My Girlfriend is a Mermaid!? reaches Kickstarter goal

Sekai Project opened a Kickstarter last week for My Girlfriend is a Mermaid!?, a visual novel for Switch. It seems that it was the only surefire way to guarantee a localization.

Fortunately, we don’t have to worry about that any longer. My Girlfriend is a Mermaid!? has already reached its $12,000 target, so we’ll be seeing it in both North America and Europe down the road.

Here’s a bit of additional information for My Girlfriend is a Mermaid!?:

“My Girlfriend is a Mermaid!?” features multiple choices and endings that add to the value of this heartwarming story and with the additional content and updates to the game such as the addition of Live2D animation will make this a wonderful addition to the Nintendo Switch library.

In addition, there’s some amazing voice talent involved with the game. Fuchigami Mai, voice actress for Ion is best known for her role in Girls und Panzer as Nishizumi Miho which she won the Synergy Award for at the 8th Seiyuu Awards in 2014. In addition she also voiced Iona in Arpeggio of Blue Steel and Hojo Karen in THE iDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS. Suzaki Aya, voice actress for Petakko is best known for her role in Tamako Market as Kitashirakawa Tamako, Kayano Kaede in Assassination Classroom and Nitta Minami in THE iDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS. She also won the award for Best Female Newcomer at the 9th Seiyuu Awards in 2015. Kageyama Risa, voice actress for Rin, voices the character of Tsukiyo in the visual novel, Dead End 99% in which she also sings the ending song. She’s also fluent in Korean and has been involved in translation work for a number of game projects.

Find the Kickstarter for My Girlfriend is a Mermaid!? here.

Thanks to Nao★Mi (Rikaria) for the tip.