Keiji Inafune has spoken to 4Gamer about the incredible success of the Mighty No.9 Kickstarter campaign. Inafune says a backer in the Middle East was so impressed with the project that he emailed him to say that he would like to fund for all of the pledges. Here’s what he had to say about the project’s success on Kickstarter.

“Yes it is, but the reaction is quite different from them when compared to the Japanese, starting with the very first word spoken when we meet. From developers to publishers, the first thing they say is ‘congratulations on your successful Kickstarter campaign!’ but in Japan, while my fellow developers do congratulate me—and it’s not that they don’t have as much of a reaction—I think it’s that most people aren’t aware of [Kickstarter].”

“…Just the other day someone from the industry told me, ‘if I only had 200 million yen ($2 million) I still…