The gathering has begun--the gathering for Shaman Fight in Tokyo, the match to determine the one shaman who can commune with the Great Spirit and become the Shaman King. Injured after his fight with rival shaman Ren, 13-year-old Yoh wakes up in a hospital bed to meet his fiance, Anna Ky¡oyama, whom his family paired him up with in an arranged marriage! Of course, Anna is a shaman too... and they'll need both their skills when Yoh is attacked by an...

Yoh Asakura is a shaman and one of the gifted few who, thanks to training or natural talent, can channel spirits that most people cannot even see. With the help of his fiancee, Anna, Yoh is in training for the ultimate shaman sports event, the Shaman Fight in Tokyo, the once every 500 years tournament to see who can shape the future ofhumanity and become the Shaman King. But unfortunately for Yoh, every shaman in the world is competing for the same...

As his second Shaman Fight comes to an end, Yoh uses a last-ditch strategy--and his last mana--against Faust's army of skeletons. Recovering from his wounds in the hospital, Manta becomes separated from Yoh and makes a fateful decision to travel to Yoh's faraway home in Izumo, Japan--by motorcycle--with "Wooden Sword" Ryu for company. As Manta and Ryu travel across Japan, Yoh undergoes his own journey, descending into a pitch-black cave in search...

Yoh, a shaman, meaning he has the ability to channel spirits, is training to complete in the "Shaman Fight in Tokyo," a tournament held every five hundred years to see who will become the Shaman King and shape humanity's future.

Yoh, a shaman, meaning he has the ability to channel spirits, is training to compete in the "Shaman Fight in Tokyo," a tournament held every 500 years to see who will become the Shaman King and shape humanity's future.