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''Jump Super Stars'' is a 2-D fighting game for the [[Nintendo DS]] published by Nintendo in Japan in 2005. It gathers many of the popular characters from ''Weekly [[Shonen Jump]]'' in a ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]''-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 [[Hit Points]] 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.

The unique feature of ''Jump Super Stars'' is how a team is built. Each character has from 1-8 koma (manga panels), each of a different size and shape. The touch screen has a 5 x 4 grid to place koma on, and the koma you place there form your deck. The size of each koma determines if it is a help (1 panel; provides a bonus to adjacent characters), support (2-3 panels; performs a single attack) or battle character (4+ panels; the playable characters). You must have one of each type of koma in your deck. Most fighting is done with the basic buttons, but using support characters, switching battle characters and activating some special attacks require touching the appropriate koma, while the battle takes place on the upper screen.

In 2006, a sequel, ''Jump Ultimate Stars'' was released. In addition to adding game modes and many new characters, each fighter got at least two basic attacks and a powerful finisher. The unlock system was also much improved;: you earned points during battle, which you could spend to unlock characters, stages or other features. You could also play online via Nintendo WiFi Connection.

In 2009, a [[Spiritual Successor]] of sorts was made, ''[[Sunday VS Magazine Shuuketsu Choujou Daikessen]]'', with another set of manga characters from Shueshias's rivals, Kodansha and Shogakukan.

* ''[[Bobobobo Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]''

* ''Manga/Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' / ''[[Steel Ball Run]]'' (these series were treated separately in ''Super Stars'', but between both games Hirohiko Araki had retconned ''SBRSteel Ball Run'' into ''JoJo's'' continuity, so they were united in ''Ultimate Stars'')

* ''[[Muhyo and Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation]]'' (''Ultimate Stars'' only)

* [[Asskicking Pose]]: In some cases (such as with [[Jo JoJoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Jotaro]]), it has a special effect, such as restoring SP.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Ichigo, Naruto and Luffy's 8 Komakoma forms. They've got impressive special attacks, but all of them come out very slowly, making them harder to land. Their 7 Komakoma specials are much quicker and to the point.

** Also, Kenshiro 7 in ''Jump 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.

** [[Jo JoJoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Dio Brando]]'s 5-Koma version can pull off the infamous 'Road Roller' move, but it's [[Stealth Pun|useless]] compared to his 6-Koma version's Time Stop ability ("{{smallcaps| Toki wo tomare!!"}}).

* [[Charged Attack]]: Certain characters' taunts will charge attacks to make them more effective -: [[Black Cat (manga)|Train Heartnet]] can fire more bullets at once after his, for example.

* [[Crisis Crossover]]: {{spoiler|[[Doctor Slump|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.

* [[Double Jump]]: All characters -: certain characters can innately triple jump, and others can get the ability with the right helpers.

* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Power beats Knowledge beats Laughter beats Power.

* [[Extremity Extremist]]: A few characters only punch, while [[D.Gray-man|Lenalee]] and [[One Piece|Sanji]] only use kicks; there is a "Kickers" deck in ''JUSJump Ultimate Stars'' built around these two.

* [[Fake Difficulty]]: 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 [[Fake Difficulty]] in these cases doesn't really lie in beating your opponents, but in accomplishing every set of conditions for every mission.

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Rukia, Killua, most knowledge characters in general.

* [[Grid Inventory]]: deckDeck building. Even worse in ''Jump Super Stars'' when you had to create the Komakoma via a [[Inventory Management Puzzle]].

* [[I Know Madden Kombat]]: anyAny characters from sports manga, though all who can get a piece of the action only act as strikers.

* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: 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 [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Yugi Mutou]] and [[Bobobobo Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo|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.

* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: 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 ''[[Slam Dunk]]'' story). Arguably, some characters' mere inclusion counts. (or do you think it's just coincidence that they decided to include Aizen, Gin and Tousen in the game at the same time?).

* [[Mad Scientist]]: The [[Big Bad]] is {{spoiler|Dr. Mashirito of ''[[Doctor Slump]]''}}.

* [[The Missingno]]: The Black Komakoma. It can only be unlocked by using an Action Replay or similar, but it grants infinite SP.

* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Aside from the Jump Pirate (the logo of Shonen Jump), each series in ''Jump Ultimate Stars'' has an unlockable one to explain everything in the menus. Among them [[Dragon Ball|Bulma]], [[Naruto|Tsunade]], [[One Piece|Chopper]], [[Fist of the North Star|Lin]] and [[Yu Yu Hakusho|Botan]].

* [[Popularity Power]]: More popular series like ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', ''[[Naruto]]'', ''[[One Piece]]'', ''[[Bleach]]'', etc., have more playable characters and 7 and 8-koma characters.

** Let's not even begin talking about [[Ichigo 100%|cute girls falling from the sky]] or tripping over those aforementioned guys.

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Perhaps owing to its shounen roots, there are very few female characters. ''Jump 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): [[Dr. Slump|Arale]], [[Shaman King|Anna]], [[Black Cat (manga)|Eve]], [[Gintama|Kagura]], [[D.Gray-man|Lenalee]], [[One Piece|Nami, Robin]], [[Bleach|Rukia]] and [[Naruto|Sakura]].

* [[Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Each player and support character is categorized into three types: Strength (red), Humor (yellow), and Intelligence (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 ([[The One With...]] [[Memetic Mutation|the steamroller]]), while the other is knowledge-type. Knowing which one to put in your koma grid is important.

* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: 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.