On May 17th, ninetail announced on X that the Kickstarter project for VenusBlood RAGNAROK International‘s English localization has an official launch date.
The Kickstarter has gone live today and will go on for 4 weeks (28 days), at which point it will end and Stretch Goal calculations will be done.
As of now, only 1 hour after its start, the project has managed to acquire $35k, with 86 backers.
As of last last month, we also got three new translations for three VenusBlood fandiscs—you can read about them here!
What is the RAGNAROK initiative?
Greetings, and welcome to our recruitment center!
Surely you must have heard of the recent spread of the belief in Divine Supremacy by those who would see demonkind and the humans who support us crushed under their heel…! Master Vali would see an end to this oppression, and thus we have begun recruitment for the (VenusBlood) RAGNAROK initiative.
What is the RAGNAROK initiative? Why, VenusBlood RAGNAROK is a Turn-Based Strategy Role Playing Adventure game, told with visual novel story-telling created by the Japanese studios Dualtail and Ninetail.
Recruits joining the RAGNAROK Initiative will be incorporated into the army of Master Vali, and will be rewarded with unique backer rewards based on your contributions towards the war effort (reward tiers)!
Think of your loved ones, of your demonic comrades. Would you condemn them to a cursed life, forever serving these Divine Supremacists?
Enlist(Become a Backer) now, and join the fight for Reunification! We trust that you will make the right decision, and we await you with open arms.
VenusBood RAGNAROK is the direct sequel to VenusBlood FRONTIER, whose localization also started as a Kickstarter—the very first one, in fact.
VenusBlood Ragnarok—much like its predecessor—seamlessly blends SRPG gameplay and narrative to immerse players in an epic struggle between the Demons and Gods.
Step into the shoes of Vali Lefay, a demon struggling against the growing doctrine of Divine Supremacy and growing discrimination against demonkind. Will you proceed with benevolence, gathering allies to overthrow the Divine Supremacists and rule as a just and fair Overlord, or do you seek the power to crush all who stand in your way until it is the Divine under your heel?
Choose wisely, for your worth as the Overlord is constantly being tested…
The Kickstarter
Gameplay Features
Pledges & Rewards
Although you can donate any amount of money (up to a hundred quintillion yen), you’ll also receive certain rewards for higher pledges. For further details, please check the official Kickstarter page.
| Tier | Price (USD) | Rewards |
|---|---|---|
| News & Wallpaper Set | 4 | You’ll receive a full set of digital wallpapers of the game. |
| Digital Game | 31 | You’ll get the digital game, as well as the previous rewards. |
| Digital Game Plus | 44 | You’ll also get the choice of getting either the digital soundtrack OR the digital artbook. |
| Asgardian Folklore | 55 | You will get both the digital soundtrack AND the digital artbook. |
| Physical Game Set | 64 | For those who enjoy physical editions, you can get the physically packaged version of the game! |
| Physical Game Plus | 77 | For this tier, you can choose to have either the soundtrack or the artbook as their physical versions. |
| Game Full Set | 89 | You will get both the soundtrack and the artbook in their physical and digital versions, and your name will appear in the credits. |
| RAGNAROK Set | 99 | Besides all the other rewards, you’ll also get a replica Shikishi! |
| Box of Memories | 118 | You’ll get a Mousepad OR Playing Cards OR Steel Mug—it’s up to you to choose! |
| Triple Keychain Set | 122 | Get 3 keychains to your liking! |
| Tapestry Set | 141 | Have a B2 Tapestry (Choose between New Main Visual or Jorm) to present to your guests! |
| A Nostalgic Portrait | 148 | Choose Between 1/2 Canvas Art Styles (Linde & Nanna vs Ullr & Heimdall) OR a blanket. |
| Always Together | 188 | You can choose a Dakimakura Cover, between Fana, Linde, Ullr, Vidar or Chibi Yilan! |
| Nanna’s Keychain Collection | 240 | Get all 21 keychains! |
| Original Autographed Shikishi – VA | 272 | Get a a Shikishi signed by the voice actor/actress of your choice! (Only those who voiced a character in VBRI are eligible.) |
| The Beloved Heroine | 272 | Own a breast pillow (Momimakura), between Fana, Jorm, Nanna or Sigyn! |
| Memories of Yggdrasil | 500 | If you have made a Rebirth unit with ninetail before in a past Kickstarter, you are eligible to bring said unit(s) over into this game! As such, only backers who have done so before can back this reward tier. |
| Asgardian Council: Citizen | 775 | You’ll get Scene Voting rights (4 votes), as well as all the previous rewards. |
| Autographed Hand-Drawn Shikishi – Illust | 901 | A shikishi drawn and autographed by the illustrator and Voice Actor/Actress(Signature) of the character of your choice! |
| Asgardian Council: Knight | 1,549 | You have more Scene Voting rights (8 votes) and you can select 2 guest units to bring over! |
| Rebirth | 1,704 | You can have your own original unit of your request added to the game, but only for use in battles. |
| Flower of the Battlefield | 2,098 | Select a single common unit, and ninetail will create a brand new episode featuring that unit. Only humanoid female units are allowed. |
| Flower of the Battlefield: Anecdotes | 2,534 | Select the VA who will voice your character OR the Artist who will draw the scene. |
| Asgardian Council: Noble | 3,519 | You have more Scene Voting rights (12 votes). |
| Asgardian Council: Chairman | 5,701 | You have more Scene Voting rights (16 votes) and you can select 4 guest units to bring over! |
| The Legacy of the Overlord | 7,678 | Choose a VBRI heroine, and we will make an original episode involving that character for you based on your requests! Plus, you’ll get a personal ‘Thank-you’ voice message from the heroine herself. |
The Plot
On the verge of a bloody war, Vali Lafey has joined the Demon Liberation Army as a firm believer in the principles of Divine-Demon Unification, and he has raised an army to fight for these ideals. His sister-in-law, Brunhilde, on the other hand, has recently awakened as a Goddess and has been tasked with hunting him down. It is during the chaos of this hunt that Vali meets a youth with the same name as the Overlord Loki.
“Show me your potential. The potential of an Overlord who would devour the chaos of both the Divine and the Demonic… Yes, as the Overlord Loki did once before. In adversity did he stand, and by his own hand, he conquered all the land.”
With those words, the youth named Loki handed Vali the Key of Yggdrasil. With it, he gains the power to subjugate goddesses into servant deities and dominate demons. With it, he takes the first step towards becoming Overlord of a new age.
Join Vali and his trusty adjutant Linde as they fight to oppose the doctrine of
Divine Supremacy under the guidance of their tactician, the mysterious youth known as Loki!
Questions still remain, however. Loki is cooperating with Vali for now, but is the salvation of demonkind truly Loki’s only goal? Is he truly the Overlord Loki who went missing all those years ago? And to what end did he entrust Vali with the Key of Yggdrasil…? Only time will tell.
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