Shaman King

Manta Oyamada, a shrimpy, studious center-school understudy from Tokyo, tries a shortcut one night through the memorial park to get home when a late night of pack school. While travelling through it, he encounters Yoh Asakura and his "companions": a graveyard filled with ghosts. Yoh reveals himself to be a shaman, a medium between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Yoh also demonstrates shamans' ability to unite with ghosts to achieve a shared goal. Quickly after meeting one another, Yoh and Manta become best friends while Yoh uses his shamanic abilities to help them out through various tasks.

The Shaman Fight is a combat kept once each 500 years amidst contending shamans to pick a winner who will end up the remarkably looked for-following "Shaman King", one who is fit to contact the Great Spirit (the spirit that every soul will eventually go back to). The winner gains the ability to reshape the world in any way they want. Anna Kyoyama, Yoh's fiancée, soon enters the picture and prescribes a brutal training regimen, in order to prepare Yoh for the tournament. Thus begins the plot that will lead Yoh on a journey that will lead him to befriend Ryu, Tao Ren, Horohoro, Faust VIII, Lyserg Diethel, and Joco.

Shaman King is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei. Shaman King takes after the undertakings of Yoh Asakura as he endeavors to sharpen his shaman aptitudes to end up the Shaman King in the Shaman tournament. Shaman King was serialized in the Japanese manga anthology Weekly Shonen Jump between 1998 and 2004 and has been collected in thirty-two tankobon volumes. Since its publication, Shaman King has spawned a substantial media franchise.

The manga has been adapted into an animated television series produced by Xebec and co-produced by TV Tokyo. The series has also spawned numerous video games, a trading card game as well as many types of Shaman King-related merchandise. During the Jump Festa 2008, Shueisha announced a kanzenban reprint of the entire series. The series is called Shaman King Kanzen-Ban, or Perfect Edition.