Audience reviews
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Biisoo
As someone who really loves and adores Shounens and their whole idea, It's weird for me to say that I actually didn't enjoy this series much (Atleast not as much as it was praised). I was under the impression that this was a cult classic for many growing up and as someone whose favourite anime is Naruto, I thought to myself that it's finally time to give this a try and I gotta say, After finishing this. I'm actually very disappointed.
It wasn't all bad, The show's first half is actually really engaging and well thought-out. Characters have great motivations and it feels like the start of a great Shounen but my problem with the show lies in the second half mostly.
I won't go into spoiler territory but the ending feels like it's a very useless ending. None of the questions were answered.…
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This adaptation is one of those that were ongoing alongside the manga and went into a completely different direction from it in order to finish in my way.
The formula of this series in terms of the first half is the episodic one with a few plot relevant episodes here and there, the 2nd half being the same episodic format but some parts of each episode carrying in and being part of the plot, thus the episodic format does get alongside the plot stuff much better later so in a sense it does get better.
But also in the same sense you know what you are getting it into just by watching in a few episodes and whatever you are gonna like it or not, its a very consistently okaying series overall, this hold true for most of its aspects including characters.
The biggest problem being the ending in…
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I have not been so addicted to a show in quite some time. This anime was created the year I was born yet I only began watching it in 2022. Frankly, I am sad I didn't watch this as a kid. The style of animation brought memories of me watching Digimon and some older Studio Ghibli films when I was home alone. When I began watching Shaman King I had just found out I needed an ACL surgery and was looking for a comfort show. Though far from comfort, I became engrossed in the storyline.
Shaman King has a lovable protagonist that I admired and a cunning antagonist whom I detested. I did find some of the side characters quite annoying (especially in the english dub) but their friendship with the main character is a large part of what made the show so great. Strong friendships, difficulties to over…
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Spoilers btw
So i absolutely loved this anime. shaman king. the power system is amazing. i love the characters. i also really enjoyed the adventure they went to defeat hao.
a MAJOR problem w it.
the ending. When i say the ending im talking about the original rushed ending. it really felt like hao was left as a hollow character with really no reason to why he did the things he did.
If you have watched it and liked it until the ending, read the manga and tazenban (the 2021 ending).ill make a much better review once i finish the manga btw.
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(This review is based off of the currently legally available version, which means the English dub might slightly affect some of the scoring as currently Discotek has only rereleased the 2003 dub produced by 4kids)
Shaman King is a franchise that seems pretty underrated compared to a lot of other anime that came out to the West around the same time. When Shaman King was at it's peak of popularity back in November of 2004 according to Google Trends, other series like One Piece and Bleach were starting to overtake it in popularity before overshadowing it altogether. The franchise almost blew up again with the new anime adaptation and when the Netflix release came out, it hit a second overall peak, but only at about half as strong performance as that initial 2004 peak. With the rushed pacing…
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Shaman King a shonen anime that isn't short of adventure & action. It introduces the world of shamans with a touch of modernity in its own way. Characters have unique personality & are its stongest point. While the characters run the show, it is the story line & animation that makes the overall experience a little dim.
Art style is unique and captivating however, animation has it issues. Characters & background seemed static and lacking life. Even the background colors are pale and sometimes dull. A 6/10 in this category.
Story is one of the weak ponits of the show. It is a predictable classic shounen plot. However, there are glimses of suprise but not anyway near a twist. A low score of 6/10 here.
Each charater has an unique and outstanding aspect. This uniqueness, is both in their loo…
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Watching this anime as a child brought me a great amount of joy. For its time, this short series highlighted the main aspects an anime should display for a great and successful impact. the Anime in itself has a great lore, deducing inspiration from Shaman traditions as well as other historical contexts. The plot is fundamentally conservative to the traditional shonen like structure, however what makes this anime different from a lot of other Shonen's is the Protagonists unique character and the way in which he drives the story forwards. This anime is phenomenal and I am looking forward into the remastered version (2021). Definitely worth a watch.
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As a person who came back to the anime because of the nostalgia of watching it on tv, I had to say that it was worth my time.
I'll be short because I didn't finish the manga yet but I know that it's better than the anime (I know, while I was rewatching this adaptation came out the news that it'll be released the new anime adaptation just like Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood and have my overhyped). It hasn't spoilers.
First half:
The first half of the anime It's just like the manga and it's way the better part of all. It's super enjoyable and the slice of life scenes are the best, because of the characters who are really good: Yoh it's super nice and we all love him, Anna it's super tsundere-cute, Manta is the friend we all want and Amidamaru it's the best nakama. They're also very good…
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Shaman King is a decent anime, that is also very enjoyable, although it is a decent anime, it has a couple of flaws, but the flaws are not noticeable if you pay that much attention, and If you really enjoy it then you will ignore then.
Pros:
-Is enjoyable
-Characters are enjoyable
[although somewhat bland and underdeveloped]
-A good villain
-Has a decent storyline
Cons: -Characters such as Trey, Jako are underdeveloped
-Some characters are bland
[ Should be called Filler King , as it has so much filler maybe 40%
-I feel like the story doesn't capitalize
on itself that much
-Animation is outdated
-Outdated
Anyway Shaman King is enjoyable, it's not the best anime out there and it's doesn't hold up that well, overall my personal rating of it is a 6/10, despite it being simple anime and…
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I too am one of those that got to see shaman king air on TV as a kid.After remembering that i had no watched in addition to it being praised i jumped right in.Oh but what a regrettable course of action that was.
Story(2/10)(spoilers)
Basically there are shamans,people that can use spirits and every 500 years a tournament is held in order to crown the king of shamans.The story looked pretty classic, the good guy fighting the bad guy so i had hope, i had hope that the action might get better or that the main characters would get stronger but 25 episodes into the show is the strongest they ever got.Even so i watched the worst ending i have ever seen in an anime unfold,watched as the bad guy practically having become god get beaten by the miraculous power called friendship???
Characters(1/10…
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As you probably know it's Shaman King's 20th birthday, a manga is also planned for this year.
I loved the manga and after the author refused a new animated series I was a bit curious so I had to finish the old animated series. Just like for FMA and FMAB, the anime unfortunately does not follow the plot of the manga. The anime as such is still nice to watch, however when our heroes go to America they introduced some of rather dull and clichés characters and independent and worthless subplots with no real consequences on the story or its characters.
It is only when the anime tries to include elements from the manga that it manages to break this loop, unfortunately Hao's motivations remains ambiguous and its acolytes are unfortunately not very developed but it's the case of any character wh…
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Yoh Asakura isn't your typical high school kid, which his soon to be best friend Marty discovers. Yoh is a Shaman who can communicate with spirits as well as house them in his body. He arrives in search of the one spirit who will help him during the Shaman Tournament that will determine who becomes the next Shaman King.
My thoughts:
Shaman King is very entertaining and I think original. The series has a number of interesting characters that Yoh meets. They start out as enemies for they too are Shamans and must beat Yoh to continue on in the tournament. But eventually most of those he fights turn into friends in the end.
Yoh is a laid-back character, that is until Anna arrives and takes control. She truly puts him in his place and steps up his training. She's a controlling character but…
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Well, apparently a great a anime with an amazing plot that I absolutely loved.
The characters where fantastic and it had many funny moments.
I watched the greek dub, which was the For Kids edition, which as most of us know, is not the best choise to make. However, one could still watch without a problem.
Moreover, something I liked the most, was the sensation this series gives you. After a few episodes you start seeing the characters as "a family". It is like the feelings you have while watching Fairy Tail or One Piece.
But this anime has a great disadvantage.
The ending of this anime is rather abrupt and meaningless. I literally could not understand how it came down with this ending. I think that if someone, take this anime and start it all over again, it will be more appealing and I will…
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Shaman King was one of those anime that appeared on Jetix back in my childhood days and it's was the first shounen anime that I watched and loved from start to finish.
A decade has passed and started from 2015 I started to re-watch a bunch of anime that I grew up with so I can re- visit some of those animes as well as see those shows in kinda more critical standpoint.
Shaman King was one of those anime I wanted to re-watch for a really long time because I wanted to see if Shaman King holds up outside my nostalgia love for it.
Does Shaman King still hold up to this day or it one of those nostalgic pandering show I want to forget?
Let's find out shall we.
Story.
The story of Shaman King starts off with Asakura Yoh who is a shaman meaning Yoh can be able to see and communicate with sports. Y…
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Shaman King is an anime that has not aged well, for multiple reasons, with some of them the series itself being to blame, and with some of them time itself is to blame.
To properly criticize Shaman King, I want you to understand that Shaman King came out from an era where shounens were the determined bread winner, and there were plenty of attempts of random shounen being released. At the same time, things like Naruto, Inuyasha, Hajime no Ippo and Hunter x Hunter were airing or finished airing and plenty of other commercial shounens were being released or about to start in that craze. I wouldn't call Shaman King succesful, as the way I have stumbled upon it I consider bizarre.
It started airing at 10 PM on a cartoon channel. What's bizarre about this is that it and Naruto, are the only tw…
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I watched Shaman King when I was a child and often come back to it. I have big sentiment for this anime and manga.
It would be better if anime goes like in manga. But well, I can't have everything. It's still really good and fun.
Yoh's and his friends adventures to become Shaman King are dinamic, moving and fun. There are enemys turn into friends and people looking for better life or
their wishes come true.
I really like Hayashibara Megumi songs in openings and endings.
There are many shounens right now but it will stay my number one title.
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Shaman King is one of those shows that uses a basic story that has been done to death yet still finds a way to make it stand out from all the other shows in its respective genre.
Shaman King is the story of You Asakura a lazy slacker who recently transfered to the school of the Manta Oyamada who after first meeting You tries to convince everyone that he saw ghosts however nobody believes him.
After discovering that through investigating him Manta was injured by Ryunosuke Umemiya and his gang You decides to teach the gang a lesson with the assistance of the deceased spirit of the legendary samurai Amidamaru.
After this episode Manta and You becomes best friends and its not explained what the main plot of the show is about for a few more episodes.
That plot is that there is a tournament be…
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Today we will have a review of one of the classic anime of all time.
Shaman King is a manga created and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei. The series tells the story of Yoh Asakura, a shaman boy training to develop their skills in order to win the tournament and become the Shaman King Shaman. Shamanism was chosen as the central theme of the story why Takei wanted to explore a topic that had never been addressed before in a manga.
The manga was originally published in Weekly Shonen Jump of Shueisha between 1998 and 2004.
In Japan, Shaman King was a popular series. The original manga has sold about 22 million copies, making the series one of the best selling of all time in Shonen Jump Weekly, while the anime was among the ten most watched of the week several times. Critics of the area has pro…
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It's not very often that I can give a TV series a perfect 10 in every category, but with Shaman King, I can happily do just that. This is not only the greatest anime I've had the pleasure of watching, but also on of the greatest TV shows overall.
Story: 10 - Shaman King has a great plot that is interesting and complex, while not being overly confusing. The main story is about a kid named Manta, a short weakling who meets a boy named Yoh. Yoh is a shaman, a person with the ability to communicate with and channel the powers of ghosts. They have some fun adventures and a lot of great fights, and Manta learns that there will be a shaman fight to decide who will become the Shaman King, other the shaman who can channel the Great Spirit and save the world. It might be a bit cliche, saving the w…
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I think this anime has completely ruined the concept of anime and the enjoyment of anime tbh. After watching this, I'll never watch an anime based off a manga again, bar a select few. If you are interested in this series, then do yourself a solid and read the manga. The anime will give you a false idea of the events that go on in the show when the gang begin their journey to Murica.
Anyway though,
Story:
The story is pretty decent. I didn't dislike it, although I'd say my main problem with the anime is that there is too much story and it sometimes overlaps how much action we get, and its really annoying.
Art:
The art is decent, though the manga has that flair to it that makes it better than the anime tbh. Though art isn't even really that much of a huge factor for me in determining t…
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