{"id":47220,"date":"2025-04-18T20:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T11:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=47220"},"modified":"2025-04-18T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T11:19:09","slug":"yoko-taro-jokingly-calls-the-hundred-line-last-defense-academy-a-danganronpa-spin-off-then-clarifies-its-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/yoko-taro-jokingly-calls-the-hundred-line-last-defense-academy-a-danganronpa-spin-off-then-clarifies-its-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoko Taro jokingly calls The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy a \u201cDanganronpa spin-off\u201d \u2013 then clarifies it&#8217;s not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In anticipation of the release of <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy<\/strong> on April 24, creators with personal ties to developer Too Kyo Games have been sharing their impressions of the game and writing comments of support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kicking off the 10-day countdown with <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/masahiro-sakurai-has-no-idea-what-the-hundred-line-last-defense-academy-is-about-but-he-cant-wait-to-finally-play-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a heartful message by Masahiro Sakurai<\/a>, a new comment is being published each day on Hundred Line\u2019s official X account to hype up the game until its release. So far, many prominent figures in the industry have chimed in to show their appreciation for<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/danganronpa-creators-are-risking-their-lives-for-their-upcoming-new-game-which-has-put-them-in-debt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> the sweat and tears that were put into developing the game<\/a> \u2013 including people like Keiichiro Toyama, creator of Silent Hill, and Rise of the Ronin\u2019s director Fumihiko Yasuda.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, NieR: Automata creator Yoko Taro shared his rather chaotic impression of the upcoming game\u2019s demo, making a tongue-in-cheek jab at how much it\u2019s being compared to Kazutaka Kodaka\u2019s past work \u2013 the Danganronpa series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3010<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30cf\u30f3\u30c9\u30e9<\/a> \u5fdc\u63f4\u30b3\u30e1\u30f3\u30c8\u2466\u3011<br>\u767a\u58f2\u307e\u3067 \u3042\u3068\u201c7\u201d\u65e5\u2014\u2014<br><br>\u300eHUNDRED LINE -\u6700\u7d42\u9632\u885b\u5b66\u5712-\u300f\u306e\u767a\u58f2\u3092\u795d\u3057\u3066<br>Tookyo Games\u306b\u7e01\u306e\u3042\u308b\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u30af\u30ea\u30a8\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u306e\u7686\u3055\u307e\u304b\u3089<br>\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u3092\u3044\u305f\u3060\u304d\u307e\u3057\u305f\uff01<br><br>\u30d6\u30c3\u30b3\u30ed\u3000\u4ee3\u8868\u53d6\u7de0\u5f79\u517c\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u30c7\u30a3\u30ec\u30af\u30bf\u30fc<br>\u30e8\u30b3\u30aa\u30bf\u30ed\u30a6 \u6c0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hundred_line?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hundred_line<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ILN5vKluv7\">pic.twitter.com\/ILN5vKluv7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u3010\u516c\u5f0f\u3011HUNDRED LINE -\u6700\u7d42\u9632\u885b\u5b66\u5712-\uff08\u30cf\u30f3\u30c9\u30ec\u30c3\u30c9\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3\uff09 (@hundred_line) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hundred_line\/status\/1912778064574239225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Congratulations on completing the development of \u201cDanganronpa Side-Story: Last Defense Academy!\u201d<br>Oh man, when I first heard that you would be \u201cturning Danganronpa into a simulation RPG,\u201d I wasn\u2019t quite sure about how that would work, but I feel so relieved now that I\u2019ve played the demo.<br>How do I even put it \u2013 it was so \u201cDanganronpa,\u201d from head to toe.<br>A closed-off academy shrouded in darkness; a super unique cast of students gathered under circumstances that defy all logic; a cute but also disturbing mascot character\u2026\u2026\u2026It\u2019s everything you\u2019d expect of it.<\/em><br><em><br>But wait; by adding completely new game elements to it, the final result reaches a Super High School Level \u2013 it exceeds all expectations.<br>The fans definitely won\u2019t be indifferent about this one\u2026\u2026.<\/em><br><em><br>Uh? What?? This <strong>WASN\u2019T<\/strong> Danganronpa? It\u2019s a completely different game by a completely different company? Then\u2026&#8230;what even was the game I played\u2026\u2026No no, I\u2019m pretty sure I remember playing it<br>Remember\u2026playing it\u2026.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1064\" height=\"597\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1064px) 100vw, 1064px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250418-472200001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250418-472200001.jpg 1064w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250418-472200001-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250418-472200001-768x431.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While Kodaka <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kazkodaka\/status\/1912831396474950123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">responded to Yoko Taro\u2019s message<\/a> with equally tongue-in-cheek anger, behind all of their banter lies, presumably, nothing but love towards the work of Too Kyo Games and its members. Yoko Taro\u2019s over-the-top message, through its playful irony, brings up a very good point. Although Hundred Line being compared to Danganronpa may be inevitable, it <em>is<\/em> a completely new project created by the same crew that was responsible for making the Danganronpa series such a unique experience; Except that now they\u2019ve become independent, establishing their own company in order to <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/danganronpa-creator-left-spike-chunsoft-so-that-he-could-do-unlimited-overtime-work-and-take-risks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">do crazy things an established corporation wouldn\u2019t allow<\/a>. Kodaka himself <a href=\"https:\/\/noisypixel.net\/hundred-line-last-defense-academy-preview-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has emphasized<\/a> that his goal for Hundred Line was to create a game that would ultimately surpass Danganronpa in terms of gameplay depth and achieve his \u201cideal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With its <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/the-hundred-line-last-defense-academys-100-endings-are-all-dense-enough-to-be-true-endings-with-no-fillers-or-easy-bad-endings-says-kotaro-uchikoshi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100 different endings<\/a>, The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy releases on April 24 for the PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3014080\/The_Hundred_Line_Last_Defense_Academy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam<\/a>) and Nintendo Switch.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoko Taro makes a playfully ironic comment to celebrate the release of The Hundred Line \u2014 and brings up a very good point about it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":47222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-47220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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