Shaman King, Volume 1

Shaman King is a shonen manga by Hiroyuki Takei, serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from 1998, telling the story of the young shaman Yoh Asakura. A "shaman" is someone able to communicate between this world and the next, converse with gods, spirits, or the souls of the dead, and borrow their power. The transfer student Yoh Asakura looks like nothing more than a sleepy, easygoing boy, but he is in fact such a shaman. This is the first volume of the collected edition, subtitled "The Man Who Dances with Ghosts," and contains the opening chapters of the story (Chapter 1, "The Man Who Dances with Ghosts," through Chapter 8, "Possession"), set in school and everyday life; it establishes Yoh's identity as a shaman and his longing for a carefree life, and introduces the first rivals and companions around him. Subtitles and chapter counts vary slightly between editions; this is the first volume of the Traditional Chinese edition from Hong Kong's Tin Ha Publishing, 205 pages. In the original Shueisha edition, the first volume was released on December 3, 1998.