I*CHU: Chibi Edition will make its way to the West.

Announced today, the game will arrive on the Nintendo Switch in North America and Europe. I*CHU: Chibi Edition, which dropped on the Switch in Japan in 2022, is a port of the 2015 Japan-exclusive mobile game I*CHU. This will be the first time North America and Europe will get their hands on the game. An announcement trailer can be seen below. Amazon has it listed for a September 26 release.

A synopsis for the game reads:

Your time as a producer has come! Aspiring idols need guidance on their journey to stardom and only you can provide it.

Created by a renowned talent agency, Etoile Vie School is a special academy designed to teach and train idols to be. 32 idols-in-training, also known as “I-Chu” have been chosen to attend this academy and are all working hard towards their major debut.

Separated into stylistically different groups, each idol has their own individual aspirations and unique personality, but with challenging hurdles ahead they must find the right way to understand and get along with each other.

Enter you! It's your job as their teacher and producer, to guide these unique characters, through their struggles and stresses, helping them make music and resolve issues, to become the ultimate idols in the music industry!

Physical pre-orders can be made here. Fans outside of Japan got their first official taste of I*CHU with the 2021 anime series I-Chu: Halfway Through the Idol, which can be streamed on Crunchyroll right now here.