When he takes a shortcut through a cemetery, Manta Oyamada meets a strange kid with headphones surrounded by ghosts. The kid is the teenage shaman Yoh Asakura. Tapping the supernatural swordfighting powers of samurai ghost Admidamaru, Yoh fights Bokuto no Ryu, a sword-wielding gang member. But an even more dangerous opponent is stalking Yoh and Manta...

"This book reads from right to left." "This graphic novel contains material that was originally published in English in Shonen jump #3-6, plus the first Shaman King episode in Shonen jump #7."