#kodaka kazutaka

[anonzentimes]

babe wake up new Kodaka passion project with the Danganronpa team bringing alongside a friend (Zero Escape's creator) dropped it's trailer????

we are so back?????

[daystud]

Ive noticed an evolution from THH characters' designs to V3 to newer Kodaka games'

THH's cast looks warm and toned down and soft while the school setting is flashy and creepy

SDR2's cast is colorful, has thick lines and has a more cartoonish feel

V3 has eye catching designs but the cold light coloring and angular features make the vibe more unsettling and depressing (ive seen various fangames replicate this style)

Tribe Nine, Rain Code and Hundred Line definitely follow V3's artstyle prolly for Komatsuzaki's evolution through the years. His older artworks although already iconic and recognizable: dynamic lines, strong character presence, weird anatomy, clothes that look they havent been ironed since the 1800s and semirealistic coloring (Im not a digital artist but basically he sketches in b&w first), they looked like they had a constant sepiatone filter, maybe its the scans' quality. Nowadays he uses a clear blueish tint which makes the characters look like theyre in a constant sci fi setting and it shows in the upcoming game as well.

Not to mention Kodaka's characters are starting to get more and more twinkish through the years but i'm not complaining.

[funishment-time]

LMAO

happy pride

[kidconsky]

It's already April 28th in Japan!

Happy birthday Komaeda Nagito!!

Art made by Akeri, the artist of Komaeda's manga.

[obscuretobyfox]

Toby Fox has been confirmed to be a judge in the "Game Designers Awards 2024" (possibly not the actual name, translation is finicky) along with names like Sakurai and Taro Yoko!! It's really interesting to see how much notoriety he's gained, especially over in Japan!

(Tweet I sourced: https://x.com/denfaminicogame/status/1828696036656951772?s=46)

(The article announcing this: https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/240828z)

[doggendoodle]

do i have this right

edit: turns out i missed a few

[frostyhumble7]

The LDA characters they’ve showed us so far

[ultimateplaylistmaker]

I feel like I'm having a fucking stroke

[alfiely-art]

[hopeymchope]

TooKyo Games' "Limit x Despair" is finally unveiled as "The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-"

Once again, TooKyo Games came out swinging during a Nintendo Direct.

The moment this trailer starts up, you can immediately recognize Rui Komatsuzaki's character designs.

Then the setup is described: 16 students are locked inside an academy alongside a weird living mascot character, fighting for their lives as their friends are forced to die right in front of them. Sounds familiar.

Yup: Hard as it is to believe, it is already time for Kazutaka Kodaka's next game. The game once known as "Limit x Despair" or "Extreme x Despair" is here, and it's... a tactical RPG!

...I can legitimately say that I did not expect that. But I am also definitely down for it!

The story seems to deal with the world (or at least the characters' hometown?) being invaded and attacked by some monsters that look like the "Spirit World" baddies from Magical Girl Spec-Ops. Our protagonist Takumi Sumino is forced to hole up and lock down in a school alongside 15 other students and... this thing.

....and from there, they must fight to defend the school in the aforementioned battles.

Aside from the tactical top-down combat and visual novel sequences, you'll also explore the titular "Last Defense Academy" from a perspective similar to how your traversed the island in Danganronpa 2.

Given that we're apparently dealing with a cast of characters that will be whittled down and lost as the narrative progresses, I think this is going to be tonally much closer to Danganronpa's storytelling style than Master Detective Archives: Rain Code was. What I mean is: Master Detective Archives (MDA) was basically the gameplay successor to Danganronpa, but The Hundred Line (THL?) looks more like it's the narrative successor to Danganronpa, if that makes any sense?

Suffice to say that I am once again extremely hyped/excited.

[savedatateam]

They really said:

[anonzentimes]

IM SO CRAZY KODAKA JUST DROPPED LIKE A WALL OF TEXT FOR NAGITO WITH HIS WORLDVIEW, MORAL GRAYNESS, AND DEDICATION TO HOPE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY AGGHHHHHH ITS SO GOOD IM SO HAPPY HEHE CRUMBS OF NAGITO KOMAEDA CONTENT💗💗💗💗💗

[mickjones2004]

💧Master Detective Archives - Rain Code Artwork Cover Upscaled 💧

[funishment-time]

top 10 favorite danganronpa dev stories

in no particular order:

Hiro's hair is So Big that his sprites needed to be processed differently than everyone else's

Komatsuzaki: "By the way, his family name is Kuzuryuu because I got robbed on Kuzuryuu Park 3 times during my middle school days."

Kodaka getting in trouble for the Jibakuma reference in v3

the devs got tired of Leon (and Sayaka) quickly because they designed them first, so they also took them out first

Mikan was meant to be a zombie. like an actual zombie. and also her design was changed two weeks before release

Komatsuzaki regrets designing Mondo the way he did and found his hair so annoying to draw i can feel it in my soul across time and translation

Byakuya is the staff's "butt monkey"

Kodaka loving Rantaro's seiyuu so much that he regretted killing Rantaro off so early

the Miu dildo sprite that they could not use for ethical reasons

the cost of getting voice actors back for Tsumugi's cosplaying was high and Kodaka regrets not being able to include UDG (as do i)

[kidconsky]

SO TODAY (02/29) IS KOMAHINA MIDDLE BIRTHDAY??

Kombo komahina below

[chengfagshi]

Kodaka fans are eating so well. Rain Code+ in Oct, Tribe Nine game pretty soon, and now Last Defense Academy.