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Netflix Lists New Episodes of New Shaman King Anime For Release in India on December 9

Netflix is listing new episodes of the new television anime of Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King manga for release in India on December 9.

Netflix describes the anime:

Medium Yoh Asakura enters a battle tournament held every 500 years, competing with other shamans in a bid to become the all-powerful Shaman King.

The anime premiered in Japan on April 1 and is ongoing. Netflix began streaming the anime in India alongside its worldwide release on August 9. The service is currently streaming the first 13 episodes of the anime. The anime will have 52 episodes. The latest arc of the anime, the "Mt. Osore Revoir" arc, began with the 30th episode and premiered on November 4.

The anime will adapt all 35 volumes of the manga's new complete edition, which Kodansha started publishing in print volumes in Japan in June 2020. The first anime adaptation of the manga premiered in 2001.

Joji Furuta (The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments, Uta no Prince Sama Maji Love Kingdom, Double Decker! Doug & Kirill, ēlDLIVE) is directing the new anime at Bridge (Fairy Tail, The Royal Tutor). Shoji Yonemura (Pokémon franchise, Wave, Listen to Me!) is in charge of the series scripts. Satohiko Sano (Heybot!, Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun, Talentless Nana) is designing the characters. Yuki Hayashi (My Hero Academia, Haikyu!!) is composing the music, with King Records as the music producer. Masafumi Mima is the audio director.

Megumi Hayashibara once again performed the anime's opening song "Soul salvation" and first ending theme song "#Boku no Yubisaki" (My Fingertip). (She performed two opening songs and two ending songs for the 2001 anime.) Nana Mizuki performs the second opening theme song "Get up! Shout!." Yui Horie performs the series' second theme song "adieu." Ryūjin Kiyoshi wrote the song. (Horie plays Iron Maiden Jeanne in both the new and the original anime.) The band saji is performing the anime's third ending theme song. The three-member group from Hokkaido is contributing the song "Hazuki" (Lunar August).

Source: Netflix