SK17USAOn July 1st, Viz released Volume 17 of the Shaman King manga. If you didn’t like the consept of the Shaman Fight, well, you’re in luck! Since this volume doesn’t have anything to do with it! And you won’t really see that again until 2009!

MSRP: $7.95
Length: 200 pages (it’s right this time, but only if you count the 7 pages of ads at the end)
ISBN: 1-4215-1659-4

If I were to sum up this entire volume in one word, I would choose the word “great.” Not because this volume has the best story, but just because it sets up so much, and the quality of the English version, is the highest of all the series up to this point. So, I’d like to take a moment to thank Lance Caselman and John Hunt for a great English adapatation. I greatly enjoy the amount of quality you have placed in Shaman King, and I hope that you will be continueing to work on Shaman King Volumes 18-21, which are the best volumes of the series.

On page 4 of volume 17, this probably is the worst page in the volume. There were alot of change, if you look really closely. First of all, for some reason it’s “Tao Ren,” while everybody else is ‘first name, last name.’ I guess Ren’s special like that. Also, Kororo, is “KORORO.” Missed that one. And most of the boxes for the desciptions have been expanded, even though some of them didn’t need it. Ironically, most of the characters in this character page don’t appear in this volume. Chocolove (Joco in Viz’s version, but I’ll call him Chocolove) on this page, like all other pages, has had his lips edited. However, on this page, they used the wrong shading, and you can clearly see where they edited, as seen in the image. But don’t worry, all the other pages look fine!