Junior high whiz kid Manta Oyamada was taking a shortcut through the cemetery one night when he met a strange kid--Yoh Asakura, 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.

In keeping with the original Japanese format this book reads from back to front. Contains material that was originally published in English in Shonen Jump #3-6, plus the first Shaman King episode in Shonen Jump #7.