 The official website of the new television anime adaptation of Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King manga series revealed staff, cast, a teaser visual (pictured), and a teaser promo on Thursday. The anime series will begin airing on TV Tokyo in April 2021.Staff Director: Jouji Furuta (Nanatsu no Taizai: Imashime no Fukkatsu) Series Composition: Shouji Yonemura (Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu) Character Design: Toshihiko Sano (Fairy Tail: Final Series) Music: Yuuki Hayashi (Boku no Hero Academia) Sound Director: Masafumi Mima (Shingeki no Kyojin) Music Production: King Records Studio: Bridge Cast You Asakura: Yoko Hikasa (Kingdom) Amidamaru: Katsuyuki Konishi (Blood+) Anna Kyouyama: Megumi Hayashibara (FLCL Progressive) Hao Asakura: Minami Takayama (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) Konishi, Hayashibara, and Takayama are returning from the original anime series. The new anime will adapt all 35 complete edition volumes Kodansha began publishing on June 17. The 13th volume went on sale on Thursday. The supernatural adventure manga debuted in Weekly Shounen Jump in 1998 before ending abruptly in 2004 with 32 volumes. Jump SQ. serialized a reprinted edition in 2008–2009, featuring the series' "true ending." Takei drew the Shaman King Zero two-volume prequel from 2011 to 2014, and the Shaman King: Flowers sequel between 2012 and 2014 in Jump X. Xebec produced a 64-episode television anime between Summer 2001 and Fall 2002. 4Kids Entertainment formerly held the anime's license in North America and released an English dub. Funimation released five uncut DVD volumes from 2004–2005. VIZ Media published all 32 volumes of the original manga in English from August 2003 to January 2011. However, the company no longer holds the license for the series. Kodansha acquired the Shaman King trademark from Shueisha in December 2017. Shounen Magazine Edge began serializing Shaman King: The Super Star, the new arc in the manga series, in May 2018. Kodansha published the fourth volume on June 17. Teaser PV Source: Comic Natalie |
VindstotDec 22, 2020 9:05 PM
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| Pretty cool teaser PV, that! Plus, the Staff and Cast look really good as well. Definitely looking forward to this! |
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| The staff is... Well... A staff. I'm VERY afraid of this turning out to be another generic adaptation. Shaman King deserves better. |
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| Yoh voice actress is not the same as the original. I wonder why. |
| The staff is uhhh... interesting? I honestly don't have a clue as this is gonna turn out, but I hope for the best. Shaman king can definitely stand out with a solid adaptation. I wished they would've kept Seiji Mizushima as the director. |
SeasideLuaSep 16, 2020 7:45 PM
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| Great staff and cast, teaser promo also great, i probably give him a chance. |
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Tatsuya500 said: All I ask is for this to not be touched by 4Kids, who ruin everything they touch. 4Kids thankfully died off a long time ago, but what you really need to be worried about instead is Saban Brands. It seems that Saban wants to continue 4Kids's censorship practices with how they treated two anime from the Pretty Cure series. |
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| I remember watching Shaman King as a kid, it'll be nice to see it return. Yuuki Hayashi doing the music? Well now we know that at the very least, the music for this is surely going to be great. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| I remember people saying that the mangaka actually declined a Shaman King remake to happen unless the original voice cast would return to do it. I guess his wishes came true now. |
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| Music will be suck AF, the same guy who did music for Haikyuu and BNA, it will surely be super hype, also the same guy did music for Death Parade and music there was incredible. |
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| Damn, that animation looking clean. Loving Anna's new design and they brought Megumi Hayashibara back to voice her. Very happy with what I'm seeing so far. |
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| damn they did not get the original character designer or chief animation director huh this guy https://myanimelist.net/people/16585/Akio_Takami i prefer his much simple character design that are more easy to draw or animation friendly |
| The pv looks really good, hopefully this will be dope. |
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| Oh... this doesn't look good. Director and studio don't bode well. It has been a very long time since I've read Kanzenban edition but character design feels off. Wouldn't hurt to make Yoh actually sound like a boy. With old shounen anime, when it comes to VA ,it was "I can't believe he's voiced by a woman", not "I can't believe they let a woman voice him"... Way to put a damper on hype with one short teaser. |
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| If only D.Gray-man would have kept the voice actors of its old anime too... |
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| Nice teaser! I quite like the new animation. Shame it´s not Yoh´s old voice actress, though Thanks for the link! Zack312 said: I remember people saying that the mangaka actually declined a Shaman King remake to happen unless the original voice cast would return to do it. I guess his wishes came true now. I was under the impression the author had wanted all of the cast to come back. It seems like it´s only Hao, Anna and Amidamaru returning. That´s pretty disappointing, ngl. + I remember he also wanted the music from the original anime to be used again. That does not seem to be happening, either. |
GottaBangEmAllSep 17, 2020 2:36 AM
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| I don't even care how this turns out. The studio is questionable and the staff sucks. The character designs are done in the mangaka's newer style, but I wish they would have gone with the original look of the character designs. I am glad that they're reprinting the manga in Japan and now I can finally import it, so there's at least something good that's coming out of this. |
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| The animation looks so god damn pretty. The only thing that's kinda bothering me is the VA of Yoh. Now i know that a female doing a male character's voice is not uncommon, but it's just that it doesn't really fit his personality. I honestly think they should've hired a male VA. |
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TheNamelessGuy said: The only thing that's kinda bothering me is the VA of Yoh. Now i know that a female doing a male character's voice is not uncommon, but it's just that it doesn't really fit his personality. I honestly think they should've hired a male VA. Yoh´s voice actor in the original anime was also female, though. |
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| The PV looks nice and the new character design is sweet, I'm really glad they kept most of the main VA the same. |
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| Just a teaser again? Are they kidding lol? |
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GottaBangEmAll said: Well i haven't watched the old anime of Shaman king yet. So i don't know how Yoh's old VA sounds. It would've been fine if VA like Park Romi who knows how to sound like a boy, took the role of it. But Yoko Hisaka haven't really done much male voice acting, and her voice is pretty feminine so i don't think she can live up to our expectation despite her being a really good VA.TheNamelessGuy said: The only thing that's kinda bothering me is the VA of Yoh. Now i know that a female doing a male character's voice is not uncommon, but it's just that it doesn't really fit his personality. I honestly think they should've hired a male VA. Yoh´s voice actor in the original anime was also female, though. |
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TheNamelessGuy said: It would've been fine if VA like Park Romi who knows how to sound like a boy Park Romi was Ren's VA in the original anime :3 As for Yoh's VA, I'm very sad that Satou Yuuko won't be able to voice him again, she had such an iconic voice and did a great job, in my opinion. I don't know what to think about the new VA. |
| Yoko Hikasa is an odd choice for You Asakura as I only knew her voice as female characters. Such as Mio in K-ON! and Diana in Little Witch Academia. It would be interesting to see how she handles this character. The teaser shows she can handle the voice, so maybe she can do it after all. His battle grunts might be a challenge for her though. Gonna miss the original VA for You. |
chaosflame5Sep 17, 2020 6:27 AM
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| Never saw the original because as a kid I thought I wouldn't like it. Guess I will try the OG. Looks like Hitman Reborn a lot to me |
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| The good: Music: Yuuki Hayashi (Boku no Hero Academia) Sound Director: Masafumi Mima (Shingeki no Kyojin) Sound Production: King Records The questionable: Director: Jouji Furuta (Nanatsu no Taizai: Imashime no Fukkatsu) Series Composition: Shouji Yonemura (Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu) The really questionable: Character Design: Toshihiko Sano (Fairy Tail: Final Series) Studio: Bridge Well, at least it will sound good. That's a plus for me. |
| The awesome: Megumi Hayashibara. |
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| I'm wondering why Hikaru Midorikawa isn't coming back as Hao? Katsuyuki and Megumi are coming back for their roles, minus Yoh's original seiyuu which I assume does not do voice acting work anymore, so that's understandable. But Hikaru is still active as heck. I don't see why he'd turn the role down? Unless particular schedules conflicted but I'm unsure :c Just a tad bothered since Hao is my favorite. |
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| Ah yes, looking good! |
Kaymyu said: I'm wondering why Hikaru Midorikawa isn't coming back as Hao? Katsuyuki and Megumi are coming back for their roles, minus Yoh's original seiyuu which I assume does not do voice acting work anymore, so that's understandable. But Hikaru is still active as heck. I don't see why he'd turn the role down? Unless particular schedules conflicted but I'm unsure :c Just a tad bothered since Hao is my favorite. Midorikawa was Hao's VA but only in few scenes when Hao was an older dude, if I remember correctly? I wouldn't say he's definitely not coming back, we just don't know yet. We don't even know what about the other characters' (Ren, Horo-Horo, Ryu etc.) voice actors, so I guess we have to wait for more info. |
Kaymyu said: I'm wondering why Hikaru Midorikawa isn't coming back as Hao? Katsuyuki and Megumi are coming back for their roles, minus Yoh's original seiyuu which I assume does not do voice acting work anymore, so that's understandable. But Hikaru is still active as heck. I don't see why he'd turn the role down? Unless particular schedules conflicted but I'm unsure :c Just a tad bothered since Hao is my favorite. Hikaru Midorikawa was Silva Patch and Hao Patch's (aka Hao's previous incarnation) VA. Minami Takayama is Hao's original VA. |
Eiko_Carol said: Kaymyu said: I'm wondering why Hikaru Midorikawa isn't coming back as Hao? Katsuyuki and Megumi are coming back for their roles, minus Yoh's original seiyuu which I assume does not do voice acting work anymore, so that's understandable. But Hikaru is still active as heck. I don't see why he'd turn the role down? Unless particular schedules conflicted but I'm unsure :c Just a tad bothered since Hao is my favorite. Hikaru Midorikawa was Silva Patch and Hao Patch's (aka Hao's previous incarnation) VA. Minami Takayama is Hao's original VA. I see. It's been literally over a decade since I watched when I was little so I probably forgot what he sounded like and got confused. |
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| Wow, the PV looked pretty good but I hope Studio Bridge being in charge won’t be a bad sign for this reboot. |
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| I'm so excited for this. People who only watched the original show have no idea how good stuff gets later. |
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| Like the promotional video, looks fine. Will be better if the studio was NUT or Ufotable, but this is what we have. Bridge = Fairy Tail, Saint Seiya Soul of Gold, Devil Summoner 2. Anna and Hao have the original voice that is sweet. I finish for first time to watch this month, shaman king 1080p in audio japanese and spanish subtitles. It was a really enjoyable trip, only get a little wracked knowing that Ryu is bisexual (his 2 friends,Billy, Lyserg, Yoh) and pedofile (Milly of Lilis Five), but is one of the best characters leaving that aside. (I watched a lot of time in spanish lationamerican in normal resolution DVD) Is one of my favorites animes along with Orphen (that have 2 new seasons this years, waiting for season two, is only good because have a super low cheapest budget to do it) The special was ah good adition, and the 3er recap with Ponchi insulting specially to Anna saying it conceited bitch... have no price lol. That recap have and easter egg for the final song of the movie Leon the profesional "In the shape of love" amazing, and have 2 mini amvs in the last part, one for the lilis five, and one in general. It's the first shonen anime that no one of the main characters die, only some subordinates of Hao and Jeanne. The really main characters are Anna and Manta, then Yoh ("I", "You"), Len ("Ren"), appear a little, Hao,Jeane, Lyserg only are there for you to know that a "Final Boss" exist, and appear almost never (except Hao to throw a few sentences, must from time to time). Horohoro, Fausto, Silver, Father of Yoh, Family of Yoh, they are like the backstage. The manga takes "3 new arcs" mostly and much more gore and deads, it will be much better if they skip the new stuff of the Soldiers X if you know what i mean. |
Henceforth_WhiteSep 20, 2020 4:24 PM
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| The design is pretty good tbh. But the staff is had me worried. Hikasa being the MC is weird choice tho |
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| Dude that is nuts, I just watched the original show. They announced this like a week after I just finished it hahah. Well, cool! It's a really tight show! |
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| Great news! I have fond memories watching the first series on TV back in the day. I'll definitely keep an eye out for this one. |
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| ngl kinda hyped up for this, teaser is looking cool |
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