Shaman King Nation

(Updated once as of 02-06-08, with new scan)
(Updated again on 02-06-08, with English scan and corrected information)

Note: Some orginal, preliminary translations were incorrect. They have thus been corrected. Some errors may still exist, but little to no importance is lost.

Well, our original guess was March 4th, 2008 for reprint volumes 1 & 2 has been proven correct today. Below is a LQ scan of an ad for the reprint manga volumes of Shaman King in JumpSQ#3 which has just been released.

(Click below for the orginal scan and the English scanlation)

¤ So, the first “new” thing, was the cover overlay, which was already reported.

¤ Again, reported earlier, there will be a proper ending for the series. So far, no hints on what’s in it, besides finishing up the Shaman Fight, and more fights to come.

¤ The next is new “Spirit-ball form,” which was already known, and mentioned above in this same ad, which will be on the cover of some volumes.

¤ This next one is the “Binding art.” On the binding of each volume there is a small piece of artwork. Often it’s just a snapshot of the cover. However, with reprint volumes they tend to make some continuation of artwork that spans across all the volumes. So this will be a small picture that will grow as new volumes are released.

¤ The “World Tour” is a scary concept. This is the term Takei used after Shaman King ended the first time, since he took a trip out to France. Then he took a trip again after Jumbor was finished. Of course this could have the meaning that Shaman King is becoming more international or something. Even with this better scan, it’s hard to tell exactly what this new section will be, but it will contain at least 1 color page, and it’s not the new chapters.

¤ The final one is cut off. But it starts with “Character (something).” Some possibilities are:
- New Character designs
- New Character introduction
- New Character pin-ups (such as posters and such)

Finally, the last 2 comments tell what will be on the covers of the first 2 volumes. Again, nothing we haven’t already predicted.

As of right now, it still doesn’t show that Shaman King will be in March’s JumpSQ issue. So it may be a few more months off before it jumps into JumpSQ. They may want to hold off and see how well the reprint volumes sell before adding it to JumpSQ. 

The ISBNs are:
Volume 1 : 978-4-08-874203-8
Volume 2: 978-4-08-874204-5

So keep watching Shaman King Nation for more news updates! We will also be posting locations to pre-order these volumes once this information is distributed to retailers.

Sources/Resources:
¤ http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/akaumeumeyuri/39833646.html (LQ RAW scan, no longer referenced)
¤ Dit (Finding the news)
¤ Dit’s friend (HQ Raw scan)
¤ BadS (translation)
¤ Un-named translator
¤ andysislands (ad scanlation)
¤ Comic-News via ANN (ISBN)