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Yuma Kokohead ; Master Detective Archives: Rain Code ☆ Good Smile Company

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Shinigami-chan ; Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE ☆ Kotobukiya

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Shinigami-chan ; Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE ☆ Good Smile Company

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I updated the Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE's Miraheze Wiki's Main Page to look a lot nicer!

If you don't like it... Sorry, but the old version was uglier, so there's that at least. (╯▽╰ )

An inverted mode is accessible via the three dots (or your account logo) on the top right to navigate the Wiki in dark mode.

Please consider visiting the Wiki to view it in full! It's a simple theme, which makes sense as I am planning to remain mostly a Wiki creator and not a long-term contributor. Visit the Wiki regularly, and contribute to it to ensure it gets picked up by more contributors and admins when the game comes out!

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RAIN CODE Miraheze Wiki

Letting everyone know that I created a Miraheze Wiki for Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE!

I did this so Fandom, a platform with many known flaws, isn't the only Wiki option for this game. I figured that since the Fandom Wiki currently only had information I wrote, this was the perfect time frame to give another platform a chance.

This is my first time using Miraheze, and despite having information about RAIN CODE at the moment, I don't plan on playing it when it comes out, so any and all help is welcome. Since I'm a beginner, please be patient with me - and if you want to help but are new to Miraheze too, at least you'll know that I understand, haha.

Please consider reading pages on the Miraheze Wiki rather than the Fandom one! Fandom has better SEO and will most likely be the first link you find, however, the site is known to be riddled with ads. Personally, I'll be writing information on the Miraheze Wiki exclusively from now on!

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As of the release of his interview with Famitsu, Kodaka has revealed the names of the voice actors for Yuma Kokohead and Shinigami.

Katsumi Fukuhara will be voicing Yuma, and Suzushiro Sayumi will be voicing Shinigami.

Having both debuted around 2017, they don't have many credits as of yet. They are both credited for roles in 86 (2021), or you could recognise Sayumi Suzuhiro as Kei Shirogane from Kaguya-sama, and Katsumi Fukuhara as Shark from Noblesse (2020), for example.

Kodaka mentions that they are "two young voice actors doing an extraordinary amount of voice work."

More information about the voice cast should be expected from the official account for RAIN CODE on Twitter in the future.

For a look at their faces next to their characters, please enjoy this ugly montage I made for my great Tweet.

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If I understood well, Kodaka is praying that RAINCODE won't be classified as CERO Z (18+).

In his interview for INSIDE, he mentions something along the lines of: "It won't be Z (18+), but it definitely won't be for all ages either. We are currently trying our best to make sure it doesn't become Z."

I'd say he's yearning for that D.

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Felt like bringing up/reacting to some content from interviews about RAIN CODE! the first excerpts are from nintendolife's interview with Kazutaka Kodaka.

Shinigami, the one you saw in the trailer, in the world their abilities are not really known to other people, so nobody believes her ability.

Yuma, the main character, doesn't have the ability, but teaming up with the Shinigami, he becomes a detective apprentice.

Interesting. So Yuma doesn't normally have "Master Detective" abilities, and manages to become one through Shinigami's help. Could their "pact" have something to do with Shinigami wanting to show off her abilities through Yuma? Of course, the "no talent" narrative reminds me of at least three Danganronpa protagonists. (Four if I'm being mean.)

Of course, I read the next lines right after I typed this.

What do you think draws you to these characters who are, on the surface, seem very normal or like an underdog who ends up rising up?

Kodaka: I want to create a protagonist that is as plain as possible so players can also empathise with that character. Yuma has memory loss, so that's another way that players can sympathise (because they're finding out events about the game and characters at the same time as he is).

Not too surprising, we were mostly aware of this already. The interview brings up Makoto, but it also applies to Hajime, Shuichi, or the OTHER Makoto, from Death Come True.

Anyway... Are they pretending Danganronpa Another Episode doesn't exist, or am I insane?

And when I thought of detectives, I didn't think of anywhere that was bright or shiny! I thought of a city like London that was cloudy and all that. I thought this would go better with detectives.

At least since he's making up a Japanese city that's hopefully going to be a worse London, I won't have to deal with another Sherlock Holmes adaptation. (She says as if it's a guarantee she'll even play this game.)

Then I thought of a city where people wear raincoats — not code, coats *laughs*

Wow that's so funny Kodaka

It's actually a little bit funny that to Kodaka and the interviewer, London is just rain and red bricks. Are they wrong, though?

I actually don't know why [Danganronpa] was received well or why everybody likes it!

Why is this a MOOD though

I'm glad that everybody all over the world gets to play this game, but I don't necessarily target overseas audiences.

That's actually interesting, though. You'd think that after Danganronpa and Akudama Drive's success overseas, Kodaka/Too Kyo Games would focus their attention on their overseas audience, but Kodaka himself claims the contrary. Still, that he'd mention it shows that he's aware he could.

That's a really fantastic way of putting it. To end, have you ever considered writing something that doesn't involve murder or crime, or do you have an ideal story you'd like to write?

Kodaka: Oh yeah, everyone just so happens to die in my stories... *laughs*

So, no.

As for the rest, I will be reacting to @kaibutsushidousha's thread on Twitter, where they translated excerpts from 4Gamer, Game Watch and Famitsu's interviews! L-ink to their entire thread in replies.

(4Gamer)

4gamer interview [...] mentions an interesting thought about wanting to make the investigation game that defines the decade, the same way Ace Attorney defined the 00s and Danganronpa the 10s.

Kodaka has a tendency to shoot for the moon. (Insert DR1, DRV3 and Akudama Drive joke.) He must have a lot of confidence to be aiming for Ace Attorney's wig. Truth be told, I don't share his + Spike Chunsoft's confidence that RAIN CODE would be *this* good, but someone has to believe in the project, and it's better off being its own Scenario Writer. May I mention that I'm not that enthused by Komatsuzaki's design work..? Ace Attorney's character designs do a lot for the series. That being said, RAIN CODE's monster/boss designs are a first for Kodaka+Komatsuzaki, and I would be happy to see them shine.

adding that the game is set in the 2020s.

Interesting!

Kodaka acknowledges the rain is very important to the plot but deflects by giving the English interview's exact reasoning of how the rain is there because it's a detective game.

Something interesting again, which we can thank Comun's detective/summarising work for! But now I'm thinking about bad takes I've read from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure fans in the past. Hmm. But I've written a short poem about rain! ...iirc. A while back. What language was it in? Am I losing my mind? Did I mention I'm oversensitive today?

Kodaka puts a lot of thought into how a city's architecture correlates with the culture of its citizens, and the finer details of their livelihoods, for example, how the streets in this game are all full of drains because it's raining all the time in their city.

Again, good to know this kind of care and thinking has been put into the writing and game design. Possibly something interesting to look into as part of Kodaka branching out from the Danganronpa formula.

The Mystery Labyrinth is tied to the comment about decades. Danganronpa evolved Ace Attorney's court battles into action puzzles so Rain Code should go a step further into the dungeon-crawling elements, changing visuals, traps, and monsters as you advance deeper into the mystery.

But Ace Attorney has Apollo Justice staring very hard at witnesses with bloodshot eyes! ...Admittedly not my favourite mechanic. Go on, please make it interesting.

Aside from the specialized investigative abilities, all the master detectives will also have their own epithets, like Super High School Level titles.

No shit.

The idea behind Shinigami was to roll the mascot, the investigation partner, and the female lead into one single character. What if Monokuma was your buddy cop teammate instead of your enemy.

Literally the worst idea I've ever heard, which I sort of stan? No, really, this is horrible in a lot of ways.

Shinigami is a troublemaker. She spent centuries possessing detectives, and now she claims she'll make a respectable detective out of Yuma, but she doesn't give a damn about human common sense.

Yeah, yeah, Junko Enoshima, Danganronpa Kirigiri, we know.

Although the side quests are there, Kodaka is not confident that people will play them because the nature of mystery games makes players want to proceed with the main story first.

Replayability, my man!

Final message to 4gamer: Rain Code is made for the fans who want more Danganronpa out of the Danganronpa man.

... Which personally, I technically don't, but the fact that he would take that and try to expand on it is actually encouraging.

(Game Watch)

Now to Game Watch, with interviewer Aida Nayu, who will hopefully be less distractingly horny about Shinigami in her article.

... Huh?

As for how the multiple different areas compose the city, how much you can explore with them, and how time-consuming that will be, Kodaka states the closest point of comparison will be the Persona series.

No surprise here, right?

[Kodaka] also mentioned that [the master detective's] abilities have been fostered by the organization the master detectives belong to, which is also a familiar plot point.

Indeed. Indeed. Indeed...

the sidequests exist to let you know these master detectives better, exactly like DR's free time events.

Something else I found interesting!

Despite the visuals, Kodaka insists this is not a cyberpunk game because cyberpunk needs to be in the near future and this game is in the present.

Oh, sorry.

Aida called Yuma's weapon a katana but Kodaka corrected her that it's a saber.

Oh, sorry.

(Famitsu)

"Is there a new Danganronpa game also in the works?"

"I don't know, I asked Spike Chunsoft and they said they won't tell me (laughs)"

I screamed in horror reading this.

The investigation sequences in Rain Code last until the megacorporation that rules the city decides to cover up the case.

Love a mean megacorporation. Which makes me think... Isn't it difficult to write a detective story that's not at least partly copaganda? Which is a shame when, you know... Akudama Drive.

Yuma is more weak-willed than any of the Danganronpa protagonists due to the buddy cop format of his game. The protagonist needed to be someone unable to say no to Shinigami's antics, and the Danganronpa protagonists aren't like that.

Some of the replies to the thread brought up that Makoto, Komaru and Shuichi are more weak-willed than Kodaka lets on in this claim. Which I would disagree with - what makes Makoto and Komaru beautiful characters IS their strong will. Having a kind or soft personality doesn't contradict that. But I've already been over how much I love Makoto's strengths in the past. Rather than assume Kodaka doesn't know what he's talking about, I think the fact that their writer brings that up himself should be reason to look back into these characters and what about their writing means they have a strong will, if you'd missed that before. As for Shuichi... long-time jadyjads fans know he's not my favourite character, so I would personally argue that his writing failed on that front, but I can't deny that the *intent* to make his will a major element of who he is as a protagonist in the end was there. So it *is* interesting in my opinion to bring up that Yuma will be different from that. (Plus, definite confirmation that he's not a Naegiri lovechild imo ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°) )

Kodaka is putting all of his energy into Rain Code, so all other Too Kyo projects being made alongside it are currently in Uchikoshi's hands.

TRIBE NINE be like...

This is everything I wanted to react to, but again, please read the interviews + Comun's thread yourself since there are elements I didn't focus on but other people might find more interesting!