History VisualNovel / Cartagra

* DisabledLoveInterest: Yura was this for Shugo before he left for the war. [[spoiler:At least, that's what he and Kazuna were led to believe.]]

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''Cartagra: Affliction of the Soul'' is a 2005 erotic visual novel created by game company Innocent Grey.

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Recieved a fan dub by the LetsPlay/LetsDubProject.

''Cartagra'' is followed by another visual novel by the same company, ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo'', though there is very little plot connections between the games aside of returning characters and settings.

** In the Koyuki and Seri route, [[spoiler: no matter which direction (left or right) Shugo takes to escape the Senri compound, he will witness the twins having sex with one the cult's followers and then the killer will get him.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: Much like in ''Kara no Shoujo'', the killers are introduced as unassuming people. [[spoiler:One of them even masquerades as someone Shugo knows.]]

** Yaginuma. [[spoiler:However, it's not revealed why he acts like that in this game. See ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo'', if you want to know.]]

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:As ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo'' confirms, Shugo and Kazuna get married between the events of ''Cartagra'' and ''Kara''.]]

* SerialKiller: One of the game's core storylines revolves around them, just like with ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo''. Shugo's initial objective is to find Yura with Kazuna's help, but personally gets involved in the serial killings in Ueno [[spoiler:when one of the Yukishiro workers, Otoha, is brutally murdered]].

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Kozuki Yura, due to a freak genetic mutation that gave her grey irises, was subject to hideous abuses and cruel experiments due to a family legend. In the present, she's become a DiabolicalMastermind {{Yandere}} that wants Shougo, revenge, and to kill Kazuna out of spite for being the lucky sister, in roughly that order.]]
* {{Yakuza}}: The Hand of Death, an underground syndicate of which Toji is a part of.

* ACupAngst: Kazuna.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Tokiko Shigusa.
* AnArmAndALeg: The serial killer's general ''modus operandi''. [[spoiler:It's also in line with Senri's prophecies.]]

* ApocalypseCult: Senri.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Sister Fukamizu, Ikuma Akao, Yura Kozuki...]]

* BittersweetEnding: Even the TrueEnding will have this: [[spoiler:Rin, Takako, and Tokiko have been killed in some way thanks to Senri. People who are connected to the cult, such as Akao Ikuma and Detective Arishima, are also dead. The only living culprit left is Kozuki Yura, and she's currently in a coma. But despite all of this, Shugo, Kazuna, and Toji have all survived. Kazuna's father has turned over a new leaf, the Yukishiro is doing better, and Kazuna ultimately decides to study acting abroad, so that Yura will always have a sister to look up to.]]

* CloudcuckooLander: Nana, Shugo's "[[SarcasmMode beloved]]" little sister.
* TheComicallySerious: Toji.

* EyeScream: One of the killer's victims has her eyes removed. With a knife. While she's dead. [[spoiler:The victim is Otoha, one of the prostitutes from the Yukishiro brothel.]]

* FatBastard: [[spoiler:Tokiko's father Michio, as described by Detective Arishima.]]

* IHaveManyNames: [[spoiler:Detective Arishima.]]

* LadyOfWar: Toji is the closest thing to one that ''Cartagra'' sees.

** DisabledLoveInterest: Yura was this for Shugo before he left for the war. [[spoiler:At least, that's what he and Kazuna were led to believe.]]

* MoralityPet: Kazuna serves as this to Shugo.
* MultipleEndings

* PluckyGirl: Kazuna.
* RedLightDistrict: where the Yukishiro brothel is based in Tokyo.

* ShellShockedVeteran: Shugo, [[spoiler:Detective Arishima, Akao Ikuma.]]

* TheStoic: Toji. Unless [[NotSoStoic she's embarassed]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Detective Arishima, Madam Ujaku. [[spoiler:[[FauxAffablyEvil It's an act]] in Arishima's case.]]

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Completely averted. The scenes where Shugo is raped by either [[spoiler: Sister Fukamizu]] or [[spoiler: Nana]], during some bad endings, are intentionally disturbing. Those scenes even feature the same music that is played during the moments of tension or danger.

** [[spoiler: In Kazuna's normal ending, Akao Ikuma ''does'' get exposed and dies at the end. However, an arson incident at the Senri temple (which is what killed Ikuma) closes off any other possible leads (with the TrueEnding implying that it was Arashima who was behind it). Even as Arashima gets away scot-free, the final scene also shows that Yura has successfully tracked down Shugo, and with Kazuna no longer in her way due to moving abroad...]]

** [[spoiler:Detective Arashima engineered the rise of Senri from the sleazy cult it originally was, turning it into a WretchedHive of corruption to further his own ends. He was also responsible for a lot of the torment Yura endured, having convinced her father to sell her off as a human test subject, and later recruiting her to serve as Senri's new figurehead, with Akao doing the actual administrative work. He was, however, [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic]] enough to disapprove of the increasingly unhinged serial murders that Akao and Yura masterminded, and his villainous actions in the TrueEnding are motivated by him trying to cover his own tracks.]]
** [[spoiler:And finally, we have Kozuki Yura herself. The TrueEnding makes it abundantly clear that the mistreatment she endured at the hands of her family, Arashima, and society in general irrevocably broke her, as she used her position as the leader of Senri to manipulate Akao into targeting the women Shugo got close to, in a twisted attempt to keep him all to herself. This culminates in an attempt to murder her own sister so that she can switch places with her and deceive Shugo into loving her again, which would have been successful had Nana not foiled her scheme.]]

** Yura [[spoiler:was treated as a cursed freak by her family (Kazuna had no idea about this, and even Shugo only had a vague inkling when he was together with her), and was given over to people who "experimented" on her--all before meeting Shugo]].

** Yura [[spoiler:was treated as a cursed freak by her family (Kazuna had no idea about this), and was given over to people who "experimented" on her--all before meeting Shugo]].

** [[spoiler: In Kazuna's normal ending, Akao Ikuma ''does'' get exposed and dies at the end. However, an arson incident at the Senri temple closes off any other possible leads (with the TrueEnding implying that it was Arashima who was behind it). Even as Arashima gets away scot-free, the final scene also shows that Yura has successfully tracked down Shugo, and with Kazuna no longer in her way due to moving abroad...]]

** [[spoiler: In Kazuna's normal ending, Akao Ikuma ''does'' get exposed and dies at the end. However, an arson incident at the Senri temple closes off any other possible leads (with the TrueEnding implying that it was Arashima who was behind it). Even as Arashima gets away scott-free, the final scene also shows that Yura has successfully tracked down Shugo, and with Kazuna no longer in her way due to moving abroad...]]