4.5/10
Summary
Shaman King is about a young shaman named Yoh who is participating in the upcoming Shaman Fight. The winner of the Shaman fight will obtain the all-powerful Great Spirit as their ally and will subsequently become omnipotent.
Yoh and many of the other participating shamans are working hard not only to increase the chances of themselves winning but also so they can defeat Hao, the very powerful shaman who has vowed to use the Great Spirit to rid the world of all humans if he wins.
Upsides
Character design is probably the biggest upside to this manga. Seeing the shamans train and battle is also an interesting dynamic.
Downsides
The writing in Shaman King is disinteresting at times the fact that the story drags on for way too long does in no way help put a bandage on the mediocre writing. After such a long manga one would expect to have a very entertaining ending but that is definitely not the case. The ending is as anticlimactic an ending as you will ever see.
The art is very unorthodox at times can be irritating, but for the most part it doesn’t interfere with the story.
The story also lacks seriousness in the way that pretty much every enemy Yoh faces ends up becoming good and joining Yoh’s team.
