Shaman King is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei.
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19 Facts About Shaman King
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The Shaman King manga was originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump between June 1998 and August 2004.
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The Shaman King anime has been watched by many television viewers in Japan.
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Plot of Shaman King revolves around Yoh Asakura, a shaman, a medium between the worlds of the living and the dead.
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Yoh's group travels to America to pass the final trial for the right to participate in the Shaman King Fight, joined by Lyserg Diethel while encountering a group of shamans led by Yoh's estranged twin brother Hao Asakura, the reincarnation of a powerful shaman who wishes to eradicate all humans and create a world for shamans.
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Shaman King was influenced by street art from hip-hop and rap culture, which is apparent in his manga artwork.
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Shaman King chose shamanism as the principal topic of the series because he wanted to choose a subject that had never been approached in manga before.
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Shaman King said he incorporated his own personality and beliefs in Shaman King.
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Chapters of Shaman King were written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei and were published in Shueisha's shonen manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump from June 30,1998 to an abrupt and improvised end on August 30,2004.
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Shaman King has been published as part of the Shueisha Jump Remix series of magazine-style books.
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Sixteen volumes of Shaman King were released under the Shueisha Jump Remix series between April 1,2011 and October 28,2011.
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On November 10,2011, a series of one-shot called "zero stories", later colected as Shaman King: Zero, detailing Yoh and other characters backstories started to be serialized in Jump X In the same issue the first "zero story" was published, Shueisha announced the serialization of a sequel, focusing on Hana Asakura's development as a shaman; Shaman King: Flowers started on April 10,2012.
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Two volumes of Shaman King: Zero were released on May 10,2012 and January 19,2015 respectively.
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Collectible card game based on the Shaman King series was produced by Tomy in Japan and released in the United States by Upper Deck in 2005.
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Characters of the Shaman King series have made appearances in the games Jump Super Stars and Jump Ultimate Stars.
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In 2008, Shaman King was North America's 24th best manga property according to ICv2, based on sales for the entire year of 2008.
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Shaman King was voted the sixth best anime of 2001 by Animage readers.
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Mania's Eduardo Chavez said that, Shaman King can "hit all the right buttons one volume" but "it could be a complete bore" in the next.
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School Library Journals Cathleen Baxter commented that Shaman King has "nonstop action" with "typical shonen characters and battle styles".
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