The Danganronpa series finally made the jump to Switch last year in the form of Danganronpa Decadence (alongside all three main games, and the brand-new Switch exclusive Ultimate Summer Camp getting individual digital releases), bringing murderous teddy bears and pink-splattered crime scenes to our screens. Series creator Kazutaka Kodaka is currently working on his next big project in the form of Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE, but his previous work is always in the back of his mind.
In an excerpt from an interview with Twinfinite, Kodaka-san revealed that he always wanted to make a new IP after Danganronpa, but he's still definitely open to returning to the school halls of Hope's Peak Academy — or wherever Danganronpa may take him. He didn't ask developer Spike Chunsoft about making a new entry in the series because he wanted to make something new, but that doesn't mean it's all over:
"It’s not like I don’t want to make another Danganronpa game, but I have a lot of ideas and want to create something new. Someday I may go back, maybe. Danganronpa is more of a niche game, and now I’m working on a bigger one, but it’d be cool to go back to Danganronpa at some point afterwards."
The full interview with Twinfinite will be published at a later date, but this snippet gives us a little bit of an insight into Kodaka-san's process. If you're a fan of his work and have seen any of RAIN CODE, then you'll see the clear Danganronpa influences.
For his new game, which is launching next year, Kodaka-san is once again working with Danganronpa artist Rui Komatsuzaki and composer Masafumi Takada, and instead of the confines of a school, he's taking the murder-mystery genre to the cobbled streets of a rather rainy, luminescent city. We had the chance to interview Kodaka-san last month about Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE and discussed the success and influence of the Danganronpa series.
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Would you like to see the return of Danganronpa? Let us know before the bell rings!
[source twinfinite.net]
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I think the series is in a good spot right now, so I think if they never come back, I wouldn’t mind.
It's hard to see how you'd do so considering the ending to the third game. I thought it was a fitting finale.
I suspect he'll return to Danganronpa if Raincode doesn't pan out. But the topic if Danganronpa would return to form is another thing. Even he knows it's niche.
Personally, Rain Code looks to be more promising and honestly, more open ended. From even the story bits we know it sounds like a formula they can revisit more often than Monokuma.
I don’t think a series with a story arc has to go on forever. I’m ok with the ending to 3.
Ugh, please don't. I thought they would have read the room after V3 but Summer Camp still happened. The series ended after Ultra Despair Girls and the 3 anime for me.
I'm excited for Raincode and still plan to play World's End Club but for **** sake, let Danganronpa be done.
I'd absolutely love to have more of it but if they do make another I want a pretty hard break from the rest of the narrative. Love the other casts, by all means keep them in a side mode or something, but main game have Monokuma and no one else with it not narratively connecting to anything that came before it.
Played through the first and second game after one of my friends bought it for me for christmas, really fun high quality visual novels with some nice music.
just started watching the anime yeserday and thinking of starting the games
I don't know if they can top V3, that ending is just insane and an awesome way to end the series
Not gonna lie: after V3 it would be VERY hard to make a new Danganronpa game that didn't feel like a complete betrayal. Or if you think "betrayal" is too harsh a word, let's just say that it would lack integrity. Prove very clearly that the ending of V3 meant NOTHING.
Still, the series has consistently confounded my expectations, so I dunno.
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