Series synopsis
Corpse Princess is a Japanese animation action & adventure sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on AT-X on October 2, 2008. It ended on March 26, 2009. It was created by Yoshiichi Akahito, Sho Aikawa. It stars Chise Nakamura, Keiji Fujiwara, Eri Akiyama and Tatsuya Hasome.
Armed with dual machine guns, an undead school girl, Makina Hoshimura, must hunt down 108 other undeads with the help of specially trained Buddhist monks in order to gain entry into Heaven. Based on manga written by Yoshiichi Akahito.
Premise
Armed with dual machine guns, an undead school girl, Makina Hoshimura, must hunt down 108 other undeads with the help of specially trained Buddhist monks in order to gain entry into Heaven. Based on manga written by Yoshiichi Akahito.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Chise Nakamura as Itsuki Yamagami
- Keiji Fujiwara as Keisei Tagami
- Eri Akiyama as Makina Hoshimura
- Tatsuya Hasome as Ouri Kagami
- Chika Fujimura as Hokuto
- Fuyuka Ono as Mizuki Inuhiko
- Hidetoshi Nakamura as Sougen Takamine
- Kiyotaka Furushima as Rinsen Shirae
Supporting cast
- Michi Niino as Ena
- Mitsuru Miyamoto as Akasha Shishidou
- Nobutoshi Canna as Honda
- Takaya Hashi as Isaka
- Toru Nara as Hiroshige Ushijima
- Toru Okawa as Hazama
- Aoi Yuuki as Akira Tooka
- Junichi Suwabe as Sadahiro Mibu
- Saeko Chiba as Rika Aragami
- Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Takamasa Sogi
- Tomokazu Sugita as Shuji Isaki
- Miwa Kouzuki as Hina
Episodes
This series spans 3 seasons with 27 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 2 | August 5, 2009 | August 5, 2009 |
| Season 1 | 13 | October 2, 2008 | December 25, 2008 |
| Season 2 | 12 | January 1, 2009 | March 26, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Even So, As a Person Flashing back to a time before Makina and Ouri’s partnership was forged, a beautiful woman known as Minai meets a gruesome end, only to be reborn as a corpse princess and paired with Isaki. |
August 5, 2009 |
| 2 | Omake |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Dead Dance Makina Hoshimura, a deceased teenager, is given her first mission to eliminate dead corpses on Earth. Her target is Hagino, a criminal accused of killing women, who came back from the dead as a vampire corpse. |
October 2, 2008 |
| 2 |
The Game Continues After several children killed in a highway accident come back to life as corpses, Makina is dispatched to kill them. However, Ouri Kagami gets in the way when one of them pleads to him to help her escape. Keisei and a band of anti-corpse monks assist Makina to take down the child corpses. |
October 9, 2008 |
| 3 |
Voice of Night Makina is tasked to hunt down an unknown Corpse responsible for killing off young women. Keisei learns that someone familiar with Corpses is using a doctor to conduct illegal experiments on dead bodies in order to turn them into monsters. |
October 16, 2008 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Path of Light A priest wants Makina to be killed. Makina is currently imprisoned and spirits are eating her rune. Ouri undergoes priest training but gets cut off because of an incident at Makina’s prison. |
January 1, 2009 |
| 2 |
My Enemy The shichisei make their grand entrance and a minor fight is held but quickly cut short. Major characters assemble and are re-introduced. |
January 8, 2009 |
| 3 |
Beloved Aberration Makina completed an Enkiri to get rid of the rotten rune. Meanwhile, Ouri is continuing training but Makina interrupts Ouri in the hot springs and demands to be released from the contract. She is then captured and put in prison. “Genpaku” Takamasa takes Ouri to observe one of his missions to kill a corpse. |
January 15, 2009 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | AT-X |
|---|---|
| First aired | October 2, 2008 |
| Last aired | March 26, 2009 |
| Runtime | 24 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Thursday at 22:30:00 |