By using different techniques, the player can lead his or her team to victory; learning each character's different power, range, and effects is the first step towards being unbeatable.

The narrative is split between four different arcs, each focusing on a different team exploring Jump World, gathering more teammates to compete, and working to achieve their own personal goals.

When one of the teams wins the tournament, the God of Jump World reveals the true purpose of the competition: to gather warriors to combat the Dark Phantoms, an evil force capable of impersonating strong fighters.

In addition to these characters, Gin Tama's Shinpachi Shimura can be heard providing commentary to some of Gintoki's battle actions and pre-fight dialogue.

[1][2] J-Stars Victory VS features characters and settings from various Jump manga, both past and present, ranging from older properties such as Dragon Ball, YuYu Hakusho, and Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo, current long-running series such as Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, to newer series such as Medaka Box, Assassination Classroom, and Beelzebub.

[4] Producer Koji Nakajima stated that getting the rights to the multiple franchises owned Shueisha was not hard, but rather determining which actions the characters make in the game was the most difficult part.

[5] A limited edition "Anison" version of the game includes the theme songs from the player characters' television series, such as "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" and "We Are!

[6] The game's own theme song is "Fighting Stars", performed by Hironobu Kageyama, Hiroshi Kitadani, and Akira Kushida.

[8] The new release features an identical character roster to the original, while also incorporating game balance adjustments based on feedback from Japanese players.

[14] Richard Eisenbeis of Kotaku praised the game's roster for taking from many different series and how each character has a unique fighting style.

[10][11] IGN awarded it a score of 5.0 out of 10, saying "Despite a great cast of characters, J-Stars Victory Vs.+ fails to leverage their charm on or off the battlefield".