Series synopsis
SHAMAN KING is a Japanese animation comedy sci-fi & fantasy action & adventure television series that premiered on TV Tokyo on April 1, 2021. It ended on April 21, 2022. It stars Yoko Hikasa, Katsuyuki Konishi, Minami Takayama and Megumi Hayashibara.
Asakura Yoh is a shaman, a person who communicates with ghosts. He enters the Shaman Fight, for whoever wins the tournament gets to commune with the Great Spirit, God... that and his fiance Anna wants to be the wife of the Shaman King. Helping him are his friends Manta, Horo Horo, Ryu, and his samurai ghost partner, Amidamaru.
Premise
Asakura Yoh is a shaman, a person who communicates with ghosts. He enters the Shaman Fight, for whoever wins the tournament gets to commune with the Great Spirit, God... that and his fiance Anna wants to be the wife of the Shaman King. Helping him are his friends Manta, Horo Horo, Ryu, and his samurai ghost partner, Amidamaru.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Yoko Hikasa as Yoh Asakura (voice)
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Amidamaru (voice)
- Minami Takayama as Hao (voice)
- Megumi Hayashibara as Anna Kyoyama (voice)
- Inuko Inuyama as Manta Oyamada (voice)
- Romi Park as Tao Ren (voice)
- Kosuke Takaguchi as Bason (voice)
- Masahiko Tanaka as Ryunosuke Umemiya (voice)
Supporting cast
- Wataru Takagi as Tokagerō (voice)
- Yuji Ueda as Horohoro (voice)
- Megumi Nakajima as Kororo (voice)
- Michiko Neya as Tao Jun (voice)
- Toru Sakurai as Lee Pailong (voice)
- Nana Mizuki as Tamao Tamamura (voice)
- Takumu Miyazono as Ponchi (voice)
- Noriaki Kanze as Konchi (voice)
- Takehito Koyasu as Faust VIII (voice)
- Rina Hidaka as Pirika (voice)
- Masakazu Morita as Amidamaru (voice)
- Motoko Kumai as Joco McDonnell (Chocolove) (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 62 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 10 | August 2, 2021 | August 11, 2021 |
| Season 1 | 52 | April 1, 2021 | April 21, 2022 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Funbari Onsen Hanjouki #1 | August 2, 2021 |
| 2 | Funbari Onsen Hanjouki #2 | August 3, 2021 |
| 3 | Funbari Onsen Hanjouki #3 | August 4, 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Boy Who Dances with Ghosts Shaman Yoh Asakura offers to help his new classmate Manta face a notorious thug with the aid of a legendary samurai spirit. |
April 1, 2021 |
| 2 |
Another Shaman Yoh and Manta encounter the shaman Ren, who shows no mercy when fighting a punk. Furious at Ren's misuse of his powers, Yoh faces him in battle. |
April 8, 2021 |
| 3 |
Anna and Tao Jun Anna tells Yoh about the new tournament to crown the next Shaman King. Ren's sister Jun challenges Yoh to a battle, with Amidamaru as the prize. |
April 15, 2021 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | TV Tokyo |
|---|---|
| First aired | April 1, 2021 |
| Last aired | April 21, 2022 |
| Runtime | 23 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Thursday at 17:55:00 |