Q: Kodaka-san, do you have an idea in your head of what happens after Kibou-hen?

KODAKA: Nope. Just that the 77th class, living and going on their journey, have no choice but to bear the weight of their sins, so I think it’s going to be a lot of trouble for them. The whole world hates them. Sometimes I feel bad for the dead DR1 characters, but there are ways in which being alive is its own problem. I didn’t have an idea of what happened after DR1 and then DR2 after I finished each of those, either… but I can’t say that when DR3 is the last installment! Actually, now that I think about it, when I started making DR3, I got stuck on something from DR2. After Nanami dies in Chapter 5, she comes back in Chapter 6 through a glitch, and when I was writing Nanami for that, I had the idea that she was “a little bit off”. She’s not like the Nanami we’ve seen so far, I thought; she was never that tender. I had that gnawing at my brain when I was making DR3, and I thought, “Maybe that really was a different Nanami,” and that’s how I came up with the Nanami in Zetsubou-hen. I haven’t thought of anything that happens after DR3, but I might have something deep down in my subconscious like that. Not that I’m gonna do anything with it! (laughs)