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25 Oct 2021 4 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty $0.04
Introduction In Ep. 26, the Asakura family began to make its move to get Yoh's crew stronger, particularly Ren, Chocolove, and Horohoro. Mikihisa, Yoh's father, found Ren's team and offered to teach them the Chō-Senjiryakketsu. However, out of pride,...
20 Oct 2021 3 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty $0.02
Introduction In the previous episode, Shaman King further expanded on the series antagonist's, Hao's, powers. He uses air as the medium for his Spirit of Fire, but if the environment loses all oxygen, he can change his spirit's element at will and ef...
10 Oct 2021 3 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty $0.03
Introduction In Ep. 24, Hao basically annihilated Team X-III of the X-Laws. Outside of the inconsistent quality of the drawings, the overall execution was pretty solid. The episode had its good share of tense and heartwarming moments, and it leverage...
1 Oct 2021 4 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty $0.03
Introduction As Yoh and his friends all have advanced to the second round, the stakes of the Shaman tournament are even higher. While Yoh managed to quite literally one shot Team Icemen, as the previous episode showed near the end, it would take more...
23 Sep 2021 3 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty $0.04
Introduction Previously, Yoh, Ryu, and Faust just began their match against Team Icemen. Before the fight, Team Icemen (really the leader, Pino) got pissed at Yoh for nonchalantly proclaiming that he could end the match in one strike. Team Icemen wer...
15 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty $0.03
Introduction In the previous episode, Shaman King dramatically raised the stakes of the tournament with the merciless brutality of the X-Laws, particularly its leader Jeanne. To recap, Jeanne, Marco, and Lyserg went up against Team Niles. Lyserg almo...
5 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty $0.05
Introduction Previously, Shaman King concluded the very first fight of the shaman tournament. Overall, I felt that the execution of the fight and storytelling of Chocolove's past was done very well. There were a few issues I had, like the plot hole r...
29 Aug 2021 4 minute read 1 comment LateToTheParty $0.02
Introduction Last week, Shaman King began the tournament arc. Ren, Horohoro, and Chocolove had the honor of fighting the first match against one of Hao's henchmen teams. The rock monk duo, BoZ, were their opponents plus a mysterious third teammate na...
22 Aug 2021 4 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty $0.07
Introduction Previously, all of the main characters reached Patch Village. While Yoh and his friends finally passed their first challenge after weeks of travel, they soon ran into a roadblock. The newly introduced character, Chocolove, revealed that...
15 Aug 2021 4 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty $0.03
Introduction: Shaman King is Back When I reviewed Episode 17 about 3 weeks ago, I mentioned that Shaman King would be on a brief hiatus due to the Tokyo Summer Olympics. Now that is over, the anime has resumed a few days ago with Episode 18. To brief...
