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Bleach/Yu Yu Hakusho/Hunter x Hunter Rivals Join J-Stars Victory Vs. Game
posted on by Egan Loo
The March issue of Shueisha's V Jump magazine is announcing on Tuesday that rivals from the Bleach, Hunter x Hunter, and Yū Yū Hakusho series are joining the roster of Namco Bandai Games' J-Stars Victory Vs. "team battle action" video game. Specifically, Bleach's Sōsuke Aizen and Yū Yū Hakusho's (Younger) Toguro are playable characters, while Hunter x Hunter's Hisoka is a support character.
The character roster in this Shonen Jump 45th anniversary game includes:
- Monkey D. Luffy
- Boa Hancock
- Akainu
- Son Goku
- Vegeta
- Freeza
- Toriko
- Zebra
- Naruto Uzumaki
- Sasuke Uchiha
- Madara Uchiha
Bleach
- Ichigo Kurosaki
- Rukia (support)
- Kenshin Himura
- Makoto Shishio
Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo
- Kankichi Ryōtsu
- Gintoki Sakata
- Kagura (support)
- Sadaharu (support)
Yū Yū Hakusho
- Yūsuke Urameshi
Hunter x Hunter
- Gon Freecss
Chinyūki -Tarō to Yukaina Nakama-tachi-
- Medaka Kurokami
- Misogi Kumagawa (support)
- Tsunayoshi Sawada (with Reborn)
Beelzebub
- Tatsumi Oga (with Beelzebub)
- Jonathan Joestar
- Joseph Joestar
- Meisuke "Nuubee" Nueno
- Koro-Sensei
- Seiya
- Jaguar (support)
- Lala (support)
- Chitoge Kirisaki (support)
- Tetsuya Kuroko (support)
- Bossun (support)
- Switch (support)
Neuro - Supernatural Detective
- Neuro (support)
- Allen Walker (support)
Hironobu Kageyama, Akira Kushida, and Hiroshi Kitadani are singing the game's theme song "Fighting Stars." A free augmented-reality (AR) app lets you see the Jump heroes in your surroundings on the PS Vita.
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).
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.
