Manta Oyamada, a shrimpy, studious middle-school student from Tokyo, attempts a shortcut one night through the graveyard to get home after a late night of cram 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. Over the first few chapters, Yoh and Manta become best friends while Yoh uses his shamanic abilities to help them out through various normal tasks.
The Shaman Fight is a battle held once every 500 years between competing shamans to choose a winner who will become the highly sought-after "Shaman King", one who is able 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.
who cannot love this anime? lolx, swell maybe not everyone but neither can anyone hate this anime. lolx, i love this anime even if the fighting is not as good or crazy as naruto and bleach. this anime is meant to say that there are spirits around us everyday and that there are all types of people known as shaman that has the power to connect both worlds together.
asakura yoh is a very relax, care-free type of boy with the dream of one day becoming the shaman king held once every 500 yrs. yoh is da hero and he's not like every hero that we all know. lolx, which makes the anime very interesting and there is always laughter in every episode. my point is, if anyone is having a bad day and needs a laugh or is looking for comedy and action, this is the anime. my rating is 4/5.
