Shamans are extraordinary individuals with the ability to communicate with ghosts, spirits, and gods, which are invisible to ordinary people. The Shaman Fight—a prestigious tournament pitting shamans from all over the world against each other—is held every five hundred years, where the winner is crowned Shaman King. This title allows the current incumbent to call upon the Great Spirit and shape the world as they see fit.
Finding himself late for class one night, Manta Oyamada, an ordinary middle school student, decides to take a shortcut through the local cemetery. Noticing him, a lone boy sitting on a gravestone invites Manta to stargaze with "them." Realizing that "them" refers to the boy and his ghostly friends, Manta flees in terror. Later, the boy introduces himself as You Asakura, a Shaman-in-training, and demonstrates his powers by teaming up with the ghost of six-hundred-year-old samurai Amidamaru to save Manta from a group of thugs. You befriends Manta due to his ability to see spirits, and with the help of Amidamaru, they set out to accomplish You's goal of becoming the next Shaman King.
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hey77
I really loved this adaptation! I had a blast watching it every week and was always excited for each new episode. Of course, it's not perfect, it does have some flaws which, depending on your preferences, may affect your opinion really negatively, but I personally had an overwhelmingly positive experience! I loved the story, though that's kind of a given, since I'm a fan of the manga in the first place. Nevertheless, it's worth mentioning that this anime does a great job adapting the whole story of the manga and very faithfully at that. There are very few things that have been changed or cut, butthey're really inconsequential. I absolutely adored the "Osorezan revoir" arc in particular (which shows Yoh and Anna's backstory), easily the best part of the anime for me and one I've wanted to see animated for years! And it did deliver beautifully, it actually made me cry. Another thing I adore is the ending - not gonna spoil anything, but I love how the main conflict gets resolved and how different of an approach it takes compared to other shounen that people are used to. The story has some very interesting themes and lessons that it wants to showcase and Yoh's catchphrase "Everything will work out" is really soothing and definitely something I needed to be reminded of.
The pacing was a bit of a problem at times, it was rushed during the first 12 episodes (because they were adapting things which were already done in the first anime adaptation) but after that I had no issues with it, except for some of the episodes closer to the end. It does have a faster pace than usual, but it genuinely didn't bother me - I prefer a faster pace to having to slog through filler episodes.
Something I definitely need to mention is the soundtrack - the music of the show is absolutely phenomenal! Yuki Hayashi did an amazing job with this, the music is original and very memorable, I listen to it all the time and it's quickly become one of my favourite soundtracks ever! I literally can't praise it enough, the show would not be what it is without it!
Speaking of sound, let's also mention the VAs - they were all amazing, they really fleshed out the characters and conveyed their emotions beautifully. The show even managed to bring back some of the VAs from the first anime, which was great and really took advantage of the nostalgia aspect. Overall great performances! The characters themself have always been my favourite part of the story - each of them having a distinct personality and motivation, and each of them being given their time to shine. Unlike some other shows, this one does not focus solely on the main character while sidelining everyone else, it gives opportunity for each character to have their own moments. I also love the relationships between all of them.
I really liked the art and the colour scheme they used. The animation, though, is admittedly a bit of a problem. It's nowhere near as good as one would expect from an anime from recent years and the fights don't look as good as they should. This and the pacing are, in my opinion, this anime's biggest issues. Other than that, though, I think the adaptation did a great job!
It's inevitable that a lot of people will try to compare this to the original anime from 2001 and, while I'm sure that nostalgia is a factor and a lot of people will prefer the old one based solely on that, I can say that I definitely think this one is better. It tells the story the way it was intended to be, unlike the old one which had a good beginning while following the manga and later got bogged down with fillers and ended in the most typical shounen fashion.
Overall, I had a great time watching this, it reminded me how much I love this story and these characters and I'm really happy it exists in the first place. I may be really biased but it is what it is - this anime brought me immense joy, flaws and all, and I'm really going to miss it! Thank God they've already announced a sequel!
Wosee
The story starts meh, becomes kinda interesting and then gets worse and worse, thats both due to messy pacing and the core of story itself being bad. The story its simple enough and moves fast, which is even more amazing on how it got this bad, it cannot even keep its tone consistent, DEM and lack of any consequences as well. The characters themselves are not that interesting either, a lot of them are annoying as well and there is a lot of them, pointless additions overall but on the bright side the villain is fleshed out well, if not for the tone thing i mentioned whichyou cannot take him seriously despite being OP.
Art is on the good side which is a first for Bridge but since its Bridge after all the animation is a slideshow, the music is the only decent part of it.
I have not watched the other anime version of it but i can say this series was not worth it.
Ironaditya
I was really excited to watch Shaman King because this was one series which I was sure that I have heard about, but knew next to nothing about. Although this remake was all over the place in terms of pacing , with the first 12 ep being speedrun of the part which the old series adapted from the manga, ep 13-37ish something being nice and slow adaptation of Manga, also containing my FAVOURITE arc Osorezan le Voile and MATAMUNE. And the final stretch of it being just so much cut content, averaging at around 6-7 chapter per episode. One thing you can't complaint about is theTheme Songs, especially the 4 Ending Themes, each better than the previous. And there was no doubt the soundtrack is gonna be epic when you have Hayashi Yuuki on board.
All in all this was far from a perfect adaptation, but it did introduce me to this story about Shamans, of which I definitely am gonna read the manga, cause the Manga is just great from what I heard.
And do hope that somewhere in the future we still get another proper remake, atleast 75+ episodes, cause the story, atleast for me personally is something that can work even in the future
Injenss
1. I am an actual Shaman. 2. I have never seen the original Shaman king. With that in mind, this review may be biased. I loved this anime. Absolutely loved it. I've never even seen an anime about Shamans before. I've seen anime about Onmyoji, which are Japanese mystics, but I've never seen an anime that covered the entire global Shaman diaspora before. I loved how they really did a great job going all over the world and giving representation to everything from the Druids of Europe to the Shamans of North America. Granted, it's not like it's a compendium of knowledge for trueShamanism, but it's nice to see that whoever made this film really has a knowledge of various Shamanic cultures, histories and ideologies. They also have an even greater depth of knowledge about New Thought. (The Afterlife concepts found in the Great Spirit portions of the anime.). I wouldn't be surprised if the creators of this anime were practitioners of New Thought.
I, personally, loved the characters as well. In seeing other reviews, it would appear that the character personalities are different from how they were in the original. Because I never saw it, I'm not jaded by the nostalgia of how they used to be. I only appreciated who they were. I loved Yoh's relaxed attitude mixed with a little cockiness, he might be a favorite MC for me. I also really loved Anna, who was my favorite character. Either her or Hao were my favorites. And yes, Hao, is the villain, but his completely untouchable attitude and demeanor, I really liked it. It was different. (MILD SPOILER): I've never seen an Antagonist so confident that he'll jump into the bath with his enemies buck naked, knowing no one is nuts enough to attack him. And then go to sleep in their home, while unwelcomed. That was a flex so strong it could pop a vein.
But, with all that being said, as much as I loved this anime for how its resonated with me, it has a LOT of flaws. If I was not biased as a practitioner of Shamanism myself, I would probably have scored this much lower because of the many, MANY mistakes they make in this anime. (SPOILERS AHEAD!)
The biggest mistake BY FAR is their penchant for spoiling their own show with the OP and mid-show credits. I know OPs can be spoilerish, but their openers were INSANELY filled with spoilers. They showed all of the first season's enemies hanging out with Yoh episode 1. Why would you do that? Showing Ryu, Ren, Faust and Lyserg standing shoulder to shoulder fighting Hao in episode 1 totally destroys any suspense when they show up as enemies in the anime. You automatically know that they're going to lose, and end up turning good, so nothing they do as a villain really matters. (Still, what Faust did to Manta when they met was pretty shocking. I didn't see that coming.) In addition to that, they would have the commercial break slides spoiling evolved forms before they actually ever used the forms in the show, thus spoiling the forms. But, as bad as that was, nothing was worse than the second opener. They literally showed Hao with the Great Spirit, and the Five Warriors with the Elemental Spirits. I mean...what the hell? You basically gave away that Hao becomes Shaman King 20 episodes before it happens. And then it sucks out the suspense at the end when Hao does the (admittedly awesome) awakening. As much as I liked that, do you know how much more I would've loved it, if I didn't see it coming? I would've really thought, especially being at the end of the anime, that it was one of those ultimate swerves where the heroes actually lose. Just horrible spoilage.
Beyond that, there were tons of mistakes in the story itself. Such as Yoh expressing zero knowledge of Furyoku to Silva when they meet, and then later providing the Matamune flashback showing that the Spirit taught him how to Spirit Integrate and attack to defeat an opponent in the exact same way he passed Silva's test. So, he should already know all about Furyoku. How could he even grow up as an Asakara and NOT know about Furyoku? He was trained by his grandad, and his wife was Anna the Itako, how would they not tell him once? How could he not even see Anna's Furyoku when everyone else was seeing it and freaked out about it? The show was filled with little holes like this.
Another critique of the show is the pacing. Man, the pacing was atrocious. It's like they spent so much time on fights that didn't even matter, that they ran out of time and had to rush through the ones that did. I was so disappointed when the final fight of the first round that pit Yoh, Ryu and Faust against Ren, Horohoro and Chocolove, was rushed and done in like 2 minutes without even a conclusion. And then it was just Ren vs. Yoh pt. 3, in those 2 minutes. But, the pacing issues became really bad when it was time to go through the 10 chambers to try and reach Hao before he awoke. His guardians were the strongest fighters in the anime. So strong they were dropping the heroes like flies through the first three chambers. But, then it was like: "Oh no, we've only got the budget for 4 more episodes, we better hurry up and finish." And so the later more important fights were done in a couple of moves. Silva vs. Yoh should've gone MUCH longer. And it would've been nice to see them fight Goldva.
My final critique is against the logic of the show at times. The characters just fail to use logic. A great example of this, is that they know that they only have 15 hours to reach Hao. And then they actually decide to go to stop at one of the levels to replenish their mana. I get it, you're low. But, you stop and eat, hang out and talk, go to sleep ALL NIGHT, get up and have breakfast, when you have 15 hours to save the world...What an absolute shocker that you ran out of time and Hao had to come find you. Which is fine, I guess, since Hao coming to them was one of my favorite parts.
But the logic was all over the place. You're fighting for the fate of every life on Earth. There's 9 of you, and you're entering rooms where only one guy is there to defend. So...let's hang back and let one or two guys fight, instead of jumping every single one of these dudes 9 on 1 from the start. They should've jumped Luchist and then did the same to the Patch.
Man, the more I write about this anime, the lower the score in my head is going... I'm going to stop, because I really, really enjoyed this anime a lot. It's just got a lot of holes that makes it clear why its score is a high 6 instead of an 8. I would definitely recommend this anime. But, not to people who have seen the original Shaman King. From what I can see, you're probably going to hate it a lot. Again, this review is biased, because this is more than likely an anime that deserves the score it has, but it resonated with me personally, so my score is reflecting that.
Danahi82
The story starts really bad, but gets interesting later on. The really unfortunate part is the pacing. They give no time to build any rapport with the characters, there is no understanding of struggles or time to let their pasts or stories sink in. The participants keep getting stronger and their is no effort shown whatsoever so one does not understand what is going on with them. It is terribly told, and I can't tell if the original story was this bad or it's just the adaptation. The only redeeming quality is that you can understand the tournament a bit and some of the charactersare at times cool. Okay for a one time watch but would not recommend if their is anything better out there
XizKeik
Shaman King is a bad anime series. So where did it all go wrong? A brief background to make my review more understandable. I watched the original Shaman King when I was a child. Then when I entered high school and was on my way to being addicted to anime, I watched it again, with a broader mind. Then I read the manga and even the sequel, Shaman King Flowers. When the remake was announced, my childhood friends were making a big fuss of it, on how it was a great story and how it was a lit show. I already knew that the show wasgoing to be bad. The answer to the question of where did it go wrong is simple; the moment an anime adaptation was going to be produced.
People, especially from the place where I’m from tend to view anime from 1990s and 2000s as if they were all good. Maybe because they have a certain bias for nostalgia, or maybe they were just kids who have a very narrow or straightforward view on beauty, or maybe because they have not watched enough anime to have a certain standard. Shaman King perfectly takes advantage of this. It has a weak story telling yet people seem to place it on a pedestal. But in reality, it doesn’t really compare to the other “great” shounen anime that people place in a pedestal from its time like Hunter X Hunter, Slam Dunk, and Yu Yu Hakusho.
Shaman King has shitty dialogues and I don’t know if its intentional, but sometimes it feels like they are trying to shove some certain philosophy to be accepted by its audience which is very irritating. It’s like a pastor is saying some story to try to convince you to be Christian or something. I mean it’s ok to try to influence the audience since it is the purpose of art, but forcing the audience to open their mouths to shove food down their throats isn’t really a great way of doing it and more so if the food tastes like shit.
Then the oversouls, man… It’s like a 6-year old thought, “what would be a great power?” Some oversouls were fine but some were just….
There were certain scenes which I don’t know if the author did really try to make us laugh or was just so bad at writing it made me laugh. A no spoiler example: a certain person sacrificed his life and there was supposed to be some sad scene, but the scene turned out as if it was insulting the dead character. My God, I felt really bad for the character who sacrificed his life.
For the fight scenes… If there are any… 99% of the attacks showed the preparation for the attack and then it skips the part on how it will reach the target and then it will show that the target was hit or the target dodged the attack. A sword is going to be swung, there is no swinging, but then it hits the target. That’s the “fight” scene. The choreography e of the fight scenes were also very bad. Though to be fair, it only adapted what the choreography in the manga was, so it didn’t really have a good start to begin with. But the anime could’ve at least changed a few fighting sequences which other anime adaptations do and more importantly, they could’ve added motion to the fight. It was like I was reading an audio-visual manga…
For the art, I actually liked the art of the original anime better. I think that the colours of the remake were too bright and I preferred the old one.
Though, the anime did have its moments, but they were very few for a 52-episode anime. It would even be few for a 12-episode anime.
Overall, it was going to be a shitty show because the source material was bad in the first place, and then the animation was very bad.
Overall 1/10
Enjoyment 2/10 (I rate based on enjoyment)
ArminMin
Ah yes Shaman King. It is definately one of those shows I used to love as a kid. To give some backstory first I first watched the old adaptation of this anime back as a kid and went on to read the Manga a bit later. I never finished the story though ... but I knew it differs a lot from the old Anime's ending. So when the new adaptation was announced I was glad to have the chance to get back into the series to experience the 'correct' adaptation of the Manga's story. Was it good though...? Well.... The first episodes were actually really promising. I wasglad to recognize a lot of scenes from the Manga and it was great to see these characters again after so many years. It was actually pretty enjoyable until the part of Anna's backstory ended... After that everything went downhill sadly.
The Shaman tournament lost all importance and it kind of just faded away? While the old adaptation really focused on this part it was weird just not seeing much of it at all. When you did, it wasn't really fun anyway though... the fighting scenes were just overall really boring and not animated in an exciting way. Most things just got explained instead of seeing some actual action...I hoped a new anime would do this differently but I guess not.
The characters definately didn't have enough time to interact with each other ... I am actually kind of annoyed that Chocolove got so much attention throughout the story... I just hate this character a lot. His weird humour doesn't work and is so unnessecary. Instead I would have loved to see more of HoroHoro or Ren or even Yoh... because honestly for a main character he sure didn't do that much... especially in the final episodes.
The story just went all over the place... characters constantly got revived like it's nothing special at all. The progress the characters made just felt forced and rushed and everything kind of became 'too big'. I can't really say anything positive about the second half of this show... and it pains me to ay that really.
I guess the original story wasn't that good after all and the old adaptation definately made a good choice of rewriting it...
At least my respect towards the old Anime only grew now and I would recommend it over the new one. Especially since the new one didn't get rid of anything 'outdated' like character clichés, bad humour or too much shouting or Ryu being creepy af anyway.
Unfortunately This anime turned out to be really mediocre, maybe without the nostalgia bonus it would be even worse.
feikufa
Shaman King is a very peculiar topic. So many things were done well while others felt severely underwhelming. To start, the plot and overall story is very run-of-the-mill. The first half has a clear and solid goal, but it's just so boring! Things are uneventful for the most part and there's only a few moments that are memorable. It almost seemed like there wasn't anything going on in the first place. As the series goes on, the plot takes a complete 180 and it does end up getting more interesting with more action, but the "end-goal" completely falls apart. The story just gets more and moreconvoluted and random as time goes on, but at least there's actually stuff happening that can capture attention. If you piece together your own interpretation, it's honestly not that bad.
It's extremely worth mentioning that the one thing that kept me coming back and not dropping this series as a whole were the characters! They were all so investing, and easily the best aspect of the anime. Each of the main characters feels fleshed out and developed well enough to really get to know them. Watching their development is great, especially seeing how their morality changes. Additionally, the dynamics and interactions between different characters are extremely entertaining, most notably Ren and Horohoro. The dynamic between the Asakura brothers was very unique, too. At the end of the day, if it weren't for these characters, I most likely wouldn't have finished this show.
As for the other elements of Shaman King, they do well for themselves. Simple, watchable art and animation, good soundtrack, and an understandable combat system. Overall, if you're looking for something new to watch, Shaman King is worth considering, but not completely worth prioritizing if you have a pre-existing watch list.
MelioDasOfir
I have to say that I see people are really disappointed with this anime, the 2021 version, I don't understand why, the plot progresses very well throughout the 52 episodes, the characters are really interesting, at least to me, this series is not a generic shounen series at all, it has excellent character development that is not It's too long, and its content is really light, you won't see characters like this in many shonen anime, I have to say that the Matamone saga bored me, they could have written it differently or shortened it Story - 9/10 There is something to improve. I won't argue here,but the series deserves a higher place
Nadgob
I can think of only one reason this anime is so low rated. It's because people think about it just as I thought at the beginning - oh my lord what does it look like, the nostalgia tells me that this looks bad omg and it's just a reboot. But then I've read that it wasn't just a visual reboot, it was the actual anime adaptation and not only some childlish cartoon about 'friendship is magic'. It's great, it's actually awesome. Yeah sure the art is pretty mediocre and for 2021 anime it SHOULD be better but you can get used to it. Great story.It's awesome that it's gonna get a second season. Can't wait to see it!
KingKloud18
The person who directed this version of shaman king needs to do better. I was so hyped for it, but this anime does not do the story any service. There is a lack of tension and pacing throughout this anime. I was giving the beginning the benefit-of-the-doubt, thinking that they were attempting more of a recap so that they could get to the later parts of the story and flex their skills in adapting the story, but no. This is just Shaman King with bad pacing, no anticipation & slideshow animation. The only compliment I have for this anime is that the quality of the colors are sogood! Is that what most of the budget went to because it definitely was NOT the animation.
If anything, I would want a better animation studio to re-remake this series with better quality and add SAKUGA animation! This series really deserved it...
To compare it to the early 2000's series, I rewatched it and have to say even within the first few episodes the storytelling, action and comedy was much better. The only thing it suffers from is some drawn out pacing like in the Faust vs. Yoh fight, but that rarely occurs.
The old anime also has an alternate ending to the manga due to it not being finished at the time of it's making.
I highly doubt it will happen, but I hope this series gains traction to be remade again in a much better way.
allieturs
As a big fan of the original anime series of Shaman King, I was pretty concerned about this reboot, since most of the time I tend to be a little disappointed when an old anime gets one (Sailor Moon or Hunter x Hunter, the only exception maybe is Fruits Basket), starting to watch this anime out of curiosity but always with the idea that "next episode it'll get this bad that I'll just hate it." From my rate, you can deduce this didn't happen. In fact, I actually enjoyed this anime really much. It felt really nostalgic, as you can perfectly see that it's not arecent anime, since it has all the vibes and tropes of a typical 2000's shonen. Even the format of 52 episodes is something that makes me think of an old anime, nowadays it's really rare to have an anime of that lenght. Since it's a 2000's shonen, the tropes are the basic: power of friendship, many level up without a real sense to the plot, every enemy is a friend, etc... If you find these things annoying, then you wouldn't like it, but luckily I love these tropes so it's okay. I love when there is a battle tournament, so I couldn't not love Shaman King since it's literally the major plot point. And the message that "death is something that happens and you shouldn't be scared of it, since it stops your life but also it's the start of something new" is poetic.
The characters are as memorable as in the first season, really charismatic and lovable. I love the idea of so many culture both in the characterizations, the spirits and the morals, since it's based on the shamanic world and all the type of culture based on the spirits, it was very interesting to see the different way to approach the topics. Yoh is both very typical and unusual as a MC, but that's what makes him very interesting. And I love the team of main characters, though I would've liked to see more about some other characters that unfortunately have poor screen time.
The opening were both really beautiful, since I wasn't even skipping them most of the time, and it's really strange for me. About the ending- well, I watched it on Netflix, it just goes to the next episode without letting me listen to it, so I'll fly over this part.
And then, the real Achille's heel of the serie in my opinion, the character design. I honestly don't know why when they make a remake of an old serie, they just decide to have the worst chara design possible. It happened already some times and I really don't understand this, it feels like something cheap and plastic, also because those "neon colors" don't always go well with the vibes and the tone of a scene, seeming too bright for a maybe dark moment in the story. It doesn't completely ruins the experience, but they could've made something way bettere instead of this.
In general, for those who loved the first season, and even for those who never watched it or read the manga, if you like 2000's shonen, this is pretty much a must to watch. If you don't like the trope, well- you can still watch it, but I think you'll find really annoying the *power of friendship*.
X2yt
A really weird show. On the other hand it's a decent remake-sequel of the original Shaman King anime, with the first dozen or so episodes rehashing the original story, but the rest is completely reworked and unique. So if you've seen the original show, the first half of this 2021 run is kind of boring, but it really picks up and becomes very interesting and fun after than, but the end is just weak sauce. Instead of an epic fight at the climax, we get some almost random ending that does feel rushed and almost like they cheaped out on it. No clue what happens in themanga, but judging anime strictly by itself, it's really weird how all the hype and buildup ends up not paying off at all, not to mention, it's spoiled like halfway through the show how the story will end.
Overall, the story isn't terrible, but the ending really lets it down.
Eoussama
Aaaa yay yay, where to even begin! I guess I’m not the only one who was driven to watch this by pure nostalgia, the OG show makes some of my biggest core memories that I just had to check this one up, whoever said “trust you gut”, that man was not cooking, at least applied to this scenario. Calling this a flop doesn’t not even begin to describe the dumpster fire it actually turned out to be. The jokes did not age well, the plot was too slow at times, too fast at some other times, no consistency between comedy and drama, the animation is hilariously averagefor today’s standard, and I can keep going.
One thing I’ll give this adaptation is the voice acting, it was amazing, all the Japanese one and even the English and French dubs, they were outstanding, all on their own right, but only sound can’t help a visual medium, it can only compliment what’s already good.
I genuinely discovered new levels of boredom watching this one, I even stopped for a prolonged period of time before I resume to finish the last 12 episodes. However, even amongst this sleep fest, there was a high peak I never expected, the prequel arc of Mt. Osore Le Voile, it was spectacular in every other way, plot, animation, acting, twists, I think it’s the only solid saving grace that this adaptation provides.
Overall: 6.5/10.
