The official website of the new television anime adaptation of Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King manga series revealed staff, cast, a teaser visual (pictured), and a teaser promo on Thursday. The anime series will begin airing on TV Tokyo in April 2021.
Staff
Director: Jouji Furuta (Nanatsu no Taizai: Imashime no Fukkatsu)
Series Composition: Shouji Yonemura (Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu)
Character Design: Toshihiko Sano (Fairy Tail: Final Series)
Music: Yuuki Hayashi (Boku no Hero Academia)
Sound Director: Masafumi Mima (Shingeki no Kyojin)
Music Production: King Records
Studio: Bridge
Cast
You Asakura: Yoko Hikasa (Kingdom)
Amidamaru: Katsuyuki Konishi (Blood+)
Anna Kyouyama: Megumi Hayashibara (FLCL Progressive)
Hao Asakura: Minami Takayama (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
Konishi, Hayashibara, and Takayama are returning from the original anime series. The new anime will adapt all 35 complete edition volumes Kodansha began publishing on June 17. The 13th volume went on sale on Thursday.
The supernatural adventure manga debuted in Weekly Shounen Jump in 1998 before ending abruptly in 2004 with 32 volumes. Jump SQ. serialized a reprinted edition in 2008–2009, featuring the series' "true ending." Takei drew the Shaman King Zero two-volume prequel from 2011 to 2014, and the Shaman King: Flowers sequel between 2012 and 2014 in Jump X.
Xebec produced a 64-episode television anime between Summer 2001 and Fall 2002. 4Kids Entertainment formerly held the anime's license in North America and released an English dub. Funimation released five uncut DVD volumes from 2004–2005.
VIZ Media published all 32 volumes of the original manga in English from August 2003 to January 2011. However, the company no longer holds the license for the series. Kodansha acquired the Shaman King trademark from Shueisha in December 2017.
Shounen Magazine Edge began serializing Shaman King: The Super Star, the new arc in the manga series, in May 2018. Kodansha published the fourth volume on June 17.
Teaser PV
Source: Comic Natalie
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