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JUMP ULTIMATE STARS is a fighting video game developed by Ganbarion and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It is the sequel to the popular Nintendo DS title, Jump Super Stars. The game was released in Japan on November 23, 2006. The game premise is similar to Nintendo's multi-character platform beat'em-up series, Super Smash Bros., except that it uses characters from Weekly Jump rather than Nintendo.

The game keeps many features from its predecessor, and adds many more. The game now has over 300 characters from 41 different Shōnen manga series compared to 160 characters from 27 different manga in the original. However, the characters from Hikaru no Go and Mr. Fullswing do not return in this sequel.

Gameplay
Decks
The bulk of the gameplay is based around using koma (manga panels, which also means "Panel" in Japenese.) that represent characters to create decks on a four by five grid. Koma come in various shapes and sizes, taking up one to eight blocks. There are three types of koma that can be initialized in battle. They are called help, support and battle koma. Each of these types have different roles in a deck, and are utilized to battle

Help koma are one panel koma that can give different boosts to characters they are placed next to. Support koma are two or three block koma that represent a character that are to help in battle. The character appears and does an attack, boosts a character's abilities with a powerup, or heals a character. Battle koma are four to eight block koma that are used to battle. They are based off various manga panels and are used to represent what kind of special attacks the characters have.

Each battle koma comes with a certain nature. These natures, laughter, power and knowledge, act in a Rock, Paper, Scissors relationship with power beating knowledge, knowledge beating laughter, and laughter beating power. The stronger type will deal more damage to the weaker type.

When making a deck, the player must have at least one of each type of koma before the deck can be used in battle. A leader character also must be chosen. This character will always be the default character in battles and will represent the deck. Two optional hotkeys can be set to automatically switch to a character or use a support character when the L or R buttons are pressed.

Battles
Battles commence in arenas made to look like the page of a manga. Each arena has a unique background and obstacles based off of the different manga series. They also contain a variety of different platforms. Many are static while others will move, break, or disappear and reappear randomly. Certain walls and floors are also destructible.

Repesented Series
This is a list of represented series in Jump Ultimate Stars. Most of the main characters from each series appear as characters within the games. The asterisk marks newly included series.
* Black Cat
* Bleach
* Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
* Busou Renkin
* Captain Tsubasa*
* Cobra*
* D.Gray-man
* Death Note
* Dr. Slump
* Dragon Ball
* Eyeshield 21
* Gintama
* Hokuto no Ken*
* Houshin Engi*
* Hunter × Hunter
* I"s*
* Ichigo 100%
* Jigoku Sensei Nūbē*
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
* Jungle King Ta-chan*
* Katekyo Hitman REBORN!
* Kinnikuman*
* KochiKame
* Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro*
* Midori no Makibaou*
* Muhyo to Rouji no Mahoritsu Soudan Jimusou*
* Naruto
* Ninku*
* One Piece
* Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar
* Rokudenashi BLUES*
* Rurouni Kenshin
* Saint Seiya*
* Sakigake!! Otokojuku*
* Shaman King
* Slam Dunk
* Taizo Mote King Saga*
* The Prince of Tennis
* Tottemo! Luckyman*
* Yu-Gi-Oh!
* YuYu Hakusho

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_Ultimate_Stars