Jump

The song first appeared in Pump It Up ZERO as a BanYa team production, composed by Gun, the president of Banya Production. Oddly, it vanished from the lineup in NX, the very next version. It was never fully erased, though: in NX2 and NXA it lingered as a World Max-exclusive song, so players could still reach it in a limited way. Its full return came with Pump It Up XX, the 20th-anniversary release, which restored it to the regular song list.

Its ZERO-era Normal and Hard charts map to S4 and S7. The old Crazy chart now sits at S12, having been lowered from S13 in PHOENIX. The headline chart is the S16, introduced in XX 2.00. Echoing the old NX-era Crazy chart, the note speed doubles after a specific lyric near the end and then snaps back to normal once the burst is over, making it a speed-change chart. It also closed on a tricky simultaneous four-note hit that demanded a hand or a clever foot sweep. In PHOENIX the speed gimmick was removed and that second-to-last four-note hit was trimmed to a three-note hit. The lone Double chart, D18, arrived in the XX v1.01.0 update; it has no speed change, but true to the song's name it leans on two-note jump patterns and frequent weight-shift movement.