Idaten Jump

Idaten Jump
Genre	Adventure, Shounen, Sports
Anime
Directed by	Takayuki Hamana
Studio	Aniplex, Trans Arts, Production I.G.(computer effects)

Idaten Jump is a manga series created by Toshihiro Fujiwara serialized in Comic BomBom, about a boy who loves dirt biking. It was adapted into a 52-episode anime by Aniplex.

Story

Sho Yamato enjoys MTB (mountain biking) a whole lot, he's always practiced at the “X-Zone” with his friends, Kakeru and Makoto. One day, he was challenged to a race by a MTB team called Shark Tooth and whoever won the race got the X-Zone. For Sho, the X-Zone had always been a place of happy memories. He had spent many days there with his father who had passed away, so he couldn’t lose the game. During the race with the leader of Shark Tooth, black smoke suddenly covered the ground around them, and they were sent to another world that's also called the X-Zone. When Sho woke up, he found Kakeru, Makoto, and his MTB Flame Kaiser, were also there. Of course, they didn't know where they were... While they were wondering what had happened, MTB riders came. They challenged Sho to a Idaten battle, a form of MTB race in X-Zone. They said the only way for Sho to return is by collecting 10 emblems by winning Idaten battles. This is how Sho came down to compete in Idaten Battles at various courses, such as ghost towns, volcanos, ancient ruins, deserts, and snow-topped montains. Now Sho must Idaten Battle for the sake of returning home.

After returning home, Sho returned to X-Zone to find his lost father, Takeshi.

Characters

• Sho Yamato (山登翔(やまと　しょう)): The main character of the story, he is an excellent MTB rider and can do amazing tricks.
• Makoto Shido (獅堂まこと(しどう　まこと)): She is a girl MTB rider. She often practices with Sho.
• Kakeru Sakamaki (坂巻駆(さかまき　かける)): Kakeru is a very skilled mechanic and helps Sho fix his bike a lot.
• Hosuke (ホースケ): A talking owl that accompanies Sho on his journeys. Hosuke followed Sho during a prison break attempt to rescue Sho, Makoto, and Kakeru.
• Kyoichi Shido (獅堂京一(しどう　きょういち))：Makoto's older brother. He appeared in masked form in early episodes up to episode 5 when his identity was revealed. He is also trying to find out more about Team ST.
• Yuki (ユウキ): An expert mechanic. She helps Sho and Co. on different occassions. After Gabu's defeat, it was revealed that Yuki is a princess of a royal family and part of a group who protects the X-Zone and the secrets of the X-Zone.
• Gabu Samejima (鮫島牙舞(さめじま　がぶ)): Leader of the Shark Tooth MTB team which was expanded into Team ST (チームＳＴ) upon arrival into the X-Zone one year ago and became dictator of X-City after overthrowing its mayor. In episode 10, Revelations, it is revealed that although he is the leader of the Shark Tooth gang, he is actually the younger Samejima brother and that his team arrived earlier. He was also in Kakeru's algebra class.
• Taiga Samejima (鮫島大牙(さめじま　たいが)): The oldest Samejima brother and second in command of Shark Tooth. When confronted in the cave and defeated in an Idaten battle with Sho, he revealed that the Shark Tooth MTB team came to the X-Zone one year ago. In his brother's tournament, he lost to Arthur resulting him being kicked out.
• Koei (孤影(こえい)): A ninja biker on Gabu's team. He can t. He first appeared to take on Sho and Kyoichi. He injured Kyoichi and broke Thunder King, and took out the Four Kings that were battling Mokoto. When it came to Sho's battle, it ended up a draw when the Four Kings interfered. He thwarted another plot by the Four Kings to help Koei which he didn't want. In his battle against Arthur, the Four Kings interfered causing Arthur loses. It is later revealed that Koei couldn't afford a doctor for his sister Kiku. Once she was rescued from Gabu's clutches, Sho and Koei continued their battle and he lost to Sho. He no longer serves Gabu.
• Arthur (アーサー): Nickname "The Painter," Arthur is a knight biker. He first appeared in Gabu's tournament where he beats Taiga. Prior to his battle against Koei, he stumbled onto a plot by the Four Kings only for them to be thwarted by Koei. In Gabu's tournament, he lost to Koei due to interference by the Four Kings. It's later revealed that he worked alongside Yuki to help protect the secrets of the X-Tower and heal the X-Zone.
• Ayumu Yamato (山登あゆむ(やまと　あゆむ)): Sho's younger brother.

Minor Characters

• Rogue MTB Team Leader (町のボス): His real name is unknown, but is referred to as "The Boss." He is an outlaw biker who challenged Sho immediately after Sho had entered X-Zone. After he was defeated, the biker help saved Sho and Hosuke from the local X-Zone Police.
• X-Zone Police Captain (警備隊長): A police officer and captain of the northern guard who arrests unsanctioned Idaten Battlers. Sho beat him to prove that he is not associated with the Rogue MTB Boss. He reappeared to help protect the citzens of X-City from danger.
• Shin the Shadow (シン): A cowboy biker. His winning secret is that he has a twin brother taking over the course in the middle of Idaten battle. He used that cheating move on Sho, but was defeated by Kyoichi.
• Terry the Megaton (テリー): Leader of Team Bandits (チーム・バンディッツ), an anti-Robin Hood and his Merry Men that uses traps to steal MTBs. Sho had to beat him in order to get his bike back.
• Zentaro (ゼンタロウ): A professional MTB rider who owns a bike shop.
• Takuma (タクマ): Leader of the Poison Spider MTB Team (毒グモ団). He accused Zentaro of giving him a rigged tire which injured one of his teammates. Sho had to MTB Battle him in a volcano in order to prove Zentaro's innocence. He lost to Sho when the volcano shook and he was saved by Kyoichi.
• Seiji (セイジ): Leader of the Hyper Brain (ハイパーブレーン) MTB team. He and his team later re-appeared in X-City.
• Jun (淳): Mechanic of the Hyper Brain MTB team.
• Tasuku (たすく): Rider for the Hyper Brain MTB team. In Gabu's tournament in X-City, he lost to Kyoichi.
• Ken (ケン): Nicknamed "The Grim Reaper," he and his henchmen disguised themselves as girls to learn Sho's weaknesses from Hosuke. Sometimes, he ends up laughing which turns into a girl's laugh.
• Native MTB Rider: An unnamed MTB Rider in a tiki mask. He and his team resided in a temple and used a mist that causes hallucinations on opposing teams. They used it on Sho, but were defeated when Mokoto arrived with her MTB.
• Gen: An MTB rider who lives in the snowy mountains with his daughter Rin. In Gabu's tournament in X-City, he lost to Taiga.
• Rin (リン): Daughter of Gen.
• Captain Jackal: Member of Team ST. He and his crewmen challenged Sho when Sho was on a ship to X-City. They did get away with some of Sho's Emblems and handed them to their mysterious leader. He helped Yoko & Rika, Mr. Teacher, Pete & Danny, and Shadow into preventing Sho from reaching Gabu only to be defeated by Koei and arrested by the X-Zone Police Captain.
• Yoko & Rika: Two sisters who are resort tycoons and members of Team ST. They turned a local village into a slum when they used the villager's money to build their resorts in Gold Celebresort City and ended up making everything in their resorts expensive. While Yoko does the MTB battles, Rika uses parts of MTB riders to build her MTB rider. They defeated the villagers to gain their money. Since Sho and Co. didn't have the right money to pay the bill for the meal in the hotel, their men took their stuff except for their bikes and trailer as a way of paying the bill. When there men captured Yuki, Sho had to Idaten Battle Yoko for her freedom. Dispite the difficulty on the sand dunes, Sho beat Yoko when her bike fell apart. They reappeared to help Captain Jackal, Mr. Teacher, Pete & Danny, and Shadow into preventing Sho from reaching Gabu only to be defeated by Koei and arrested by the X-Zone Police Captain.
• Mr. Teacher (ミスターティーチャー): A biker in a school theme park and member of Team ST. He captured Kyoichi and Sho had to beat him in order to rescue him. He reappeared to help Captain Jackal, Yoko & Rika, Pete & Danny, and Shadow into preventing Sho from getting to Gabu only to be defeated by Koei and arrested by the X-Zone Police Captain.
• Go: Nicknamed "The Falcon", Go is an MTB Rider in a miner town who claimed that he beat Flame Kaiser. He claimed that to impress his younger sister Saya. After an accident years ago, he's been afraid to get on his bike. With Sho's help, he got back on and defeated two punks that were attacking their town.
• Prince Ryota: Ruler of a kingdom in the middle of a lake and member of Team ST. He isn't like the other members of that group. To get info on how to get to X-City, Makoto challenged him to an Idaten Battle. The reason why Ryota was winning is because his butler Sebastian has been secretly sabotaging the course without the Prince knowing.
• Pete & Danny: Members of Team ST. They sabotaged Sho's bike trailer and framed Mokoto causing them to get into a fight. They challenged Sho to an Idaten Battle in the rain since Pete & Danny knew that they would have the advantage with Flame Kaiser sabotaged. When Sho and Flame Kaiser are sidelined, Mokoto ended up defeating them. He reappeared to help Captain Jackal, Yoko & Rika, Mr. Teacher, and Shadow into preventing Sho from reaching Gabu only to be defeated by Koei and arrested by the X-Zone Police Captain.
• The Four Kings: Four MTB Riders who are members of the Shark Tooth MTB team. They tried to beat Mokoto, but were taken out by Koei. When trying to get revenge on him during his MTB battle with Sho, they buried Koei in a rockslide yet ended up in trouble with Taiga. They try to create holes prior to the battle against Arthur VS Koei and later caused an explosion that took out Arthur. During the awards, they steal the 10 Gold Emblems to help complete Gabu's triumph. When they double-cross Gabu, he catches up to them. After Gabu's defeat, the Four Kings are arrested by the X-Zone Police Captain.
• Sunset Brothers: Joe and Reiu are the gatekeepers of the North Gate of X-City. Sho had to Idaten Battle them at dawn in order to get into X-City. Sho learned from their mother that Joe had a bump on his forehead during their Idaten Battle with Team Shark Tooth who defeated them.
• Bonnie C: She serves as emcee of Gabu's tournament in X-City.
• Jero: Nickname "The Leopard," he worked for his father's matress store in X-City until he joined the Shark Tooth team. When Gabu gave him an MTB that has a motor engine, he didn't use it until Gabu took control of the bike. After that and being defeated by Sho, he quit the Shark Tooth team.
• Shadow: In Gabu's tournament in X-City, Sho Idaten Battled him in the subway and defeated Shadow. He seems to be working for Gabu since he is seen helping Captain Jackal, Yoko & Rika, Mr. Teacher, and Pete & Danny into preventing Sho and Co. from getting to Gabu only to end up fighting Koei and arrested by the X-Zone Police Captain.
• Nostradamus Saiyaka: A gypsy MTB Rider who can predict the future. In Gabu's tournament, Arthur Idaten Battled her and beat her. She later crashes the battle against Arthur and Taiga and ended up being saved by Arthur when she fell off the ramp.
• Kiku (菊(キク)): Koei's younger sister. She falls ill in her appearance and is later captured by Gabu causing Koei to end up doing whatever he wants. Once she was freed, Koei and Sho continued to returned to their battle.
• Takeshi Yamato (山登猛(たけし)): Sho Yamato's father. He was brought into the X-Zone to repair Imperial X during a power crisis. Named Takeru in the English dub.
• Team X (チームX): A team of 4 bikers that appeared after Sho had returned to Earth.

MTB

• Flame Kaiser (フレイムカイザー): Sho Yamato's MTB. Although Sho and his father have built Flame Kaiser before entering X-Zone, the MTB is regarded as a legend in X-Zone.
• Neptune Emperor (ネプチューン) - Makoto Shido's MTB.
• Thunder Emperor (サンダーエンペラー) / Thunder King : Kyoichi Shido's MTB.
• Bloody Fang (ブラッディファング) / Poison Fang: Gabu Samejima's MTB.
• Aero Scissors (エアロシザース): Koei's MTB.
• Hammer Head (ハンマーヘッド): Arthur's MTB.
• Terry's Junior Giant (?): Terry the Megaton's MTB. It is a 3-wheel MTB with 2 wheels on front axle that can trap leading biker.
• Imperial X (インペリアルＸ): Takeshi's MTB? Zentaro's Imperial X blueprint revealed that it can reach top speed on any terrain. It was built by the ancients.
• Imperial DG (インペリアルDG(ドラゴン)): Ayumu Yamato's MTB?
• Imperial TG (インペリアルタイガー?): MTB driven by Makoto and Sho?
• Imperial DQ:

Emblems

Each gold emblem is worth 10 silver emblems, while a platinum emblem is worth 3 gold emblems.

The Dark Emblem appears after Sho has returned to X-Zone.

Episode Guide

• Idaten Jump:
• Detour:
• Rush:
• Trap:
• Reveal:
• Hidden:
• Challenge:
• Palace:
• Rain:
• Revelations:
• Training:
• Enemy:
• Guardian:
• City:
• Who's Who:
• Duel:
• Darkness:
• Race:
• Showdown Pt. 1:
• Showdown Pt. 2:
• Homecoming Pt. 1:
• Homecoming Pt. 2:

Changes

Each of the 2 Japanese episodes are joined together to produce 1 English episode. This was similar to the first episode of Shinzo (except Episode #2 of that show was reaired separately).

Cast

Japanese Cast

• Akeno Watanabe - Sho Yamato
• Sawa Ishige - Makoto Shido
• Kakeru Sakamaki - Makoto Tsumura
• Makoto Tsumura - Kakeru Sakamaki
• Yuuichi Nagashima - Hosuke
• Risa Mizuno - Yuki
• Akiyo Kaneda - Gabu Samejima
• Toshiyuki Kusuda - Taiga Samejima
• Chiro Kanzaki - Ayumu Yamato
• Akira Nakagawa - Rin
• Ben Takada - Mr. Teacher
• Chihiro Suzuki - George
• Eiji Takemoto - Terry
• Fuyuka Oura - Akira
• Hidenobu Kiuchi - Zentaro
• Hideyuki Umezu - Gen
• Hozumi Gôda - Narration
• Takeshi Yamato -
• Jin Domon - Shin
• Kentarou Itou - Takuma
• Kunihiro Kawamoto - Tasuku
• Norihisa Mori - Ken
• Noriko Namiki - Rika
• Rio Natsuki - Yoko
• Ryo Naitou - Jun
• Yoshiaki Matsumoto - Jackal
• Yuuki Masuda - Masa

English Cast

• Brian Beacock - Seiji, Kiyoshi (of The Four Kings), Arthur, Jero
• Steven Blum - Takeshi Yamato, Koei, Terry the Megaton, Zentaro, Poison Spider Team Member, Gen, Boris, Peter, Crewman A, Go, Townsfolks, Guards, Additional Voices
• Dorothy Elias-Fahn - Mokoto Shido
• Yuri Lowenthal - Sho Yamato
• Mona Marshall - Ayumu Yamato, Jun, Prince Ryuta
• Paul St. Peter - Mayor of X-City, Shadow
• Jamieson Price -
• Michelle Ruff - Yuki, Rin
• Philece Sampler - Kakeru Sakamaki, Sho's Mom, Rika
• Michael Sorich - Hosuke, Rogue MTB Team Leader, Rogue MTB Team Member, Crewman, Villager, Sebastian, Danny, Four Kings Member #3, Sunset Reiu
• Steve Staley - Taiga Samejima, Ken
• Kirk Thornton - Gabu Samejima, X-Zone Police Captain, Shin the Shadow, Takuma, Tasuku, Captain Jackal, Mr. Teacher, Pete
• Dave Wittenberg - Kyoichi Shido, Rogue MTB Team Member, Team Bandits Member, Poison Spider Team Member, Native MTB Rider

Adaptations

Takara Tomy produced a plug and play bike racing video game on 2005-10-27 for 7329 yen. The plug and play system came from SSD Company Limited (as XaviX).

Taito published an Idaten Jump bike racing game for Nintendo DS on 2006-9-7.

Toys

Takara Tomy produced miniature bikes, parts, courses based on the show.

External links

• Template:Languageicon Official Japanese site
• Hasbro.com: Idaten Jump