BNP SpookMonth Presents! Corpse Party: Tortured Souls

Well it’s October, and you know what that means, right? Trick or treating? Nah. Pumpkins and Halloween decorations? Nah, son. October is meant for horror anime, or at the very least weird and creepy ones. October will be forever known as SpookMonth — a month filled with scary skeletons and all the anime that go bump in the night, so to start off SpookMonth we have a short and sweet show (well, more like a short and bitter limb-ripping, blood-dripping show) called Corpse Party: Tortured Souls. If you couldn’t tell by the description in that last sentence…viewer discretion is advised.

Corpse Party: Tortured Souls is a 4-episode OVA (Original Video Animation) based on the Corpse Party game series. Each episode runs for just about 30 minutes, so you can realistically finish this series in 2 hours if you get hooked on it. A lot of Corpse Party fans say this series doesn’t really do the games justice, but I haven’t played the games myself. I can say that after watching this series I want to give the games a try, and I’m interested in the story after watching it. I know the games have multiple endings and add more backstory that the OVA, so that might be a reason why the fans find the story hard to adapt. Speaking of the story, this one is a little cliché, but I think they pulled it off in a unique way. Basically an extremely horrifying, deadly event occurred at the Heavenly Host school, and the school was razed in an attempt to erase the event from everyone’s mind and wipe it f…