History VideoGame / JumpSuperstars

%%* ContinuityPorn

%%* MascotFighter
%%* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover

%%* MightyGlacier: Raoh, Edajima, Bo-Bobo, among others.

%%* PlatformFighter
%%* PopQuiz

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Ryotsu from ''Kochikame'' is just a regular police officer, but can fight evenly with overwhelmingly powerful warriors like Visored Ichigo, Gear 2nd/3rd Luffy and Kyuubi Naruto, or even characters who can easily destroy planets or subdue Gods, like Vegetto and Sagittarius Seiya.
* PracticalTaunt: Eve's taunt grants her a super jump which reaches higher than her innate triple jump.

%%* StandardStatusEffects: Poison, Burn, Paralyze, Blindness, Confused, Frozen, Slow, Doom.

* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn''
** ''Tsunayoshi "Tsuna" Sawada & Reborn''

* GameplayAndStorySegregation:
** In [[Franchise/{{Naruto}} her home series]], two of Sakura's most notorious traits are her book smarts and [[FauxActionGirl being fairly useless in battle]], the latter of which she lampshades herself. Though Knowledge is an element in this game's TacticalRockPaperScissors, Sakura is inexplicably classified as a Power character.
** The Winged Dragon of Ra is the strongest deity in ''Manga/YuGiOh'', but this game portrays it as the weakest, since it can only be summoned by Yugi's 4-panels Koma and deals considerably less damage than the deities summoned by Yugi's evolved forms.

%%* PlankGag: One of [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Gintoki's]] attacks.

* TheMissingno: The Black Koma can only be unlocked by using an Action Replay or similar, but it grants infinite SP.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: In [[Franchise/{{Naruto}} her home series]], two of Sakura's most notorious traits are her book smarts and [[FauxActionGirl being fairly useless in battle]], the latter of which she lampshades herself. Though Knowledge is an element in this game's TacticalRockPaperScissors, Sakura is inexplicably classified as a Power character.

* ArtificialStupidity: If you're using an attack, any nearby A.I in front of you is likely to block even if the damaging part of the attack is several seconds away & they'll sometimes try to block unblockable attacks with a clear chance to dodge.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Ichigo, Naruto and Luffy's 8 Koma forms. They've got impressive special attacks, but all of them come out very slowly, making them harder to land. Their 7 Koma specials are much quicker and to the point.
** Also, Kenshiro 7 in ''Ultimate Stars''. If the attack connects, it's sure to throw your opponent far away, but 1. you must be just next to him/her so it can connect (it is a short-range radial attack), and 2. Kenshiro takes long enough to load that he may get hit and break the attack.
** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando]]'s 5-Koma version can pull off the infamous 'Road Roller' move, but it's [[StealthPun useless]] compared to his 6-Koma version's Time Stop ability ("[[AC: Toki yo tomare!!"]]).
** Fate. After getting it you have 10 seconds until you are killed no matter what. Sounds powerful, right? Well, it would be, were it not easily countered. If you have any ability or koma that removes all negative status effects on you, then it's gone like that. Don't have any? Well you can get confused or poisoned and it will override fate. Even playing a no items mode, there are still opponent attacks that might get you inflicted. Also, most of the time it's a huge pain just to land an attack that gives it, aside from Kenshiro's 5koma, that it would be easier just to remove the hp.
* BoringButPractical: Ringouts.
* CarFu: [[Manga/RokudenashiBlues Maeda's]] support attack is to run over opponents on his scooter.

* ChargedAttack: Certain characters' taunts will charge attacks to make them more effective - [[Manga/BlackCat Train Heartnet]] can fire more bullets at once after his, for example.

** One level seems to consist entirely of this. Much of the ground is fragile as a result.

** Some of the attacks are... bizarre. Like [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Kakashi]] and [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Gintoki]] teaming up and recovering health and earning a victory point by reading porn. Or [[Manga/OnePiece Sanji]] and [[Manga/BusoRenkin Kazuki]] using their "seduction" techniques as a form of recovery (notably, when Kazuki tried it in his series, it didn't work).
* ContinuityPorn
* CrisisCrossover: [[spoiler: [[Manga/DoctorSlump Dr. Mashirito]] ]] is stirring up trouble in the ''Jump'' universe, and it's up to the player to bring all of the available ''Weekly Shonen Jump'' heroes and heroines together to fight this threat. See ExcusePlot below.
* DashAttack: Each character has both a weak and strong version of their dash attack, done with double tapping left or right twice then tapping either attack button. Despite VideoGameDashing only being added in ''Ultimate Stars'', Dash Attacks from ''Super Stars'' didn't make a return oddly enough.
* DoubleJump: All characters - certain characters can innately triple jump, and others can get the ability with the right helpers.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Power beats Knowledge beats Laughter beats Power.
* EscortMission
* ExcusePlot: The plot is practically non-existent for a vast majority of ''JUS's'' main campaign mode.

** In JUS there are a few pre-made decks like the above that focus on a trope. Here are a few.
*** GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: There is a deck that has all koma featuring the character pointing.
*** AnIcePerson: All ice deck. The supports all inflict freezing.
*** GratuitousEnglish: "Sweat & Tears", a sports themed deck.
*** {{Ninja}}: An all ninja deck.
*** OurGhostsAreDifferent: A deck with the theme of death and the afterlife (Manga/DeathNote and Manga/{{Bleach}})
*** HollywoodCyborg: All cyborg characters.
*** AfroAsskicker: All characters have a fro.
*** CreatorCameo: Played with. A few decks hold characters from different manga that has the same creator (one example is having Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter X Hunter)
*** RapidFireFisticuffs: All characters and the support are able to do this.
*** PurpleIsPowerful: All characters and their koma are primarily purple.
*** Fanservice: All choices show koma that have women in... pleasing fashion.
* FakeDifficulty: When setting the AI to "Hard" mode (as if it made any difference, see AI Roulette above) it will automatically assume a guarding stance immediately after you press any attack button.
** Additionally, some missions require you to finish your opponents with either a Special attack or a Support Character. This is VERY HARD to do in some stages where the opponent keeps falling off (That is, FALLING OFF ENTIRELY ON THEIR OWN and not being thrown/punched/kicked/kamehamehadokened/etc. off) the stage thanks to the aforementioned Artificial Stupidity and either coming back with full health (you have to weaken them again before using said move to finish) or dying (making the mission unwinnable). The FakeDifficulty in these cases doesn't really lie in beating your opponents, but in accomplishing every set of conditions for every mission.

* GridInventory: Deck building. Even worse in ''Jump Super Stars'' when you had to create the Koma via a InventoryManagementPuzzle.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: Any characters from sports manga, though all who can get a piece of the action only act as strikers.
* IntercontinuityCrossover: As if having so many ''Jump'' characters in one game wasn't enough, some characters gain a small bonus when paired up with characters from other series, like [[Anime/YuGiOh Yugi Mutou]] and [[Manga/BoboboboBobobo Bo-Bobo]] for example, which just so happens Yugi appeared in one chapter of the manga as Bobobo's finishing move, and that came from Yugi's artist drawing a picture of Yugi popping out from Bobobo's afro.
* JackOfAllStats: Goku, Naruto and Luffy.
* KamehameHadoken: The game has one TropeMaker out of the two, and he's just one of a few who can do this.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The koma in question are culled directly from the original manga, and they do contain spoilers (Sakuragi 3, for example, is the ''very last panel'' in the whole ''Manga/SlamDunk'' story - not that it spoils too much, but it's still illustrative). Arguably, some characters' mere inclusion counts. (Or do you think it's just coincidence that they decided to include Aizen, Gin and Tousen in ''Ultimate Stars'' at the same time?)

* MadScientist: The BigBad is [[spoiler: Dr. Mashirito of ''Manga/DoctorSlump'']].

* MediumAwareness: The characters literally fight in a manga page, with the Weekly Shonen Jump logo in the corner.

* TheMissingno: The Black Koma. It can only be unlocked by using an Action Replay or similar, but it grants infinite SP.

* MythologyGag: '''All over the place'''. Every single move performed by every single character is a reference to an action done sometime, somewhere, in their respective manga.

* PlankGag: One of [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Gintoki's]] attacks. The attack might be based on chapter 9 of ''Gintama'' (where he has to fix a customer's roof while the Shinsengumi are after him), but the actual gag doesn't happen there.

* PopularityPower: More popular series like Franchise/DragonBall, Franchise/{{Naruto}}, Franchise/OnePiece, Franchise/{{Bleach}}, etc. have more playable characters and 7 and 8-koma characters.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: Made worse by larger-koma characters being more powerful.
** More precisely one just have to wonder how Ryotsu from the decades-long popular ''Kochikame'' who is just a regular police officer can even land a hit on monsters like Visored Ichigo, Gear 2nd/3rd Luffy and Kyuubi Naruto, or even more ridiculous against characters who can easily destroy planets or subdue Gods, Vegetto and Sagittarius Seiya respectively.
** Let's not even begin talking about [[Manga/StrawberryOneHundredPercent cute girls falling from the sky]] or tripping over those aforementioned guys.
* PracticalTaunt: Some characters' taunts have special effects; for example, Eve gets a super jump which reaches higher than her innate triple jump.
* ShoutOut: You can actually replicate Yugi coming out of Bobobo's afro thing from the manga.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Perhaps owing to its shounen roots, there are very few female characters. ''Ultimate Stars'', counting the help koma, has 68 female characters out of over 300 (and that's counting characters who share koma sets), which amounts to around 20% of the total. And, out of the 55 fighters, we have nine (16% total): [[Manga/DoctorSlump Arale]], [[Manga/ShamanKing Anna]], [[Manga/BlackCat Eve]], [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Kagura]], [[Manga/DGrayMan Lenalee]], [[Manga/OnePiece Nami, Robin]], [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Rukia]] and [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Sakura]].
** The ''Strawberry 100%'' and ''I"s'' koma sets somewhat avert this, since their character roster combined is 90% female (only two characters in the former are male).
* SpamAttack
* SpeechBubbles: Noteworthy in that some of them, like [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro's]] [[AsskickingPose "You're Already Dead[=/=]Omae wa mou shinde iru"]] speech, can affect your opponents.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Can be considered one to ''One Piece Grand Battle: Swan Colosseum'' from the [=WonderSwan Color=]. This series is also followed by the ''Gigant Battle'' series of ''One Piece'' fighting games and ''VideoGame/JStarsVictoryVS''.
* StandardStatusEffects: Poison, Burn, Paralyze, Blindness, Confused, Frozen, Slow, Doom.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: Each player and support character is categorized into three types: Strength/Power (red), Humor/Laughter (yellow), and Intelligence/Knowledge (green). Understanding how they cancel each other out is crucial to progress within the game: powerful characters cause more damage to intelligent characters, who do more damage to funny characters, who cause more damage to the powerful ones (this also applies to the damage assist characters - the ones who take up two to three koma - can cause). Note that the same character may be represented by different types according to their koma. For example, there are two Dio 5 that can be obtained: one is power-type (TheOneWith [[MemeticMutation the steamroller]]), while the other is knowledge-type. Knowing which one to put in your koma grid is important.
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The quiz questions about the manga in question in ''Jump Ultimate Stars'' - fortunately, it's only necessary once, and you can fail every question without penalty.
* WallJump: Again, some characters have this as an innate ability and anyone can have it given the right koma.
* WrittenSoundEffect: It's a game about ''manga''. What do you expect?

** Some of the attacks are... bizarre. Like [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Kakashi]] and [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Gintoki]] teaming up and recovering health and earning a victory point by reading porn. Or [[Manga/OnePiece Sanji]] and [[Manga/BusouRenkin Kazuki]] using their "seduction" techniques as a form of recovery (notably, when Kazuki tried it in his series, it didn't work).

* ''Manga/BusouRenkin''

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In 2009, a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts was made, VideoGame/SundayVSMagazineShuuketsuChoujouDaikessen, with another set of manga characters from Shueshias's rivals, Kodansha and Shogakukan.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''

* ''MidoriNoMakibaou'' (''Ultimate Stars'' only)

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''

* ''Manga/OnePiece''

* ''PyuToFukuJaguar''

* ''TaizoMoteKingSaga'' (''Ultimate Stars'' only)
* ''TottemoLuckyman'' (''Ultimate Stars'' only)
* ''Anime/YuGiOh''

%%* GlassCannon: [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Hiei]], [[Manga/DGrayMan Lenalee]], [[{{Naruto}} Sakura]], [[{{Naruto}} Kakashi]] and [[Manga/OnePiece Sanji]] stand out in particular.

* MrExposition: Aside from the Jump Pirate (the logo of Shonen Jump), each series in ''Ultimate Stars'' has an unlockable one to explain everything in the menus. Among them [[Franchise/DragonBall Bulma]], [[{{Naruto}} Tsunade]], [[Manga/OnePiece Chopper]], [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Lin]], [[JojosBizarreAdventure Rohan Kishibe]] and [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Botan]].

* PopularityPower: More popular series like Franchise/DragonBall, {{Naruto}}, Manga/OnePiece, Manga/{{Bleach}}, etc. have more playable characters and 7 and 8-koma characters.

** Kinnikuman

* MrExposition: Aside from the Jump Pirate (the logo of Shonen Jump), each series in ''Ultimate Stars'' has an unlockable one to explain everything in the menus. Among them [[DragonBall Bulma]], [[{{Naruto}} Tsunade]], [[Manga/OnePiece Chopper]], [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Lin]], [[JojosBizarreAdventure Rohan Kishibe]] and [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Botan]].

* PopularityPower: More popular series like DragonBall, {{Naruto}}, Manga/OnePiece, Manga/{{Bleach}}, etc. have more playable characters and 7 and 8-koma characters.

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: Several of the manga series weren't released outside of Japan before ''Jump Super Stars'' was released. In fact, given the sheer number of series featured in the game that have since been translated, it's possible that this was deliberately invoked.

* MrExposition: Aside from the Jump Pirate (the logo of Shonen Jump), each series in ''Ultimate Stars'' has an unlockable one to explain everything in the menus. Among them [[DragonBall Bulma]], [[{{Naruto}} Tsunade]], [[Manga/OnePiece Chopper]], [[FistOfTheNorthStar Lin]], [[JojosBizarreAdventure Rohan Kishibe]] and [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Botan]].

* SpeechBubbles: Noteworthy in that some of them, like [[FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro's]] [[AsskickingPose "You're Already Dead[=/=]Omae wa mou shinde iru"]] speech, can affect your opponents.

%%* GlassCannon: [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Hiei]], [[Manga/DGrayMan Lenalee]], [[{{Naruto}} Sakura]], [[{{Naruto}} Kakashi]] and [[OnePiece Sanji]] stand out in particular.

%%* LightningBruiser: [[SakigakeOtokojuku Momotaro]], [[Manga/BoboboboBobobo Don Patch]], [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Yusuke]], [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jotaro]], and [[OnePiece 7- and 8-koma Luffy]].

* MrExposition: Aside from the Jump Pirate (the logo of Shonen Jump), each series in ''Ultimate Stars'' has an unlockable one to explain everything in the menus. Among them [[DragonBall Bulma]], [[{{Naruto}} Tsunade]], [[OnePiece Chopper]], [[FistOfTheNorthStar Lin]], [[JojosBizarreAdventure Rohan Kishibe]] and [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Botan]].

* PopularityPower: More popular series like DragonBall, {{Naruto}}, OnePiece, Manga/{{Bleach}}, etc. have more playable characters and 7 and 8-koma characters.

* ''ShamanKing''

''Jump Super Stars'' is a 2-D PlatformFighter game for the NintendoDS published by Nintendo in Japan in 2005. It gathers many of the popular characters from ''Weekly Magazine/ShonenJump'' in a ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''-style battle royale. In most stages, your objective is to simply knock out your opponents more often than they KO you, either by depleting their HitPoints or knocking them off the stage. However, some missions require you to collect the most/all of a certain item, and a few (and many unlock goals in otherwise normal stages) have more unusual goals.

* CrisisCrossover: [[spoiler: [[Manga/DoctorSlump Dr. Mashirita]] ]] is stirring up trouble in the ''Jump'' universe, and it's up to the player to bring all of the available ''Weekly Shonen Jump'' heroes and heroines together to fight this threat. See ExcusePlot below.

*** CreatorCameo: Played with. A few decks hold characters from different manga that has the same creator (one example is having yuyu hakisho and hunter x hunter)

* ArtificialStupidity: If you're using an attack, any A.I near you is likely to block even if the damaging part of the attack is several seconds away & they'll sometimes try to block unblockable attacks when with a clear chance to dodge.

** [[DGrayMan Allen Walker's]] ArmCannon is a more traditional ChargedAttack. When charged, it fires five bolts at once.

%%* GlassCannon: [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Hiei]], [[DGrayMan Lenalee]], [[{{Naruto}} Sakura]], [[{{Naruto}} Kakashi]] and [[OnePiece Sanji]] stand out in particular.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Perhaps owing to its shounen roots, there are very few female characters. ''Ultimate Stars'', counting the help koma, has 68 female characters out of over 300 (and that's counting characters who share koma sets), which amounts to around 20% of the total. And, out of the 55 fighters, we have nine (16% total): [[Manga/DoctorSlump Arale]], [[Manga/ShamanKing Anna]], [[Manga/BlackCat Eve]], [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Kagura]], [[DGrayMan Lenalee]], [[Manga/OnePiece Nami, Robin]], [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Rukia]] and [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Sakura]].

** Some of the attacks are... bizarre. Like [[{{Naruto}} Kakashi]] and [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Gintoki]] teaming up and recovering health and earning a victory point by reading porn. Or [[OnePiece Sanji]] and [[BusouRenkin Kazuki]] using their "seduction" techniques as a form of recovery (notably, when Kazuki tried it in his series, it didn't work).

* ExtremityExtremist: A few characters only punch, while [[DGrayMan Lenalee]] and [[OnePiece Sanji]] only use kicks; there is a "Kickers" deck in ''JUS'' built around these two.

*** OurGhostsAreDifferent: A deck with the theam of death and the afterlife (Deathnote and bleach)

*** CreatorCameo: Played with. A few decks hold characters from differnt manga that has the same creator (one example is having yuyu hakisho and hunter x hunter)