A lazy stoner kid talks to ghosts and accidentally becomes humanity's next messiah. Typical Tuesday.
10.021 minSeason 1 • Episode 64
LatestHao's, whose power is born of his invincibility alone, and Yoh's, whose power is given to him by his friends and companions, face off for the last time.
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.
Acting
Megumi Hayashibara's Anna is perfection
Score
That OP still slaps two decades later
Writing
Rushed ending but peak tournament arcs
Inuko Inuyama
Manta Oyamada
Katsuyuki Konishi
Amidamaru / Luchist Lasso / Blamuro
Masahiko Tanaka
Rio, Turbine
Megumi Hayashibara
Anna Kyōyama / Opacho
Romi Park
Ren Tao
Takehito Koyasu
Faust VIII
Yoko Soumi
Lyserg
Yuji Ueda
Horohoro
Hikaru Midorikawa
Silva / Patch Hao
Minami Takayama
Hao Asakura
Reiko Suzuki
Goldva
Rumi Ochiai
Sharona
Shinpachi Tsuji
Bason
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 2001 anime outpaced the manga and invented its own ending, which Hiroyuki Takei hated so much he refused to let the studio use his ending music.
The patchwork approach to global indigenous spiritual practices—Ainu, Native American, African shamanism—reflects both 90s manga's cosmopolitan ambition and its clumsy exoticism.
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