River City (River City Girls)

River City Girls

River City Girls is a 2019 beat 'em up video game developed by WayForward, and published by Arc System Works. A spin-off in the Kunio-kun franchise, the game stars Misako and Kyoko (originally appearing in Nekketsu High School Dodgeball Club: Soccer and Kunio-tachi no Banka respectively) who fight their way through enemies and obstacles to rescue their kidnapped boyfriends, series protagonists Kunio and Riki. The game was released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows in September 2019, and for Amazon Luna in October 2020. A PlayStation 5 version was released on January 18, 2022.

Shin Nekketsu Kōha: Kunio-tachi no Banka (1994), where Misako and Kyoko previously appeared, was localized as a prequel, River City Girls Zero, in 2022. A sequel, River City Girls 2, is in development.