XSEED has revealed that it will be publishing The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy on Nintendo Switch, and that the game will be launching worldwide on 24th April 2025.
The upcoming tactical RPG is from Too Kyo Games, the development studio formed by the Danganronpa and Zero Escape creators Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi. And while it features other familiar names to Danganronpa fans — series artist Rui Komatsuzaki and composer Masafumi Takada return after reuniting with Kodaka on Master Detective Archives: Rain Code — there are a few new wrinkles that make this pretty different from the pair's previous games.

In The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, teenager Takumi Sumino lives a perfectly normal life in Tokyo until a monster attack causes Takumi to encounter SIREI, a strange creature that promises to grant him the power to protect everything. He just needs to stab himself. Yep, sounds like a Kodaka and Uchikoshi game.
Takumi then finds himself at the Last Defense Academy, where — along with 14 other students — must keep the unusual school safe for 100 days. These enrolled students have the ability to transform their blood into Hemoanima, which gives them supernatural powers.
The Hundred Line blends tactical RPG combat with visual novel segments — you'll get to spend time with the other students, deepen bonds, and even give them gifts. So there are shades of Danganronpa here, still. But that tactical gameplay sets it apart from the usual murder-mystery structure.
Too Kyo Games has co-developed the game with Media.Vision, the studio most famous for creating the Wild Arms series of turn-based RPGs. In more recent years, Media.Vision has worked on the Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth games and Valkyria Chronicles 4.
This new project was first revealed in a Nintendo Direct back in June, and just a few weeks later, Kodaka revealed candidly on X (formerly Twitter) that early on in development, a failed publishing deal and an expanded scope meant the studio had to take out a loan, which plunged it into debt.
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Next spring is almost shamelessly stacked for a console's 8th anniversary one.🍷
Great to have a release date for this, so looking forward to it (along with all the other games I'm missing by Kodaka-san and/or Uchikoshi-san, but at this point I'll most likely start with this when it comes out)!
I like how a defining part of their beaten into the ground character design style is having mouths slightly agape, I don’t know if they intentionally want the characters in all their games to look completely interchangeable between each other but if so they nail it expertly.
Annual request for the Zero Escape Trilogy on Switch, please. Let’s do it before Switch 2!!!
Yep, that looks like an XSEED quality limited edition at the end of the trailer alright.
I'll pre-order once it's up on Amazon or Best Buy.
Wait, doesn't this game was considered to be a F2P one? 🤔
@Vyacheslav333 I believe you are thinking of Tribe Nine
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2376580/TRIBE_NINE/
I am terrified for this game. They've indicated that it is well over budget and is putting the future of the studio on the line but it doesn't seem to be generating much buzz. Hopefully XSeed's involvement will give the marketing a big boost.
I'll be there for Uchikoshi as he is my favourite auteur in gaming. Not as sold on Kodaka and Komatsuzaki but fingers crossed we get greatness from all of them.
@Vyacheslav333
Don't believe that has been the case since announcement?
@TheExile285 Ah, thanks.
@AJWolfTill I've mistaken it with TRIBE NINE.
The Zero Escape and Danganronpa creators can make some brilliant games, so I'll keep my eye on this one, though I'll need to see more before I'm sold on it.
The blood is red instead of neon pink, 0/10.
Danganronpa Tactics, basically. Not a chance I miss out on this.
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code has practically perfect gameplay and an amazing story, so if this game is anything like that but as a tactical RPG, then that's all I need to know!
In fact, I was wondering what a game would be like if you mixed visual novel elements with RPG gameplay. This looks like one possible answer to that, so I'm interested.
It does feel like these Danganronpa-esque games are underappreciated though. I hope this one sells well.
Looks like they took inspiration from 13 Sentinels with that thumbnail.
Ooooh, this will be interesting to monitor and read reviews about once it comes out. Hopefully turns out good so I can get it purhased and played.
I hope it turns out! It sounds great on paper! Hope it’s coming to more than just switch tho.
Looks good, still got to get through Rain Code, but a tactics game I'm in when it comes around and I see standard edition copies available.
This game sounds a lot like a Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor game and I’m down for this.
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