Shamans possess mysterious powers that allow them to commune with gods, spirits, and even the dead…and Manta Oyamada's about to learn all about them, because his class just welcomed a new transfer student: Yoh Asakura, a boy from way off in Izumo…and a shaman in training! (Source: Kodansha USA) Note: Chapter count includes the 5-chapter short story "Funbari no Uta" as a single chapter, as well as 2 one-shots in Volume 27. This entry is for the original printing of Shaman King. Please see "Shaman King Kanzenban" for the reprint of the series, which contains chapters not included in this edition.
Japanese study overview
Shaman King is a Japanese manga of 514,975 characters, with 16,586 unique words and 2,002 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 16,586 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 事thing×1,527
- 葉leaf×1,347
- 霊soul×941
- お前you×736
- 言うto say×675
- 奴fellow×624
- 達pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)×598
- 私I×576
- 第prefix for forming ordinal numbers×544
- 巫medium×493
- 力strength×451
- 年year×450
- 阿弥Ami×361
- 蓮Hasu×167
- 麻倉Asakura×143
- 恐山Osorezan×134
- 祭司priest×131
- 道家Taoist×96
- 白竜white dragon×91
- 春雨gentle spring rain×82