Shaman King, Volume 23

Shaman King is a long-running manga by Hiroyuki Takei serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1998, ending with chapter 288 in 2004; the collected volumes number 32, later reissued in a 27-volume complete edition (the Chinese edition from Tong Li is the “Collector’s Edition”). The protagonist is Yoh Asakura, born into a Japanese shaman family. Shamans are people who can borrow power by having gods, spirits, and the dead possess themselves or objects; in the Shaman Fight held once every five hundred years, the winner gains the Great Spirit and can change the world as they wish. The lazy Yoh partners with Amidamaru, a samurai who died six hundred years ago, trains under the strict eye of his fiancée Anna Kyoyama, and gradually meets companions such as the Chinese Daoist Ren Tao, the Ainu Horohoro, Ryu of the Wooden Sword, Faust VIII, and Chocolove McDonell, fighting their way into the Shaman Fight and confronting his brother Hao Asakura, bound to him by blood, who wants to create a world “of shamans only.” This volume is Volume 23 of Tong Li’s “Shaman King Collector’s Edition.” In this volume, Dr. Munzer, father of Selam and others, becomes a earthbound spirit and possesses Selam to attack Yoh and his friends; Ludsev pleads with his father to stop, but Munzer will not listen, and the “living dolls” he controls attack Ludsev as well. Just then Chocolove appears, and the situation changes.