40 Fun Facts About Corpse Party

What is the name of the haunted elementary school where the students of Corpse Party are trapped?

Heavenly Host was torn down after its staff and pupils were murdered or vanished, yet it lingers in another dimension. A new high school now stands on the site.

The Sachiko Ever After charm that dooms the students of Corpse Party is supposed to grant what?

Eternal friendship is the promise, but the blogger who spread the ritual gave false instructions on purpose, so everyone who tries it is dragged into Sachiko's realm.

Ikue Otani, voice of the ghost girl Sachiko in Corpse Party, is best known for voicing which Pokémon?

Pikachu and Sachiko share one actress, who also plays Tony Tony Chopper in One Piece. In the games she voices the ghost girl's murdered mother as well.

Sachiko, the vengeful child ghost at the heart of Corpse Party, wears a tattered dress of what colour?

Red is her signature, and survivors know her simply as the girl in red. The dark bruises around her neck recall how she was strangled as a child.

When the survivors of Corpse Party finally get home, what has happened to their classmates who died?

Nobody remembers them: dying in the cursed school erases a person from history, so friends and family back home insist the victims never existed.

Which body part was cut from the murdered children of Corpse Party and must be returned to calm their ghosts?

Their tongues were severed in the killings that closed the school. Handing them back restores the child ghosts' sanity, and one then reveals who really murdered them.

Yoshikazu, the hulking undead teacher who stalks the halls in Corpse Party, attacks victims with which weapon?

A sledgehammer is his trademark, yet he is a puppet, not the mastermind. He was wrongly blamed for the child murders and now kills on Sachiko's orders.

A video in Corpse Party reveals that which possessed student hanged her own best friend?

Naomi Nakashima was under Sachiko's control at the time. The footage, found in the basement near the end of the story, leaves her shattered.

Which Corpse Party character is the occult-loving class representative who talks her friends into the charm?

Ayumi Shinozaki found the ritual on a paranormal blog and suggested it as a send-off for a classmate. She later learns she is a distant relative of the ghost girl herself.

Which Corpse Party character is Satoshi's younger sibling, a junior high student caught up in the charm?

Yuka Mochida acts far younger than her years, and that innocence makes her prey for a schoolboy killer who decides to adopt her as his own sibling.

Satoshi and his doomed classmates in Corpse Party all attend which high school?

Kisaragi Academy was built over the site of the demolished elementary school, so the class is standing on cursed ground when it performs the charm after dark.

Which Corpse Party character is the young homeroom teacher pulled into the cursed school with her class?

Yui Shishido is a rookie who teaches English and adores cats. Inside the school she proves her courage by putting her pupils' lives ahead of her own.

Which cheerful Corpse Party student, who dotes on her best friend, is found hanged in a toilet stall early on?

Seiko Shinohara keeps everyone's spirits up with jokes, and at home she helps raise three younger siblings after their mother vanished. She dreams of becoming a hairstylist.

Which Corpse Party student looks like a delinquent, was disowned by his parents and guards the class rep?

Yoshiki Kishinuma bleaches his hair and pays his own rent with a convenience store job. He was ready to get himself expelled until a classmate stood up for him against a teacher.

Which popular Corpse Party student is about to transfer schools, the reason her friends perform the charm?

Mayu Suzumoto is a drama club favourite nicknamed Suzume, or sparrow. Inside the cursed school she is killed by the ghosts of murdered children.

Which bespectacled Corpse Party character calms himself by photographing corpses on his phone?

Sakutaro Morishige is an aspiring actor who hides his fascination with the dead behind a calm face. It destroys him when he learns that one picture shows his closest friend.

Which Corpse Party character is the teenage paranormal blogger who posted the charm online and lied about it?

Naho Saenoki sabotaged the instructions so that her mentor, a horror novelist she adored, would have more victims to study. She died inside the school she wrote about.

Which Corpse Party student from Byakudan Senior High poses as a protector before revealing himself as a killer?

Yuuya Kizami rescues the youngest of Satoshi's group, then turns his knife on other survivors and declares her his own sibling.

Hiro Shimono, who voices the timid hero Satoshi in Corpse Party, also plays which Demon Slayer swordsman?

Zenitsu Agatsuma is another lovable coward, a type the actor has made his own. His other well-known parts include Connie Springer in Attack on Titan.

The original 1996 Corpse Party was a hobbyist project built with which off-the-shelf game creation software?

RPG Maker powered the first game, which still had a battle system and magic. The remakes stripped those out and left pure exploration horror.

Which Corpse Party character is the horror novelist whose notes explain how to escape the cursed school?

Kou Kibiki came to investigate with an assistant filming every detail, and neither got out. He was also the guardian of the schoolgirl blogger who spread the charm.

The psychic Hinoe, who dies saving Corpse Party's class representative from a cursed tome, is which relative of hers?

Older sister Hinoe is a gifted medium, and the one who passed on a love of the occult. Her sacrifice comes at the family estate, moments after a failed resurrection spell.

Yoshie, the mother of the ghost girl Sachiko in Corpse Party, held which job at the elementary school?

Nurse Yoshie loved children and died in a fall down the stairs. Sachiko began killing so that her mother's lonely spirit would have company.

In Corpse Party's backstory, who strangled young Sachiko after she saw her mother's fatal fall down the stairs?

The school principal, Takamine Yanagihori, had caused the mother's fall and silenced the only witness. He buried the girl in the basement and passed the first death off as an accident.

To get home, each participant in Corpse Party's charm must still be carrying which keepsake from the ritual?

A paper doll scrap, torn off as the group pulls the charm apart, is each person's ticket back. Using someone else's piece has gruesome results.

The students of Corpse Party stay late to tidy up after which school event on the night of the charm?

The culture festival had just ended, with the class running a sweet bean soup stall. They swap ghost stories while cleaning up, then try the ritual.

Corpse Party's many game-over scenes, triggered by a poor choice or zero HP, go by what name?

Wrong Endings are often long, gruesome scenes in their own right. Only each chapter's single True Ending lets the story move on.

Corpse Party records its voices with a dummy-head microphone to create which kind of 3D sound?

Binaural audio makes voices seem to come from all around the listener. One reviewer said he could not imagine playing without top-quality headphones.

Which writer created the original Corpse Party and is also credited as author of its manga adaptations?

Makoto Kedōin gave the ghost girl only a surname in his first game. Asked why, he joked that spirits must be playing tricks.

Which Japanese doujin circle developed the Corpse Party remakes that turned the 1996 original into a series?

Team GrisGris later worked with the publisher 5pb. on the sequels, while people from the circle set up a second group, GrindHouse, to make the sequel Dead Patient.

Which publisher localised Corpse Party into English and released it in North America from 2011?

Xseed Games shortened the title to plain Corpse Party for the West, and later gave a sequel the series' first boxed release in English.

The first English release of Corpse Party, in 2011, was a port for which handheld console?

Sony PSP players got an enhanced edition with a professional voice cast, redrawn artwork and an animated opening sequence.

Which Corpse Party game was the first in the series to show its characters and settings in 3D?

Blood Drive swapped the 2D sprites for chibi-style 3D models when it reached PlayStation Vita, while its cutscenes kept traditional illustrated artwork.

What is the subtitle of the four-episode Corpse Party anime released straight to video in 2013?

Tortured Souls is far bleaker than the game: only two of the group make it home instead of five. Its graphic violence got it banned in Russia in 2022.

In the grim finale of the Corpse Party anime, what is all that returns home of the hero Satoshi?

Only his arms come back, still gripped by the two surviving girls. He had given away his own token for the return ritual and used one that came from another school's group.

In 2015, which country's government put Corpse Party on a blacklist of 38 anime and manga titles?

China announced the ban on 12 June 2015, less than two months before the first live-action film of the story opened in Japan.

Rina Ikoma, star of the 2015 live-action Corpse Party film, was a first-generation member of which idol group?

Nogizaka46 put her front and centre on its first five singles, earning her the tag of the group's face. She played the lead again in the film's 2016 sequel.

Which voice actress plays Corpse Party's class representative and also sings the opening theme of its anime?

Asami Imai is a singer as well as an actress, also known as Kurisu Makise in Steins;Gate. With a co-star she formed the duo Artery Vein, which performs theme songs for the series.

In Corpse Party, what name is given to the corruption that overtakes victims who give in to despair?

The Darkening usually shows as a black mist around the body. Its victims act on their worst feelings, cannot remember doing so afterwards, and are left open to possession.

Corpse Party: NewChapter, an unfinished 2006 remake released in instalments, was made for which kind of device?

Mobile phones on Japan's NTT DoCoMo network got four chapters before the project stopped. Its story additions and assets were reused for the Windows remake that followed.