It’s a Ghost World Out There Because Other Shamans Exist!

July 9, 2003 (San Francisco, CA) – SHONEN JUMP, the world’s most popular boy’s magazine, is heading into graphic novel form once again with another new title. VIZ, LLC, North America’s leading publisher of manga for English speaking audiences, announced today the release of SHAMAN KING, Volume One: A SHAMAN IN TOKYO available in specialty retail stores nationwide in September.

SHAMAN KING has sold over 16 million books in Japan making it one of the most popular titles in the world! SHAMAN KING is also scheduled to be aired as an anime (beginning with 26 episodes) for American audiences on September 6th during the Fox Box (kid’s Saturday morning programs) on the FOX network. It is already an anime in Japan and has reached 64 episodes!

Other continuing SHONEN JUMP graphic novels will also be released by VIZ in September. Below is detailed information on SHONEN JUMP’s new graphic novel and its continuing graphic novels:

SHAMAN KING, Volume One: A SHAMAN IN TOKYO

Yoh Asakura is a junior-high shaman: one of the gifted few who can speak to ghosts, talk to the spirits of nature, and contact the other world. Compared to home in rural Japan for advanced training, Tokyo is a metropolis full of ghosts: spirits with unfinished business, haunts, revenants, specters—all whom only he can see. Together with friends Manta and Amidamaru, he faces challenges both real and ghostly…but who or what is the “Shaman King,” and what shamans and spirits await him in the wide world outside Japan?

IT’S A GHOST WORLD OUT THERE

Junior high whiz kid Manta Oyamada was taking a shortcut through the cemetery one night when he met a strange kid—Yoh Asakura, a shaman who saved Manta from cemetery-desecrating gang members—but that was just the beginning. Because Yoh is not the only shaman in the world—and danger comes to visit them in the form of a Chinese shaman with ruthless ambitions.

Story & art by Hiroyuki Takei
Price: $7.95 US/$12.95 CAN
Pages: 208

CONTINUING SHONEN JUMP GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES

DRAGON BALL, Volume 12

Goku finds his most terrifying enemy yet: the evil Demon King Piccolo! Piccolo unleashes waves of monsters on a mission to find Dragon Balls and destroy any martial artists who oppose him. With his flying cloud destroyed, Goku finds himself lost in the jungle where he meets an unlikely new ally. Meanwhile, Kame-Sen'nin prepares a last-ditch plan to defeat Piccolo... but at what cost?

Story & art by Akira Toriyama
Price: $7.95 US/$12.95 CAN
Pages: 200

YU-GI-OH!, Volume 2: ENTER KAIBA

Meet Yugi's classmate Seto Kaiba: rich, talented, and obsessed with the collectible card game "Magic and Wizards." When he discovers that Yugi's grandfather owns the infinitely rare "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" card, he'll stop at NOTHING to get it... and the stage is set for a high-stakes duel where the monsters on the cards come to life!

Story & art by Kazuki Takahashi
Price: $7.95 US/$12.95 CAN
Pages: 200

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