Famitsu: Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi establish new game company: Too Kyo Games.

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I didn't notice Famitsu actually did the article in English: https://s.famitsu.com/news/201809/11163862.html

Too Kyo Games is a new game company lead by 7 creators listed as follows:

Director / Scenario writer
Kazutaka Kodaka
Representative works: "Danganronpa" series

Composer / Arranger
Masafumi Takada
Representative works: "Danganronpa" series and "100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams"

Character designer / Illustrator
Rui Komatsuzaki
Representative works: "Danganronpa" series and "Fate/Grand Order"

Novelist / Scenario writer
Yoichiro Koizumi
Representative works: "Brake-kun core" and "Zettati Zetsubo Hagakure"

Illustrator / Character designer
Shimadoriru
Representative works: "Danganronpa" series and "Fate/Grand Order"

Director / Scenario writer
Takumi Nakazawa
Representative works: "Ever17" and "Root Double: Before Crime * After Days"

Director / Scenario writer
Kotaro Uchikoshi
Representative works: "Ever17" and "ZERO ESCAPE"

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Kodaka said they would like to make new IP and indie games themselves.

Mr. Kodaka said "The object of this company is to do something new, which is the creation of a new IP commonly known all over the world and in a future we will make indie games by ourselves. This new company enables us to move freely towards the goal."

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Four projects are underway:

Project #1

A video game that all creators of Too Kyo Games will concentrate their abilities on. The genre has not revealed yet. Mr. Kodaka and Mr. Uchikoshi will make the scenario together

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Project #2

An anime in collaboration with Studio Pierrot. The original author is Mr. Kodaka and the character designer is Mr. Komatsuzaki. They will depict the image of action films in the 1990s such as "Pulp Fiction" and "The Professional"

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Project #3

An action adventure game by Mr. Kodaka as a general manager, Mr. Uchikoshi as a scenario writer and Mr. Nakazawa as a director. The concept art drawn by Mr. Take (Illustrator. Representative works: "Tawagoto") represents school children playing death game. It is very shocking.

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Project #4

Collaboration of the dev team of "Danganronpa" and Spike Chunsoft. Mr. Kodaka actually started this project before his retirement of Spike Chunsoft. We imagine a kind of cyberpunk world from this art. Mr. Komatsuzaki designs the characters, Mr. Shimadoriru designs background and Mr. Takada directs the sounds.

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[SweetSark]

Source:
https://tookyogames.jp

Obviously the first two are made from the same artist of Danganronpa series.
The first is a Game, the second an Anime.
The 3rd one doesn't know what is it.​

 

[ChaosSmurf]

Blessed timeline.

 

[CaviarMeths]

Well, that's a good pile of talented writers and a fantastic artist. I'm in.

 

[WrenchNinja]

Hopefully it will have better writing than ZE3 and be a complete trolljob like DRv3

 

[mrmickfran]

Did they leave Spike Chunsoft?

 

[FiXalaS]

Would have wished for 999's artist but oh well.

 

[Hektor]

i am so fucking excited for all 4 projects damn son

 

[Birdie]

A game company with COMPLEX MOTIVES hopefully.

 

[Deleted member 2793]

A game company with COMPLEX MOTIVES hopefully.

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Stop.

 

[Enrico25]

I hope this doesn't end like Remember 11 (?)

 

[Dest]

I want all four of them and I want all the merchandise associated with them I am in I am fully 110% in.

 

[takoyaki]

Wow, they really assembled a dream team. The idea of Uchikoshi and Nakazawa working together again alone sounds really exciting. Same with the Uchikoshi x Kodaka project.

Can't wait to find out more!

 

[eXistor]

All the projects sound interesting at the very least.

 

[Axisofweevils]

Wonder what this means for AI

 

[ShyMel]

Oh wow, that seems like a loss of several talented people for Spike Chunsoft.

 

[Reki]

Wait, four projects? How big is the studio?

 

[Hektor]

Wonder what this means for AI

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Uchikoshi said he will continue working on and finish that project with SpikeChunsoft

 

[Kinsei]

I'm excited for all 4 projects.

The character designs for the anime and the second game (The children's death game) are so good.

 

[Tibarn]

I'm happy to see that some of the Danganronpa team is moving to different projects, V3 was good but it lacked more interesting crime investigation IMO.

 

[Shizuka]

Oh wow, that seems like a loss of several talented people for Spike Chunsoft.

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Doesn't this sound very similar to when NIS lost a lot of talent and then began to rely on the money NISA made localizing other companies' games? Spike Chunsoft might be relying on the money made by the western branch localizing SC/5pb titles soon enough.

 

[Piston]

Are they self-publishing or are they working with Spike Chunsoft?

 

[Nagito]

All the projects sounds great to me.

 

[KoolAid]

Wait, four projects? How big is the studio?

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This seems mostly to be a middleman studio, as in they do the writing and designing but the programming is made by another studio

 

[Xita]

Glad to see Kodaka doing something different.

All 4 projects sound great lol I'm in

 

[Ekid]

*look at Danganronpa 3 Anime and Zero Time Dilemma*

Well I will only be moderately hyped.

 

[Hektor]

Are they self-publishing or are they working with Spike Chunsoft?

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The Cyberpunk game is done in cooperation with Spike Chunsoft, but they describe themselfs as Indie.

 

[Acquiescence]

Why is that raccoon so damn fat.

 

[Dust]

Too bad this shit is like 2 years off at the earliest.

 

[HardRojo]

Seems like a very good mix of talent. Hopefully more care will be put into these games than whatever was given to Zero Time Dilemma, I still can't bring myself to finishing that game.

 

[Windrunner]

I think I just got a new favourite game developer.

 

[Piston]

The Cyberpunk game is done in cooperation with Spike Chunsoft, but they describe themselfs as Indie.

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Many Indie developers still get Publishers to help them out. I just saw the 4th project is Spike Chunsoft, will be interesting to see if they get different publishing partners for the other games or if they just self-publish and only release digitally/limited physical.

 

[Tribes of Trusty]

Kodaka x Uchikoshi sounds like a mindfuckery fest.

I'm so in.

 

[Reki]

This seems mostly to be a middleman studio, as in they do the writing and designing but the programming is made by another studio

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Yeah, the indie mention sounds weird otherwise. I guess this is kind of similar to how Mistwalker operates.

 

[Omegamon]

Bleh

 

[Deleted member 31092]

No mention of platforms I image, right?

 

[TheGamingNewsGuy]

Seems like there's no going to be anything Danganronpa related for a while. V3 may be the last.

 

[Zeroro]

Projects 1 and 4 seem the most interesting to me. The combination of a cyberpunk setting and Masafumi Takada as composer is too good to pass up.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Wonder what this means for Danganronpa.

Anyways, after V3 and ZTD, it's certainly not the lead names that are going to attract me to their projects. Looks intriguing, all the same.

 

[hans_castorp]

Nice, can't wait for them to recycle Ever17's plot for a 11th time /s

 

[Dark_Castle]

Why is that raccoon so damn fat.

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Not fat, just t h i c c.

 

[Deku_o4a]

All those Rui Komatsuzaki designs.
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[Herb Alpert]

I want to know more

 

[Kalor]

Seems like there's no going to be anything Danganronpa related for a while. V3 may be the last.

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They were hiring for a new Danganronpa related project fairly recently. They'll just continue on without Kodaka.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Seems like there's no going to be anything Danganronpa related for a while. V3 may be the last.

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Good. Saying it's getting stale is putting it lightly.

 

[Zeroro]

I feel like the loss of Komatsuzaki impacts the continuation of Danganronpa more than anything else at face value. It's not DR if it doesn't have that look!

 

[Fosko]

So future danganrompa games will be made by different people?

 

[tiebreaker]

Damn. I'm excited for their games!!

 

[TheGamingNewsGuy]

Honestly i think the next Danganronpa game should be a complete reboot - separate from 1,2,V3. Hell i am not sure if they should call it Danganronpa. Just have the similar class trial structure. Trying to make a sequel to V3 especially without Kodaka will not work.

 

[Dee Dee]

I didn't know Uchikoshi was involved in this, whhhaaatttt.

Awesome, I'm interested in all of these of course.
And now we wait for substantial details.