“Nine students perform friendship ritual, trapped in haunted Heavenly Host Academy dimension with vengeful ghosts.”
Corpse Party: Tortured Souls
コープスパーティー Tortured Souls -暴虐された魂の呪叫-
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Synopsis
Nine students perform friendship ritual, trapped in haunted Heavenly Host Academy dimension with vengeful ghosts.
Nine students gather in their high school at night to bid farewell to a friend. As is customary among many high school students, they perform a sort of ritual for them to remain friends forever, using small paper charms shaped like dolls. However, the students do not realize that these charms are connected to Heavenly Host Academy—an elementary school that was destroyed years ago after a series of gruesome murders took place, a school that rests under the foundation of their very own Kisaragi Academy. Now, trapped in an alternate dimension with vengeful ghosts of the past, the students must work together to escape—or join the spirits of the damned forever. A feast for mystery fanatics, gore-hounds, and horror fans alike, Corpse Party: Tortured Souls - Bougyakusareta Tamashii no Jukyou shows a sobering look at redemption, sacrifice, and how the past is always right behind, sometimes a little too close for comfort.
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Derived from 214 sampled reviews
What 214 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.18 · split reception
4.8 pts
Recommenders 7.9 · others 3.1
↑ 0.27
Running avg · Aug 2013 → Apr 2025
- 7 “one of the weirdest animes i've watched, i have played the game which i thought was sort of scary, but the only thing i did while watching the anime was laugh because it didn't make sense. it's not...”
- 8 “Corpse Party is a great anime, however, if you don't like gory blood and guts it is not for you. I found the story line to be amazing and they even wrapped op all their main points. I recommend...”
- 9 “Being only 4 episodes I loved the series. And it entertained me every time. Though the way they ended it of wasn't very good. It was depressing as hell and I had the feeling that there'd be a happy...”
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- Format 4 × 29′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 56m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2013 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-7183 catalog
Produced by
- MAGES. Producer
Licensed by
- Maiden Japan Licensor