One of my favourite and not well known horror adaptations of a Japanese rpg horror game is Corpse Party: Tortured Souls. When I first watched it the second and third episodes did well to shock me making me cringe in horror. Doing various horrific things to people you can't possibly comprehend how they would feel is the worst a horror can do. It also surprised me when there are characters I expected not to die (e.g. the innocent little sister).
The series could do better by having no sexualised imagery as it doesn't suit the mood of the series.
The series could do better by having no sexualised imagery as it doesn't suit the mood of the series.
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| Ritual used to transport the high school students in the story to their impending doom |
The art style isn't all that good but ends in a very interesting way (besides the plot behind the murderous ghost of the story) and the animation is alright, especially good at the detail in the gore. However, the art style does ok to make it look abnormal and disconcerting as you are presented with very cute and colourful characters who are placed in a dark, horrific and gory world. This shows best in the opening intro which starts off with an eerie setting of said characters wondering around lost in the horrific, deadly and decrepit world. It then switches to showing the characters going about their daily happy lives before going back to the horror subjecting them to life threatening situations and for some their impending deaths. With the music it perfectly sets the mood throughout the changes from different setting in the opening. Besides how it ends it's a good intro, sounds too happy towards the end.
Corpse Party: Tortured Souls, Opening:
Int his scene one of the characters, Shinozaki, looks through the eyes of one of the children killed by Sachiko. Warning, this shows gorey violence (18+):
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