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Not a kid, just don't have my own Amazon account.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm not new to video games, and I've yet to jump right out by saying something like this, but..
This is the best game I've ever seen/played.

There are 300 characters in this game (although you can't battle as them all, most are support characters, as in you put them next to one of your characters you battle with in your deck and it can make them stronger, have more hp, etc.

I will say, most of these animes I either haven't heard of or never bothered to watch, but that doesn't take away from the fun. And even if you'd never watched any, this is still an extremely good video game.

Alright, I'm going to break this down as simply and as fast as I can.

You make a deck/decks of supports and fighters, you can have more than one obviously, however there is a limited ammount of space in your deck. (And when I say deck, it doesn't mean like cards, it looks more like a mini manga strip or something.) You do have to have one fighter at least (obviously) and one support (1 that you can summon in for an attack then he/she leaves and 1 that just goes next to a character to boost them up.)

There are tons of levels, different objectives in each fight (five in each fight) depending on which ones you complete you earn other characters, although if you want them as a fighter (although not all do) you have to evolve their koma. Koma's are levels, fighters are anywhere from 4-8 koma. Supports that come into battle and just do one attack or restore health, or give you a good effect like you'd get from an item, etc are 2 or 3 koma. The other support is a 1 koma.

There is Wi-Fi in this game, from what I hear it's good and adds tons of playing, saddly I have dial-up, so I can not use this feature as of now but plan to some day.

Just one bit of warning: It is in Japanese, so you will need to go online and find a guide to know what the missions are and what's what, however that's not hard.

I highly recommend this game as the best game I have ever played.

JUMP to the Next Level

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

JUMP Ultimate Stars is a must have for any anime/manga fan. Almost every character from Shonen Jump manga is represented in this game, and thats a lot of people: over 300 to be more exact! This provides for nearly infinite replay value. Players unlock new characters by completing the story mode. You can then evolve them to make them stronger, and use them to do battle. Multiplayer play is great. And if you cant find anyone else with the game, people can always download from you with their DS, or you can challege the world in a WIFI match! Even though the language is in Japanese, the menu options are straight forward and easy to memorize once you know what they are. I recommend finding a guide on the net, or you might get frustrated trying to figure out what the missions are in story mode. You will never get bored with this game. It may be one of the best DS fighting games out there, and it is worth every extra penny to get it imported!---OtakuMan

Jump Ultimate Stars is GREAT!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

the greatest portable game in existence, if your lucky enough to get it , know that you have a treasure, and for those who say "lets wait till it gets released in english" thnik again, copy right laws prohibit it from ever happening, there are too many series to import.
Oh and if you do get it find a good guide and you will enjoy yourself
p.s. ann luu is confused you dont play the story mode for fun, its omly for unlocking characters , he or she or it has to play wi-fi, then u will see what the hypes about, when u do plez fix your review, btw guys,
anyone who gets it when u post a review post your friend code here too.
Some amy not understand at first but the games purpose is to unlock characters and battle ppls around the world on wi-fi, and if your a video game and anime lover, plus u want a good challenge go for it, email me at mapleball@hotmail.com il help out anyway i can.

Wonderful! Leagues better than the first!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: March 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is a true work of art. Every DS owner should have this game. You don't know what you're missing!

Anime lovers rejoice!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My friend and I purchased this game together and have enjoyed every minute of it. Shonen Jump's entire collection is put together in one awesome battle arena to prove who's the best. The concept of the game is to do specific tasks in different world, most of which are Series specific worlds, (ie. Bleach World, One Piece World, etc.) and when you complete these tasks you either earn "points" or characters. The goal of the game is to unlock all of the characters and then buy up all of their forms. With these characters you design teams on a 4X5 panel system. For this system you have to put in at least one playable character(4-8 panels), one support character (2-3 panels), and one help character (1 panel). You must also select one of your playable characters as a leader, even just the one, in order to be able to play with the team.

Now let me be frank, the worlds do not provide enough points to unlock all characters (there just aren't enough worlds to provide points for over 300 characters!!!). So, when you're finished with unlocking everything you go to ranking mode! There are only three types of ranking mode originally, with 20 levels to beat, each. These three modes are: point mode(kill enough times to earn more points than other opponents), "death" mode(this is where you must become the last one standing! You'll probably love this mode best;)) and finally star mode(collect the most or all 5 stars before time runs out). If you tie on these modes are fail to kill everyone you enter "sudden death" where each leader is forced to fight until only one is left, hopefully that's you.

After beating all three types, you earn tournament mode where any of the three types could appear, you'll never know which is to be done until you're in the battle. Keep repeating these modes to earn enough points to buy all your characters' forms.

After you've finished unlocking your over 300 characters you can enjoy building thousands of combinations and battling online or against friends.

Personal Opinion: As a true otaku, I found this to be a nerdgasm of fun.

Gamer Opinion: It's got just about everything you could want from a gaming piont of view, collect stars or just DESTROY THEM ALL!!!!!
Truly, it deserves 6 stars. I hope you enjoy this game, buy it!

Absolutley Increcible

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is by far the greatest fighting game on the DS, and while I know that isn't saying much, it is arguably the best game on the DS period, and that is saying a lot. Jump Ultimate Stars is enjoyable for anyone to pick up and play, both hard core gamers and casual will find this an enjoyable experience. Best of all while the game is based off of Japanese comics known as manga, you do not require any knowledge of them to play the game. In fact not knowing anything about the manga may even help you create better decks since you won't act like me and put the same favorite characters in over and over again. The game plays as a Smash Bros. style fighting game in respect to controls and level set up, while the life and special gauge is more like a traditional fighter. You play through the single player game by completing missions which are easy enough to complete, and although the mission objectives are in japanese, you can usualy finish a mission just by playing it once and killing your oponents. For those that require something special, or for people who want to complete all of the missions in a level a good english translation is readily availabe at gamefaqs.com. You gain points from matches, both single and multi player, and you use those points to open new characters and new forms of characters you already have. Characters are put into play from your decks you create. Each character is broken into "komas". Single koma characters give you stat boosts, two and three koma characters are summoned to do a single attack, and four to eight koma characters are playable. You get a four by five panel of komas to place as many characters as you want to fit (as long as you have at least one of each type) and can create up to fifty different decks leading to many different possibilities. The strategy is further advanced by the fact that there are three types of characters (power, laughter and knowledge) that are weak and powerful against each other which leads to a want to create balanced decks. With the combination of ease of play, complexity of strategy and multiplayer fun (that leads me to over fifty hours of game play currently even though I finished opening every character within twenty five) this game is the most played DS game I own (and I have about a dozen). I can not think of any game to recomend more to a DS owner then Jump Ultimate Stars.

Best DS game I've played so far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: March 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm actually H.Kim's son and I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!
You gotta love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALL OF YOUR CHILDHOOD ANIME I KNOW OF ARE ALL IN HERE AND MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice fighting game overall with a lot of bonuses.
Love this game from the bottom of my heart.

4 anime fans

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

the is the best action game so far 4 the DS. they have every character u could dream of in this game. It's fun to play and you will get addicted to the multi-player.

awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

if you like super smash brothers, or manga, or anime, or ALL!
this is the manga/anime version of mario super smash.

Fun Import

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

When I first bought this game, I was a little cautious. The price was a little steep, but when I bought it, I had a lot of fun with it. The manga frame-based system works very well. If you understand Japanese fluently, you won't have a problem with this. However, theres no option for English, so you have to rely on guides(I used GameFAQs, which was very helpful).

Theres a wide variety of characters from a wide variety or manga (from Ichigo 100% to DBZ, theres a lot represented here). While the game is advertised as having over 300 characters, only 20 or so are playable, the rest are "support" and some are just there as to boost other characters. Theres a system involving gems used to "evolve" you characters, making them stronger (all these Evolutions relate to the mangas they're in, like Goku evolving into Super Saiyen 50 or w/e). Some of these characters suck to play as, and some are ridiculously overpowered, but that comes with every game.

The playable characters are organized by 3 attributes, Strength, Intelligence, and Laughter. These play out and have their weaknesses Rock Paper Scissors style (Str. beats Int. beats Laugh. beats Str). While this evens out the game a little, a lot of times its obvious who is going to win even though the game hasn't started yet, which can ruin it a bit.

Also, this game has an online function, but I think it requires you to be in japan, because I haven't gotten it to work yet. From what I understand, playing online reaps separate rewards, so if you can get online, you can get something out of it.

Overall, the system is a little complex when you first start, but once you get used to it, it becomes easy to understand and apply, and even though I didn't get the online feature to work, It could be different for others who bought this.

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