes can be found within this page. You Have Been Warned.

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The Five Students

General

• Action Survivor: All of them have to think quick, or improvise on defending themselves in order to live and escape Heavenly Host. In fact, they're the only ones that made it out alive until Blood Drive.
• Dark and Troubled Past: With the exception of Yoshiki, the rest of them had pretty normal lives prior to the series' start. By the time Blood Drive occurs, everything they've faced up to that point has become this for them. With how things turned out, this might be more notably aimed towards Ayumi and Yoshiki; they both practically get the worst kind of ending out of everyone.
• Death by Adaptation: It can range from Satoshi, Yuka, and Yoshiki in the Tortured Souls OVA, Satoshi, Yuka, and Naomi, with the hinted possibly of Yoshiki and Ayumi not too far behind in the Corpse Party: Musume manga, to various characters in the light novels.
• Demonic Possession: Depends on the installment, but the only one so far who hasn't succumbed to this is Satoshi Mochida.
• Despair Event Horizon: All of them can fall into this if on the way to a bad ending. Sometimes in the main storyline it can be inevitable for one of them to cross this. Should any of them do so while trapped inside Heavenly Host, the darkening can cause them to be Brainwashed and Crazy. It usually never ends well.
• Driven to Suicide: It varies from adaption to situation, but most of them will cross this if they've had enough. You can avoid these, but others will still at least attempt it. Sometimes, they'll succeed.
• Kid Hero: None of them are even in their final year of high school, let alone Yuka who is fourteen years old. The oldest out of them are Satoshi, Yoshiki, and Ayumi, who are all seventeen.
• Sanity Slippage: Any of them can fall into this if not careful, thus getting locked into a bad ending. This can sometimes even be inevitable, and you can only do your best not to let it end horrifyingly.
• Trauma Conga Line: As you keep going farther into the main storyline, the horrors they all witness only continue to go From Bad to Worse. Poor kids have no choice but to keep moving forward, even when they're being continuously broken and are this close to crossing the Despair Event Horizon.

Satoshi Mochida

Satoshi Mochida

Tropes for Satoshi in the original PC-98 game:

A second year student in Kisaragi Academy Senior High. Satoshi is a bit timid and some would say a coward, but he would do anything for his younger sister. He's reliable in a pinch. In fact, he's the protagonist of this game. He and Naomi have a bit of a power struggle.

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• Death by Adaptation: In Corpse Party: Musume. Also applies to -Rebirth- where it's possible for him to die, unlike in the original game.
• Maybe Ever After: He and Naomi in Ending A, after everybody escapes from Heavenly Host alive.
• Mighty Glacier: For the last battle against Shinozaki. He has no magic skills, but he has the highest attack power.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He punches Shinozaki in the face in order to save Yuka from drowning in the stall.
• Driven to Suicide: In Corpse Party: Musume, he survives his ordeal in Heavenly Host and even enters into a relationship with Naomi. However the guilt of Yuka's death is too much for him and when her spirit comes to drag him to Heavenly Host with her, he doesn't resist.
• Oblivious to Love: Averted. While he seems dense and oblivious to the girls's crushes on him, it's revealed in Ending C that he does reciprocate Naomi's feelings, he just isn't so sure about her because all she does is berate him.
  No matter what I do, all she does is yell at me...But now... I don't care if she punches me in the face. I don't care if she tells me, "I'm SO sick of you!"...I don't even care if she rejects me. Heh, she can be annoying, but...Now that she's gone, I feel like curling up and dying.
• Unstoppable Rage: In the ending in which Naomi dies, he completely loses it after a possessed Ayumi starts taunting him about it and doesn't hesitate to punch her in the face. Even Yuka is unnerved.
• Would Hit a Girl: Has no problems punching Shinozaki or a possessed Ayumi when they start taunting him about killing his loved ones.

Tropes for Satoshi in the remake:

Voiced by: Hiro Shimono

An Ordinary High-School Student at Kisaragi Academy, Satoshi serves as the main protagonist (though the others get their time in the spotlight, especially from Blood Covered on). Generally a Nice Guy, he tends to get picked on a bit by his classmates due to his fear of ghost stories.

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• An Arm and a Leg: In Tortured Souls, he gives his own paper scrap to Naomi and uses Kizami's for himself. After he, Naomi, and Ayumi perform the ritual, the scene cuts to Naomi and Ayumi sitting back in the classroom, each holding one of Satoshi's severed arms.
• Badass Adorable: He's a sweet, lovable, somewhat dorky coward who's pretty good friends with most everyone in his class...and he resolves to put his own outright terror aside just so he can ensure the survival of his friends.
• Badass Boast: His first appearance in the game has him, without a trace of fear, say he will rescue everyone. Which is pretty badass for a guy who was shaking from scary stories earlier and is stuck in Heavenly Host.
• Big Brother Instinct: A very strong case towards his sister Yuka.
• Break the Cutie: Chapter 4 is NOT nice to him, putting his struggling optimism through the wringer for sure. No matter what, Satoshi finds that he's crossed closed spaces and can't return to the opposing wing of the school where he last left Yuka, and he'll have to save Naomi from hanging herself, which he can fail at if you make the wrong choices. Ultimately, whether he's broken or not is up to the player, and it's not pretty if he fails...
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: He attracts the attention of Naomi, Ayumi, his sister Yuka, Yui, Tohko, Kuon, and Satsuki. But he is, of course, Oblivious to Love as per the trope.
• Cowardly Lion: Yes, he's terrified. That doesn't stop him from doing everything in his power to find a way out for his sister, his friends, and himself.
• Decoy Protagonist: In Chapter 3 he is the initial player character but he disappears halfway through the chapter and until the end the rest of the chapter focuses on Yuka.
  • The same happens in Chapter 4 you start off playing as him but Yoshiki is the player character for most of the chapter.
• Deadpan Snarker: In Book of Shadows he and Yui have a lot of snark to snark battles. He wasn't one in Blood Covered, but that's justified given the horrifying situation he was in.
• Death by Adaptation: In the Tortured Souls OVA.
• Demoted to Extra: He was clearly the center in the original PC-98 game, unquestionably The Protagonist; come the Blood Covered continuity and Satoshi’s importance becomes smaller in the face of the expanded background on the occult and witchcraft, Ayumi’s area of focus, directing the spotlight towards her.
• Declaration of Protection: Towards Yuka, naturally. Failing this can push him over the Despair Event Horizon.
• Empty Shell: What he ends up as in the Victim's Memoirs Wrong End, after a disorienting sequence where he's thoroughly lobotomised.
• Fate Worse than Death: In the OVA. The fate of all Heavenly Host victims results in them suffering the pain they endured at the time of death for all eternity. Satoshi willingly gives Naomi his Sachiko scrap to provide her a way out, deciding to use Kizami's scrap for himself. His body's straight-up gone, with the only remnants being his arms. Taken to its worst conclusion, Satoshi's soul is gonna have to live with the pain of his body being eradicated for all of eternity.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Being from a timeline in which Yui Shishido was his teacher, Satoshi has no memories of Kuon Niwa, even though she's been in love with him since the day they met.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: At the end of the OVA, and not even half.
• The Heart: More or less, as it's Satoshi managing to muster his courage to keep his friends' hopes up that ultimately saves them. Given that the Darkening corrupts and destroys people whose fear overwhelms their hope, his fight to stay positive is the best chance they have. Needless to say, him dying effectively means everyone else is screwed.
• The Hero: Although in Blood Covered his chapter is in the middle of the game; every chapter before his has the characters fall deeper and deeper in trouble. When he first appears, he acts like a badass and his appearance is when the characters start to find a way to get out of there. The other characters also treat him as the leader.
• Heroic BSoD: If Yuka or Naomi die.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He willingly gave Naomi his scrap in the OVA, not knowing what would happen to him if he used a scrap from another group. It ends with him literally torn to pieces.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He and Yoshiki are this. Blood Drive reveals that Yoshiki only started regularly attending school because Satoshi walked him there every day.
• Hyper-Awareness:
  • Displays quite a bit of this in Blood Drive when he sees Yoshiki geared up to go to Heavenly Host under the guise of going hiking. By gauging his reactions when he mentions Heavenly Host, Ayumi, and the paper charm in his backpack, he figures out Yoshiki's true intentions. Yoshiki even refers to it as Satoshi's primal instincts.
  • In Blood Covered, when he finds a toilet for Yuka, he asks which one she's going for, so he can measure the amount of time she takes before he figures out something is wrong.
• Idiot Ball: In the Tortured Souls OVA, he leaves Yuka to do her business, and lets Sachiko, a ghost girl among ghost children who are known to slaughter everyone, go along with her. If this isn't bad enough, he goes inside and tells her to "scream if she needs anything". Guess three times if this happens.
• Nice Guy: One of the nicest characters in the whole game. No wonder the ladies love him.
• No Hero to His Valet: He is thought of as the leader of the group; the only one to challenge this is Naomi, who he's probably known the longest besides his sister.
• Oblivious to Love: And, well, you can't really blame the guy: Naomi is such an extreme Tsundere that she practically comes off as emotionally abusive towards him, so it'd make sense that he wouldn't be able to see that she's in love with him. He does have a Love Epiphany with regards to Naomi in one ending. It's not in the True End, though.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: In the ending that sends him back to the morning of the culture festival (and leads into Book of Shadows), he's the only one that remembers the events at Heavenly Host. Unfortunately, he's unable to stop Ayumi from getting everyone to participate in the charm due to them thinking he's just being his usual scaredy-cat self when it comes to ghost stories and takes no kind of action that would clue them in.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: The reason for his harem.
• Standardized Leader: He can come across as a very bland everyman in contrast to the rest of the cast since he's so stable and normal.
• Unwanted Harem: He doesn't notice it exists most of the time, but when he does he seems confused and uncomfortable.
• The Bus Came Back: He reappears in Dead Patient, where he ends up getting involved in the incident because he was visiting his ill mother in the hospital.
• We Cannot Go On Without You: While the five canon survivors all have a case of this to some extent, there is no ending that will have any of them survive if Satoshi dies, so if Satoshi bites it, everyone's screwed. Makes sense given he's The Hero, The Heart, and effectively The Leader.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He isn't a fan of horror stories, so of course he ended up with a Class Rep who adores telling them, exposing his phobias for all to see and mock. Then they end up being dragged into one...
• You Are Worth Hell: Towards Naomi. If she loses her piece of the charm, he says he'll stay with her. As well as in Book of Shadows, when he is put in a time loop. Instead of leaving when the others refuse to listen to him, he decides to do the charm again, as he is the only one who can save everyone.

Naomi Nakashima

Naomi Nakashima

Tropes for Naomi in the original PC-98 game:

Ever since junior high, she and Satoshi have had a tense relationship. She's always greeted him with, "I'm SO sick of you!"

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• Black Magician Girl: For the last battle against Shinozaki, Naomi gains the power to use offensive spells and has higher MP than the others.
• Character Catchphrase: "I'm SO sick of you!", always directed to Satoshi. In Ending C, where she and Yuka die, this is the last thing he hears before they drag him to Heavenly Host forever.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She has the option to do this to save Yuka from drowning in the stall. Sadly, this locks you into an ending that makes this a Senseless Sacrifice.
• Hidden Depths: Despite her tomboyish looks, she is very good at playing the piano.
• Maybe Ever After: She and Satoshi in Ending A, after everybody escapes from Heavenly Host alive.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Naomi is a rough and tumble girl who likes competition and rough play, but she's also a skilled piano player and wants Satoshi to see her as a woman.
• Too Happy to Live: In Corpse Party: Musume while she dies early on, she's revived by a purified Sachiko without memories of her death. She even gets into a relationship with Satoshi. However, due to Naho's interference, she ends up remembering how she died and is dragged to Heavenly Host in order to become the new host for the curse. And Satoshi kills himself to be with Yuka.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: While she initially sees Satoshi as unreliable, she's charmed at his brotherly instinct towards Yuka and how courageous he can be in order to protect their friends.

Tropes for Naomi in the remake:

Voiced by: Rina Sato

Naomi's known Satoshi ever since they were kids, and loves exploiting the fact that she knows all his weaknesses. However, she does this to try and hide her feelings for him, in typical Tsundere fashion.

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• All Love Is Unrequited: She tends to drive Satoshi away with her extreme Tsundere attitude.
• Alliterative Name: Naomi Nakashima.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: She gets possessed by the darkness in Heavenly Host Elementary and ends up killing Seiko while under its influence. This can trigger a Despair Event Horizon in one of the Wrong Ends.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Not only her feelings for Satoshi, but also the guilt she feels immediately after lashing out at Seiko. If she tries to apologize, she's hardly even able to get the words out, and neither she nor Seiko feel any better. In Book of Shadows, she actually has a coughing fit.
• Cassandra Truth: In Book of Shadows, her mother doesn't believe anything she says about Seiko, since her existence was erased upon her death in Heavenly Host.
• Depending on the Artist: Naomi is apparently a curvalicious girl, with big breasts and a big butt, although this only really comes up to view depending on who’s drawing her; this is mostly evident in her design for Musume and the promotional art made by a guest artist, not those in-game, for Blood Drive. Other times this is only brought up during conversations, not quite matching with her in-game design whose bosom only seems slightly bigger than Seiko.
• Despair Event Horizon: In Chapter 5. Your choices determine what happens to her: either a message from Seiko will eventually convince her that Seiko doesn't hate her and she rejoins the group, or she goes crazy and charges at the group while dragging Seiko's body behind her.
• Disappeared Dad: Only her mom is made clear to be in her life.
• Driven to Suicide: Eventually, the horrors of the school push her past the breaking point and she tries to hang herself. Talking her down is necessary for that chapter's True End.
• Eye Scream:
  • One of her eyes is cursed in Blood Drive, giving her excruciating pain but also granting her the ability to see spirits.
  • She later stabs the cursed eye with an arrowhead to prevent Sachi from choking Satoshi to death.
• Fatal Flaw: Not only is she unable to bring herself to confess her feelings, she tends to take out her frustrations verbally on everyone around her. Even when she knows it won't help anything, she can't stop herself.
  • Naomi is also extremely emotional when her tension is at breaking point, effectively leading to Seiko's death since it opens her up to easy possession. She basically suffers a mental and emotional collapse after Seiko's death, shown in-game by no longer being controllable outside of a single segment and that's more cause she's in immediate danger. Whether this ultimately gets her killed or not is up to the player's choices.
• Hartman Hips: And Seiko will constantly remind Naomi of them.
• Honor Before Reason: Why she tried to revive everyone in Book of Shadows.
• Informed Attribute: Blood Covered's character guide gives Naomi the characteristic of being Satoshi's Lancer, but she spends too much time crying over Seiko to fill out this role. The role of the Lancer goes to Ayumi instead, who doubles as The Smart Girl.
• My Greatest Failure: She feels that if she hadn't taken out all her frustrations on Seiko, they wouldn't have separated and Seiko wouldn't have died. She tries to rectify this after being given the chance to do so in Book of Shadows. She succeeds, but Seiko freaks out (as it turns out, Naomi was Brainwashed and Crazy and tried to kill her) and runs away from her, headlong into a Death Trap. At this point, Naomi is forced to accept that saving Seiko at all is impossible.
• Parting-Words Regret: Naomi splits up with Seiko shortly after the two get into an argument. The next time she sees Seiko, she's hanging by the neck in a bathroom stall. Considering it was Naomi's fault they split up in the first place, she feels pretty bad about it. She later finds out that she was the one who did that to her, albeit whilst possessed.
• Patient Childhood Love Interest: Sorta. She's known Satoshi since seventh grade.
• Screw Destiny: Her attitude in Book of Shadows, both in the "World Loop" chapters and the chapter following Blood Covered's True Ending. By the end of "Engraved Seal", this becomes You Can't Fight Fate.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: In the beginning of Book of Shadows, and at the end of the Tortured Souls OVA.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Ayumi's Girly Girl.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Behind her tomboyish demeanor is a more girlish side that likes shopping and grooming as much as other average girls.
• Trauma Conga Line: Good GOD Naomi’s life sucks, all the games love to make Naomi suffer with her arguably suffering the most out of the surviving cast.
• Tsundere: A typical tsun-tsun; this is Deconstructed, as it feeds into her Fatal Flaw.
• Twisted Ankle: Suffers from one after a bad landing, making it hard for her to get around at first.
• Unlucky Childhood Friend: Her Fatal Flaw is a heavy driving force here towards Satoshi.
• You Can't Thwart Stage One: Book of Shadows has her learn this the hard way that Seiko is going to die no matter what she does. All saving Seiko would do is just leave her to an even more violent death each time.

Ayumi Shinozaki

Ayumi Shinozaki

Tropes for Ayumi in the original PC-98 game:

The class representative who loves to scare people. She loves to tell ghost stories and it's rumored that's why she carries around a bunch of candles. In actuality, she tells those stories to hide her own fear.

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• Ax-Crazy: In the endings where Yoshiki dies and the Corpse Party: Musume manga, she really loses it. She first brings up the subject of murder and black magic to Yoshiki as they're walking home. When Yoshiki tells her that killing anyone for any reason is wrong, she snaps at him and starts calling him out. Once he brings her home to calm down, it only gets worse. He leaves her alone for one minute to come back to find her using a pen to injure herself, and then stabs herself in front of Yoshiki repeatedly with an insane look; tearing up her arm with a pair of scissors.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She's not happy about Naomi going with Satoshi after the group is forced to split and spends most of the time complaining about being stuck with Yoshiki. In fact, her jealousy is what allows her to be possessed by Shinozaki, in which she tries to kill everyone so that only her and Satoshi could live. Fortunately she's snapped out of it before anything happens.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: While she's dismissive towards Yoshiki and treats him as a good for nothing delinquent, her opinion of him improves after he saves her from the anatomical model. By the end of the game, she's grown fond of him, to the point she breaks in the endings in which he dies.
• Demonic Possession: In the route Naomi dies and the Corpse Party: Musume manga, Ayumi stabs Naomi's dead body again and again, then cuts it into pieces, pushes Yoshiki off a cliff, then attempts to kill Yuka. Though she was possessed by Sachiko the whole time.
  • Averted in Corpse Party: Musume. While she's possessed, being happy at Naomi's death and desecrating her corpse weren't Sachiko's doing, it was all Ayumi's.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: While she feels sorry for how crappy Shinozaki's life was, she's less sympathetic in the endings Yoshiki dies.
  Why? THANKS TO YOU, ONE OF MY FRIENDS IS DEAD! I'm sorry you suffered, but you're a terrible monster! YOU MURDERER!
• The Medic: For the last battle against Shinozaki, Ayumi gains the power to revive anyone who gets reduced to 0 HP.
• Sanity Slippage: In the endings when Yoshiki dies. In Ending B-2, she starts hallucinating his hand strangling her while in Ending D-2, she's making plans to revive Yoshiki and Yuka with black magic.
• Self-Harm: If Yoshiki dies and she survives her ordeal at Heavenly Host, when she returns to her house she hallucinates his hand strangling her and she ends up scratching her throat until she dies of bloodloss.
  • Also does this in Corpse Party: Musume where she uses a pen and scissors to tear up her body due to her surviving Heavenly Host while the others have either died or been put in danger.

Tropes for Ayumi in the remake:

Voiced by: Asami Imai

The Class Rep for 2-9, Ayumi is bright, cheerful, and absolutely loves scary stuff. Creepy stories, strange rituals... she loves them all, and can't resist taking advantage of her position to draw her classmates into her games. Especially Satoshi, since he's hilarious when he's scared.

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• Ax-Crazy: In the Wrong Ends where she is possessed and you don't snap her out of it. She might shove Yoshiki down the stairs so hard his skull cracks, stab Satoshi with a pair of scissors, beat Naomi to death with her bare hands...
• Big "NO!": At the end of Book of Shadows, her sister gets her head chopped off right in front of her. Ayumi lets out a scream leading up to the ending credits of the game.
• Big Sister Instinct: To Yuki Kanno, and to a certain extent the other children who were victims of the 1973 Heavenly Host Elementary kidnapping and murder case.
• Blood-Splattered Innocents: Book of Shadows ends with her drenched in the blood of her sister after her head explodes whilst hugging Ayumi in the aftermath of a Big Damn Heroes moment.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: She gets possessed fairly often, and if you make the wrong choices, you end up with Wrong Ends where she kills one of the others.
• Break the Cutie: Her sister's death and the events of the Heavenly Host saga do this to Ayumi.
• Breakout Character: The Blood Covered continuity gives Ayumi greater focus and importance to the plot than she originally did in the PC-98 original. It gets to the point where the events leading up to Blood Drive and the game itself has her at the center of everything, pretty much becoming the Deuteragonist. It's gotten so strong that Ayumi has basically replaced Satoshi as the main character.
• Child Hater: Inverted; she doesn't seem to trust adults too much, besides Yui.
• Class Representative: She is one for her class, and is frequently referred to as class president ("iincho") in Blood Covered.
• Cool Big Sis: Has two (Hinoe and Ms. Yui) and is one to Yuka and Yuki Kanno.
• Cute Witch: In Book of Shadows, we learn she is descended from a family that really had magic powers. Her older sister is a Hot Witch instead.
• Damsel in Distress: So much, but she gets better by the prologue of Blood Drive.
• Dark and Troubled Past: It looks she still hasn't gotten over it by Dead Patient, to the point where she has been shown to be in an Angst Coma.
• Death by Adaptation: In the novels, she becomes the new Sachiko of Heavenly Host.
• Demonic Possession/Grand Theft Me: Her latent psychic powers attract spirits to her, but because she hasn't learned to control them yet, she is easily subject to possession. In the prologue of Blood Drive, she gets a lot better with resisting it.
• Did Not Think This Through: She tends to take action, especially when dabbling in the occult, without considering the consequences of those actions in regards to herself or those around her. All three main games happen as a result of her doing this.
• Does Not Like Men: Except Satoshi, because she feels that she can trust him.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Whenever she goes through Demonic Possession. She also has this at the end of Blood Drive and in Dead Patient to signify how much the series' events have traumatized her.
• Evil Laugh/Laughing Mad: If she's possessed or taken over by the darkening.
• Fatal Flaw: From Book of Shadows onwards, she tends to think solely about what she wants to do at the time, but she fails to plan ahead for the possible risks. In Book of Shadows, her attempt at reviving Mayu (without proper research on how the Book of Shadows works) not only gives Mayu a severe case of Came Back Wrong, but also nearly gets her and Naomi killed, if not for Hinoe's interference... which causes her to be beheaded in front of Ayumi instead. Following that, in Blood Drive she is set on going back to Heavenly Host with the same goals as before, as well as intending to retrieve the Book of Shadows from there. Only she, again, doesn't have any sort of plan at all, which Yoshiki points out. She ends up disregarding Yoshiki's concerns and goes to Heavenly Host with someone whose attitude is like a huge Obviously Evil neon sign flashing over his head. Her tendency to do this even gets her trapped in Heavenly Host with no hope of ever escaping in a wrong end.
  • She may very well be interested in the occult and supernatural, but that doesn't mean she's any less terrified of it, especially when she's given a fully supernatural experience of her own. Unfortunately, she often comes across as being a lot braver than she actually truly is, which also increases her risk of Darkening. In Ending 4 of the final chapter, this attitude, which sees her return to Heavenly Host alone to save her friends despite being petrified the whole time, gets the whole group killed and leaves her stranded forever.
• Fighting from the Inside: Whenever she has to overcome Demonic Possession or being Brainwashed by the darkening.
• Girlish Pigtails: In the manga, she's shown to have had this hairstyle since she was a little kid.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She's not happy that Satoshi likes Naomi instead of her, and can act aggressively towards Naomi over it. She even kills Naomi in one Wrong End because of it (although Naomi gets the last laugh).
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Gets killed this way in Wrong End 2 in Chapter 2 of "Blood Covered."
• Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrifices herself to the Book of Shadows, which restores everyone's knowledge of her deceased friends' existence in exchange for wiping out her own from her friends' memories.
• Honor Before Reason: Why she decides to go back to Heavenly Host Elementary in Blood Covered and why she tried to revive her friends in Book of Shadows. The former worked out well for the surviving characters. The latter... not so much.
• Ignored Epiphany: Over and over and over. Despite the fact that she kicked off the horrific events of the first game, she refuses to consider how dangerous dark magic is, which gets a lot of people killed.
• It's All About Me: As demonstrated under Fatal Flaw, she has a tendency to care more about her own goals than anything else, which repeatedly gets other people hurt or killed. During a Wrong End in Corpse Party, she destroys Naomi's paper scrap out of petty jealousy due to the latter being closer to Satoshi than she is, then has the gall to demand the one Naomi was given to replace it. She gets it after gleefully murdering Naomi, but she winds up being trapped herself... for good.
• The Lancer: Naomi's supposed to be The Lancer to Satoshi, but she's too broken for it to work, so Ayumi takes the role as well as doubling as The Smart Girl.
• The Load: She gets possessed quite a bit, though she is better able to resist it in Blood Drive.
• Love Makes You Crazy: In one of the bad endings Ayumi's love for Satoshi is twisted by the Darkness and she becomes a full on Yandere. She burns Naomi's paper scrap, then beats her to death. While covered in blood, she laughs and praises herself. Though Naomi does get to have the last laugh since her death means Ayumi is permanently trapped in Heavenly Host.
• Many Spirits Inside of One: In Book of Shadows, she is literally fought over by other vengeful spirits because they see her as their only hope.
• Morality Chain: Yoshiki is hers; he keeps her mental state in check, and helps to keep her from having anymore Freak Outs. If he's away from her for too long, it never ends well.
• Mystical Pregnancy: In Blood Drive, it's revealed that the Book of Shadows remanifested itself and laid dormant within her all along, without her being aware of it. Its power saved her on a few occasions, and eventually when Magari makes its presence inside of her stomach (presumably within her womb) known it moves and growls angrily from inside. It took Ayumi committing seppuku in order to draw it out of her and complete its remanifestation.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A great deal of the tragedies that occur in Blood Drive and Book of Shadows are her fault (especially in the latter installment), and her utter refusal to give up on what she wants and neglecting to think it through get a lot of people hurt or killed.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Subverted. As much as she loves horror stories, getting flung headfirst into one understandably freaks her right out.
• Oblivious to Love: At least in regards to Yoshiki's crush on her, she's Ichika-levels of dense. Most likely because of her crush on Satoshi.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted: She's not the only Shinozaki in the game. They're distantly related through being descended from a lineage with strong psychic abilities.
• Protectorate: For Yoshiki, as her dying often nets you a bad end.
• Rescue Romance: With Yoshiki, all the time.
• Ret-Gone: At the end of Blood Drive, she sacrifices herself to the Book of Shadows and is erased from her friends' memories, in return for restoring their memories of Seiko, Mayu, Morishige, and Yui to the world.
• Saved by Canon: She makes an appearance in the prologue of Dead Patient, which is set after Blood Drive.
• Self-Harm: She does while having a Freak Out in Blood Drive.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She likes Satoshi, as she feels that she can trust him.
• Slasher Smile: Shows these when possessed.
• The Smart Girl: She has the most knowledge of the occult so she fills out this role in the game.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: Sports one in her cameo appearance in Dead Patient.
• Took a Level in Badass: In Book of Shadows. Especially in the prologue to Blood Drive, where she manages to force away possessions by herself and even prepares and chants up a spell to revive the dead. In Blood Drive, she takes another level in badass once the Book of Shadows accepts her as its master.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Naomi's Tomboy.
• Tsundere: She seems to be one for Satoshi and Yoshiki. She is known to have a crush on Satoshi and generally she enjoys scaring him. While she's with Yoshiki she's very rude to him, but it's hinted that she has some degree of affection for him at the end of Blood Drive. Whether it's romantic or friendship on her part is left ambiguous.
• Ungrateful Bitch: Towards Yoshiki. He spends most of his time saving her life and stopping her from going insane while she insults him any time they disagree on something. She finally averts this in Blood Drive.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • Performing the Sachiko Ever After charm that sent everyone to Heavenly Host was her idea.
  • Does it again in Blood Drive, as getting the pillars of the six demons merges the Nirvana with the real world, sending all the horrors of the dimension onto countless innocent civilians.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: If she starts acting like one towards Satoshi, then you are probably on your way to a Wrong End.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Played with. At the start of Chapter 7 in Blood Drive, Morishige, Mayu, Seiko, and Yui appear before Ayumi to thank her for "reviving them", while also mentioning many people died for it, and then rub salt into the wound more by stating they haven't really been revived. Then Ayumi wakes up, inferring that it was a nightmare.
• Yandere: At the very least, she starts showing signs of Sanity Slippage in one bad ending. She actually burns Naomi's Sachiko charm (which she needs to get home), then kills her in a particularly horrific Wrong End. Naomi has the last laugh, though.

Yoshiki Kishinuma

Yoshiki Kishinuma

Tropes for Yoshiki in the original PC-98 game:

Although he seems a bit cynical and rebellious, in actuality, he's just frank and honest. Which is why he didn't fight it too much when he was put onto the class committee via ballot. And also why he showed up to prepare for the coming school cultural festival.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: In Corpse Party: Musume he's a violent jerk who gives a shit about nobody else but himself and Ayumi and sexually harrasses her all the time.
• The Buffer: For the last battle against Shinozaki, Yoshiki gains the power to raise the attributes of his friends.
• Changed My Mind, Kid: At one point, Ayumi and Yoshiki are returned to their classroom by good Shinozaki. Ayumi wants to return to save Satoshi and the others, but Yoshiki is too afraid to go back to Heavenly Host. However he changes his mind at the last moment in order to save his friends and protect Ayumi. Even in the routes when Ayumi dies, he'll still go back anyway.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: He's very vocal about how Ayumi prefers Satoshi over him. However he doesn't blame Satoshi for this, instead blaming Ayumi for being so stubborn.
  Are you so unhappy...So unhappy to be trapped with ME instead of your "precious Satoshi"!?
• Disney Death: A possessed Ayumi throws him in a pit to exchange him for Satoshi, but he climbs his way out.
• Driven to Suicide: He becomes suicidal in the endings when Ayumi dies. In Ending D-1, he drunkenly tries to attack Satoshi before breaking down in tears and dropping the knife; in Ending B-1 he simply disappears, and Satoshi wonders if the guilt of leaving Ayumi behind was too much for him.
• Drowning My Sorrows: In Ending D-1 he starts drinking to cope with Ayumi's death.
• Gonk: Has a rough delinquent face and is very unattractive compared to Satoshi.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he's jealous of all the attention Satoshi receives from Ayumi, he also acknowledges it's not Satoshi's fault and the two are best friends despite everything. If Ayumi died and he's brought back to the real world, Yoshiki will still go back to save him. And in Ending D-1 he seemingly tries to stab Satoshi because he blames him for Ayumi's death, only to break down crying revealing that he intended to kill himself not Satoshi.
  • Averted in Corpse Party: Musume, when he hates Satoshi and would gladly leave him to die if this means getting to score with Ayumi.
• I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: His justification for harrassing Ayumi in Corpse Party: Musume.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: In Corpse Party: Musume, after Ayumi and Yoshiki are sent back to the real world, Ayumi returns to save everyone else and Yoshiki follows her. However he makes clear he couldn't care less about Satoshi, Naomi and Yuka and just does it to impress Ayumi
• Parting-Words Regret: In the endings Ayumi dies, he regrets not confessing his feelings earlier.
• Shipper on Deck: He ships Satoshi/Naomi and frequently tries to meddle in their relationship to advance it. He admits it's so he could have Ayumi for himself though.

Tropes for Yoshiki in the remake:

Voiced by: Yūichi Nakamura

Despite having the Face of a Thug, Yoshiki is actually a pretty nice guy. Likes teasing Satoshi, but that's the norm among his classmates anyway. After they're pulled into Heavenly Host, he vows to protect Ayumi at any cost.

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• Action Survivor: He's one of the most capable people trapped in Heavenly Host, and survives despite receiving the most injuries.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: A literal example. In the original PC-98 game he was a brunette, but the Blood Covered continuity, and any media related to it, instead has him with dyed blond hair.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Though he cares for Ayumi, he realises that she's more interested in Satoshi. She may return his affection to some degree at the end of Blood Drive, though whether platonic or not is unknown.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Before he started his second year, he admits he was a friendless loner.
• Always Save the Girl: If he fails to protect Ayumi and she dies... it never ends well. He'll either get killed off later, or be Driven to Suicide because he can't live without her.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: Finally admits his feelings towards Ayumi in the fifth chapter of Blood Covered. Unfortunately for him, it's only in a non-canon Wrong End.
  Yoshiki: I'm telling you I LOVE YOU, GODDAMMIT!!
• Badass Normal: The biggest badass out of the main five and one of the biggest in general, but doesn't even have the spiritual "perks" that others like Ayumi have.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Why he fell in love with Ayumi. She showed him kindness when a teacher had nearly bullied him into dropping out of school. She doesn't think much of the encounter, but it's clearly important to him.
• Big Brother Instinct: Shown more in Book of Shadows where he loses Ayumi again, and on his way to find her stumbles across Mayu and Nana. For a little while he has to save and protect them until he finds Ayumi. It's hinted that he would probably be this way towards his own little sister, Miki.
• Big Damn Heroes: Saves Yuka from Kizami in Tortured Souls, but unfortunately she was already fatally injured.
• The Big Guy: He's the toughest out of all of the kids and he takes the most risks as well. He can also be considered Ayumi's personal Lancer.
• Brutal Honesty: Doesn't really have a filter between his head and his mouth. He's nice enough that it's not a problem most of the time, but sometimes he embarrasses Ayumi by tactlessly pointing out that she's stained with blood in embarrassing places.
• Buried Alive: How he dies in Wrong End 1 in Chapter 2 of "Blood Covered."
• Changed My Mind, Kid:
  • At one point, Ayumi and Yoshiki are returned to their classroom by Yuki. Ayumi wants to return to save Satoshi and the others. If Yuka was caught by Kizami (or if you just choose not to), Yoshiki refuses to go back. Naturally, he ends up going back anyway. It still leads to a Wrong End, though.
  • Same case in Tortured Souls. He comes back in time to save Yuka, and is then killed trying to hold off Yoshikazu so that Ayumi can get Yuka to safety.
• The Chew Toy: As revealed in 2U, he's a favored victim of Sachiko's because of this.
• Chick Magnet: Played for Laughs in one of the drama CDs, where Yoshiki gets love confessions from Naomi, Yui, and Yuka. Later on, even Satoshi, Yuuya, and Morishige confess their love to him. This ends up being a hallucination Yoshiki is having while being buried alive.
• Cooldown Hug: Gives one to Ayumi when she is possessed in Blood Covered, and then again in Book of Shadows even while she's attacking him.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Towards Ayumi. He's really good at hiding it, and doesn't act on it until he finally snaps at Ayumi about her feelings to Satoshi later.
• Dark and Troubled Past: The only one of the main five to have one prior to the game's events. He's forced to live by himself and take up a part-time job because of a bad relationship with his parents, he used to have no friends, and was considering dropping out of school because a teacher bullied him about both of these things. All it takes is for Ayumi and Satoshi to just be nice to him for him to develop into a better person.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has his moments.
• Death by Adaptation: In Tortured Souls.
• Delinquent: He used to be one, including skipping school a lot and smoking in the bathroom cubicles. He's since reformed, though he still has the appearance of one.
• Devoted to You: He would do anything for Ayumi, even erasing himself from reality, and she doesn't even realize it. Though she does seem grateful for his kindness by the end of Blood Drive.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In 2U he frequently calls out Sachiko for her ridiculous demands, even after the rest of the cast warn him about how dangerous it is. It might be part of the reason why she picks on him so much.
• Dragged into Drag: Along with Morishige in 2U as part of Sachiko's game. Whether you have him wear the wedding dress or the maid outfit actually determines whether you're on route to a Wrong End.
• Even the Guys Want Him: One of the drama CD's has Satoshi, Morishige, and even Kizami, a character he hadn't met at that point, confess their love to him. It was just a hallucination while Yoshiki was being buried alive, though.
• Face of a Thug: He may look like your typical Delinquent, which he used to be to an extent, but he's a Nice Guy and will look out for his friends.
• For Your Own Good: His reasoning for why he destroys the only means to get into Heavenly Host in Blood Drive. Ayumi would be putting herself in great danger by going there, and her reason for doing so (so that she can use dangerous black magic to resurrect her dead friends) isn't exactly the sanest.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: He teams up with Ohkawa during an Extra Chapter of Corpse Party 3DS that takes place between chapters in Blood Covered. When they split up again he's knocked out and loses his memory, making this a literal example of him forgetting the now deceased Ohkawa.
• Friendless Background: Prior to the events of the game, and one of the reasons why he's so attached to Ayumi and Satoshi. It's also what prompts him to return to Heavenly Host in the ending where he initially refused; he couldn't give up on his friends after having had none for so long.
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Downplayed. Yoshiki frequently has to do a verbal version to help snap Ayumi out of her possessed stated. He also does the same for Ohkawa when he risks having a Freak Out.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Dies this way along with Shinozaki in Wrong End 2 in Chapter 2 of "Blood Covered."
• Heartbroken Badass: Anytime if Ayumi dies.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In the OVA, he blocks a door with his body so that Yoshikazu can't get to Ayumi and a wounded Yuka. Yoshikazu just plows through, slaughtering Yoshiki in the process.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He and Satoshi are this. Yoshiki cares about Satoshi almost as much as he does Ayumi, and it's said that he usually only participates in school events because one of them persuades him into it.
• Hypocrite: In Blood Drive he criticises Ayumi for going to Heavenly Host without telling the rest of the group about it... even though that's exactly what he did in order to find her. He seems to realise his hypocrisy when Satoshi calls him out on the same thing.
• I Choose to Stay: At the end of Blood Drive he chooses to stay with Ayumi when she absorbs the power of the Book of Shadows, and is erased from the others' memories as a result of it.
• I'm a Humanitarian: In one of Blood Covered's Wrong Ends, he's possessed by a spirit and ends up chowing down on Ayumi. He snaps out of it but, to his dismay, can't stop eating her.
• Informed Flaw:
  • In his character description it states that he is prone to outbursts when frightened or upset, and is essentially a Jerk with a Heart of Gold character. In the actual game he rivals Satoshi for being the kindest, most level-headed character. It finally shows up at the end of Blood Drive as his reaction to Ayumi's fate.
  • His lack of spiritual prowess is presented as a flaw, especially in comparison to Ayumi's affinity with the spirits. In practise this actually ends up with him being better equipped to deal with ghosts in Blood Covered, since he's less at risk of being possessed than Ayumi.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's this in the intro, but for the rest of the game he slides into being a Nice Guy.
• Knight in Shining Armor: He wants to be seen as one in Ayumi's eyes, not realising that he already is one. Even Azusa calls/thinks of him as one; she points out that the kanji is (sort of) in his name.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Being knocked out by Yoshikazu in Corpse Party 3DS causes him to conveniently forget everything related to Ohkawa and nothing more.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Ayumi is this for him. He loses the will to live if she dies.
• Love Martyr: This guy is willing to put himself through hell and back for Ayumi. He does reach his limit at one point when he's had enough of Ayumi's constant concern for Satoshi in Blood Covered.
• Mistaken for Gay: Prior to the game there was an incident where he broke Morishige's glasses and had to guide him home. Mayu sees them huddled up together and gets the wrong impression, either blushing and leaving them be (in Blood Covered) or murdering Yoshiki in a fit of jealousy (in 2U's depiction of the event).
• Nerves of Steel: Intimidates spirits that are possessing Ayumi out of her body while they're trying to hurt him.
• Nice Guy: In the Blood Covered continuity.
• No One Gets Left Behind: In Book of Shadows, during the Wrong End where Nana gets her legs chopped off, Yoshiki refuses to leave her behind and instead carries her around, even though Mayu realizes that she's almost certainly doomed anyway.
  Yoshiki: Don't think about that right now, goddammit! If she needs legs, we'll lend her ours!
• Only Sane Man: Of Hysterical Birthday 2U. He'll be the first, and sometimes the only person to call out the various weird happenings, and will often try and refuse to have any part of it (though he'll change his tone if Ayumi is involved).
• Overshadowed by Awesome: He starts to feel this way about himself when he's beaten down by both Misuto and Magari. Bear in mind that he's an average high-schooler up against super-powered beings.
• Parental Abandonment: He lives away from his parents and is reported to have a bad relationship with them.
• Previous Player-Character Cameo: Implied to be the man with Ayumi in Dead Patient, although his hair is no longer bleached.
• Rescue Romance: All girls that he's had Ship Tease with — Ayumi, Nana, and Azusa — have been rescued by him at some point or another.
• Ret-Gone: In Blood Drive he decides to stay with Ayumi during her Heroic Sacrifice, and ends up being wiped from his friends' memories along with her.
• Senseless Sacrifice: In the PC-98 game, he can sacrifice himself to save Ayumi's life. Ayumi escapes the school, but ends up dying the next day anyway.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Inverted; he gained his feelings for Ayumi when she got him out of trouble and encouraged him to graduate high school.
• Staircase Tumble: He can die like this in Wrong End 3 in Chapter 2 of "Blood Covered" by a possessed Shinozaki if he goes to the stairway instead of the bathroom.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Became a much better person in the Blood Covered remake and its sequels, which add a lot of moments of self-sacrifice, courage and devotion. In comparison, his original PC-98 self was more of a loner who seemingly didn’t care for anyone but himself and Ayumi, lacking all the Blood Covered continuity moments that made him a more beloved character.
• Tsurime Eyes: Used to symbolise Yoshiki's strong will and sharp tongue.
• Two Girls and a Guy: With Mayu and Nana in Book of Shadows for a little bit.
• Undying Loyalty: To Ayumi, and only if she'd be able to see it.

Yuka Mochida

Yuka Mochida

Tropes for Yuka in the original PC-98 game:

Satoshi's younger sister. Currently a second year student at Kisaragi Academy Junior High School. She got mixed up in all this while delivering an umbrella to her brother. Spoiled by her family, she acts much younger than she really is.

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• Anguished Declaration of Love: Gives this to Satoshi in the endings in which she dies and Corpse Party: Musume.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She does NOT like seeing Satoshi interact with Naomi, as she's aware of her feelings for him. They're still on friendly terms though, as she thinks Satoshi is the one to blame for being too dense.
• Damsel in Distress: She's very prone to get into troublesome situations in the school. Ensuring her safety, however, makes the gameplay easier especially in the final phase.
• Death by Adaptation: In Corpse Party: Musume.
• Hidden Depths: Despite being the most childish of the group, she's the first to notice that Satoshi reciprocates Naomi's feelings.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Possibly in Ending A. When Satoshi returns to the school to check on Naomi, Yuka doesn't object, implying she'll let them be together.
• Potty Emergency: At one point she ends up desperately in need of a toilet. If wrong choices are made, she ends up drowning after Shinozaki fills the bathroom stall with blood.
• White Mage: For the last battle against Shinozaki, Yuka gets healing spells, but has lower MP than the others.
• Yandere: In the endings in which she dies. She loves Satoshi so much she'll drag him with her to Heavenly Host forever.

Tropes for Yuka in the remake:

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura

Satoshi's sweet and polite little sister, who's currently in middle school. Came to pick up her brother and wound up getting sucked into Heavenly Host along with the older cast.

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• Big Brother Worship: She adores Satoshi. And not just as a sibling.
• Brother–Sister Incest: Her love for her brother goes beyond sibling affection, though she only admits it in Chapter 5's Extra Ending.
• Cruel and Unusual Death:
  • In the Tortured Souls OVA, she's killed off by Kizami after he tortures her mercilessly.
  • Her chapter in Book of Shadows, which shows what happens if Kizami catches Yuka in the original game: no matter what choices you make, Yuka end up getting killed by either Sachiko or Yoshikazu.
• Damsel in Distress: In Blood Drive, she is kidnapped by Misuto and needs rescuing by the other cast members.
• Death by Adaptation: In the Tortured Souls OVA.
• Demonic Possession: Possessed by Sachi in Blood Drive.
• Fighting from the Inside: During her possession by Sachi in Blood Drive. It still takes outside influence for her to fully fend Sachi off though.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In Chapter 5's Extra Ending, where she Takes The Scissors for Satoshi.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Has this dynamic with Kizami, who is a good 46 cm taller than her.
• The Load: Forces Satoshi (and by extension, the player) into an epic quest for a usable bathroom when they could have focused on trying to find his classmates and teacher. Also the most useless of the nine characters.
• Older Than They Look: Though she's only a few years younger than the rest of the cast, the age difference seems particularly pronounced thanks to her uniform and immaturity. She also acts much younger than she is, thanks to being spoiled rotten by her parents.
• Out of Focus: Enforced by Satoshi in the first half of Blood Drive since he's trying to keep her out of danger. Misuto ends up luring her to Heavenly Host and kidnapping her for use in his plans.
• Potty Emergency: Just like in the PC-98, this happens to her in Blood Covered too, though played differently. Unfortunately, the lack of working bathrooms doesn't do her any good. Eventually leads to a Potty Failure, courtesy of Kizami.
• Protectorate: To her brother and to Yuuya Kizami. Too bad Kizami's a murderous nutcase.
• Spoiled Brat: She was thoroughly spoiled by her parents to the point where she often acts like a toddler, instead of her age. She even keeps this attitude while trapped in the school. However, she's not all bad as she cares a lot about her brother when she gives him (or tries to, depending on Satoshi's choice) her caramel beads as a good luck charm.

School Inhabitants

Sachiko Shinozaki

Sachiko Shinozaki (The Girl in Red)

Tropes for Sachiko in the original PC-98 game:

Shinozaki (no name given) is a vengeful ghost who traps the protagonists in Heavenly Host. One day, she was attacked by her teacher who intended to rape her. She ended up falling out the window to her death. The principal decides to help cover up the incident to spare the school’s reputation.

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• Final Boss: Her evil half. The game actually becomes an RPG when you fight her.
• Freudian Excuse: The teacher who killed her got away with it, the principal covered it up to protect the school's reputation and when she died no-one remembered her.
• Friendless Background: While she did have friends, she wasn’t particularly close to anyone, and didn't mind being alone. This was then used against her by her Jerkass teacher, who declared nobody'd believe her about the assault.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: In Corpse Party: Musume, after she's purified and merges with her good self, she uses her powers to bring Naomi back to life. However Naho makes Naomi remember her death and drags her back to Heavenly Host.
• Load-Bearing Boss: After the evil Sachiko is defeated, the survivors have to flee... because the other evil spirits want to ensure that the closed space doesn’t collapse by sacrificing them.
• No Name Given: She was simply named Shinozaki and didn't have a name.
• Rape as Backstory: Was almost sexually assaulted by a teacher who pretended to act friendly with her, only to mock how nobody will believe what happened because she didn't have any friends.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: In Corpse Party: Musume she's a little girl but she's very precocious. Justified, as she was sexually assaulted by her teacher and the principal raped her corpse.
• Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: Likes to taunt the characters by detailing how they friends died and how much in pain they were.
  Shinozaki:...Hyeheheheh...I stuffed your sister...full of blood...like a turkey...
  Satoshi: YOU LITTLE!
  Shinozaki: ...Kyahahahahahaha! Aww, you mad?
• Your Head A-Splode: When the group is about to find her corpse, she threatens Yuka (or Naomi) with a literally splitting headache.

Tropes for Sachiko in the remake:

Voiced by: Ikue Otani

She is the Sole Survivor of the 1973 Heavenly Host Elementary kidnapping and murder case. She provided the testimony that got the killer arrested. After the incident, her family apparently moved away, and her whereabouts are currently unknown. In actuality she is a malevolent spirit, and the one behind the 1973 incident. After possessing the supposed killer and making him kidnap the other children, she killed them herself and laid the blame on him. She herself was the victim of an incident in 1953, where she was killed after witnessing the headmaster of the school kill her mother, who then went on to hide her remains in the basement.

Little did the killers know that Sachiko had an ancient evil sitting inside of her- an entire alternate dimension known as the Nirvana/Nehan. In both cases, the killing unleashed the Nirvana.

Sachiko’s hatred towards her victimizers and envy towards those still alive ended up splitting her in two. The good half, White Sachiko, aims to help the characters escape. Meanhile, Sachiko’s hatred fuses with the Nirvana dimension and its core (the Witch Queen) to becomes a vessel of thier will; the resulting entity, Red Sachiko, is the Big Bad of the series.

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• Affably Evil: In 2U. Her resentment and hatred are lifted for 24 hours when its her birthday. She goes from the game's greatest horror to a surprisingly friendly ghost who likes to torment her victims in non-fatal ways just for shits and giggles. But she goes back to her usual Ax-Crazy self when the 24 hours is over, and forgets everything she experienced in her birthday.
  • Her memory loss is reversed as of Blood Drive, as she brings up the necklace that was given to her in 2U before she sends Ayumi back in time.
• Age Lift: Subverted. She was a teenager in the PC-98 game, but she's a child in the remake.
• Ax-Crazy: Though Red’s much more on the Manipulative Bitch and Sadist side of things, almost always forcing Yoshikazu and the other children into doing the brute-force violence and torture while she watches and taunts her dying victims.
• Big Bad: Red Sachiko for PC-98, Blood Covered, and Book of Shadows. She takes a back seat in 2U, and in Blood Drive Sachiko’s been released and helps Ayumi (though the Nirvana still serves as the antagonist).
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She likes to play the ally, or act like a helpless child, before turning around and killing people. In one bad end, she pretended to be Mitsuki by wearing her face as a mask, and briefly flirted with Morishige before revealing herself. Just to mix things up.
• Creepy Child: She died when she was very young, so her evil spirit has the appearance of a pale, blood-covered child.
• Cute and Psycho: 2U puts emphasis on the "cute" aspect. She's surprisingly adorable on her birthday, if only being Affably Evil at best.
• Cute Ghost Girl: White Sachiko plays it straight. Red Sachiko is a rare malevolent variant.
• Cute Is Evil: The cutest character in the cast turns out to be the most evil.
• Deader than Dead: She was already a ghost, but using up all her energy wipes her out for good.
• Demoted to Extra: Serves as a key character for most of the series, but then only appears in a chapter or two of Blood Drive before getting permamently Killed Off for Real.
• Enemy Without: Her tormented, angry spirit has actually split off from her original self and is the true power behind the closed spaces.
• Enfant Terrible: She died as a child, but half of her became a malevolent spirit.
• Evil All Along: She pretends to be an innocent victim and helper but is actually the one killing everyone.
• Evil Counterpart: Obviously, Red Sachiko is this to White Sachiko.
• Genius Loci: The Nirvana is pretty much a living dimension, and Red Sachiko is it’s vessel.
• The Heavy: Her spirit is the hardest to appease out of all the children.
• Heel–Face Turn: In Blood Drive, since she has been appeased and made whole. She becomes a close ally to Ayumi.
• Hereditary Curse: The women in her bloodline are cursed with powerful black magic.
• Heroic Sacrifice/Redemption Equals Death: Uses up all her energy to turn back time so that Ayumi can have another chance to save her friends.
• I Shall Taunt You: Throughout the game, you'll encounter notes written in red from the evil Sachiko, bragging about how they’ll kill the characters and goading them into giving in to their darker selves.
• It Amused Me: Red Sachiko initially killed children to give her mother company, but when Yoshie dissaproved she continued her evil actions anyway simply because she enjoyed it.
• Light Is Good/Dark Is Evil: White Sachiko has white skin and wears a white dress, Red Sachiko has grey skin and wears a red dress. Though averted with the Witch Queen.
• Made of Evil: Red Sachiko is the embodiment of Sachiko’s hatred, so yeah. Also applies to the Nirvana, which is made of the hatred, evil, and despair of humanity.
• Manipulative Bitch: Oh boy, Red Sachiko just loves psychologically torturing her victims and turning them against each other!
• Mascot Villain: She is prominently featured on posters, promotional material, etc. and is the Big Bad.
• Morality Pet: Subverted. Both Blood Covered and Book of Shadows imply that on some level Red Sachiko genuinely likes Yuka, and she actually saves Yuka from Kizami in Blood Covered's True Ending path. But she’s too Ax-Crazy for this to actually protect Yuka — in the "Mire" chapter from Book of Shadows, it's revealed that it was actually she who killed Yuka after Kizami catches her in that Wrong End of Blood Covered.
• Sadist/Troll: Hoo boy, she could give Terumi a run for his money! Though it’s somewhat justified as the Nirvana feeds on the despair of it’s victims.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: In Blood Drive we find out that the Heavenly Host dimension is something called a Nirvana/Nehan, where the dead can wander and interact with the living freely. Sachiko's mother created it using the Book of Shadows in order to be reunited with her deceased husband, but the spell failed and it rebounded on Sachiko, who wound up absorbing the entire Nehan into her body. When she was murdered, the seal was broken and the Nehan was unleashed, creating the alternate Heavenly Host and splitting Sachiko in two- the evil half became the Nehan’s avatar.
• Slasher Smile: Her evil spirit often bears one when it isn't frowning or is just staring blankly.
• The Sociopath: Considering she’s Made of Evil, it makes sense that she’s gonna have no compassion or empathy for anyone or anything.
• Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Played with. In the Heavenly Host saga she was the Sole Survivor of a multiple-murder incident in the titular school. In-game she’s a helpful, if distant, Cute Ghost Girl. Then it turns out she was the true murderer. And then it turns out she and her mother were killed long before by the principal, corrupting her with hatred. And then it turns out she split up into two halves, the good half wears the white dress, and the evil half is the vessel of the school’s will... It only gets more complicated from there.
• Tongue Trauma: Has been on the giving and receiving end of this.
• To the Pain: She is fond of these sorts of rants.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: The spirits of children generally do not seek to murder the innocent.
• Undead Child: Her appearance is rather zombie-like. However, White Sachiko looks positively angelic.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Before her murder blinded her with bloodlust and anger, she was a genuinely sweet child. Blood Drive reveals that it was not being murdered alone that distorted her character, but a curse that had been laying dormant within her since her mother's clandestine attempt at bringing back her dead father- in fact, what happened to her really amounts to Demonic Possession by the Nirvana.
• Villainous Breakdown: On the few occasions that she’s defeated, she does not take it well.
• Villain with Good Publicity: The general public thinks of her as an innocent victim of Yoshikazu. The truth is quite different.
• Walking Spoiler: Even the fact that she’s the Big Bad is one of the big reveals of the series, specifically Blood Covered.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: She posed as a victim of Yoshikazu and got him accused of the murders. In game, she appears to be an ally of the characters who must be protected from Yoshikazu, but is the one killing them all. She also pulls this in Book Of Shadows, in one of the Wrong Ends and in Chapter 6.
• Yandere: Initially, she started off killing so that her mother would have company, but after a while she began to enjoy it too much. After a while, she was just too far gone to stop. Yoshie's diary notes that Sachiko probably doesn't even remember her own mother.

Spoiler Character

White Sachiko

The good half of Sachiko Shinozaki. She informs the characters of her predicament and the truth of the school, and helps them escape.

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• The Atoner: In Blood Drive when she’s whole again, culminating in her sacrificing herself to help Ayumi out.
• Big Good: She watches over the characters, and in the original game actively helps them escape. Even when imprisoned, she still tries to regain control of her body and interferes with the Big Bad’s control.
• Cute Ghost Girl: And genuinely benevolent, unlike her other self.
• Deader than Dead: She was already a ghost, but using up all her energy wipes her out for good.
• Demoted to Extra: Serves as a key character for most of the series, but then only appears in a chapter or two of Blood Drive before getting permanently Killed Off for Real.
• Heel–Face Turn: Sort of; she’s able to merge with her evil half and regain her original self.
• Helpless Good Side: Downplayed in the PC-98 game with the true Sachiko, who does have a certain measure of power. Unfortunately, they're not NEARLY as strong as the embodiment of all her rage and envy of the living, which has taken on a life of its own. Played straight in the Heavenly Host saga where White Sachiko is trapped in the basement and not even encountered until the finale of Blood Covered.
• Light Is Good: Wears white in contrast to her evil half’s red and grey combination.
• Literal Split Personality: She’s Sachiko’s.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: Sachiko and her mother in the PC-98 game. She stayed late at school because it was raining, hoping the weather would clear up before heading out.
• Super-Empowering: In the PC-98 game, the true Sachiko gives the party the rest of her powers just before the Final Boss.
• Walking Spoiler: Her existence spoils the true nature of Sachiko.

School Staff

The Teacher

Tropes for the Teacher in the original PC-98 game:

Sachiko's teacher back when she was alive. He attempted to rape her, causing her to flee out the window and fall to her death.

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• Attempted Rape: He tried to assault Sachiko, his own student, after school.
• The Ghost: He is never seen, as the flashback is text-only with the screen being black.
• Greater-Scope Villain: His Attempted Rape of Sachiko led to her death and her despair splitting off to become the Big Bad.
• Hate Sink: Unlike Sachiko, who has a sympathetic backstory, he is a scumbag who tried to rape her and ended up causing her death, and he got away with it.
• Karma Houdini: It is never indicated that he is caught, especially since the principal helped cover it up.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only shows up in one flashback, and is not even seen as the flashback is all text, but he is the reason that Sachiko split off with half of her becoming the Big Bad.

Tropes for the Teacher (Yoshikazu Yanagihori) in the remake:

Yoshikazu Yanagihori

Voiced by: Daisuke Matsuo

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A teacher at Heavenly Host Elementary, and the son of the headmaster. He was arrested for the kidnapping and murder of the three victims in 1973, and was supposedly the master of the haunted school, but was actually being manipulated by Sachiko.

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• Adaptational Heroism: In the PC-98 original, he was essentially the Greater-Scope Villain of the entire game, with his Attempted Rape of Sachiko (which accidentally causes her death) kickstarting the entire plot. At no point does he ever show any remorse for his actions and is implied to be a Karma Houdini who got off scot-free. In Blood Covered, he's basically just collateral damage in Sachiko's schemes and did nothing to deserve his fate.
• Always a Bigger Fish: He's found crucified and impaled in Chapter 2 of Blood Drive, which pretty much establishes that there is a much bigger threat this time. Or just that the Nirvana is through playing around.
• A-Team Firing: He can be a real terrible aim with his sledgehammer, which is how Yoshiki managed to survive getting hit twice on the head with it.
• Big Bad: Initially portrayed as this before The Reveal.
• The Brute: An unwilling example.
• Cool Teacher: Used to be one until his mental illness struck. An entry in Yoshie Shinozaki's diary suggests that she might have had something to do with the mental illness.
• Despair Event Horizon: Being controlled by Sachiko into kidnapping the three children and then witnessing her kill them in cold blood completely breaks him and leads to him being forced to work for Sachiko.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He was built up as the murderer until the truth was revealed.
• The Dragon: An unwilling one to Sachiko, as she used his body to kill children.
• Driven to Suicide: He killed himself by hanging himself.
• Friend to All Children: What he was prior to kidnappings. In Chapter 6 of Book Of Shadows, he shows a lot of reluctance to kill Yuka despite Sachiko's orders. Teenagers are fair game, though.
• Insanity Defense: How he avoided going to jail. He actually was pretty insane at that point, so a mental hospital was probably the best place for him. However, he ended up escaping, broke into the school, and hung himself in the basement.
• Manchild: At the time of the incident, a disease had apparently caused him to regress to a childlike mental state, to the point where he couldn't even convey his thoughts. People noted that he was still a rather kind person even when he reached that point, so it was almost hard to believe that he'd commit such horrific murders. Which makes sense, seeing as he didn't commit the murders.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Yoshikazu's mental illness and regression are heavily implied to be caused by being cursed by Yoshie, Sachiko's mother. When you find her diary in-game, Yoshie mentions her hatred for Principal Yanagihori is so great, she cursed him and everyone in his bloodline. This basically means he's the very first innocent victim of Yoshie's and Sachiko's rage: even before the murder of the three children, Yoshikazu was already a powerless puppet under Sachiko's thrall.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In the Blood Covered manga he carries Yoshiki back to Ayumi, seemingly out of regret for kidnapping him in the first place. In the original game Yoshiki only escapes because Ohkawa rescues him.

The Principal

Tropes for the Principal in the original PC-98 game:

The principal of Tenjin High. He helped cover up the incident with Sachiko and her teacher to preserve the reputation of the school. For his Blood Covered counterpart, see below.

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• Evil Principal: He helped cover up the death of Sachiko Shinozaki, which was caused when she attempted to escape her teacher's rape attempt, because he valued the school's reputation over delivering justice to the teacher. The evil half of Sachiko is shown torturing the principal's soul over this, and yet he still insists he has done nothing wrong.
• The Ghost: Downplayed. We do see his spirit as a flame, but his human form is never shown.
• Greater-Scope Villain: While not as directly as the teacher, he did help the teacher get away with his crime, further enraging Sachiko.
• Hate Sink: He helped the teacher cover up his Attempted Rape and manslaughter of Sachiko just to preserve the school's reputation, and his spirit does not recognize that what he did was wrong.
• Hitodama Light: His only physical appearance is in this form.
• Never My Fault: When he is being tortured by Sachiko's evil half, he protests as though he is an innocent victim, ignoring the role he played in concealing the truth of her death.
• Slave to PR: He decides he would rather avoid a scandal involving his school than bring one of this teachers to justice for Attempted Rape of a student.

Tropes for the Principal (Takamine Yanagihori) in the remake:

Takamine Yanagihori

Voiced by: Taira Kikumoto

The headmaster of Heavenly Host Elementary, he was well-loved by the townspeople for his dedication to the school's success. Nevertheless, he was responsible for the 1953 incident when he attempted rape on Yoshie Shinozaki, his colleague and close friend, killing her by accident when she fell down the stairway making her escape. He killed the only witness, her daughter, by strangling her to death and was subsequently condemned to repeat his death again and again by the curse as retribution for his crimes.

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• Aborted Arc: Minor case, but Yoshie's post-mortem diary in Blood Covered implied he may have been possessed during his Attempted Rape. This was never followed up upon and an early conversation in Blood Drive that serves as a recap of the previous games makes no mention of it.
• Adaptational Villainy: He was no saint in the PC-98 original, having covered up the Attempted Rape and accidental death of his own student in order to protect the school's reputation. But Blood Covered makes him even more monstrous by turning him into the attempted rapist who's responsible for all the suffering that ensues in the story.
• Asshole Victim: Even given how horrific his final fate ends up being, it's pretty much impossible to feel anything resembling pity for the man, given his actions form a major crux for just about everything bad that happened in the series, on top of being an attempted rapist and child-murderer.
• Composite Character: Aside from using his power to coverup the truth in the game's backstory, he's the one guilty of Attempted Rape and causing the initial deaths in Blood Covered, rather than the unnamed teacher in the PC-98 original.
• Disney Villain Death: He killed himself by jumping off a balcony. In the afterlife, he's made to do it again and again and again and again, and will more than likely keep doing it until the end of time.
• Driven to Madness: After the incident, Sachiko's ghost began getting into his head, causing him to believe that her hidden corpse could still tell someone about the murders. To prevent this, he cut out her tongue. This didn't change anything, and Sachiko continued to deteriorate his mental stability until he committed suicide.
• Driven to Suicide: In a desperate attempt to escape Sachiko ruining his mind, he jumped off his balcony to his death. It certainly killed him, but it didn't free him from her. For an added kick, he's forced to repeat this act, likely for all eternity.
• Evil Principal: He is here an attempted rapist who targeted school nurse Yoshie Shinozaki, accidentally killed her, then strangled Sachiko for witnessing it, condemning his soul to be tormented for eternity.
• Fate Worse than Death: Bad enough he's dead in Heavenly Host, but he has to relive his death by jumping off the balcony of his office for the rest of eternity.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Almost everything wrong with the series all started with this bastard who tried to rape, then ended up killing Yoshie Shinozaki and then said it was an "accident." When her daughter Sachiko was the witness, he strangled her to death and hid her body in the basement.
• Never My Fault: Even in death, he still blames his actions on a "temporary lapse in judgment," blaming it on Yoshie.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He's a small fry in the grand scheme of things and the Nirvana existed before him, but his murder of Sachiko is what allowed her to become a host for the Nirvana.