Yep.

I wanted to sing the old song

A lot of people have mentioned it

Agreed

@@thedamntrain is the reboot still worth getting into? I’ve been a massive fan of the original and didn’t pick up the Netflix reboot since Iwas scared they butchered my favorite anime .

@@thedamntrain welp gives me an excuse to at least collect the rest of the manga and a physical of the original anime haha

100% agreed

I don't support Netflix after last year, but if they put it on a different streaming site, I'll definitely watch it. I've seen some fights and clips not from the original anime and I'm interested.

I never watched is it really good?

Dang 13 episodes in one day!

@@thedigiknow dude Ive been excited for this since I heard about it

@@thedigiknow Pro tip, they had the English dub on Japan Netflix for quite awhile. And all the subs up to 13. They've got the same thing with Eden's Zero. Which will definitely be a must watch as well. The English dub isn't fully finished for Eden, but a good chunk is done.

Does the animation get better bro?? It's so still and choppy and horrible rite now the art style is good and I like the character designs but the fluidity of movement and fights is abhorrent and its hard to watch.

@@captainyasopp154 they wanted to follow the artstyle of the manga and from what I heard pretty fast read but other manga don't pace themselves like the anime and the anime adds more to the scenes

That’s cap the show is trash

So as someone who came up watching The Original on 4Kids what episode should I start with when it comes to the Adaptation ? And please don't say 1 lol

Woo! Yeah I thought I forgot everything but then watching the first 4 episodes I had this serious déjà vu, it was actually kind of cool!

Yeah

What do you like about it? In detail if you can describe it i would appreciate it.

@@kocetociparov1089 I love Shaman King. Started with the 2001 4kids anime and read all the manga. I've been waiting for this reboot for over a year, since it was first released in Japan. This reboot is very disappointing as a fan. I don't mind the new characters designs, but the show doesn't even qualify to be called "animated" in my opinion. It's like watching a powerpoint slideshow.

@@redwraith15 I agree 100%. But i am still going to watch it because even a trash shaman king is better then no shaman king. I just wish they kept Yoh and Hao s eng Va in the dub.

@@kocetociparov1089 It's not trash. They rushed first 12 episodes because they're same as the old one. Animation gets better after episode 12, pacing as well. I don't mind fast start. We're on episode 18 already, it's awesome. Dont get wrong picture about this anime. You'll be amazed. Everything gets better with each episode.

@@asakurahao Nope i still don't see it. I mean sure it has its moments. But this anime turned for me like one of those anime that you just watch to see how are they going to ruin this moment or that one. I went and watched ep 25 of the old anime and i immediately recognized what the new one was missing. Ep 25 is a whole ep dedicated to the characters hanging out saying their final goodbye to the place they live because they are going to dobi village for the second part of the tournament. In the 2021 anime we skip all of that character development and we just jump cut all of that. The whole anime is just jumping from place to place without any meaningful characterization in the middle to make the story more believable.

Happy to hear it!!

Over Soul playing was a fantastic choice. I never would‘be thought about that being something they should do. I hope later in the series they play Soul Salvation, like during the final battle against Hao.

I did remember seeing the 2001 and it was alright but the animation quality was meh

Yeah agree, some scenes are better animated and some others needed more attention. The best would be to have blu ray release with improved animation to make it a top anime but I doubt this will happen. However I love the anime, every other piece has been worked pretty well.

@@PizzaReadsPoetry to be fair, the fights not included in the OG anime was pretty amazing. Liked the build up and the animations were quite awesome ! Hope they get a better budget for the season 2 !

@@yashvedhkanhye2576 yeah there are some good fights (Hao vs X-Laws) and some not so good (like Yoh vs Icemen). Some ppl liked Yoh vs Icemen but I found it kinda repetitive. Also Ren vs Mikisha is such a good fight ngl but it's included on s3 ig.

It’s so good. Too bad it couldn’t come back in 2021 but I know that the days of english openings are kind of over

Admittedly the English openings were rarely as good or better than the Japanese ones, but man there were some rare earworm gems in there.

Yeah I know

Nice!

Think Pokemon Journeys 13 episodes every 3 - 4 months

Agreed

Yeah I agree

I agree that if you are not familiar with the old show or read the manga, the pacing is too fast and doesn't allow you to really connect to the characters except on a superficial level: Yoh=hippie, Ren=jerk, Manta=spaz etc, but i still enjoy the netflix adaptation because i know the story, i read the manga and watched the old show, and i just want to see the fights 😆. This reboot is certainly not perfect, but i think i will find its audience very easy because the OG shaman king fanbase are ride or die, even tho they f*cked us with "Flower or Maize"

Yah I noticed that but it may be because they got only 52 episodes and they want to focus more on the later stuff

Thats what they did with fma Brother hood and yes I hated it even back then but I like it cause it tells me that the creators want to get us caught up as fast as posible to get to the parts we missed back then.

the pacing is better now but the animation is still eh.

@@MHRNA the animation i thought was allright

Same

Agreed

Yeah I know

Sold, I’m gonna go watch it now thanks for the recommendation

Interesting

Yeah I was hoping for more movement in the fights :/

@@thedigiknow I can't stomach anime that do that any more it's abysmal. Its crazy how a brand new show based off a messy web comic like one punch man can get the 1st season made into one of the best animated shows off all time but 20 year long anime get abhorrent animated reboots lol

*reply to spoilers* The battles in the Tao estate were some of the only in the first 13 episodes that were not rushed at all. It's basically a 1:1 adaptation for this mini arc. The old anime was dragging out events, which was fine, but it also would change a lot of things. This new adaptation aims to be as close to the source material as possible when only given 52 episodes to cover 300 chapters with. (First series covered 120 ish chapters in 64. Though like 25 of these were filler episodes, and the last couple were completely anime original and it also skipped like 10 chapters. So the old anime was more like 110 chapters in 34 episodes) Honestly the new anime is fine for what it is, and I do understand why Takei agreed for it to be rushed this way (He personally oversaw and accepted the anime script before allowing any of it to be animated). We live in uncertain times and he probably felt like keeping it on the shorter side is for the better. I do wish we could have gotten at least 100 episodes for the scenes to have the time to sink in and the music to actually play, but alas it's still an actual Shaman King adaptation that does not ruin the source material

*reply to spoilers* The battles in the Tao estate were some of the only in the first 13 episodes that were not rushed at all. It's basically a 1:1 adaptation for this mini arc. The old anime was dragging out events, which was fine, but it also would change a lot of things. This new adaptation aims to be as close to the source material as possible when only given 52 episodes to cover 300 chapters with. (First series covered 120 ish chapters in 64. Though like 25 of these were filler episodes, and the last couple were completely anime original and it also skipped like 10 chapters. So the old anime was more like 110 chapters in 34 episodes) Honestly the new anime is fine for what it is, and I do understand why Takei agreed for it to be rushed this way (He personally oversaw and accepted the anime script before allowing any of it to be animated). We live in uncertain times and he probably felt like keeping it on the shorter side is for the better. I do wish we could have gotten at least 100 episodes for the scenes to have the time to sink in and the music to actually play, but alas it's still an actual Shaman King adaptation that does not ruin the source material

@@RancorSnp I agree

Exactly

Am reading the manga right now and am noticing that 2021 removes important character or plot details. That what poeple mean by rush.

Most of them. Some were changed around.

Yeah me too!

Funniest thing is his original dub voice actor is Sean Schemmel (Goku) and same for Amidamaru. He did a great job on both.

Agreed

Really ?You didn’t

@@watchforever1724 nope never

@@sunsetrecords2548 so far it’s decent I will admit the pacing is meh sometimes but I was fine with it

@@watchforever1724 thx for the info I'll give it a watch

Me to

The first anime adaption has better music and voices. Just saying.

@@bluecorp8557 music okay but animation quality hasn’t aged that well .I can say the same about the fruit basket 2001

@@bluecorp8557 i find the music of the new adaptation top tier and definitely better than the old ones. As for the animation I think due to the simplicity of graphics in the og anime the animation is better there.

Just Netflix !

Netflix

Good point I think you’re right about that honestly. Still enjoying that but it’s much lighter than I remember

@@thedigiknow yea like its good but like im watching new age shonenes which are way more action and blood. but also kid plot points where the guy beats the guy usuing friendship and slightly more effort instea do foutsmarting which has been every fight so far to the point where they straight up had him skip fighhts from old show or manag just so the story continues

Yeah

The older version is darker in my opinion

idk if this is true. The old one is more child oriented yes but this one doesn't seem like that. Yoh and his friends never really "win" or "solve" their problems completely because there is always sb else "controling" their fate. Friendship is there yes but not in the way beyblade did it or pokemon. At least as far as I have seen. SK was never a common shonen and people sb were pushed back by it.

Some voice actors are back in the dub

Who came back

@@jessicazarzycki9097 Manta/Morty sounds similar, for one, and so does Anna

Anna boyfriend sound different

Some of the cast is back

Tbh this isn't half the anime jjk is. Shaman king has history and long time fans but jjk is just a better story

Yeah agreed

@@yoindianbro jujustu kaisen is sorta like bleach or Yu Yu Hukasho.Shaman king is there but it’s definitely not that much on action .I managed to pick up the manga and it’s definitely interesting

It’s not really that bad when I read the manga in terms of character designs

That’s odd because some people think the pacing is slow

Just in that if you’re looking for another action Shonen anime about spirits and channeling mystical energy…it kind of falls in the same sub genre :)

He never said it would be the next JJK

It did need a remake

To be honest it’s not bad as you say but the pacing while it has issues but I don’t think it’s bad

Honestly it’s not as bad as people claim

Imo the pacing might be weird becoz they wanna rush to the point where the story fully diverge from the original anime and just be manga accurate.

@@eddydash1 While the pace slows down slightly starting with episode 13. It's not realistically possible for the show to be adapted at a "normal pace". With 52 episodes for 300 chapters it MUST include 6 chapters per episode on average. Basically any scene that is adapted comes at a cost of two others that had to be skipped

@@RancorSnp yeah I think that's a huge detriment to the anime, still good don't get me wrong but yeah I hope this tournament arc is hype.

I think it’s a decent adaptation but I do admit I was confused on why chapter 2 wasn’t adapted

@@watchforever1724 yeah it's definitely decent but damn it's rushed so bad

A lot of the old voices are there while some are changed. Took me a bit to adapt to the new ones.

@@reivunrantington9425 yeah I know there's still a few there. But the main ones I miss are Yoh, Rio, Len. Also the comedy was way better in the Netflix version. Its just not it for me

@@IronSham89 fine then

Yeah some can be really hard to listen to when you’re used to the original English voices. I believe the new voice actors were hired because they sound more like the Japanese voice actors. In the Japanese version Yoh’s voice was always super high so that’s probably why 2021 English Yoh is the way he is

same

To be honest it’s not that bad when it comes to the English sub voice cast

Cope harder

I do miss the original English Yoh voice and him being more chill but keep in mind the new English voice is actually a lot closer to what the Japanese voice actor sounds like so one could argue it’s a more faithful dub?

Same

Shaman king is the best show I remember watching it on the tv great them song

Wooden sword had a better voice this time and Ren imo

Honestly I couldn’t say considering I always watched the English sub

This Shaman King reboot is the same as the Promised Neverland season 2. So both Shaman King and Promised Neverland still need a good adaptation like Fma Brotherhood.

Yeah with the exception of the one piece anime