The X (formerly Twitter) account for Kodansha's Magazine Pocket service announced on Saturday that Shaman King The Super Star, a new installment of Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King manga, will begin new serialization on the platform on August 24.
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© Hiroyuki Takei, Kodansha
Takei launched the manga in Shonen Magazine Edge in May 2018, after publishing the first three chapters. The manga has been published irregularly and has been on hiatus several times. When Shonen Magazine Edge ends publication in October 2023, Kodansha said the manga will continue to be published on the Magazine Pocket service. Previous chapters of the magazine are available on Magazine Pocket.
Kodansha released the manga's eighth volume in Japan in December 2023.
Viz Media previously published the original Shaman King manga in English, and Kodansha USA later released the manga digitally in October 2020. Kodansha USA is also releasing Shaman King The Super Star digitally in English, and describes the series:
Can't get enough of SHAMAN KING goodness? Then hitch a ride with Alumi, Death Zero and other SHAMAN KING favorites in this action-packed spin-off, SHAMAN KING: THE SUPER STAR!
Kodansha USA published the eighth volume on June 4.
Shaman King debuted in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1998. The series abruptly ended in 2004, although a reprint of the manga revealed a “true ending” in 2009. Takei drew a short story series titled Shaman King 0 in Shueisha's Jump X magazine starting in November 2011 and published a sequel series titled Shaman King Flowers in the same magazine from 2012 to 2014.
The first anime adaptation of the main manga premiered in 2001. A new Shaman King anime premiered in April 2021. Netflix began streaming the anime worldwide in August 2022. The anime ended with 52 episodes. The anime adapted all 35 volumes of a new complete version of the original manga that Kodansha began publishing in print in Japan in June 2020.
The Shaman King Flowers anime premiered on January 9 and debuted on Netflix on April 21.
Source: Magazine Pocket's X/Twitter account
