
JAPANESE EDITION / VOLUME 01
Shaman King
Hiroyuki Takei / 1998
BEFORE THE COLLECTION, THE STORY
What’s the story?
Manta discovers that his new classmate Yoh Asakura can communicate with spirits. Beneath Yoh’s relaxed manner lies a shaman who can fight alongside the dead. His encounter with the samurai Amidamaru begins a journey of friendships, rivalries and demanding trials on the path towards becoming the Shaman King.
THE BOOK AT A GLANCE
The starting point.
Photographs of the documented copies; each listing is credited below. Zoom opens the original photograph.
First printing · colophon
1998年12月8日 第1刷発行
- Author / creators
- Hiroyuki Takei
- Publisher
- Shueisha
- Imprint
- Jump Comics
- ISBN printed in the book
- 4-08-872644-8
- Equivalent ISBN-13
- 9784088726441
- Printed price
- ¥410 · tax included
- First-print obi
- Without obi
- Original title
- シャーマンキング
- Format / pages
- Shinshoban · 205 pages
Original 1998 Shueisha edition, distinct from the 2020 Kodansha edition. The photographed colophon records 8 December 1998.



