Following a ratings board leak, publisher Arc System Works and developer WayForward have officially announced River City Girls, a new project basic on the River City / Kunio-kun action game series.

The collaboration promises to “leverage the strengths of each studio and bring together a wealth of knowledge, an abundance of passion, and 60 combined years of video game experience across a wide range of technologies, genres, and intellectual properties.”

“This is a really wonderful opportunity,” said WayForward founder Voldi Way in a press release. “Arc System Works is an extremely talented gaming company that we’ve admired for many years, and we are incredibly happy to be working with them. This new take on the River City universe is going to be a lot of fun.”

Arc System Works producer Takomi Kaneko added, “Everyone here is pleasantly surprised by the way the River City series is turning out. I think the River City series has a reputation as a 2D fighting-action game with a lot of male fans, but then River City Girls appears! WayForward’s enthusiasm for a female protagonist won me over.”

More information about River City Girls will be revealed later in 2019.

Thanks, NintendoSoup and Nintendo Life.

Update 05/03/19 at 8:50 a.m.: The Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea has rated River City Girls for PlayStation 4 and Switch.