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1[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sunday_vs_magazine.png]]
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3Publishers ''Kodansha'' and ''Shogakukan'', in anticipation for the 50th birthday of their top magazines: ''[[Magazine/ShonenSunday Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]'' and ''[[Magazine/ShonenMagazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine]]'', initiated a project with Creator/{{Konami}} for a {{Crossover}} game with characters from these two eponymous magazines; a FightingGame was chosen as the most fitting for characters mostly coming from action {{Shonen}} series.
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5''Sunday VS Magazine: Shuuketsu! Choujou Daikessen'' is a Crossover Fighting game, developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Aomori and Creator/HudsonSoft, and published by Konami for the [[Platform/PlayStationPortable PSP]]; released in March 2009 to celebrate 50 years of Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Weekly Shōnen Magazine history, it features 30 playable and more than 100 support characters from the first years to the latest years of a five decades epic.
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7The gameplay is centered around simple matches one-on-one, each character can equip one support to use in the matches, and they can string simple combos with standard, special and ultra attacks. The game offers a Quest Mode, a single player adventure where the chosen character fights and interacts with the merged universes of Sunday & Magazine, a simplistic Story Mode so to speak; of course it also has the straightfoward Arcade Mode, and the Multiplayer modes.
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9See ''VideoGame/SundayXMagazineNettouDreamNine'' for the SportsGame crossover between Baseball shounen characters from both magazines and ''Shōnen Sunday & Shōnen Magazine White Comic'' for the RPG crossover between Weekly Shonen Sunday and Weekly Shonen Magazine properties.
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12!!Series and characters featured in the game:
13!!!Weekly Shōnen Sunday
14* ''Manga/BlazingTransferStudent'': Takizawa Noboru'''*'''
15* ''Manga/FlameOfRecca'': Recca Hanabishi'''*'''
16* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': Hayate Ayasaki
17* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Inu-Yasha
18* ''Manga/TheLawOfUeki'': Ueki Kousuke'''*'''
19* ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'': Kenichi Shirahama, Miu Furinji'''*'''
20* ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'': Yoshimori Sumimura, Tokine Yukimura'''*'''
21* ''Manga/KyuukyokuChoujinR'': Ichirou R. Tanaka'''*'''
22* ''Manga/ProjectARMS'': Ryo Takatsuki/Jabberwock
23* ''Manga/PsychicSquad'': Kaoru Akashi (with Aoi Nogami & Shiho Sanomiya)
24* ''Manga/UshioAndTora'': Ushio (Beast Spear form)'''*'''
25* ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'': Yaiba Kurogane'''*'''
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27!!!Weekly Shōnen Magazine
28* ''Manga/AirGear'': Itsuki "Ikki" Minami, Croissant Kamen (Ringo Noyamano)'''*'''
29* ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'': Shinichi Mechazawa'''*'''
30* ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'': Joe Shimamura (009)'''*'''
31* ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'': Akira Fudou (Devilman)'''*'''
32* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Natsu Dragnel (with Happy), Lucy Heartfilia
33* ''Manga/GetBackers'': Ban Midou
34* ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'': Ippo Makunouchi, Mamoru Takamura'''*'''
35* ''Manga/KotaroMakaritoru'': Koutarou Shindou'''*'''
36* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Negi Springfield
37* ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'': Demon Eyes Kyo'''*'''
38* ''Manga/TigerMask'': Naoto Date (Tiger Mask)'''*'''
39* ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe'': Joe Yabuki'''*'''
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41!!!OriginalGeneration
42* Sunday VS Magazine: Boss (the FinalBoss)'''*'''
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44The chart above lists all series present in the game, but just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=468YXevlnLE the 30 playable characters]] in each one of them (asterisk {*} indicates a unlockable SecretCharacter), the other hundread supporters will be listed in the {{Trivia}} page, a work in progress.
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46!!''Sunday VS Magazine'' provides examples of:
47* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: This game to ''VideoGame/JumpSuperstars'', and the fact that it's for the PSP to the other being for the Platform/NintendoDS.
48* BadassNormal: Joe, Ippo, Takamura and Tiger Mask; three boxers and a wrestler whose abilities and skills are 100% normal, compared to the others at least.
49* BreakoutCharacter: Ban grew out to be a extremely important character as the Get Backers manga progressed, he attained a stable popularity and presence, rivaling or even surpassing Ginji's. It holds true to this game, while Ban is the playable character, Ginji is just a supporter.
50* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Hayate, Takizawa and Koutaro; three individuals who can basically achieve limitless levels of strength by just training that hard.
51* DefeatMeansPlayable: All characters that aren't unlocked after beating Arcade Mode, requiring the collection of Sunday and Magazine tickets to buy them, then play Arcade Mode again to defeat them at the final level to unlock them.
52* PopularityPower: Newer and popular series got to bring two playable characters with them, in contrast to any series who is already past 10 years of print; case in point being Inu-Yasha, an extremely popular series, but it wasn't fresh for this game anymore. Hajime No Ippo is the exception to the rule due being the longer running epic out of the bunch.
53* PunnyName: Boss, the FinalBoss; the original character for the game has a name just like that, although the Japanese might find it less generic due being GratuitousEnglish for the them.
54* SecretCharacter: Many, out of the complete 30 playable characters roster, only 12 are available from the get go, but most only requires finishing Arcade mode to unlocking it; the rest are more complicated, the easy characters to unlock are all from fairly new or still ongoing series, the classic characters however, requires multiple playthroughs to collect points to buy, and later defeat to unlock them. Honor goes to Joe Shimamura, the oldest character in the game (debut 1964) is the last one to be unlocked as it requires all others to be unlocked first.
55* TheSmurfettePrinciple: True to its action Shounen roots, most series are represented by male characters, out of the 30 playable characters only 5 are female, and they are accompained by the male leads. Narrowing down to series being represented, Kaoru is the only girl leading her series.
56* SpiritualSuccessor: to Shueisha's Jump Comics: ''Jump Super Stars''; even with characters and series completely unrelated to Shueisha, Sunday VS Magazine borrows the main concept of having iconic characters, old and new, beating the snot out of each other for little to no reason.
57* SquishyWizard: Negi, his character is that of his earlier portrayal in the manga, with little to no fighting skills, preferring magic projectiles and his staff for long ranged attacks. No absurd DBZ-level of fighting coming out of him in this game.

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