Shaman King anime reboot (2021)

Dai does have good animation, though? In fact, some of the best in Toei's current Television catalogue?

Oh yeah, also that (which is part of the "other projects the series is working on" I mentioned). Sorry, I knew I was making a long story a bit too short

No, Dai's animation is not bad, it's just that I can easily notice the moments where they're saving budject and using as little frames as possible, but the fights are well done, especially the most trivial moments

Sorry I was going by what other people have said. If its good then great. It shows Toei is putting all the effort for their shonen offerings.

Bridge is animating it right? They're only working on Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens right now, so I think they can handle it, and the trailer art looks REALLY good, so I have no worries in terms of animation.

As for episode length, maybe 100-150 episodes. I gotta watch the original series, I kinda enjoyed the anime deviations. I actually enjoyed the Lilly Five lol.

Hell Joco was my favorite from the OG anime.

Edited by DevilSketch36 on Mar 5th 2021 at 4:35:07 AM

Correct, Bridge is animating the series this time around.

I agree with Devil Sketch 36's point.

I hope the dub keeps the 4kids opening. Also that Manta gets to be a Shaman.....And this time STAYS one.

Me too, although the change with Manta, I'm surprised that was really controversial after finding the internet.

After reading the manga, I was honestly shocked that Hao won but I kinda get why. Still, what did people start finding hypocritical about the manga later on though?

The "You can't be a truly bad guy if you can see spirits" bits.

Ohh, that makes sense since most of Hao's group did some shitty things. Honestly, I would've went with "only humans willing to embrace their spiritual connection can see ghosts."

And for the shamans that were villainy aligned, "people who see spirits don't started out bad, but like don't get consumed by your hatred or you'll lose the meaning of being a shaman."

Sometimes it feels like the perfect end to Shaman King would be to take the elements of the anime and manga endings that worked, remove the parts that didn't, and just figure out a proper message that doesn't justify some of the cruel behavior Hao's group caused.

I do wonder how a potential English dub will handle Yoh and Anna's relationship in regards to the whole arranged marriage? Like the 4-kids dub sort of downplayed that aspect.

Its on Netflix. They can literally get away with anything. Unless you meant to say the underage sex. Because that happens I think. Ewwwwwwwwww...

I mean, it's offscreen at least and they're in the same age group?

There is a terrible Cuties joke to be made, but I'm just going to say "If that is a thing, please let them gloss over or otherwise ignore it."

Edited by Beatman1 on Mar 16th 2021 at 10:54:02 AM

The manga never actually focused on it. We didnt know it happened until Yoh's kid, Hana, showed up in the epilogue. Also, Hana is kinda the main character of the sequel so I'd like it if he could exist please.

I know. The manga did it tastefully. Its still not pleasent to think about. But thank god he did it the way he did.

Its not like the original anime didn't have any moment that implied such due to the changed endings.

I dont see why its worth focusing on.

Official art for Silva and Kalim.

They softened Silva's features compared to the previous version, which has his face be significantly more angular. I dig it though. Can't wait to see him back in action.

Parallels the art evolution the series went through.

It kinda bothers me that they re-used the same art for Silva's first close-up as in his full-body art. Like, they literally just zoomed into his face. The entire point of providing multiple facial expressions and angles is to give the animators multiple reference points for how that character should be drawn. Just zooming in like that isn't just lazy, it makes it harder for the animators.

At least Kalim's first art is re-drawn so you know that his face is supposed to have more wrinkles and harder lines up close, even if it's from the same angle.

Oh, by the way, we're talking about page images in this thread.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Mar 17th 2021 at 11:37:11 AM

I'm reading Shaman King Flowers at chapter 22, and as a Jewish man, I'm REALLY, REALLY FUCKING UNCOMFORTABLE with Ludsev and Salerm being on Team Yvs... the main villain... based on the Illuminati... with a pyramid design... that is the embodiment of capitalism. If there's not some huge twist that explains this in a satisfactory way, I might just drop this entire franchise right the hell now because that is EXTREMELY anti-Semitic.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Mar 23rd 2021 at 4:07:05 AM

Flowers didnt last long enough to explain that. Though my personal guess would be somewhere between "YVS didnt give them a choice" and "fuck Hao". Mostly the first one.