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SHAMAN KING
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Yoko Hikasa
Yoh Asakura (voice)
52 eps
Katsuyuki Konishi
Amidamaru (voice)
52 eps
Minami Takayama
Hao (voice)
52 eps
Megumi Hayashibara
Anna Kyoyama (voice)
52 eps
Inuko Inuyama
Manta Oyamada (voice)
52 eps
Romi Park
Tao Ren (voice)
52 eps
Kosuke Takaguchi
Bason (voice)
52 eps
Masahiko Tanaka
Ryunosuke Umemiya (voice)
52 eps
Wataru Takagi
Tokagerō (voice)
52 eps
Yuji Ueda
Horohoro (voice)
52 eps
Megumi Nakajima
Kororo (voice)
52 eps
Michiko Neya
Tao Jun (voice)
52 eps
Toru Sakurai
Lee Pailong (voice)
52 eps
Nana Mizuki
Tamao Tamamura (voice)
52 eps
Takumu Miyazono
Ponchi (voice)
52 eps
Noriaki Kanze
Konchi (voice)
52 eps
Takehito Koyasu
Faust VIII (voice)
52 eps
Rina Hidaka
Pirika (voice)
52 eps
Masakazu Morita
Amidamaru (voice)
52 eps
Motoko Kumai
Joco McDonnell (Chocolove) (voice)
52 eps
Yoko Soumi
Lyserg Diethel (voice)
52 eps
Yui Horie
Jeanne (voice)
52 eps
Yuichi Nakamura
Marco (voice)
52 eps
Hikaru Midorikawa
Silva (voice)
52 eps
Eiji Hanawa
Kalim (voice)
52 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How SHAMAN KING actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
SHAMAN KING reads strongest on Spectacle, World Building and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
Medium Yoh Asakura enters a battle tournament held every 500 years, competing with other shamans in a bid to become the all-powerful Shaman King.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
The Boy Who Dances with Ghosts
Shaman Yoh Asakura offers to help his new classmate Manta face a notorious thug with the aid of a legendary samurai spirit.
- Directed by Naoto Hashimoto
- Written by Shouji Yonemura
S01E02
Another Shaman
Yoh and Manta encounter the shaman Ren, who shows no mercy when fighting a punk. Furious at Ren's misuse of his powers, Yoh faces him in battle.
- Directed by Yoshitsugu Kimura
- Written by Shouji Yonemura
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E52
Shaman King: God End
S01E51
Last Test: Shaman Fight
S01E50
Falling Damko
S01E49
Good Night
S01E48
All the Way
S01E47
Plants
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Akiko Yada
Executive producer
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Shin Furukawa
Executive producer
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Natsue Masuda
Executive producer
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Akiko Nabeiwa
Executive producer
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Yohei Takami
Executive producer
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Hayato Saga
Executive producer
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Go Nakanishi
Executive producer
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Rei Marumo
Executive producer
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Masahiro Hibi
Executive producer
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Shouji Yonemura
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Akiko YadaExecutive Producer
- Shin FurukawaExecutive Producer
- Natsue MasudaExecutive Producer
- Akiko NabeiwaExecutive Producer
- Yohei TakamiExecutive Producer
- Hayato SagaExecutive Producer
Writing
- Shouji YonemuraWriter
Direction
- Naoto HashimotoDirector
- Yoshitsugu KimuraDirector
- Rokou OgiwaraDirector
Cinematography
- Teruyuki KawaseDirector of Photography
Music
- Yuki HayashiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- NetflixStreaming
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