Building a Corpse Party Book Collection

The Corpse Party Series has a lot of released books including manga, fanbooks, and light novels. It can get pretty confusing while you're starting out with the series and you're not sure which book is supposed to go first in terms of events. I'll attempt to sort them out and provide information on each one of them here, so you (and I) can have a quick guide/master list on which books to get next for your collection.

Manga

Corpse Party Blood Covered
No of volumes: 10 (Complete)
Artist: Toshimi Shinomiya

This manga series follows the events in the game Corpse Party: Blood Covered

Corpse Party Book of Shadows
No of volumes: 3 (Complete)
Artist: Mika Orie

The events here happen after Blood Covered. It follows the events in the game Corpse Party Book of Shadows.

Corpse Party Blood Drive
No of volumes: 1


The events here happen after Book of Shadows. It is a prequel to the game Blood Drive and comes with the limited edition of the game.

Sometimes, you'll find them sold individually by those who ordered the limited edition.

Corpse Party Hysteric Birthday 2U
No. of volumes: 1 (Ongoing)
Artist: Tsubakurou Shibata

The events here take place in an alternate timeline. Full of fanservice and comedy.

Corpse Party Another Child
No of volumes: 3 (Complete)
Artist: Shunsuke Ogata

This is a spin-off manga with Tamaki Minase as the protagonist. Characters from the original Corpse Party also make cameos.

Corpse Party Musume
No of Volumes: 3 (Complete)
Artist: Mika Orie

Events here happen in an alternate timeline. This time, with a new character included and much ecchi. If you're not into fanservice, you might want to skip this one out. Otherwise, go get the whole collection

Corpse Party Coupling x Anthology
No of volumes: 1

A collection of short stories by different artists. More focused on comedy and on certain pairings like NahoxKibiki, etc.

Magi-cu 4-koma: Corpse Party
No of volumes: 1

A collection of romantic comedy 4-komas (4 paneled comics) done by different artists.







Corpse Party Cemetery0 ~The Creation of Ars Moriendi~
No of volumes: 3 (Complete)
Artist: Ichihaya

This manga is a prequel to the series. The main protagonist is Naho. The story focuses on her investigations.

Note: This manga is the hardest to find in the series. (Besides that limited edition Blood Drive manga) I suggest checking eBay. I spotted the whole series being sold there once.

Light Novels

Corpse Party: Blood Covered... Repeated Fear (Top)

This is the first volume in the set.
Main characters in this volume are Naomi, Seiko, Yoshiki and Ayumi.

Corpse Party: Blood Covered... Repeated Fear (Bottom)

This is the second volume in the set.

Main characters in this novel are Naomi, Satoshi and Yuka.

Corpse Party Blood Covered... Repeated Fear "Truth and Falsehood of Relationships" 









Corpse Party Cemetery0 

Another hard to find light novel. For this one, I also suggest checking eBay. Sometimes, this book pops out there.

Fan Books

Corpse Party Blood Covered... Repeated Fear

Focuses on the game Corpse Party Blood Covered... Repeated Fear

Corpse Party Book of Shadows

Focuses on the game Corpse Party Book of Shadows

Corpse Party Blood Drive

Focuses on the game Corpse Party Blood Drive.

Papina's Otaku Life Update #8: Tokuen Ranbu, Fodder for Your Otome Heart

So my friend Toru, who frequently swims in the vast ocean of tumblr posts made by bishie-loving fujoshis, came across this Japanese browser game called Tokuen Ranbu where you fight with swords who are bishounens. Now she's getting the rest of our circle of friends to play it. The game is still new, around a few weeks old. If you're interested in playing it, there are instructions over here in this post.

You get to select a starting sword and they're also voiced! Yeesss! Here's one of them:

If you've played Kancolle before, you'll notice that they are sorta similar (probably because they're both browser games from the same site). You repair the swords, gather materials, collect more swords, and keep upgrading things until you have a powerful harem-- I mean--- swords who will fight for you.

There are a lot of swords to collect. Including traps. Who knows what other swords are out there?

As of the moment, that's all I can say about the game. I still have to check out the rest of its features. xD

Online Anime TCG Games! My Deck Can't Be This MOE!

Ok, so at some point I was bored and had the strangest urge to go play a Trading Card Game (TCG) online. (Cause real TCGs cost lots of money Dx) Anywho, I traversed the interwebs in search of the perfect game to cure my psychic emptiness.

My first stop was an old game I used to love: Sword Girls Online. But... to my dismay, the old site closed down. There's a new site, this time you're required to download the software. Before, you didn't have to. You'd just play it directly on the browser. I probably tried it out at a bad time cause their server was down, so they made the players use a backup server. The lag was terrible.

Anyway, game play wise, I find it pretty good because you can develop your own play style, combos, and you're required to actually have a good strategy to defeat dungeon bosses. It's challenging, just the way I like it. And to add to that, the art is just simply adorable! I wouldn't mind spending money on the real cards if I ever make a visit to Korea. ... if they still sell them that is.

Next up! I found Shikihime Garden. The art is pretty simple, but cute nonetheless. I love how you can decorate your garden and feed your himes. Early game, you don't need much strategy, just kill and lvl your himes. Mid game, you'd need to start balancing your team by putting enough of each type of hime. You'd also need to learn when to switch out a hime during battle.

What I don't like about this game is the grinding. If you want good cards, you need to grind, grind, and grind. I have no patience for grinding. Well, Sword Girls needs grinding too, but at least you're entertained with trying to come up with the next move and all.

This time, I went looking for games for android. I wanted to download Million Arthur, but nooo.. it's unavailable in my region, so I ended up with Ayakashi Ghost Guild.

If you're too lazy for lots of strategy and you just want to collect pretty cards, then perhaps you might like this game. Battle happens in just a second. Barely any strategy. You might argue that ayakashi have skills and all, but that barely helps unless you have moolah and went off to buy cards with super useful skills.

What I like about the game is the story. I must admit. I found it entertaining, especially for that one event with the carnival. Another thing I like is the art and music. I really love the music. When I first played the game, it was what caught my attention first. Those I mentioned are pretty much the only things that are keeping me playing occasionally. I mean, it's a game designed to make you buy stuff to increase power. Playing without buying makes the game way harder and often just discourages you from continuing. If you've been playing free browser games like those, you'd get what I'm talking about.

And so, after playing 3 games, I didn't want to play any more online TCGs. Some people recommended Hearthstone, which sorta reminds me of Magic: The Gathering, but I'll probably save that for later. Right now, I'm contemplating on trying out Weiss Schwarz and building a Madoka deck.

Black Diary Case 2 Released! Plus Case 1 Update!

Case 2 Released!

Case 2 is finally out! This time, Colette has to deal with an obsessed stalker who is out to get Andrew! Besides having to deal with that, a new rival, the self-proclaimed #1 school detective Jean Bellerose also appears before her. Will Colette stop the stalker in time before more kidnapping incidents happen? Why is Ayase acting suspicious? And who is that mysterious creepy girl with a voodoo doll?

Download the PC version here:
(Note: It's under the ecchi site of dlsite, but it doesn't contain any ecchi.)



Notes:
- The iOS version has a few seconds of black screen load time. So, just so you know, it's working properly.

Updated Case 1!

In addition to the release of Case 2, we also have the updates for Case 1 available!

We re coded the whole script for Ren'py. Here are screenshots of our previous version and the new version side by side:

... not too different, but there's a small menu now at the bottom area of the new version.

What's new?

- Runs much smoother now thanks to Ren'py

- New Save/Load Screens!

Papina's Otaku Life Update #7: Aura Kingdom

I've been sick this week, which sucks cause I can't do any work. Now that I recovered, I am once again distracted from my work. Buuut, at least I get to talk about it here since this is a game blog.

So I've been playing Aura Kingdom lately. I'm currently hooked, probably because it reminds me of Dragon Nest so much except without the overly repetitive dungeon. I can't help but compare the two because of all the similarities in graphics, game play, and character upgrades.

I don't want to get into long boring details, so I'll just summarize them into points:

Stuff I Find Awesome

1. Quests galore! 

Hidden Quests, Main Quests, Daily Quests, and Achievements... Will I ever run out of things to do? (Still too early to tell.)

2. Loyalty Points

You know how you really need this item but it's only sold in the cash shop so you're either forced to use real money or spend a lot of in-game cash just to obtain it? The game uses Loyalty Points, which you earn from quests and achievements, as currency for a separate shop that also sells cash shop items. It may be harder to obtain costumes, but hey... I'm able to easily expand my inventory slots so I'm pretty happy.

3. Easy Leveling

I feel like this game makes leveling easy. I know it usually is easy to level at early stages, but this game provides so many opportunities to speed up leveling with the many daily quests (including repeatable hidden quests that don't require much work) and XP bonus charms included in the daily login.

4. Convenient Auto Run

Are you too lazy to look for this NPC or monster for a quest? Just click on the quest objective and it takes you there automatically. So convenient.

5. Free Permanent Costumes

Well, costumes are basically your actual clothes. If you take them off, then your chara is left in his/her underwear. At early levels, you already have access to some nice costumes to add to your wardrobe.

6. Interesting Quest Objectives

It's not just the usual "Kill 500 slimes" or "Talk to this guy" then "Talk to this other guy". There are actually minigames (more like sneak missions) that come with some quests

7. Eidolon Buddies to Kill Stuff for You

Eidolon are like your pets that follow you around. They have skills which you can control. You actually can sit back and let them do the killing if you're that lazy.

Stuff I Don't Find Awesome

Before I go off into a rant about how they nerfed my class, the Ranger. I will point out the things I have observed from my end. Do note that it is possible that some of the things I mentioned is caused by lag.

Most of my complaints have to do with the battle system. I find it annoying that most of the Ranger's skills have to be charged for max damage. Uncharged attacks barely hit hard. In my previous experience playing as an archer in other games (except Monster Hunter), most skills don't necessarily have to be charged to deal good damage. Maybe charging would have been fine if they didn't require 4-10 seconds. Also, I find it really annoying how you have to click on a single target to do AoE skills. It's not a highlighted area you can select. Having to select a target before you can even use the skill causes a delay, which sucks cause I want aggressive hoards to die fast. So far, I only have a few AoE skills. I'm hoping the rest aren't the same way.

Additionally, the cooldowns are also annoying. There's a cooldown after I use the skill AND after the shot is released. And if that's not enough to annoy you, once you activate the skill there's a delay between the time you activate it and the moment it hits the target. That makes it hard to time things for combos with other party members.

Shorter version of above: Many things about the game's battle system slows you down (at least for the ranger).... that or I'm so used to fast-paced battle systems.

And now for some screenshots....

And here's my eidolon friendzoning another eidolon lol

I want to get on that ship

"I CHOOSE YOU!"

[Translation] Dot Kareshi -We're 8bit Lovers! 1 - Mahoutsukai

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Mahoutsukai's Route~

H = Hero
P = Priest
M = Magician
T = Thief

Choices:
Hero
Magician (Pick this)
Thief
Priest

M: You're choosing me? I wasn't really expecting it. I'm glad.

H: How lame. Why isn't it me? I'm this game's main character.
Go look for that grimoire in the library nearby. It doesn't seem like a mission at all. Ah, I don't get why you'd want to do this.

P: Losing against Magician... It's as if life is already at a troublesome level.

T: I get it. When someone else gets chosen, you just can't agree with it.

M: What do you mean by that? I'll send you flying before the quest starts. If it's here, I can easily replenish my MP.
Heh. If you want me to stop, then I'll let it slide.
Ah, Master, we'll take this quest.

Master: Got it. Here you go. Obtaining the legendary grimoire quest, right?
The quest details are written on this paper. If something you don't understand happens, use this to confirm it.

M: Thank you very much.
Well then everyone, let's depart.

H: Eh...

T: Booring.

P: I wanna go home.

H: So, what exactly is that so called "obtaining the legendary grimoire quest"?

M: Umm... yes.
At a place a bit far off from here, there appears to be a mansion.
It seems that the legendary grimoire is sealed there.

P: Is there even a chance for us to break that seal?
If we go check it out but can't do anything about that seal, it'll be a waste of time going there.

M: I can't say for certain, but I think it will probably be alright.
They say that legendary grimoire seems to have a connection with the underworld.

P: I get it.

M: Humph. It's fine. You never had that much interest in me so it's obvious you don't get it.

Choices:
T-That's not true! (+0)
From now on, I want to get to know you more! (pick this +20)
I'm sorry... (+10)

M: P-Please don't say such nice things at the spur of the moment. Though you've been neglecting me all this time...
I've been studying literature related to the underworld since the beginning.
And... That sealed grimoire could have been left by a magician who came from the underworld.
From the beginning, you've been ignoring me a lot.
A person goes through great lengths to fire a huge magic spell, but you just calmly switched the effect movie off.

H: Well, that's... uhh...

T: That's kinda... how should I put it... Don't blame her for that.

M: What?

P: Your magic effects are too painstakingly long.

H: If it was me, I'd end the battle with just one blow. On the other hand, your magic's effect movie takes several minutes.

M: Isn't it fine?! I usually don't stand out! It's the only scene where I'm highlighted!
I'm a magician so I have to wear this hat. Because of this, you can't even see my face properly!
Argh... whatever. Let's go!

T: So this is the house where the grimoire is sealed~ The atmosphere is kinda perfect.

H: Let's hurry up and finish this. I want to quickly say goodbye to this weird mansion.

M: Right. First off, let's look for the room where the grimoire is sealed.

T: Do you know?

M: There's a considerably deep magical power hanging in the air. If we follow that, we'll immediately find out where the room is.

H: Then please lead the way.

M: Got it. Well then, let's go.

P: Hey, Magician...

M: Yes. What is it?

P: You have something you need to say to me, don't you?

M: As expected of Priest. You can sense the sinister magic's vortex.

H: Wait, wait. What do you mean by that?

M: Actually, because this mansion continued to seal the legendary grimoire for a long time, its influence became stronger.

T: The grimoire's influence?

M: I hear undead monsters are summoned by it. This place is famous in this neighborhood for being the mansion of death.

H: You..!! You should tell us things like this earlier!

P: I happen to have purification white magic, you know.

M: Isn't it fine? With our level and physiology, it won't be a hard fight.

H: Isn't that the number one problem we have?

M: Come, let's move forward efficiently. The grimoire is waiting for us.

H: Ahh... I don't want to go.
I hate smelling bad from fighting zombies at close range.

T: Agreed...

P: You vanguards, do your work. I'll be backing you up from behind.

T: Hiiii..!!! A zombie jumped down from the ceilinnnngggg!!
And even if I know they're not carrying good items for me to steal, I thoughtlessly stole another cursed item!!

P: Just throw that thing away, you idiot!

Zombie 1: AaAaaA...

P: When one of these guys catch sight of you, the rest come swarming.

H: Hey, hey... They're rapidly appearing.

Zombie 1: AaAaaaA....

Zombie 2: AaAaaaA....

M: I'd like to save up a lot of MP. I'll leave this to Hero and Thief.

H: It can't be helped then...!! Let's go, Thief!

T: Got it!

M: Yes, I want to go home.

Choices:
Don't push yourself... (+20 - pick this)
You really want the grimoire that much? (+0)
Are you ok? (+10)

M: Fufu.. Are you worried about me?
It's very unusual of you to be concerned.
For the sake of my own research, for you to get to know me more.
The two main reasons why I want the grimoire sealed here.
In addition to that, there's something I'm concerned about.
If we leave alone the magic that can interfere with the underworld, I don't know what influence it will have on this world.
If that's the case, we can't just leave it alone.
Ah, that's right. Everyone who's a hindrance, will you cooperate on an MP recovery while subjugating zombies?

-to be updated.. I'm hungry...-

Papina's Otaku Life Update #6: Translations Projects and Other News

I don't know if I'm late on hearing things or if the news is fresh, but this is what I've picked up lately from lurking in the HHE forums, and talking to Skybird, who seems to be updated with things.

First off, some Corpse Party news!

New Corpse Party Dead Patient Chapter 1 translation 
project?!

Iarumas and L3Z4 just announced that they are working on releasing an English patch of the game. Now that's some competition for Crimson_Flame and Red, who are also working on a patch for it (There are some heavy criticism in the CP community though about the quality of their translations).

Weell, whichever patch you pick in the end is up to you.

ME!ME!ME! already up on sale? I still can't find the official lyrics anywhere!

That viral video's music is already up on sale in 3 parts in iTunes and other sites like this. If you haven't seen the MV yet, then here's the video (though a little warning... it contains some NSFW stuff). NSFW aside, the animation was done wonderfully.

Black Diary Case 1 Update and Case 2 Coming Soon!

We've completed both of them, so we're just waiting for Apple and Dlsite to finish reviewing them and we'll be able to place them up once they're approved. Yay!

Translation Projects Status Update

For the Corpse Party manga translation collaborations, you can get updates from the forums or my tumblr site. Our pace is going a bit slow (considering the people I'm working with, L3Z4 and Iaru, are giving more attention to the game so even if the translations are done it's still left unchecked and unedited).

Hakozume vol 4 is still definitely on my list because my friend Toru requested it.

As for Dot Kareshi, I will resume translations soon, but I am unable to release an Eng patch because of the font. OTL If you'd like to see what the problem is, here is a screenshot:

And lastly.....

Happy Holidays to Everyone~! 
(yωy*) мёггу снгisтмдsﾟ･*:.｡. ☆