Fight off ink aliens by reading the kanji they stole. Answer each one with a single press mid-run, and your brush strikes the alien down. Learn 6,000+ kanji, from zero to JLPT N1 and beyond.
- Release date
- Q1 2027
- Players
- Solo, or online co-op for up to 8
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Every Ink Alien Carries a Kanji It Stole
Mid-run, a question opens: the meaning, the reading or the right kanji. Pick the answer and your brush cuts the alien down. Miss, and that kanji comes back until you know it.
6,000+ Kanji
Start from your very first kanji and keep going past JLPT N1.
A Boss in Every Zone
It builds its attacks from the kanji you keep missing.
Answer at Full Speed
One press picks your answer, on a controller or a keyboard.
Co‑op for Up to 8
Every player gets questions picked for them. Friends at any level play together.
Run Across Japan and Take the Kanji Back
Ink aliens tear kanji off the street signs and right out of your memory. Chase them through neighbourhoods across Japan, in every season, in rain, snow and night.
Combos. Fast answers chain into combos and a bigger score multiplier.
Never Stop. Run, jump and dodge while you answer. The questions never stop the run.
140+ Stages. Neighbourhoods all across Japan, from the first street to the last.
From Your First Kanji to N1, and Beyond
Every kanji you can be tested on, and thousands more.
- Hiragana & Katakanaand your first ten kanji
- Themed Zonesnature, time, the city, the mind
- JLPT N5–N1Japan’s proficiency test
- Jōyōeveryday kanji
- Kankenkanji certification
Spaced Repetition You Never Manage
Every answer trains the card. Weak kanji come back sooner; kanji you have mastered step aside.
A Collection That Fills as You Learn
Each kanji has its readings, the words it makes, example sentences, related kanji and its stroke order.
Practice Mode
Study without pressure whenever you want.
Play Solo, or Online Co‑op for Up to 8
In co-op, every player gets their own questions, picked for the kanji they are learning. A beginner and an N1 veteran play the same match, and every right answer counts the same for the team. Short on friends? Empty seats fill automatically, and a match always starts.
Defense
Hold back waves of Bokkyaku, the ink aliens.
Raid
Bring down a giant before it escapes.
Repaint
Paint an ink-drained city sign back to life, stroke by stroke.
The Hub
Meet up between runs, show off your look and emote together.
Run in Your Own Style
Make your own runner in the character creator: hair, face, eyes and outfits. Then style your run with trails, auras, strikes, pets and frames for your avatar.
Reclaim the City Together
Every kanji any player reclaims during a season fills one shared board. Fill it together, and everyone keeps that season’s cosmetics.
So What Are You Waiting For?
People learning Japanese from all over the world meet in the Hub between runs. Show off your look, dance together, team up for a match, then head back out and reclaim the city. Grab your brush and run with them.
Free Demo: November 2026
About This Game
- Release date
- Q1 2027
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Players
- Solo, or online co-op for up to 8
- Controls
- Full controller support, keyboard
- Steam features
- Achievements, Leaderboards, Steam Cloud
- Genre
- Anime action runner, language learning
- Developer / Publisher
- sepTN / Jepang.org
- Free demo
- November 2026
- Interface languages
- English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Bulgarian, Greek, Romanian, Hungarian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Finnish, Turkish, Arabic
Keep Learning on Jepang.org
The same kanji are waiting in our free lessons between runs.