On Monday, this year's eighth issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shueisha Jump magazine would announce that rivals from Naruto Shippuden, Dragon Ball Z, One Piece and Rurouni Kenshin series would be joining the rosters of the Namco Bandai Games' J-Stars Victory Vs. "team battle action" video game.

To join the game as playable characters, we have Uchiha Madara of Naruto Shippuden, Freeza of Dragon Ball Z, Akainu of One Piece and Shishio Makoto of Rurouni Kenshin, plus various heroes would assemble in the opening movie.

Then, the magazine also show teasers that V Jump magazine revealing more playable characters on Tuesday. Added to the playable characters, teasers also show that certain other Jump characters like Naruto's Kakashi and Sakura would appear in the game's adventure mode.

The character rosters for Shonen Jump's 45th anniversary game are:

One Piece
• Monkey D. Luffy
• Boa Hancock

Dragon Ball Z
• Son Goku
• Vegeta

Toriko
• Toriko
• Zebra

Naruto Shippuden
• Naruto Uzumaki
• Sasuke Uchiha

Bleach
• Ichigo Kurosaki
• Rukia (support)

Rurouni Kenshin
• Kenshin Himura

Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo
• Kankichi Ryotsu

Gintama
• Gintoki Sakata
• Kagura (support)
• Sadaharu (support)

Yu Yu Hakusho
•Yusuke Urameshi

Hunter x Hunter
• Gon Freecss

Chinyuki -Taro to Yukaina Nakama-tachi-
• Taro Yamada

Medaka Box
• Medaka Kurokami
• Misogi Kumagawa (support)

Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
• Tsunayoshi Sawada (with Reborn)

Beelzebub
• Tatsumi Oga (with Beelzebub)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
• Jonathan Joestar
• Joseph Joestar

Jigoku Sensei Nube
• Meisuke "Nuubee" Nueno

Assassination Classroom
• Koro-Sensei

Saint Seiya
• Seiya

Pyu to Fuku! Jaguar
• Jaguar (support)

To Love-Ru
• LaLa (support)

Nisekoi
• Chitoge Kirisaki (support)

Kuroko's Basketball
• Tetsuya Kuroko (support)

Sket Dance.
• Bossun (support)
• Switch (support)

Neuro - Supernatural Detective
• Neuro (support)

D.Gray-man
• Allen Walker (support)



The game's theme song "Fighting Stars" would be sang by Kageyama Hironobu, Kushida Akira and Kitadani Hiroshi. A free augmented-reality (AR) lets you see the Jump heroes in your surroundings in the PS Vita.

On March 19, the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita game will be released. The regular edition of the PS3 version costs 7,980 yen or about $80 USD, while the limited edition costs 10,980 yen or $110 USD. The regular edition of the PS Vita version costs 6,980 yen and the limited edition will be available for 9,980 yen or about $100 USD.

Pre-order of the game would include a J-Stars Victory Book, a Jump Comics-like book with information and visuals of Jump heroes over the years. An "Ani-Son Sound Edition" of the game will let the players to listen to 21 television anime theme songs in the game for a limited time.


via Anime News Network