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J-Stars Victory Vs. Game Trailer Recreates Famous Matchups
posted on by Egan Loo
Namco Bandai Games began streaming the fifth promotional video for its J-Stars Victory Vs. "team battle action" video game on Monday.
The video begins with famous matchups between protagonists and antagonists of Rurouni Kenshin, Yū Yū Hakusho, Bleach, One Piece, Naruto, and Dragon Ball Z, before leading into the game's newest roster additions: Kenshirō and Raoh from Fist of the North Star. It then teases the "soon-to-be-famous matchups never before seen by anyone" by pitting characters from different series against each other, like Seiya vs. Freeza.
The character roster in this Shonen Jump 45th anniversary game now includes:
One Piece
- Monkey D. Luffy
- Boa Hancock
- Akainu
Dragon Ball Z
- Son Goku
- Vegeta
- Freeza
- Toriko
- Zebra
- Naruto Uzumaki
- Sasuke Uchiha
- Madara Uchiha
Bleach
- Ichigo Kurosaki
- Sōsuke Aizen
- Rukia (support)
Rurouni Kenshin
- Kenshin Himura
- Makoto Shishio
Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo
- Kankichi Ryōtsu
- Gintoki Sakata
- Kagura (support)
- Sadaharu (support)
Yū Yū Hakusho
- Yūsuke Urameshi
- (Younger) Toguro
- Gon Freecss
- Hisoka (support)
Chinyūki -Tarō to Yukaina Nakama-tachi-
- Tarō Yamada
- Jaguar (support)
- Medaka Kurokami
- Misogi Kumagawa (support)
- Lala (support)
- Chitoge Kirisaki (support)
- Tsunayoshi Sawada (with Reborn)
- Tatsumi Oga (with Beelzebub)
- Koro-Sensei
- Jonathan Joestar
- Joseph Joestar
- Meisuke "Nuubee" Nueno
Neuro - Supernatural Detective
- Neuro (support)
- Tetsuya Kuroko (support)
- Seiya
- Bossun (support)
- Switch (support)
- Allen Walker (support)
Fist of the North Star
- Kenshirō
- Raoh
Hironobu Kageyama, Akira Kushida, and Hiroshi Kitadani are singing the game's theme song "Fighting Stars."
The PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita game will arrive on March 19. A regular copy of the PS3 version will cost 7,980 yen (about US$80), while a limited edition will cost 10,980 yen (about US$110). The normal edition of the PS Vita version will cost 6,980 yen, while a limited edition copy will retail for 9,980 yen (about US$100). A free augmented-reality (AR) app lets you see the Jump heroes in your surroundings on the PS Vita.
People who pre-order the game will receive the J-Stars Victory Book, a volume bound like a Jump Comics book and filled with information and visuals of Jump heroes over the years. For a limited time, a "Ani-Son Sound Edition" of the game will let players listen to 21 television anime theme songs in the game.
