A blog about my FanFiction. Corpse Party: Blood Drive Aftermath Synopsis: After returning from their second trip to Heavenly Host, both Yoshiki's and Ayumi's existences are erased. The two must now live in a world that no longer remembers them.
What happened to Corpse Party 2 project? L3z4plus is disappeared from all social D:
Simply put, someone else completed a functional translation before us as part of their University research project/dissertation, and the main editor of our project got buried under IRL.
I have all the script files, but I don’t think anyone’s interested in our translation anymore.
You’re free to look for the other person’s translation. I think it’s somewhere on the web.
There are some translation mistakes (e.g. phrasing, accents, word choice, nuance), but they’re not as bad as the one’s made by XSEED with Blood Drive, so no major plot details are lost.
I've heard the Corpse Party drama CD "Everyone Loves Yoshiki" or something like that, but I don't know Japanese and it sound HILARIOUS!! Do you know what happens exactly? I am super curious about it XD
That is the content of the first Corpse Party Blood Covered Drama CD.
There is a translated version on YouTube here.
The voices are slightly different from the PSP version as this was released with the PC version, which had different voice actors to later versions.
So there's four Drama CDs? I see, I thought there might be more by this point, with all the different releases BC's gotten (maybe there are but they were of no use for the fanfic and therefore weren't listed? Like I know one of them is about the cast going on a vacation). Anyway, thank you, this gives me a starting point to begin looking into these!
I think the one where they go on a “vacation” is the CorpseParty Blood Covered Repeated Fear Drama CD.
There are only 4 Drama CDs in existence at the moment, which are listed in the Japanese Wikipedia page of Corpse Party.
2 (Corpse Party: Blood Covered, Corpse Party: Blood Covered Repeated Fear) were released by Frontier Works Inc.
1 (Corpse Party: Book of Shadows) was released by 5pb.
1 (Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient) was self-published by GrindHouse.
The first two Drama CDs were released at two separate comic markets in between the releaseｓ of the chapters of Blood Covered.
The Corpse Party: Book of Shadows Drama CD was released a couple weeks after the release of the Book of Shadows game.
I do not know when the Dead Patient Drama CDs were released, but they were not actually used during the development of the fanfiction as they were blatantly comical, and none of the characters involved in the story were present.
I listened to them hoping they would elucidate more details about the Dead Patient story, but besides relatively standard and stereotypical anime trope humor, there wasn’t much there.
That's too bad, I was really looking forward to it. Speaking of non-localized stuff, could you give us a list of the material you researched for the fanfic? In the notes you mentioned some audio dramas and I tried to look them up, but the wiki is surprisingly lacking information, not even featuring a simple list of those. I didn't even know they were a thing until reading your fanfic so... anything else besides those and the mangas?
The following is the list of material I used to write Aftermath.
Drama CDs are in Bold
Manga are in italics
Besides these, there are several light novels that re-tell the story of Blood Covered and Book of Shadows. The one exception is CEMETERY, which was actually written by Kedouin himself.
CORPSE PARTY -Rebuilt -
Corpse Party: Blood Covered(PC)
Corpse Party: Blood CoveredRepeated Fear (PSP)
Corpse Party: Blood CoveredDrama CD
Corpse Party: Blood Covered Repeated Fear Drama CD
Corpse Party: Blood Covered(Manga)
Corpse Party: Blood Covered Repeated Fear(3DS)
Corpse Party: Tortured Souls
Corpse Party: Missing Footage
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows(Manga)
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows - Project Dollies
Corpse Party CEMETERY: The Genesis of Ars Moriendi (Manga)
Corpse Party -THE ANTHOLOGY- Sachiko no Ren'ai Yūgi ♥ Hysteric Birthday 2U
Thanks for the insight! By the way, since you mentioned 2U, can you give us a status update on the translation project? Do you guys have any sort of ETA for the patch (even if a tentative one)?
I’m not working on the translation at the moment due to being busy with IRL, and personal projects. So, the project is on hiatus at the moment.
To be honest, I feel that most people aren’t interested in Corpse Party anymore, so I’ve only been working on things that I personally enjoy.
When you mention characters losing their scraps in one loop but ultimately escaping in another, an example of that would be when Ayumi burns Naomi's scrap, something which supposedly happens after Mire (with Mire being referenced in BD as to what makes Yuka so special), right? Maybe the solution to that could be to postulate that for the fate to be sealed it is not sufficient for someone to loose their scrap but rather Sachiko has to come into possession of it before starting a new loop?
The thing you forgot is that Ayumi herself loses her scrap in that route as well, and ends up dying alone in Heavenly Host.
The scrap she has at the end is Satoshi’s, which she stole from Naomi.
This also means that Satoshi also lost his scrap in that route, yet managed to survive.
The state of Yoshiki’s scrap is uncertain.
Additionally, even if the theory you postulate is true, it still does not explain how Yoshiki manages to make it in [Demise], as there was no way for him to escape when Sachiko was asking for his paper scrap.
Another thing to note is that several people lose their scraps, but never interact with Sachiko in Blood Covered, yet are unable to escape. Unless Sachiko was super sneaky and took their scraps off screen, there is no way to explain why they are not able to survive and why their fates are turned into facts.
More complicated nitpicking below
Also, Mire is technically not the events that took place in Blood Covered, but another repeat of events Sachiko used to play with Yuka. This is most obvious from the way Kizami reacts completely differently in Blood Covered as he does in Mire. Sachiko also confirms this by stating she wants to play with Yuka again at the end of that chapter.
Finally, although for the people involved each route looks to be linear, Sachiko perceives the progress of several routes at the same time, so the idea that one loop takes place before another in itself is incorrect. Sachiko makes several statements in 2U that she can only make if she knows about what happens in the other routes, with the major ones being made in the last choices of Chapter 7. This means that the idea that she has to re-start a loop is incorrect. The route where you die progresses onwards on its own timeline, and she does not simply freeze time and reset it at any point she wants. What she can do, however, is connect different routes together, at different points.
e.g.
Let’s say there was a route α that started at time A, and a route α+1 that is at time A+1.
What Sachiko can do is connect the events of routeα and α+1 in such a way that things that are happening at time A+1 are happening at A.
i.e. The order of events occurring is out of whack. This is why bodies of recently dead people are sometimes found as dried up husks, and why screams made in the future are instead heard in the past.
While browsing the Heavenly Host Elementary School forum, I've seen several posts by you and others alluding to a theory you've postulated about how the sealed fates are somehow tied to the loss of paper scraps and interaction with candles. I would be curious to learn about this, but I was not able to find the original post in which the theory was explained/formulated. Could you link me to it (or paste it here if more convenient)?
I think you’re talking about the Blood Drive Theories forum post, but I’m unsure if it is open to people outside the Grave of Maltuva group on that forum.
As a summary, the idea is that the paper scraps prevent a person’s fate from being cemented in Heavenly Host comes from quotes from Sachiko. While the candle save mechanic game play element being a plot relevant occurrence, was made from observations that the game play element of Wrong Ends were incorporated as actual plot occurrences.
TLDR: Paper Scraps: Stops fate from becoming fact
Candles: Touching them allows you to re try events again.
Click the Keep Reading for additional details
These theories are themes in my fanfiction, so some spoiler warnings
The quotes I refer to come from Book of Shadows: Chapter 6 [MIre], and in Chapter 2 [Demise].
In Chapter 6, she takes Yuka’s paper scrap after possessing/mindcontrolling her into giving her her life.
In Chapter 2, she tortures Yoshiki in order to force him to hand over his scrap with the intent to kill him so thoroughly, he cannot escape his fate in Heavenly Host.
From these two incidences, and the fact that only the survivors of Heavenly Host keep their paper scraps, it is theorized that holding onto the paper scrap prevents one’s death from becoming “fact”; which is when the event becomes unavoidable.
However, even though some of the members lose their pieces of scrap, they are still able to escape Heavenly Host in a different timeline. This contradicts the previous theory, as the loss of the scrap causes whatever fate is experienced after its loss to become fact, unless Sachiko specifically ensures it does not become fact.
As the events that cause some of the cast members who survive leads to Sachiko’s defeat, 3 possibilities were postulated:
1) Sachiko did not cement that fate into fact because she wanted to torture them more
2) Sachiko did not cement that fate into fact because she wanted to be defeated
3) The Paper Scraps are not the only reason the player’s characters’ fates’ do not become fact
As Corpse Party Blood Drive showed that certain game play elements are actually integral to the plot (i.e. the concept of wrong ends), I theorized that it may be possible that other elements may also be plot relevant as well.
My theory was that the save load feature of the candles are what actually allow the characters to experience different fates, even after they die. Plot wise, if the characters die, they actually do die in the plot of the game. i.e. That play through is something that happened in the game’s canon.
Thus, the ability to explore multiple fates (the save system) may actually be a plot element as well.
There are other things that support this, such as the difference in save system between Blood Covered, and Blood Drive v.s. 2U and Book of Shadows.
The games that take place in Heavenly Host which progresses the plot, and go contrary to the desires of the master of Heavenly Host/Nirvana always use the candle save mechanic.
The games that take place in Heavenly Host which do not progress the plot, but merely explore alternative fates within it in (i.e. fulfill Sachiko’s various fantasies) use a save mechanic that allows you to save at any point.
My theory is that the games that use the “candle” save mechanic are using a different “re-try” system to that of the games that use the “any-point” save mechanic.
This is because those that use the candles mechanic progress events that are against the will of the being in power, while the ones that use the any-point mechanic is simply the being in power playing with the victim’s fate; restarting and replaying their deaths in the fashion they desire.
Hey I want to tell you how much I'm loving your story Like seriously while I read I feel like it's legit. It's like you put so much thought and research and effort into every chapter and it's REALLY good! I feel like it's not even a POSSIBLE series of events after Blood Drive; I honestly thought this is what happens. I just love the way that you keep the characters' personalies! Everything they do throughout the plot is like the creators of Corpse party planned it out themselves! Keep writing!!
I was going to reblog a whole bunch of things on this topic but then I thought I could do this more efficiently in a single post. So, links!
1. You have permission to make as much bad art as you need to and it will be okay. Seriously, it’s okay! It’s fine! YOU ARE NOT BEING GRADED. Make whatever you want, decide later who you’ll show it to. If it’s terrible it still taught you something or entertained you and more importantly, you still made some art. Now you can make some different art! Possibly also still terrible, but who cares? Make as much terrible art as you need to! For whatever value of “terrible” and “need” apply in your case! You do you!
2. If you are worrying about how people will receive it remember: more art = more cake. You are comparing your work to the work you admire most, but the person hungrily clicking through AO3 notifciations and tumblr tags is comparing your work to NOTHING TO READ. People want more stuff! And you are making stuff! Everybody wins!
3. “For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit.” As Ira Glass explains–again, you’re comparing your own work to the work you admire most. You have the critical eye to tell the difference, but you don’t know how to produce something better yet. Well, the only way out is through. You can quit make stuff and sit back and criticize other people, or you can just keep trying and failing and trying again and failing again and failing better.
4. “That still happens occasionally. It’s like, ‘Oh my god, nothing I’m drawing looks any good anymore. My life is over as an artist.’” Walt Simonson explains that not only does this thing Ira Glass described happen when you’re starting out, it happens over and over as you improve. You have to develop the eye for something better before you can learn to produce it–which means that over and over you may go through periods where your own work doesn’t meet your expectations, even if for a while there it did.
5. And this isn’t even a linear process toward some Ideal Perfect Best Writing/Arting Self, as T. S. Eliot describes…
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it.
Sure, you might know how to write or draw one particular thing really well–but as soon as you decide to try something new or different, you’re starting all over again. Probably you bring a lot of tools and techniques with you, but still, you’re in new territory. Change fandoms, pairings, styles, artistic focus, kinkmemes, whatever–you’ve got something to learn again, and it takes time to get there.
6. In Conclusion: Writing is about dealing with failure all the time.
7. But the only way to get anywhere is to show up and do the work.
True. I’m mixed because most of the time I don’t think I’m a bad writer, but there are days where I feel everything I’ve done is disgusting and worthless.
Then again, that’s nothing new to the world either.
Please please please never ever stop writing the blood drive aftermath!! I am dying to read the next chapters!! I really really love the way that you, write like I can seriously see all of it happening! I'm relieved that chapter 48 came out since I've been looking forward to it. (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))
Thanks! I’ll keep going, even if it’s at a much slower pace than before.
The replacement students would end up either remembering always having been in the class(es) they were in until S, M & M were erased, or they'd remember having been in those classes until a month ago when they suddenly were in 2-9. My head hurts >_< Concerning Naomi though, she'd probably be ok with a world in which Seiko's disappearence was noted and her mourning wasn't considered abnormal, requiring therapy. That may explain why we're not shown a reconciliation but just that her mother is ok.
In the case of the replacement students, they received the same treatment as Kuon. i.e. since the existence they had replaced was filled again, there was a superposition of existences. That means there were two students filling the same role in one world This goes against the rules of reality, so one has to disappear. As one was merely a replacement, their existence returned back to the path of fate that they had been before before the loss of existence shifted their fate to replace the existence that had been lost.
That means that they didn’t remember anything new. They just lost their existence as students of Kisaragi, just like Kuon lost her existence as a teacher at Kisaragi.
Existence is not all or nothing. Parts of it can be lost without losing the whole. Your existence as a student is separate to your existence as a person. Being a student is only a fragment of what a person is.
Existence and fate also follow a form of entropy. Events progress along the path of least resistance, which is determined by how wildly current or future events diverge from past events. For example, Kuon’s choice to become a teacher is noted by Aiko as sudden, and unusual for her. However, she made it anyways. She made this decision because enough existences had been lost, or fates had been pushed aside for her fate to be allowed to flow down that route.
Imagine existences like jenga blocks that leak water, and fate is the water pouring from those blocks. Reality is a tower, building, or even city built from all these blocks, and the water flowing down them. A person’s fate pours down and is impeded, or pushed aside when it hits another stream of water (fate) or a block (existence). This causes its path to wind and mix with the fates of others. If a block is suddenly gone, the fates that interact with it flow in a different direction, and thus a new reality is created.
With the existences that were lost restored, the fates that flowed in its place become blocked again, and cease to exist.
This analogy of how the way fates and existences work in Corpse Party is not represented by any one quote from a character, but based on Buddhist teachings, and Shinto beliefs that Corpse Party often draws inspiration from. It is also taken from the way Aiko describes what happened to the students who disappeared, and how Ayumi and Yoshiki disappeared at the end of Blood Drive.
Ah actually what I'm wondering isn't if the deaths are given alternative causes, that had never crossed my mind. What BD left me wondering is if people are shocked at suddenly remembering family members that they did not realize had gone missing or if the events since the disappearences are rewritten so that people immediately noticed. Again, In Seiko's case, if her family remembers noticing her disappearence right after it happened or if they remember having gone a month with no memory of her.
There isn’t any information in regards to at what stage people realized their loved ones were missing, but Kuon’s existence as a teacher at Kisaragi was erased once Yui came back. The same is true for the other students, although we don’t know whether they were simply erased, or returned to the state they were at when Mayu, Morishige, and Seiko still existed.
This is really just supposition at this point, but since Naomi seemed so normal in the last scene of Blood Drive, I think it’s safe to say that things resolved themselves in a way that she was able to come to terms with. i.e. The world around her made sense to her again. Since any re-writing of past events would re-introduce a dissonance between her and the world, I don’t think any past events were changed to make up for the fact that the victims of Heavenly Host returned.
One thing to note would be that if events had been re-written such that the families of the individuals involved behaved entirely differently due to never forgetting their loved ones, there should have been some mention of it by Aiko or Magari. As there isn’t I don’t think something as complicated as that occurred.
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