If you are a fan old retro 2000’s anime pretty sure you have heard of “Shaman King”. Shaman king is one of most elite old retro anime, with a reboot on its way it surely was big back then as well. All of the 90’s kid had one thing in common and that was getting done with homework earlier so that could watch the latest episode of “Sharman king”.
Good old days, so without further ado we’ll be diving into a complete break down of the anime today, so make sure to stay till the very end.

4kids entertainment obtained the official rights to broadcast Shaman king, and on 6 September 6, 2003, it was first premiered on Fox box. Its last episode came on 25 2002 on Tv Tokyo in Japan.

Now we all know how bad 4kid did to One Piece. Made all of the epic moments of Roronoa Zoro and Monkey d Luffy fall right into the cringe realm. 4kids is probably the primary reason why One Piece never took off in North America, and you can't even admit to liking the dub version without sounding like a complete normie and cringe enthusiast who enjoys some super dumb kiddie cartoon.
But surprisingly, they did a pretty good job with Shaman king Dub. Some people prefer the English dub version over the original, and if people do that, we all know how good a dub it would be.

When the first episode of the shaman king was released, Manga had already covered 134 (300 total) chapters, which is not even half of the total. The anime creators should have waited for the manga to finish but well they just didn’t.
The manga was written by Hiroyuki Takei and was published in Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine. The original run of the manga is from June 30, 1998- August 30,2004. The manga is a big hit in Japan and as of 2021 it already has sold over 38 million copies and the manga managed to get in top 10 manga ever created.
The problem with this was that there wasn’t a proper tone set in Manga for the Anime to follow. So, the anime creators had to create their setting, own technique, and theme of the show, which well they weren't able to do quite well.
When the Anime ended, the Manga was only on the Osorezan arc, which is halfway through.
So, it’s just natural that anime had few fillers. Yes I know you are thinking about full metal alchemist in your head, and truth be told the anime creators it’s a similar situation. It just we got a reboot of FMA with less waiting, we had to wait 20 years for Sharman king reboot.

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