The Japanese giant has the license rights to the Shonen Jump series in the video game and entertainment industry. Methods and objectives.
Bandai Namco Entertainment has been maintaining a close relationship with the Japanese publisher Shueisha for several decades, owner of the magazine with the largest weekly circulation in the Japanese comic book universe, manga, as is Weekly Shonen Jump. This relationship has allowed them to have the official video game development license of said magazine, both current and past, what they call the Jump Team within the company. Your main manager has revealed some curiosities.
"The respect for character-based games is not that high yet"
In an interview published in the magazine V Jump (the monthly magazine dedicated to the new manga and videogames of Shueisha since 1993), general manager of Bandai Namco Games, Ryo Mito, has said that the Jump Team department is responsible for supervising , delegate and prepare all video game launches of the Shonen Jump.
Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions will be released in 2020; based on the manga Captain Tsubasa, one of the emblems of the Jump in the eighties and nineties.
“I have worked on games for many Jump series (Siant Seiya, One Piece, My Hero Academia, Shaman King); and and even with the Dragon Ball franchise alone I have about twenty games, ”he begins. “Our company has a‘ Jump Team ’that is responsible for making the Shonen Jump games,” despite the development being carried out by delegated studios, such as CyberConnect2, DIMPS, Ganbarion, Soleil…
Aware that the quality of these video games derived from One Piece, Captain Tsubasa, Naruto, Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, My Hero Academia, Yu-Gi-Oh! o Bleach is always the one desired by the players, recognizes that the best is yet to come, that they have not yet signed their best video game.
"I hope that people who like video games, anime and characters want to join this industry, where they can make use of all their knowledge," because it is interactive leisure allows you to participate mechanically in the movements of those characters that so many things know the followers of the respective manganime, not only witness them on screen.
"I think the respect for character-based games (those of the Shonen Jump) is still not so high," that there is room for improvement. " He hopes, finally, to be able to continue working on video games based on the Manganime series of the Jump for many years and "make people excited about our games."
