Bandai Namco has already announced that nine playable characters will join the
Jump Force roster in a series of paid DLC, available as part of the game’s $29.99 “Character Pass.” According to the latest issue of the V-Jump magazine, the first extra fighter will come to
Jump Force in May, but his identity still remains a big unknown, as the publisher had not revealed which characters will join the title as DLC.
A credible dataminer named
SergioM3 may have revealed the identities of these new characters, after examining the fighting game's files. If SergioM3's report is true, the following fighters will be available in
Jump Force through DLC: Seto Kaiba (
Yu-Gi-Oh!), Hitsugaya Toshiro (
Bleach), Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez (
Bleach), All Might (
My Hero Academia), Katsugi Bakugo (
My Hero Academia), Biscuit Krueger (
Hunter X Hunter), Buu (
Dragon Ball Z), Madara Uchiha (
Naruto), and finally Trafalgar D. Water Law (
One Piece).
Considering that the fighting extravaganza is already featuring 40 distinct fighters form beloved anime and manga series, the game's cast will consists of nearly 50 heroes and villains when it's all said and done. Those players who bought the Ultimate Edition of
Jump Force will have access to all the DLC characters for free. While nothing has been officially confirmed yet regarding these nine additional characters, you can take a closer look at SergioM3's aforementioned datamining process down below:
For the first time ever, the most famous Manga heroes are thrown into a whole new battleground: our world. Uniting to fight the most dangerous threat, the Jump Force will bear the fate of the entire human kind. Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Weekly Jump Magazine, the game is making the most of latest technologies to bring characters to life in a never-seen-before realistic design.
Jump Force is now available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.