Shaman King

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Name: Shaman King シャーマンキング

Status: Completed
Episode: 64
Release date (for eng sub): -


Summary: 

Shamans are humans that are able to see spirits and are able to use them to fight. Once every 500 years, a Shaman fight is held in order to determine the strongest, known as the Shaman king. The shaman king would then be granted strong power from the great spirits, the one who controls the whole shaman fight. 

However, Asakura Hao, a priests from 500 years ago who had everything, is reborn in order to become the shaman king. At the same time, his twin, Asakura Yoh, is also aiming to become the shaman king to lead an easy and carefree lifestyle. 

When Yoh came to know of Hao's existence, it was his job to defeat Hao and stop him from destroying man-kind. On his journey during the shaman fight, he meets and found good friends who also decides to help Yoh in defeating Hao.

Summary by: AngelaAgness



Personal Ratings: 3.5

The first part of shaman king maybe a bit dry and lack in action, but as the story progresses, and the fight begin, it really has a lot of action. Super interesting. Really liked how each character played a part at the end of the anime. There are not much skills in which the character uses, which makes the viewers more concentrated on the way they fight, instead of the type of skills they use. Personally, i don't really like it when they give to many skills to each person, that way, its hard to remember. Instead, the anime really concentrates on displaying their strategies and fighting style, and each main character has one or two skills which is easy to remember due to the unique form.

However, the reason why I did not give it a higher rating is because of the ending. I really hate endings that does not give you a conclusion. It just stopped at the Orcale Bell ringing. Which really made me want to know more about what happens next, but unfortunately, there does not seem to be a second season.

Also another thing was that I really thought they should show a bit about Hao form the beginning because the main purpose of the whole story is about defeating Hao, but there was totally no mention about him in the beginning and then he just suddenly pops out of no where.

Art Rating: 2.5
Well no very nice, but because its a old anime, the drawing and animation may not be as refine as the animes now. However, i still like the unique drawing.


Recommended for:
Gender: Male & Female
Age: 12 and above
My Ratings: PG