Shaman King

Shaman King (???????? Sh?man Kingu) is both an anime series and a manga series by Hiroyuki Takei.

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Anime - Manga - Hiroyuki Takei

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The Shaman King manga started in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan, and in the same country it aired on TV Tokyo. In North America, the manga is currently being printed in Viz's Shonen Jump, with edits to a few chapters. The Shaman King anime in 2003 was licensed by 4Kids Entertainment for American television broadcasting and finished its run on 4Kids TV, formerly the Fox Box, in 2005. It's also on YTV in Canada. Shaman King aired on JETIX (formerly Fox Kids) in the United Kingdom.

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Shueisha - Weekly Shonen Jump - Japan - TV Tokyo - Viz - Shonen Jump - 2003 - 4Kids Entertainment - American - 4Kids TV - YTV - Canada - JETIX - United Kingdom

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A shaman is a link between this world and the next, and teams up with ghosts and spirits to achieve their goals. Many a shaman's greatest dream is to become Shaman King, and be able to contact the Great Spirit in order to be the savior of the world. This series is religious in a sense, but not religious at all, in a way that could be only described as how Japanese see the often explosive topic of religion, foreign and otherwise. Various magical and religious terms are spread through out the story but they merge into something explainable by the time the main plot arrives.

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The process of the spirit ally merging with the shaman is known as "hyoi gattai" in the Japanese manga and anime, "integration" in the English manga, and "spirit unity" in the English anime.

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Many fans of the series abbreviate its name to "Mankin".

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The Shaman King trading card game is available in Japan and North America.

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Trading card game - Japan - North America

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