Exxistance does it again and releases a fan translation based on the anime and manga series Ninku. The fighting game follows the frog-looking character Fūsuke, who is immensely powerful and is from the Ninku school, fighting off the evil corporations named after the Chinese Zodiac animals.
This was a shadow drop by Exxistance, and was released April 6, 2026, on several Discords and social media platforms:
While for the most part English isn’t needed too much to enjoy the game, he made some good quality of life changes to the title, such as:
- Translated title screen, localized title
- Translated main menu
- Translated character names on character select screen
- In-game UI elements translated
- English subtitles for opening movie, game over, and character win quote FMVs
According to his notes on the GitHub page.
The game is a fairly straightforward fighting game, very similar to the Yu Yu Hakusho fighting game on the 3DO, using a drawn cel style to capture each frame:
Well, at least Ninku looks way better…
No other translator besides Exxistance is listed in the credits, so we wanted to give everyone a heads up some AI was potentially used in the translation of this project.
While this game isn’t the biggest in demand for a fan translation, it’s a quirky little fighting game based on an anime series, and everyone should give it a try!
If you’d like to patch your copy, you can download the fan translation files here:
https://github.com/ExxistanceDC/Ninku-English-Translation
Everyone at SHIRO! wanted to give a thank you to the team who made it all possible:
Translation
- Exxistance
Texture Art
- Exxistance
QA
- Exxistance
- wonder-inc
- Patrick “TraynoCo” Traynor
Special Thanks
- Shadowmask (for writing the excellent tutorial, Create Your Own Saturn Video Discs, as well as providing additional advice)
- Malenko (whose Saturn 15bpp tool tutorial was invaluable for some of this translation’s graphics)
- Derek “ateam” Pascarella (who developed the Saturn 15bpp tool mentioned above!)
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