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Key facts
- Genre
- Adventure Supernatural
- Written by
- Hiroyuki Takei
- Published by
- Shueisha (former) Kodansha (current)
- English publisher
- AUS : Madman Entertainment NA : Viz Media (former) Kodansha USA (current)
- Imprint
- Jump Comics (original tankōbon edition) Magazine Edge KC (Kodansha edition)
- Magazine
- Weekly Shōnen Jump
- English magazine
- NA : Shonen Jump
- Original run
- June 30, 1998 – August 30, 2004
- Volumes
- 32 (original tankōbon edition) 35 (Kodansha edition) ( List of volumes )
- Directed by
- Seiji Mizushima
- Produced by
- Fukashi Azuma Naoki Sasada Takatoshi Chino
- Music by
- Toshiyuki Ōmori
- Studio
- Xebec
- Licensed by
- AUS : Madman Entertainment EU : Fox Kids Europe/Jetix Europe NA : Discotek Media
- Original network
- TXN ( TV Tokyo )
- English network
- AU : Network Ten AUS : Cartoon Network BI : Fox Kids / Jetix CA : YTV PH : Cartoon Network US : Fox ( FoxBox / 4Kids TV )
- Episodes
- 64 ( List of episodes )
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Encyclopedic overview
Shaman King (Japanese: シャーマンキング, Hepburn: Shāman Kingu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei. It follows the adventures of Yoh Asakura as he attempts to hone his shaman skills to become the Shaman King by winning the Shaman Fight. Takei chose shamanism as the main theme of the series because he wanted a topic that had never been attempted before in manga. The Shaman King manga was originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump between June 1998 and August 2004. The individual chapters were collected and released in 32 tankōbon volumes. In 2017, Kodansha acquired the rights to the series and re-launched it on 35 e-book volumes in 2018, also published in print from 2020 to 2021.
A 64-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by NAS and Xebec, aired on TV Tokyo from July 2001 to September 2002. A 52-episode anime television series remake adaptation was produced by Bridge, and aired on TV Tokyo and other channels from April 2021 to April 2022. The manga has also been reprinted in a kanzenban edition, and has spawned various spin-offs and sequel manga, video games, a trading card game, and many types of related merchandise.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shaman King” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.