History VisualNovel / Cartagra

** [[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 irrevocable 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.]]

** [[spoiler:And finally, we have Kozuki Yura. The TrueEnding makes it abundantly clear that the mistreatment she endured at the hands of her family, Arashima, and society in general irrevocable 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.]]

** [[spoiler:Detective Arashima engineered the rise of Senri from the sleazy cult it originally was, turning it into a WretchHive 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.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler: The main game ends on a bittersweet but hopeful note where Yura is left in a coma and hope is given that she could get better. In the fandisc, however...things go wrong.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: By the end of the game, [[spoiler: Rin, Takako, Tokiko, Akao, and Arishima are all dead]]. [[spoiler:The fandisc-exclusive afterstory finaly includes Yura in the death count.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: By the end of the fandisc exclusive afterstory, [[spoiler: Rin, Takako, Tokiko, Akao, Arishima and Yura are all dead]].

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

* SuddenlyVoiced: In Kazuna's normal route, [[spoiler: Shugo appears during one of the perspective flips mentioned above, thus he has his own sprite and is fully voiced.]]

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Completely averted. The bed endings where Shugo is raped by either [[spoiler: Sister Fukamizu]] or [[spoiler: Nana]] are intentionally disturbing, they even use the same music the novels plays during the moments of tension or danger.

* ButThouMust: If you refuse Detective Arishima's offer at the very beginning of the game, Shugo will end up accepting it anyway.

* ButThouMust: If you refuse Arishima's offer at the very beginning of the game, Shugo will end up accepting it anyway.
** In 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.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Tokiko, in the TrueEnding route.]] [[spoiler:At least, that's what we're led to believe. Yura had killed Tokiko and made it appear as a hanging.]]

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

* 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.]]

* AnyoneCanDie

* BigBrotherMentor: Shugo acts as one to Yukishiro worker Hatsune [[spoiler:in the art of writing.]]

* PinballProtagonist: Shugo. Regardless of what the player chooses, Shugo can't prevent the deaths of characters such as Rin and Tokiko.

** In the fandisc after story, [[spoiler: Kazuna returns to Japan as a famous actor, and meets Toji and Shugo again. She also visits Yura in her hospital bed. A happy reunion, right? It would have been, if Yura hadn't chosen this time to regain consciousness. Enraged that Kazuna is still alive, she wakes up and murders the staff at her hospital before storming into the theatre where Kazuna was performing, killing the male lead and appearing on stage in his clothes. Before she can murder her sister, however, Toji shoots her - this time for good.]]

* CoolBigSis: Kazuna sees Toji as a cool figure, which is a slightly misguided notion.

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Rin and Madam Ujaku. Strongly [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] with Otoha, who is irritated with Hatsune and Shugo for different reasons and is consistently rude and abrasive to them, but was good friends with Rin. Averted all the way with her apprentices, Koyuki and Seri, though.
* HowClumsyOfMe: In the fandisc, [[spoiler:Nana 'accidentally' leaves a knife on Yura's table, leading Yura to claim three more lives before Toji kills her for good.]]

* IJustWantToBeYou: [[spoiler:Why Yura impersonated Kazuna at the end.]]

* LoveInterests

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The morning after they make love [[spoiler:again]], Shugo stands up, completely naked. Kazuna, who is not, is understandably embarrassed. HilarityEnsues.

* PinballProtagonist: Shugo.

* {{Sadist}}: [[spoiler: Nana. She figured out Sister Fukamizu's identity as the murderer early on, but did not turn her in because she enjoyed the murders. She only led Shugo to Fukamizu when Shugo's close friends began to be targetted.]]

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

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Detective Arishima, Madam Ujaku.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds; [[spoiler: Kozuki Yura, due to a freak 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.]]

* YamatoNadeshiko: A few female characters still wear kimonos in post-World War II Japan, such as Kazuna and the Yukishiro prostitutes.

** In the fandisc after story, [[spoiler: Yura returns to Japan as a famous actor, and meets Toji and Shugo again. She also visits Yura in her hospital bed. A happy reunion, right? It would have been, if Yura hadn't chosen this time to regain consciousness. Enraged that Kazuna is still alive, she wakes up and murders the staff and her hospital before storming into the theatre where Kazuna was performing, killing the male lead and appearing on stage in his clothes. Before she can murder her sister, however, Toji shoots her - this time for good.]]

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Rin and Madam Ujaku. Averted somewhat with Otoha, who is irritated with Hatsune and Shugo for different reasons, bur was good friends with Rin. Averted all the way with her apprentices, Koyuki and Seri, though.

* [[spoiler:IJustWantToBeYou: Why Yura impersonated Kazuna at the end.]]
* InsufferableGenius: Yaginuma.
* {{Jerkass}}: Yaginuma. [[spoiler:However, it's not revealed [[JerkassFacade why he acts like that]] in this game. See ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo'', if you want to know.]]

Recieved a fan dub by LetsPlay/TheLetsDubProject.

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

** Like many of the other characters in ''Cartagra'', Shugo fought in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Before he did so, he ended up "betraying" Yura by leaving her and never returning to her, which has left him with guilt for over ten years.

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

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Rin and Madam Ujaku.

* MadArtist: [[spoiler:Turns out that Akao Ikuma was responsible for the horrifically beautiful serial killings.]]

* SerialKiller: The game's core storyline, 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]].

* {{Yakuza}}: part of The Hand of Death, an underground syndicate of which Toji is a part of.

It is the 1950s, after the American occupation has passed. The hero of this story is Shugo Takashiro, an ex-police officer that is now unemployed and freeloading at a brothel. From time to time, he takes on detective work from his former superior. As the story starts off, a missing persons case is dumped onto him. The person he is supposed to find is Yura Kozuki--a girl he had an intimate relationship with before being sent off to war. What's more, he's joined on the search by Kazuna Kozuki--Yura's twin sister, whom he'd never met. While all this is being played out, a series of brutal killings occur in the background. As they strike closer to home, Shugo is no longer able to turn a blind eye and is dragged into the spiraling web of events.

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