JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle out late August in Japan

Fans of the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure manga series can look forward to taking their favourite characters into battle, as Namco Bandai has announced the release date of the upcoming PS3 game JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle.

The game will be out in Japan on August 29 in both standard and limited editions. The latter will contain the game, a sculpted figure of Jotaro Kujo, a gold plate featuring a drawing by series creator Hirohiko Araki, a soundtrack disc, a notepad themed after series character Hayato Kawajiri, and a special box to house the aforementioned items. The bundle will cost gamers 16,980 yen ($182), while the standard edition will cost 7,980 yen ($85).

First-print runs of both the standard and limited editions will contain a DLC code to download one of the series’ antagonist Yoshikage Kira as a playable character. For more information on the fighting game, check out our Tokyo Game Show 2012 demo video above.