Skill and chaos are united in one wonderful experience. Last time you raced across Japan, this time you take on the world. This is Nippon Marathon 2 - the Brave World Tour!

Nippon Marathon 2 is built from the ground up with all new physics based chaos, beautiful new character models and stretch goals including (but not limited to) online mode. 

Tour the world as Darwin, Nishibori, Zenbei and Snuguru or choose one of the totally ridiculous new contestants.

Try to finish in first place in a marathon spanning the globe. Hang onto your rival's lobster tail using new abilities such as grip or send them flying into a pile of shiba-inu using new weapons such as the star fruit.

Heck, you can even finish them off with the all new character-specific B-MOVES!

View the world through the lens of a Japanese game-show! Keep your eyes peeled and your lobster-onesie on standby - so many surprises await you!  

Onion Soup Interactive is currently running a kickstarter campaign for Nippon Marathon 2, looking to raise $41,147.

Onion Soup Interactive are happy to announce a collaboration with Hideaki Kobayashi, also known as Uncle Sailor - the infamous gentleman who roams Tokyo wearing a school uniform who also happens to be the inspiration behind Nippon Marathon’s Zenbei character.

As part of a new popularity feature, Uncle Sailor (along with other yet-to-be-announced celebs), will give players challenges to complete during the race thereby creating new opportunities to score points or sabotage their friends.

The developers want to give the game’s popularity mechanic a Japanese daytime TV show twist;

“If you’ve ever watched Japanese TV, you’ll have been confused by the colourful text and celebrities in small boxes reacting to what’s happening”. Says developer Amy Madin. “We wanted to recreate this but instead of having celebrities react to news, they react to in game-events, such as a player carrying two bananas at once! It’s going to be fun seeing what crazy demands the celebrities make”.

The developers have opened up the ability to become a celebrity to their Kickstarter backers too; as part of the “Be a Celebrity” tier, backers’ face and voice will be included in the game and they’ll work with Onion Soup Interactive to configure their likes and dislikes for each course. So whether you are a famous YouTuber or a celebrity in your own back garden, you can join Uncle Sailor in Nippon Marathon 2 by backing the campaign.

 Key Features

• Friends in quarantine? No problem, challenge the ferocious AI patiently await the day you can invite your friends round for a socially distanced session.
• New and improved cast of crazy characters
• Silly physics abilities including the “grip” ability, grab your opponent and see what happens.
• Touka Koukan (equivalent exchange) - Players’ “popularity score” will make or break you in the Nippon Marathon; everything influences your popularity, knocking over politicians = good, knocking over the Queen’s tea = bad!
• Brand new courses set around the world including London, the USA, France and more!
• Amazing new character specific B-Moves, such as Elizabeth Nishibori’s “Unicorn Rage”
• New weapons, such as the shuriken style STAR FRUIT. 
• Specific stats and animations for each character!
• All new back stories including how Snuguru Maestro became Elon Mus--- wait, what?
• Minigames and Party Games return! 
• An amazing soundtrack is back to soothe and/or excite your ears!