The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy director Kazutaka Kodaka and writer Yoichiro Koizumi recently gave an interview to Weeby Newz, offering some behind-the-scenes trivia about how the game was created. Kodaka also talked about the unusual circumstances that led to one of the game’s most popular and provocative routes being created.
The Hundred Line’s dark and risqué “Cult of Takumi” route was penned by Kodaka himself. However, this wasn’t part of the original plan. Initially, all hundred endings of the game were supposed to be directed by co-director Kotaro Uchikoshi, while Too-Kyo Games’ in-house writers split the writing. But with the game’s volume being way too much to handle, the studio found itself approaching its deadline with several routes not even started on, Kodaka explained.
Since none of the writers had room to take on the missing routes, Kodaka had to step in himself. The problem was, there were only about two weeks left to complete them, so he went straight into writing, without an outline. “I’d never written without a plot before, but I didn’t have a choice. And what came out was… that,” he said.
Before getting started, Kodaka asked his team members whether anyone was already writing a “damn sexy” route, and the answer was no. While Koizumi had been working on the Hundred Line’s more romantic routes at that point, they were not exactly erotic, so Kodaka decided his route would be an over-the-top, sexy one. However, while he approached the task with the idea of creating a full-on harem narrative, Kodaka found the narrative growing increasingly dark and twisted, overtaking his original idea. He explains that he was so busy at the time that his dark side ended up coming out more and more as he wrote.
While one can’t help but be curious about how a more standard harem-storyline would have played out in The Hundred Line’s setting, the Cult of Takumi route’s dark (borderline horror) side seems to have been the definition of a happy accident for Too Kyo Games.
