FIRST PRINTINGMANGA.
Shaman King — Japanese volume 1 cover
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.

GENRES / CURATORIAL TAGSAction · Supernatural

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