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In my research paper, I plan to cover the psychology of adolescents brains after being exposed to graphic and disturbing information. Using the game franchise Corpse Party as my sample point, I will examine the franchise and create a list of the experiences that account between characters.

So far on my list of experiences include:

• Finding human remains
• Finding bodily fluids from a corpse
• Witnessing a death
• Suicide
• Life-or-death situations
• Fight-flight-freeze situations
• Abandonment
• Hallucinations, visual and audible
• Mass hysteria
• Suicide notes or last wills

My hope for this paper is to examine how an adolescent would react once exposed to this franchise. Would they crave for more gruesome horror or would they be scarred for life? My exploration plans to span from the US to Japan, the franchise’s home country, as well to examine the reasoning why the franchise is banned in different countries around the world.

Included in my paper will be links, clips, and images contacting the graphic content listed above for explanation purposes, as well as any supporting documents used in the franchise and research articles detailing similar, examines across different games and genres.

The first half of my paper will detail the world of Corpse Party. The stories origins, including the creator of the game, and how the story has morphed into what it is. Followed by the graphic nature of each game, the content that is encountered, and the ages of the characters to gauge the development of their brains.

The second half of my paper will devel into the psychology of an affected mind to this trauma, but first and second hand. First-hand experience will detail the characters themselves within the game, how they have evolved throughout the franchise and their mental state at the end of the game. Second-hand experience will detail how players and watchers of the game were affected by the sound, imagery, storyline, and overall content of since a game. This will cover not only US experiences, but Japan. This is especially necessary since the demand for a translation has increased the franchise’s popularity.

~ by Angelica Perez on May 3, 2019 . Tagged: Assignment, Project Updates