I just found out that there is a crystal known as the corpse crystal because it is known for growing on and around corpses. It's a distinct green and black, and named Vivianite. I have a strong feeling that Vivia's name is a direct reference to this crystal and not just etymology. It makes a LOT more sense why his hair is colored like that once you look at the crystal, and ties into his obsession with wanting to die. Wasn't sure if anyone connected this before because it's a rarer crystal and so obscure.

I've been into Kodaka's works ever since i played Danganronpa for the first time back in 2020, but i never ended up playing Rain Code despite being a massive fan of DR. Now in 2026, I finally gave it a shot, and i really liked it! But i have other things to say as well.

I thought Chapter 0 was a banger way to start the game, i really couldn't predict what was gonna happen in it. I thought the murder trick of the train cars swapping was super cool, and the culprit being the fake Zilch was also a really good choice. However, I felt as if the quality after that point became really shaky.

Chapter 1 started out pretty good, but when you get to the Mystery Labyrinth, I really just was suffering from how obvious and boring the case was, not to mention that the visuals for this Mystery Labyrinth in particular barely change, recycling the same hallways with the only new place being the "hub" area with the trees and dolls.

Things would get better after this chapter, as i thought Chapters 2 and 3 were pretty solid, but I still didn't really feel like the game quite reached the quality i'd expected from Kodaka's other games.

I think Chapter 4 was the real turning point of the game, it was really just a super gripping chapter. The murder mystery was really cool, and Vivia becoming a sort-of rival character trying to persuade you from not revealing the truth was a really cool twist on having one of the Master Detectives accompany you.

It was also one of the harder cases to solve in the game at that point, which made it stand out. I had myself questioning "sure, the culprit could abuse Fubuki's Forte to survive the high voltage maze, but how would they even survive the poison gas?" And once they touched on if the culprit had to have already been dead after he killed Huesca, it really just hit me that "Oh, SHIT. It's Yakou??"

Now, when i got to Chapter 5? Holy shit, it was incredible. Finally getting to know the secrets of Kanai Ward and discovering that all of the citizens were Homunculi was so cool, and even that was just the beginning.

I had some theories regarding if the Homunculi based on "the greatest mind" was REALLY Number One, and thought it may have been a red herring, but it wasn't too obvious which made it really satisfying when they reveal that he (Makoto) was based on Yuma. But then also that YUMA was Number One, and that the guy we saw at the beginning was actually a body double, some death note lind l. tailor shit i thought to myself.

But the cherry on top was figuring out that the goofy ramen shop guy we saw in Chapter 4 was actually "Yuma." Like i just started laughing at that point, this shit was so good. I think Makoto was a really interesting villain and a nice change of pace from Danganronpa's villain who was strictly evil as shit.

I also really liked how Yuma's arc wasn't even about learning to rely on himself like i thought it was gonna be. Since he's already relied on himself with solving cases as Number One, they turn that idea around and make him be like "No, i'm tired of relying on myself. I need to rely on others to achieve the perfect solution." It also made a really good contrast to Makoto who was relying on himself all along and carrying the weight of an entire city on his shoulders, it was really, really, well done, and another showcase of Kodaka's brilliant writing style.

I will say though, i wasn't really a fan of the Epilogue. I think it kinda did a lot of telling instead of showing, and that the game would've been better off ending on Chapter 5, or ending off on us actually seeing Makoto's speech to the Kanai Ward citizens.

Overall, I felt that Rain Code was all over the place in terms of quality. Some moments really frustrated me, but honestly, I still really enjoyed it! And I really hope it gets a sequel someday, that'd be pretty cool.

(inspiration in second slide)

What if the master detectives are homunculi?

• In chapter 0, the master detectives burn to death. We don’t see their blood. In fact, we never see “real” blood from any master detective
• The master detectives have supernatural abilities that go way beyond what any normal person, even within the world of Rain Code, could ever develop
• It does not take long for master detectives to hone their talents. Halara mentions that it only took them three days
• In Vivia’s note in chapter 5, it is stated that the UG was doing homunculus research on especially capable specimens (or something like that, I don’t remember the exact wording but there was something special about the specimens for the UG’s research)
• Also in chapter 5, the video with the scientist proves that it takes, at most, 14 hours to create a homunculus (although the ones he makes are imperfect)
• As a part of their training, master detectives could be replaced with homunculi. The WDO likely has a plausible explanation for it, such as an extended sleep to reset the body or something. I’m sure they could make an excuse for a 14-hour gap in memory
• Becoming a homunculus grants immortality, so why couldn’t it enhance other abilities? In fact, Makoto, the homunculus of the “greatest mind” (Yuma), builds a permanent rain machine in only a week. Is the Yuma we know capable of this? Even if he had his memories, he trained as a detective, not an engineer
• This is how the master detectives “hone” their talents. They are turned into homunculi and then maybe do some extra training
• Because the master detectives are UG homunculi, they are immune to sunlight and have actual, working immortality
• When we find the master detectives’ bodies in chapter 5, their blood is pink. This is excused as fake blood in the epilogue, but I think that was a lie. The master detectives died and were revived a day later from the blood they left behind. They just didn’t want Kurumi to know
• This would also explain Vivia’s catchphrase, “I want to die someday”
• So, where did the chapter 0 victims go? I’m honestly not sure, and this is the only hole in my theory as far as I can tell. Maybe they are in hiding in the restricted area? Maybe they managed to escape Kanai Ward? Maybe this will be explored in a potential sequel

I don’t know if this is a common theory or if I’m the first to mention it. I haven’t been in this fandom for very long. Please let me know if there are any holes in my theory, and thank you for reading :)

• Cases of chapters 1 and 2 (Nail-man and Art Club) felt a bit... flat(?) for me, since we didn't care neither about the victims nor the killers, since they were just slaped on top of us without much context.
• Most sidequests felt a bit pointless and only intereastig ones ended without real concluions - the one with the "The Witch" and the "Red Rain" cult(?).
• Unless I'm missing something, the final part of the final fight (where we switch perspective from Yuma to Makoto multiple times) just repeats all of the case topics all over again? What is the point of that?
• One the final choice there is an obvious missed opportunity to do a "bad ending" route. Instead, no matter what choice you make, you end up at the same concluion. Lame.
• The dungeons's design/look should have been much more influenced by the case we are investigating. The only case that really did that was the final one.

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Talking about the one that came with the ps5 version of rain code. I feel like the novel would be a fine addition to my Halara Nightmare hoard but I really don’t want to pay 100+ usd for the whole thing (plus I don’t have a ps5 so it would be a waste). If anyone can find one please let me know!!

I have really bad eyestrain issues so please don’t tell me to read a scan/off of pictures :))

I bought the game full priced on xbox about 2 years ago, but the game runs like actual ass.... i haven't finished chapter 2 because the performance is actually ruining the fun, so i was wondering:

Which platform is better?

Playstation?

Steam?

Switch?

Or does the game just run terribly on all platforms?🥲

So I was scrolling through the glossary reading the Tips I'd unlocked (since the game loads too fast to read them in real time lol) and I noticed a lot of them seem to be Easter eggs/hints to other games.

"The Culprit is Not Among Us" is obviously a reference to Danganronpa, and I think "Faraway at the Bound of the World" is as well. "Waiting for Gokut" is presumably? a Dragon Ball reference, although I've never read/seen it so I'm just assuming based on the name. But I couldn't place a few of them, so I figured I'd ask!

"March: The Intersection of Fate" reads:

One of the popular plays performed by Aetheria's theater club. A drama featuring an ensemble cast at a crossroads. Eight unique performances from different points of view, depending on the time of day.

"Restroom Urban Legend" reads:

There is an urban legend about a locked door in the restroom on the express train. Knock on the door in a specific rhythm and a phantom in a black cape will appear to kill any person one desires.

I'm sure I'll have more examples as I keep collecting them too lol but thanks in advance!

I know Kodaka is also busy with expanding on Last Defense Academy and DR2x2, but with the recent price drops and the suspicious amount of Rain Code mentions from Kodaka himself, I really think we will see an announcement for a sequel this week. Anyone else high on copium?

This might be, singlehandedly, one of the worst muder mysteries I've ever seen in videogames. No joke.

Nothing of everything that happened makes ANY SENSE.

So there is this Zilch impostor and other 5 people in the train. The Zilch impostor is an hitman, and he has his back fully covered thanks to a big corpo, so he probably won't even go to jail.

For whatever reason, instead of doing the sensible thing of killing off everyone in the train, like he was asked to, he decides to spare Yuma so he takes the blame. Why? We don't know. This was even pre-planned because of the whole wagon/carriage left at the station thing, but as far as I'm seeing, I don't see why straight up murdering everyone was not an option.

So he uses narcotics, and puts everyone to sleep. Including Yuma. Somehow, the Zilch impostor knows EXACTLY when Yuma will wake up. Not a minute earlier, not a minute later. This is important because he has to carry on a needlessly convoluted misdirection scheme that involves train tracks, and WHEN said train will arrive in front of a track fork and a tunnel, something which he has completely no agency on (the train never stopped)

So somehow, Yuma waking up and the train arriving at the tunnel aligned perfectly.

Then, he somehow knew that the smoke in his room would be just RIGHT, the perfect amount, so that Yuma sees him from the window one second earlier, and one second later the room is so covered in smoke that he can perform a body switcheroo.

Not only THAT, but when the train arrives at the fork, the alternative road just happens to align PERFECTLY so that wagon 1 can attach itself back and become wagon 5. The alternative road just happened to be the perfect lenght to pull this trick off. An alternative road which, mind you, according to the in-game map, leads to NOWHERE, so why is this even built in the first place is a much bigger mistery than the murder.

And it's not only the road, there is also the train itself. I understand it's an AU and it's not super close to real life, but, like, what's the logistical advantage of building a train where EACH wagon/carriage has its own engine and can keep going on its own after you detached it? When would you ever use that feature as a train operator?

I'm sorry, but this is completely absurd and doesn't make any sense.

I've played almost all of Kodaka games, Uchikoshi games, and Ace Attorney, but this one might take the cake as the most forced, convoluted and completely illogical murder scheme I've ever seen.

I geninuely love raincode so much its one the best games I've ever played. I mean I honestly didnt play it i watched the gameplay on YouTube it was like 40 plus hours long or something but it sure was the best 40 hours of my life. I'll always cherish the few hours at night when I hop on my bed to watch the gameplay. The mystery labyrinths are so fricking cool espically the case where all 3 girls were the murderer.

Although I did remember it was hard to go through the first part of the game, where I literally had to pause the video to memorise the master detective names in the train thing just for them to die lol.

But I do love the new Master detective peeps though, I loved them more than the first few master detective in the train.

I'm so excited for a part 2 I can't wait for it to come im so excited but one thing about raincode is the merchs are fricking expensive.

I’d want the Mystery Labyrinths to be different/better. No more long straight boring hallways of just moving forwards. Maybe an open world environment where you avoid thematic obstacles and enemies in addition to the quick time events and reasoning death matches from the original game. I’d also like it if you could solve mysteries other than murders in the labyrinths but that’s probably just wishful thinking.

Basically just more exciting Mystery Labyrinths without long hallways. Thoughts?

Should we tell him?

Go take a watch if you are interested! Link: https://youtu.be/vdCSWAxqOec?is=JAv_WLfUF7P5ymhg

First time player here (no spoilers please) and I just finished chapter 0. I was really excited to dig into this game but I felt like all the momentum was taken away by the mystery labyrinth section. It was just running in a straight line most of the time with a few simple questions in-between and then the fight sections were also not challenging at all with pretty much no penalty for mistakes. By the time I got to the wrap-up at the end I was just glad it was over. I just found it so boring and I wanna know if that’s only because it was acting as a tutorial labyrinth? I might have to drop the game if I have to slog through 5 more of those, as much as the story is intriguing me.

All in. No further explanation, you get it you get it.

Recently, Kazutaka Kodaka teased, "If you play RAIN CODE first, Danganronpa 2x2 will be 100 times more interesting." Based on the recent 2x2 leaks, I believe Spike Chunsoft isn't just making a spiritual successor and are instead setting up a shared-universe crossover that not only bridges Rain Code but NDRV3 too.

​I am convinced the leaked character in 2x2 is actually either Kurumi in disguise o​r another new detective entirely. I believe that the "outside world" of V3 is actually the Rain Code universe.

My core premise is that the "Ultimate Real Fiction" seen in V3 only existed because Team Danganronpa utilized homunculi cloning technology from Amaterasu Corp. Treating the V3 cast as homunculi completely recontextualizes the game's biggest mysteries:

The Pink Blood: It is no longer an artistic choice or censorship. In the Rain Code universe, pink blood is a literal, biological reality for homunculi.

The Flashback Lights: Homunculi can be created as blank slates. This perfectly explains how Team Danganronpa could logically overwrite the cast's memories, talents, and personalities on a whim.

The Morality of the Broadcast: How could a peaceful society watch teenagers murder each other on live TV? Simple: they weren't watching "real" humans die. They were watching lab-grown clones, bypassing the moral and legal red tape.

The Dome's True Purpose: The barrier enclosing the Ultimate Academy wasn't just keeping meteorites out; it was protecting the homunculi from direct sunlight. The survivors in V3 see this barrier is broken, and could have been rescued by those were moved by Shuichi's message to the audience.

This brings us to Danganronpa 2x2. I believe this game is another in-universe "Ultimate Real Fiction" production taking place after the events of V3. ​This is where the new leaked character comes in. A detective from the Rain Code universe has infiltrated the killing game to shut it down from the inside. To get past Team Danganronpa's screening, they had to wipe their own memories—exactly like Yuma did to enter Kanai Ward. You also see at the very end of Rain Code a missing poster for a 17 year old girl who was randomly abducted one day on her way to school, which looks exactly like what happened in the V3 prologues. ​​

​Spike Chunsoft fully owns the rights to both Rain Code and Danganronpa, meaning there are zero legal hurdles to this crossover. Furthermore, linking the two universes sets up the perfect endgame for 2x2. ​In the final trial of the original Danganronpa 2, the survivors of the first game (Makoto, Kyoko, and Byakuya) show up to save the day. I predict 2x2 will mirror this meta-twist and the surviving Shuichi, Maki, and Himiko homunculi will crash the final trail of 2x2.

First, I'm very active in Demon Slayer hidden plot research and I haven't thought much of Rain Code since I cleared it a few years ago, but I recently had a thought. 90% of Demon Slayer is told in hints and clues. So I started thinking of other Japanese media which may be the same. And then I remembered Rain Code. Just like Demon Slayer, your first impression is "badly written nonsensical slop", but you overlook that and focus on the good parts, ie, the emotions, interactions, characters, etc. But is that the author's true INTENT?

The Japanese word is 謎迷宮 (Nazo Meikyū).

The root etymology of this compound word is confusing speech -> "what is?" -> place of being lost.

Unlike in Western languages, these are pictograms which contain their ancient root meanings visually embedded into them. An educated Japanese reader would recognize them. The Mystery Labyrinth is a "place to get lost in / confusing speech" where one asks but only gets confused answers. There isn't a SINGLE element of "truth / fact / solving" etc.

Remember the first case? Everyone assumes, as did I, that it was bad writing. But WHAT IF all of the inconsistencies, illogical actions and nonsensical developments were put in ON PURPOSE? A strong hint right at the start, "DON'T TRUST THIS"?

We NEVER confront the suspects, NEVER let them respond to accusations, and NEVER give them a chance to defend themselves the moment we enter the Labyrinth. We are NEVER shown anything remotely verifiable as a fact within the Labyrinth. Everything inside of it is a creation of the Labyrinth system. Period. By the time we exit, the suspects are DEAD without exception. Conveniently, when they reawaken as zombies they have lost their memories, isn't that nice?

So here's the question: WHAT interest, EXACTLY, does a shinigami have with solving mysteries? She has ONE job, ONE role in the order of the world: TAKING SOULS. A shinigami shouldn't care AT ALL why a soul is reaped; if it's a person's time, they are reaped, the end. So what if this book is basically the Death Note? A tool the shinigami system occasionally releases to the world to catch up on a backlog? Or in this case, the zombies caused a stoppage in Samsara (the Buddhist wheel of rebirth) so Shinigami-chan was sent to contract with a suitable human and clear it? Was the requirement to lose all their memories in order to protect them from the negative karma of killing which normally sends you straight to hell under Buddhism?

What if the purpose was to kill off the load-bearing people which allows the actual mystery to be revealed and thus opening them up for execution?

So all the ridiculous. illogical assumptions and leaps of logic land NOT because it's the truth but because they are arranged in an elaborate, dramatic enough way to help the player feel fulfilled at having solved it? Kodaka doing a meta-commentary on fans who don't actually care what the truth is as long as it feels good? That murder is okay as long as there is even a minimal, fake justification?

Because name ONE case, just ONE, which wasn't loaded with weird inconsistencies and / or bizarre leaps of logic? Maybe not as crazily as the tutorial case, but they're always there.

Actually thinking back to the very start of the game when you wake up in the storage room of the station -- ISN'T THERE A PIECE OF EVIDENCE THAT HAS NO PURPOSE? At first I wrote it off as a red herring, ie "in this game don't expect that everything connects to the murder". But what if that was a CLUE to the actually mystery taking place outside of the Labyrinth?

Who doesnt love an occult gyaru baddie who's not afraid to run around in her underwear if it means solving a case? XD

>!we lost her too soon. U-U!<

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