{"id":56601,"date":"2026-02-10T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=56601"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:07:23","slug":"it-was-supposed-to-a-sexy-harem-narrative-but-it-just-got-progressively-darker-the-hundred-line-director-on-creating-one-of-the-games-most-po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/it-was-supposed-to-a-sexy-harem-narrative-but-it-just-got-progressively-darker-the-hundred-line-director-on-creating-one-of-the-games-most-po\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was supposed to a sexy harem\u00a0narrative, but it\u00a0just\u00a0got progressively darker.\u201d The Hundred Line director\u00a0on\u00a0creating one of\u00a0the game\u2019s most popular routes\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy&nbsp;<\/strong>director&nbsp;Kazutaka&nbsp;Kodaka&nbsp;and writer Yoichiro Koizumi recently&nbsp;gave an interview to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Gdkp9qZ_wWs?si=3bpxKfqZfpgdAk7M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Weeby Newz<\/a>,&nbsp;offering some behind-the-scenes&nbsp;trivia&nbsp;about&nbsp;how&nbsp;the game&nbsp;was&nbsp;created.&nbsp;Kodaka&nbsp;also&nbsp;talked&nbsp;about the unusual circumstances that led to one of the game\u2019s most popular and provocative routes&nbsp;being created.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Hundred Line\u2019s&nbsp;dark and&nbsp;risqu\u00e9&nbsp;\u201cCult&nbsp;of Takumi\u201d&nbsp;route&nbsp;was penned by&nbsp;Kodaka&nbsp;himself. However, this&nbsp;wasn\u2019t&nbsp;part of the original plan.&nbsp;Initially,&nbsp;all hundred endings&nbsp;of&nbsp;the game&nbsp;were&nbsp;supposed&nbsp;to be&nbsp;directed&nbsp;by&nbsp;co-director&nbsp;Kotaro&nbsp;Uchikoshi, while Too-Kyo Games\u2019 in-house&nbsp;writers split the writing.&nbsp;But with the&nbsp;game\u2019s&nbsp;volume being way too much to handle, the studio found itself approaching its deadline with&nbsp;several routes not even started on,&nbsp;Kodaka&nbsp;explained.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- &amp; Danganronpa - Kodaka Kazutaka &amp; Koizumi Yoichiro Interview\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gdkp9qZ_wWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since none of the writers&nbsp;had room to take on the&nbsp;missing&nbsp;routes,&nbsp;Kodaka&nbsp;had to step in&nbsp;himself. The problem was, there were only about two weeks left to complete them, so he went&nbsp;straight into writing, without an outline. \u201cI&#8217;d&nbsp;never written without a plot before, but I&nbsp;didn\u2019t&nbsp;have a choice. And what came out was&#8230;<em>&nbsp;that<\/em>,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before getting started,\u00a0Kodaka\u00a0asked his team members whether anyone was already writing a \u201cdamn sexy\u201d route, and\u00a0the answer was no.\u00a0While Koizumi had been working on\u00a0the Hundred Line\u2019s more romantic routes at that point, they were not\u00a0exactly erotic, so\u00a0Kodaka\u00a0decided his\u00a0route would\u00a0be\u00a0an over-the-top,\u00a0sexy\u00a0one. 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