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Yoh Asakura
is a fictional character and protagonist of the manga series ''Shaman King'' created by Hiroyuki Takei. Yoh is a shaman with a lazy demeanor who is accompanied by a six-hundred-year-old samurai ghost, Amidamaru. When first introduced, Yoh appears as a young teenager who wishes to become the "Shaman King", the world's ruler, in an attempt to grant his own wish of living a peaceful life. However, as he befriends more people in the shaman fighting tournament to become the Shaman King, it is revealed Yoh has a twin brother named Hao Asakura whom he wishes to redeem. Yoh also appears in the prequel ''Shaman King Zero'' and in the sequel ''Shaman King Flowers'', with the former being a story about his childhood and the latter being demoting him to cameo appearances as he travels around the world as his son, Hana, takes the leading role. In the first series, his Japanese voice actress is Yūko Satō, and his English dub voice is provided by Sebastian Arcelus. In the second anime adap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaman King
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei. It follows the adventures of Yoh Asakura as he attempts to hone his shaman skills to become the Shaman King by winning the Shaman Fight. Takei chose shamanism as the main theme of the series because he wanted a topic that had never been attempted before in manga. The ''Shaman King'' manga was originally serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' between June 1998 and August 2004. The individual chapters were collected and released in 32 volumes. In 2017, Kodansha acquired the rights to the series and re-launched it on 35 e-book volumes in 2018, also published in print from 2020 to 2021. A 64-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by Nihon Ad Systems, NAS and Xebec (studio), Xebec, aired on TV Tokyo from July 2001 to September 2002. A 52-episode anime television series remake adaptation was produced by Bridge (studio), Bridge, and aired on TV Tokyo and other channels from April 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weekly Shōnen Jump
is a weekly Shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the ''Jump (magazine line), Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many Action (fiction), action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. Chapters of the series that run in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' are collected and published in volumes under the ''Jump Comics'' imprint (trade name), imprint every two to three months. It is one of the longest-running manga magazines, with the first issue being released with a cover date of August 1, 1968. The magazine has sold over #Circulation figures, 7.5billion copies since 1968, making it the List of best-selling comic series, best-selling comic/List of Japanese manga magazines by circulation, manga magazine, ahead of competitors such as ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' and ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday''. The mid-1980s to the mid-1990s represents the era when the magazine's circulation was at its highest, 6.53million copies per w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |