J-Stars Victory VS+ Ultra

J-Stars Victory VS+ Ultra (ジェイスターズ ビクトリーバーサスプルスウルトラ　Jei Sutāzu Bikutorī Bāsasu　Purusu Urutora) is a fighting video game sequel to J-Stars Victory VS (and later J-Stars Victory VS+). Created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Weekly Shōnen Jump, ​​​​​the game combines the universes of several manga series, including former series, some that have been transferred to other magazines and even V-Jump. It was released worldwide by Bandai Namco Entertainment on August 4, 2018 for the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Microsoft Windows, with an additional Arcade Mode for releases outside Japan.
==Gameplay==
J-Stars Victory VS+ Ultra lets up to four players battle it out against one another using a gameplay and graphical style similar to those of games such as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven and One Piece: Burning Blood. Fighters can move and fight in all directions on a 3D battle field. Players should learn the lay of the land and formulate a battle plan with a character suited to it.
A defeated character comes back after a set amount of time passes. To win the battle, all three sections of the WIN gauge at the top of the screen have to be filled; the gauge fills one section each time an opponent is defeated. Fighters can use regular attacks, power attacks, area-based attacks, and finishing moves. Regular attacks are the main part of the battle, and all combos begin with them. Power attacks leave the user open, but they have a big impact if they connect and their power can be increased by charging them up. Area-based attacks allow to hit opponents over a wide area. By using different techniques, the player can lead their team to victory; learning each character's different power, range, and effects is the first step towards being unbeatable.
Playable game modes include "J-Adventure", a multi-player story mode divided between four campaigns in which players explore a world map, battle various opponents, and collect in-game cards to power up their characters; "Victory Road", a multi-player battle mode in which players must complete certain predetermined objectives during battles; and a free-battle mode which supports up to four players in both local offline play and online multiplayer. An additional single-player Arcade Mode is exclusive to western versions of J-Stars Victory VS+ Ultra.
==Plot==
The game's story mode, "J-Adventure," takes place in a completely revamped version of the previous game's Jump World - an amalgamation of the different characters' universes. As the story begins, each of the characters is preparing for the Jump Festa, a tournament held every 50 years by the "God of Jump World" in which heroes and villains compete to determine who is the strongest. The narrative is split between four different arcs, each focusing on a different character exploring Jump World, building a team to compete, and working to achieve their own personal goals. The Hero Arc focuses on Midoriya, Uraraka, and Asta; the Revolutionary Arc on Sabo, Koala and Trunks; the Battler Arc on Jotaro, Medaka, Kinnikuman and Kenshiro; and the Ninja Arc on Boruto, Yoruichi, and Kurama.
The so-called "God of Jump World" (who is actually an organization consisting of various Jump villains across the Multiverse) later reveals that the tournament was a ruse to erase all the Jump heroes from existence. The Jump heroes collectively defeat this entity using the powers of effort, friendship and triumph. With the crisis averted, the heroes celebrate their victory (led by Kinnikuman) with a gigantic feast with their friends and families joining them.
===Characters===
The game features 220+ characters from 51 different Jump series. 130+ of these characters are playable, while 90+ of them can be summoned by players to provide support.
====Playable characters====
;Assassination Classroom
*Koro-sensei (Jun Fukuyama)
;Beelzebub
*Tatsumi Oga (Katsuyuki Konishi) paired with Baby Beel (Miyuki Sawashiro)
*Hilda (Shizuka Ito)*
Black Cat
*Eve (Misato Fukuen)*
Black Clover
*Asta (Gakuto Kajiwara)*
*Yuno (Nobunaga Shimazaki)*
*Noelle Silva (Yuki Kana)*
*Magna Swing (Genki Muro)*
;Bleach
*Ichigo Kurosaki (Masakazu Morita)
*Sōsuke Aizen (Shō Hayami)
*Rukia Kuchiki (Fumiko Orikasa)
*Renji Abarai (Kentaro Ito)*
*Orihime Inoue (Yuki Matsuoka)*
*Uryu Ishida (Noriaki Sugiyama)*
*Yoruichi Shihoin (Satsuki Yukino)*
*Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez (Junichi Suwabe)*
*Ulquiorra Cifer (Daisuke Namikawa)*
*Byakuya Kuchiki (Ryōtarō Okiayu)*
*Kenpachi Zaraki (Fumihiko Tachiki)*
;Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
*Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (Takehito Koyasu) paired with Don Patch (Masaya Onosaka)
Boruto
* Boruto Uzumaki (Yuuko Sanpei)*
*Sarada Uchiha (Kokoro Kikuchi)*
*Mitsuki (Ryūichi Kijima)
​​​​D.Gray Man
*Allen Walker (Sanae Kobayashi)*
*Yu Kanda (Takahiro Sakurai)*
*Lenalee Lee (Shizuka Ito)*
*Millennium Earl (Yutaka Aoyama)
;Dr. Slump
*Arale Norimaki (Mami Koyama) paired with Gatchan
;Dragon Ball Z
*Goku (Masako Nozawa)
*Vegeta (Ryō Horikawa)
*Frieza (Ryūsei Nakao)
*Trunks (Takeshi Kusao)*
*Piccolo (Toshio Furukawa)*
*Krillin (Mayumi Tanaka)*
*Gohan (Masako Nozawa)*
*Cell (Norio Wakamoto)*
*Android 18 (Enuka Okuma)*
*Hit (Kazuhiro Yamaji)*
Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken
* Dai (Toshiko Fujita)*
;Fist of the North Star
*Kenshiro (Katsuyuki Konishi)
*Raoh (Fumihiko Tachiki)
*Rei (Takehito Koyasu)*
*Souther (Nobutoshi Canna)*
;Gin Tama
*Gintoki Sakata (Tomokazu Sugita)
*Shinsuke Takasugi (Takehito Koyasu)*
;Hunter × Hunter
*Gon Freecss (Megumi Han)
*Killua Zoldyck (Mariya Ise)
*Hisoka Morow (Daisuke Namikawa)
*Meruem (Koki Uchiyama)*
*Neferpitou (Ayumi Fujimura)*
;Hell Teacher Nūbē
*Meisuke Nueno (Nūbē) (Ryōtarō Okiayu)
;JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
*Jonathan Joestar (Kazuyuki Okitsu)
*Joseph Joestar (Tomokazu Sugita)
*William Anthonio Zeppeli (Yoku Shioya)*
*DIO (Takehito Koyasu)*
*Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli (Takuya Sato)*
*Lisa Lisa (Atsuko Tanaka)*
*Wamuu (Akio Otsuka)*
*Jotaro Kujo (Daisuke Ono)*
*Jean Pierre Polnareff (Fuminori Komatsu)*
*Josuke Higashikata (Yuki Ono)*
*Okuyasu Nijimura (Wataru Takagi)*
*Rohan Kishibe (Takahiro Sakurai)*
*Yoshikage Kira (Toshiyuki Morikawa)*
*Giorno Giovanna (Daisuke Namikawa)*
*Jolyne Kujo (Miyuki Sawashiro)*
Kinnikuman
*Kinnikuman (Akira Kamiya)*
*Warsman (Hideyuki Hori)*
*Terryman (Hideyuki Tanaka)*
*Akuma Shogun (Yonehiko Kitagawa)*
*Buffaloman (Kenji Nomura)*
*Alexandria Meat (Minori Matsushima)*
;Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo
*Kankichi Ryotsu (LaSalle Ishii)	
;Medaka Box
*Medaka Kurokami (Aki Toyosaki)
*Najimi Ajimu (Nana Mizuki)*
My Hero Academia
*Izuku Midoriya (Deku) (Daiki Yamashita)*
*Katsuki Bakugo (Kacchan) (Nobuhiko Okamoto)*
*Toshinori Yagi (All Might) (Kenta Miyake)*
*Ochako Uraraka (Uravity) (Ayane Sakura)*
*Tenya Iida (Ingenium) (Kaito Ishikawa)*
*Shoto Todoroki (Yuki Kaji)*
*Tsuyu Asui (Aoi Yuki)*
*Denki Kaminari (Tasuku Hatanaka)*
*Eijiro Kirishima (Toshiki Masuda)*
*Fumikage Tokoyami (Yoshimasa Hosoya)*
*Shigaraki (All for One) (Akio Otsuka)*
*Momo Yaoyoruzu (Creati) (Marina Inoue)*
;Naruto
*Naruto Uzumaki (Junko Takeuchi)
*Sasuke Uchiha (Noriaki Sugiyama)
*Madara Uchiha (Naoya Uchida)
*Sakura Haruno (Chie Nakamura)*
*Kakashi Hatake (Kazuhiko Inoue)*
*Hinata Hyuga (Nana Mizuki)*
*Rock Lee (Yoichi Masukawa)*
*Gaara (Akira Ishida)*
*Minato Namikaze (Toshiyuki Morikawa)*
*Itachi Uchiha (Hideo Ishikawa)*
;One Piece
*Monkey D. Luffy (Mayumi Tanaka)
*Portgas D. Ace (Toshio Furukawa)
*Boa Hancock (Kotono Mitsuishi)
*Akainu (Fumihiko Tachiki)
*Roronoa Zoro (Kazuya Nakai)*
*Nami (Akemi Okamura)*
*Vinsmoke Sanji (Hiroaki Hirata)*
*Franky (Kazuki Yao)*
*Brook (Cho)*
*Trafalgar D. Water Law (Hiroshi Kamiya)*
*Sabo (Toru Furuya)*
*Koala (Satsuki Yukino)*
*Donquixote Doflamingo (Hideyuki Tanaka)*
*Aokiji (Takehito Koyasu)*
*Kizaru (Unsho Ishizuka)*
*Crocodile (Ryuzaburo Otomo)*
*Shanks (Shuichi Ikeda)*
;Reborn!
*Tsuna Sawada (Yukari Kokubun) paired with Reborn (Neeko)
*Kyoya Hibari (Takashi Kondo)*
*Chrome Dokuro (Satomi Akesaka)*
Ring ni Kakero
* Ryuji Takane (Masakazu Morita)*
;Rurouni Kenshin
*Himura Kenshin (Mayo Suzukaze)
*Shishio Makoto (Masanori Ikeda)
*Sagara Sanosuke (Yuji Ueda)*
;Saint Seiya
*Pegasus Seiya (Masakazu Morita)
*Dragon Shiryu (Takahiro Sakurai)*
*Leo Aiolia (Hideyuki Tanaka)*
*Phoenix Ikki (Katsuyuki Konishi)*
;Sakigake!! Otokojuku
*Momotaro Tsurugi (Hideyuki Hori)
*Daigouin Jaki (Hideyuki Tanaka)*
;The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
*Kusuo Saiki (Hiroshi Kamiya)
;Toriko
*Toriko (Ryōtarō Okiayu)
*Zebra (Kenji Matsuda)
*Coco (Takahiro Sakurai)*
*Sunny (Mitsuo Iwata)*
*Midora (Masaki Terasoma)*
;Tottemo! Luckyman
*Luckyman (Mayumi Tanaka)
;Yu-Gi-Oh!
*Jaden/Judai Yuki (KENN)*
;Yu Yu Hakusho
*Yusuke Urameshi (Nozomu Sasaki)
*Hiei (Nobuyuki Hiyama)
*Younger Toguro (Tesshō Genda)
*Kazuma Kuwabara (Shigeru Chiba)*
*Kurama (Megumi Ogata; Demon Fox voiced by Shigeru Nakahara)*
====Support characters====
Assassination Classroom
*Nagisa Shiota (Mai Fuchigami)*
Bakuman.
* Moritaka Mashiro (Atsushi Abe)*
Black Cat
*Train Heartnet (Takashi Kondo)*
*Sven Vollfied (Keiji Fujiwara)*
Black Clover
* Yami Sukehiro (Junichi Suwabe)*
* Gauche Addlai (Satoshi Hino)*
* Claus Lunettes (Takuma Terashima)*
* Licht (Takahiro Sakurai)*
* Fana (M・A・O)*
;
;Bleach
*Toshiro Hitsugaya (Romi Park)*
*Shunsui Kyoraku (Akio Otsuka)*
*Soi Fon (Hōko Kuwashima)*
*Retsu Unohana (Aya Hisakawa)*
*Kisuke Urahara (Shinichirō Miki)*
*Neliel Tu Oderscvank (Tomoko Kaneda)*
*Yasutora Sado (Hiroki Yasumoto)*
*Ikkaku Madarame (Nobuyuki Hiyama)*
Boruto
* Mitsuki (Ryuichi Kijima)*
Buso Renkin
* Kazuki Muto (Jun Fukuyama)*
Captain Tsubasa
* Tsubasa Oozora (Nozomu Sasaki)*
City Hunter
* Ryo Saeba (Akira Kamiya)*
Cobra
*Cobra (Naoya Uchida)*
Death Note
*Light Yagami and Ryuk (Mamoru Miyano and Nakamura Shido)*
Dr. Slump
*Dr. Mashirito (Ryōtarō Okiayu)*
Dragon Ball Z
*Bardock (Masako Nozawa)*
*Beerus (Koichi Yamadera)*
*Whis (Masakazu Marita)*
*Broly (Bin Shimada)*
*Majin Buu (Kozo Shioya)*
*Tien Shinhan (Hikaru Midorikawa)*
*Yamcha (Toru Furuya)*
*Mr. Satan (Unsho Ishizuka)*
Eyeshield 21
* Sena Kobayakawa (Miyu Irino)*
Fist of the North Star
*Toki (Tomokazu Seki)*
*Jagi (Wataru Takagi)*
*Shin (Tomokazu Sugita)*
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma
*Soma Yukihira (Yoshitsugu Matsuoka)*
;Gin Tama
*Kagura and Sadaharu (Rie Kugimiya and Mikako Takahashi)
*Kotaro Katsura (Akira Ishida)*
;Haikyū!!
*Shōyō Hinata (Ayumu Murase)
Hikaru no Go
* Akira Toya (Sanae Kobayashi)*
;Hunter × Hunter
*Kurapika (Miyuki Sawashiro)*
*Leorio Paradinight (Keiji Fujiwara)*
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
*Robert E. O. Speedwagon (Yoji Ueda)*
*Rudol von Stroheim (Atsushi Imaruoka)*
*Noriaki Kakyoin (Daisuke Hirakawa)*
*Muhammad Avdol (Kenta Miyake)*
*Koichi Hirose (Yuki Kaji)*
*Johnny Joestar (Yūki Kaji)*
*Gyro Zeppeli (Shinichiro Miki)*
*Josuke Higashikata II (Mitsuaki Madono)*
;Kuroko's Basketball
*Tetsuya Kuroko (Kenshō Ono)
;Medaka Box
*Misogi Kumagawa (Megumi Ogata)
My Hero Academia
*Tomura Shigaraki (Koki Uchiyama)*
*Yuga Aoyama (Kosuke Kuwano)*
*Hanta Sero (Kiyotaka Furushima)*
*Mina Ashido (Eri Kitamura)*
*Kyoka Jiro (Kei Shindo)*
*Minoru Mineta (Ryo Hirohashi)*
*Toru Hagakure (Kaori Nazuka)*	
Naruto
*Tsunade (Masako Katsuki)*
*Jiraiya (Hochu Otsuka)*
*Orochimaru (Kujira)*
*Mei Terumi (Yurika Hino)*
*Shikamaru Nara (Showtaro Morikubo)*
*Sasori (Takahiro Sakurai)*
*Deidara (Katsuhiko Kawamoto)*
;
;Neuro: Supernatural Detective
*Neuro Nōgami (Takehito Koyasu)
;Nisekoi
*Chitoge Kirisaki (Nao Toyama)
One Piece
*Usopp (Kappei Yamaguchi)*
*Tony Tony Chopper (Ikue Otani)*
*Nico Robin (Yuriko Yamaguchi)*
*Fujitora (Ikuya Sawaki)*
*Bartolomeo (Showtaro Morikubo)*
*Gildo Tesoro (Kazuhiro Yamaji)*
;Pyu to Fuku! Jaguar
*Jaguar Junichi (Keiji Fujiwara)
Reborn!
*Hayato Gokudera (Hidekazu Ichinose)*
Rurouni Kenshin
*Saito Hajime (Ken Narita)*
Saint Seiya
*Andromeda Shun (Yuta Kasuya)*
*Cygnus Hyoga (Hiroaki Miura)*
;Sakigake!! Otokojuku
*Heihachi Edajima (Unshō Ishizuka)
Shaman King
* Yoh Asakura (Yuko Sato)*
;Sket Dance
*Bossun, Himeko, and Switch (Hiroyuki Yoshino, Ryōko Shiraishi, and Tomokazu Sugita)
Slam Dunk
*Hanamichi Sakuragi (Takeshi Kusao)*
Strawberry 100%
* Aya Toujou (Mamiko Noto)*
The Prince of Tennis
* Ryoma Echizen (Junko Minagawa)*
;To Love-Ru
*Lala Satalin Deviluke (Haruka Tomatsu)
World Trigger
*Yuma Kuga (Tomo Muranaka)*
Yu-Gi-Oh!
*Yugi Mutou (Shunsuke Kazama)*
In addition to these characters, Gin Tama's Shinpachi Shimura (Daisuke Sakaguchi) can be heard providing commentary to some of Gintoki's battle actions and pre-fight dialogues, and several other characters from the franchises appear in the game's story mode.
The symbol (*) next to a character denotes that they are new to the game.
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