Hiroyuki Takei

YA. Graphic Novel. Reads R to L (Japanese Style). Ultimo and Vice are Karakuri Doji, the mechanical embodiment of pure good and pure evil, devoid of human emotions that can cloud one's judgment. Their purpose: to battle to the death to prove once and for all whether good or evil is the most powerful force in the universe. 14 yrs+

Yoh Asakura is a shaman and one of the gifted few who, thanks to training or natural talent, can channel spirits that most people cannot even see. With the help of his fiancee, Anna, Yoh is in training for the ultimate shaman sports event, the Shaman Fight in Tokyo, the once every 500 years tournament to see who can shape the future ofhumanity and become the Shaman King. But unfortunately for Yoh, every shaman in the world is competing for the same...

Ultimo and Vice battle in the postwar arena of Tokyo, 1947.

"Yamato wakes up again on the 21st century day that he first encountered Ultimo, and soon learns that he was sent back in time and it's up to him to prevent total world annihilation. But does he really have the ability to stop the apocalypse--and save Ultimo!--in just 24 hours? On a breakneck tour to meet up with all the dôji, Yamato gets into a skirmish with Iruma and Jealousy and must again go back (way back) in time to make things right ..."--Cover....

"Moody old Faust is back! And teamed with ... Yoh? When the competitors and their friends finally make it to the Patch Village, things are not what they expected."--Cover p.4

As his second Shaman Fight comes to an end, Yoh uses a last-ditch strategy--and his last mana--against Faust's army of skeletons. Recovering from his wounds in the hospital, Manta becomes separated from Yoh and makes a fateful decision to travel to Yoh's faraway home in Izumo, Japan--by motorcycle--with "Wooden Sword" Ryu for company. As Manta and Ryu travel across Japan, Yoh undergoes his own journey, descending into a pitch-black cave in search...

Yoh and his friends must rescue Tao Ren, who has gotten himself locked in the family's dungeons after rebelling against his father. However, Yoh's influence has started to wear off and Ren has found a new weapon against his father's terrorism. Will Yoh and his friends be able to counter the horrible Way of the Tao?

An old enemy gets an upgrade when a ghost possesses a bandit from feudal Japan. Back in action with a new body to abuse, Tokagero is out for revenge against Amidamaru, the samurai who killed him 600 years ago, and Yoh, the shaman who channels him. Meanwhile, a strange comet hurtles towards Earth. Yoh, a shaman, meaning he has the ability to channel spirits, is training to compete in the "Shaman Fight in Tokyo," a tournament held every 500 years to...

Yoh and his friends have been dropped in the middle of nowhere and must now find their way through the desert of the American Southwest to Patch Village for the Shaman Fight, but run afoul of a Native American shaman who says that the Patch are evil and that he will kill anyone who helps fulfill their plans.

Stray cat samurai Norachiyo wants nothing more than to leave his cruel past behind and live his nine lives in peace, but there are some cats he just can't get off his tail. After joining forces with an unlikely duo-the son of a catnip drug lord and his fellow feline warrior-in-training-Norachiyo comes face-to-face with an old foe: Shiriya Abyhei, the malicious member of the secret police who's been in pursuit of Norachiyo from the very start. Can...