History Manga / ShamanKing

* WaterTowerDown: Happens early on in the series- Yoh rushes into a burning building to save the children trapped inside, and manages to crack open the water tower on the roof with nothing more than a length of stairway banister thanks to Amidamaru's swordsman skills.

* OffModel:
** The 2001 anime occasionally had this too, but not much worse than the manga. Plus, this was animation during the 2000s, so it's kind of expected. One example is Ren's back tattoo disappearing in a few scenes, even when focusing on his tattoo a few moments back.
** Happened occasionally in the very early chapters. Yoh had huge feet and hands, (and a long bang of hair that disappeared after like 3 volumes), Ren's hair was very jagged then he goes away for a while and when he comes back into the series his hair is much more rounded and smooth. Manta had tiny feet, Anna had a big forehead, etc. Also, compare the diagram of Shaman Fight contestants in Chapter 78 with the updated version of the same people in Chapter 208 and see an incredible difference. It was so noticeable that the updated re-release in 2020 included a ton of art updates to fix most of them.
** An example that was induced by the [[{{Bowdlerise}} Bowdlerisation]] of the English manga: To avoid accusations of racism, they readjusted Chocolove's face so he didn't have big lips anymore. Sounds fair, but when you see the edited manga, you'll notice how ''weird'' his face looks without them. His face just ends up stretching and contorting in ways that range from odd to downright disgusting.

** During the Plant invasion, after beating Kalim, Kororo can be seen lovingly hugging Horo Horo's head for the entire duration of the following fight, emanating hearts. This was immediately after Horo Horo found out [[spoiler: Kororo was actually the spirit of the girl he had a crush on as a kid reborn as a Korupokkuru, which sent him into a slight HeroicBsod from which he snaps out a few chapters later.]]

** Also in the epilogue, [[spoiler: Ren has a son. He refuses to tell who the mother is, but Lyserg points out that the boy has silver hair and red eyes, implying that it's probably Iron Maiden Jeanne.]]

Its first anime adaptation, which was animated by Creator/{{Xebec}} and spans 64 episodes aired from July 4, 2001 to September 25, 2002 on TV Tokyo, was one of the many series dubbed into English by [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]]. The Spanish and Latin Americans also got a translation, and had the Japanese original dubbed in Spanish with only a bit of CulturalTranslation and pretty decent casts. Both the [=4Kids=] dub and a local language dub were shown in the Philippines, leading to inevitable comparisons and some confusion.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The heroes CantCatchUp to Hao in terms of power, and as a result Hao becomes the Shaman King. Before he can go through his genocidal plan, ThePowerOfLove kicks in and every single character in the series, good and bad, travel to the spirit world to confront Hao and argue that humanity is fundamentally good. After receiving an ArmorPiercingSlap from his mother and being given a stern talking to by everyone, Hao resolves to not kill humanity... ''right away'', stating that he will resume his plans if humans fail to change their corrupt ways. The series epilogue ends on a WhereAreTheyNow section, showing how Team Yoh has grown and changed over the years. Unfortunately, Yoh and his friends are just six guys in a world of millions and can't hope to change a thing, though the series implies that Yoh's son, Hana, symbolizes the hope that the next generation will be better and can fix the world. The series closes out with Hao looking over the human world and smiling faintly, implying that he too has hope that humanity will change for the better.]]

* BladeOnAStick: Ren's WeaponOfChoice is a Chinese kwan-dao that he stores in segments in his suitcase when not fighting. How strong is it? In his first appearance, he used it (''just'' it, Over Souls were unknown at the time) to slice a ''car'' cleanly in two.

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** Faust. [[spoiler: He became nuts after his ex-IllGirl wife Eliza was shot to death ''[[DiabolusExMachina a few months after he found the cure to her illness]]''.]]

%%* IllGirl: Eliza's backstory.

** This is taken UpToEleven: in Hao's case, as Yoh eventually reveals that Hao has endured 900 YEARS of Hell training, as opposed to their one day.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Creator/MegumiHayashibara Let there be light. Revive a soul.]]'']]

Its anime adaptation, which was animated by Creator/{{Xebec}} and spans 64 episodes aired from July 4, 2001 to September 25, 2002 on TV Tokyo, was one of the many series dubbed into English by [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]]. The Spanish and Latin Americans also got a translation, and had the Japanese original dubbed in Spanish with only a bit of CulturalTranslation and pretty decent casts. Both the [=4Kids=] dub and a local language dub were shown in the Philippines, leading to inevitable comparisons and some confusion.

A new anime adaptation produced by Creator/{{Bridge}} premiered on April 1, 2021 on TV Tokyo, and it consists of 52 episodes. The series streamed in Japan same-day on Creator/{{Netflix}}, while Creator/{{Hulu}} and Website/NicoNicoDouga made it available the following week. Netflix also streamed the series worldwide beginning on August 9.

** While the Shamans themselves can take on gun-toting opponents with no problems (such as Team Yoh engaging some Tao Clan Jiangshi's armed with assault rifles and LMG's, Orona easily evades Joco, then a hardcore gangster, shooting at him and defeats the latter in a fight, and Kororo blocks a rifle shot from a poacher aimed at Horohoro by encasing part of his body with ice), they are still regular people and as such, are still vulnerable to firearms (Tao Ching, the Tao Clan's grandfather and a skilled gunslinger himself, simply stops Tao Yuan by aiming a gun at him and the latter complies out of respect, and [[spoiler:Tamurazaki Midori one shots Turbine with a handgun while the latter was distracted at attacking Peyote, who beforehand killed Hang Zang-Ching, and stalls Hana-Gumi with a gatling-gun, enough for Peyote to pin and suicide bomb them]]).

** While the Shamans themselves can take on gun-toting opponents with no problems (such as Team Yoh engaging some Tao Clan Jiangshi's armed with assault rifles and LMG's, Orona easily evades Joco, then a hardcore gangster, shooting at him and defeats the latter in a fight, and Kororo blocks a rifle shot from a poacher aimed at Horohoro by encasing part of his body with ice), they are still regular people and as such, are still vulnerable to firearms (the Tao Clan's grandfather, being a skilled gunslinger himself, simply stops Tao Yuan by aiming a gun at him and the latter complies out of respect, and [[spoiler:Tamurazaki Midori one shots Turbine with a handgun while the latter was distracted at attacking Peyote, who beforehand killed Hang Zang-Ching, and stalls Hana-Gumi with a gatling-gun, enough for Peyote to pin and suicide bomb them]]).

** While the Shamans themselves can take on gun-toting opponents with no problems (such as Team Yoh engaging some Tao Clan Jiangshi's armed with assault rifles and LMG's, Orona easily evades Joco, then a hardcore gangster, shooting at him and defeats the latter in a fight, and Kororo blocks a rifle shot from a poacher aimed at Horohoro by encasing part of his body with ice), they are still regular people and as such, are still vulnerable to firearms (the Tao Clan's grandfather, being a skilled assassin himself, simply stops En Tao by aiming a gun at him and the latter complies out of respect, and [[spoiler:Tamurazaki Midori one shots Turbine with a handgun while the latter was distracted at attacking Peyote, who beforehand killed Hang Zang-Ching, and stalls Hana-Gumi with a gatling-gun, enough for Peyote to pin and suicide bomb them]]).

** While the Shamans themselves can take on gun-toting opponents with no problems (such as Team Yoh engaging some Tao Clan Jiangshi's armed with assault rifles and LMG's, Orona easily evades Joco, then a hardcore gangster, shooting at him and easily defeats the latter, and Kororo blocks a rifle shot from a poacher aimed at Horohoro by encasing part of his body with ice), they are still regular people and as such, are still vulnerable to firearms (the Tao Clan's grandfather, being a skilled assassin himself, simply stops En Tao by aiming a gun at him and the latter complies out of respect, and [[spoiler:Tamurazaki Midori one shots Turbine with a handgun while the latter was distracted at attacking Peyote, who beforehand killed Hang Zang-Ching, and stalls Hana-Gumi with a gatling-gun, enough for Peyote to pin and suicide bomb them]]).

** While the Shamans themselves can take on gun-toting opponents with no problems (i.e. engaging a Jiangshi armed with assault rifles and LMG's, Orona easily evades Joco, then a hardcore gangster, shooting at him and easily defeats the latter, and Kororo blocks a rifle shot from a poacher aimed at Horohoro by encasing part of his body with ice), they are still regular people and as such, are still vulnerable to firearms (the Tao Clan's grandfather, being a skilled assassin himself, simply stops En Tao by aiming a gun at him and the latter complies out of respect, and [[spoiler:Tamurazaki Midori one shots Turbine while the latter was distracted at attacking Peyote, who beforehand killed Hang Zang-Ching, and stalls Hana-Gumi with a gatling gun, enough for Peyote to suicide bomb them).]]

** The Shamans themselves are still regular people no matter how powerful their spiritual powers and guardians are, which means they are still vulnerable to firearms. This is shown when the main characters are stopped from fighting En Tao by just a gun pointed at them and when [[spoiler: Tamurazaki Midori, a normal human, ambushes and kills some of Hao's minions with just a submachine gun, albeit with Peyote's help.]]

* PowersViaPossession: Characters gaining power through being possessed by spirits consist the entire premise, after all.

* NobleSavage: Subverted with the Native American Patch tribe, who have "traditional native hand-crafted" versions of high-tech consumer electronics and are shamelessly merchandising the Shaman Fight for money. The "hand-crafted" part [[spoiler:is probably true, as implied in the last few chapters]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[GratuitousEnglish "Let there be light! Revive a soul!!"]]]]

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Due to the tournament style of the Shaman Fights, many characters are introduced starting from the Journey to America arc. It has about 50 (or more) characters that appear constantly in manga, almost every one of them receiving a fair share of attention.