The main animated series served the same mangain 32 volumes, published from 1998 to 2004. It was so popular that there was not only an anime adaptation, but also several video games, a collectible card game and a lot of different souvenirs.
Since 2006, the Russian screens beganbroadcast all the series of "The King of the Shamans." The animated series deserved the unconditional love of the audience not only for its excellent presentation and interesting plot, but also thanks to the excellent voice actors.
Plot
Every 500 years, a tournament of shamans, in which the king is chosen. He unites with the most powerful spirit and becomes able to control all life on earth.
The action of the first series of the animated series “KingShamans ”begins with the appearance of the Star of Fate. She sweeps across the evening sky, announcing the start of a new tournament. The main character Yo Asakura unites talented friends around him, and together they set off to adventure. They will have to go through a lot of trials and learn a lot before defeating the main villain - Hao, who for the third time is trying to win, each time reborn more and more, more powerful and more ruthless.
This time, Hao chose the Asakura family, so only Yo, as his twin brother, can defeat him, but for this he needs to unite with the spirit of the great ancient warrior Amidamaru.
In the animated series "The King of Shamans" actor,Nikita Prozorovsky became the voice of Anidamaru, as well as Trey and Rio. A true professional in this field, he has as many as 989 paintings! The very first was the “Wizard of Oz” in 1939, where he voiced Uncle Charlie (of course, the picture came out in Russia much later, in the 2000s), and the last was “Geostorm” of 2017, in which he is responsible for the role of Richard Schiff He also starred in 40 films and TV shows, such as Bodyguard 3, Teacher in Law, Bomzhiha, First Squad, and Other Person.
Yo asakura
The strongest shaman, but at the same time simple andsimple-minded guy More than anything, he likes to eat and sleep, most of the jokes in the animated series are based on his qualities. It is difficult to annoy him, unless, of course, not to offend his friends. In season 1 of the “King of Shamans”, the ancient spirit of Anidamaru becomes its keeper. At the same time, he also meets his first best friends: the common man Morty (in the original Japanese version - Mantoux), as well as the shamans Rio, Lena and Horo (also known as Trey Racer).
For the voice of Yo in the Russian version posted inthe animated series "The King of Shamans" actor Sergei Bystritsky. He starred in 40 films and voiced more than 190 roles, for example in 2017 - the character of Dean Winters in the film “Very Bad Girls”.
Morty manta
Mortimer is an ordinary boy without abilities.shaman, who believed in the existence of spirits and became the first friend of Yo Asakura. Despite the fact that he is the weakest and smallest among all, Morty shows unprecedented strength of mind, is infinitely faithful to his friends and is even ready to sacrifice his life for them.
За озвучивание этого персонажа взялся в the animated series "The King of Shamans" actor Alexander Komlev. He began his career with small roles in “Jumble”, then there were “The Bridge”, “The Frenchman”, and in 2008 the series “Moscow Smiles”, after which he finally went into dubbing. He has more than 230 different films, cartoons and TV shows.
Ryunosuke Umemiya
In the Russian translation of this character simply calledRio, so that viewers, especially small ones, would be easier to remember. In the first series, he appears as a villain, the leader of the Cornered Gang, tries to attack Yo and is defeated. Seeing Anidamaru and the power he gives, Rio decides to become a shaman as well, and asks to become disciples for Yo.
He becomes a true friend and completely changeshis view of the world, he no longer pulls on bad deeds. The most ridiculous situations are connected with his unsuccessful attempts to find a soul mate and make her his queen.
Faust and Eliza
Sad story of eternal love.For the first time, Faust appears as a fierce anti-hero, even the look of which brings horror: pale with blue circles under his eyes, he looks more like a spirit than a person. Faust is trying to destroy everything on his way to the title of king of shamans. All he can think about is the rebirth of his beloved Eliza, who died very young from an unknown disease.
Kindness and patience Yo help Faust to remember humanity and let go of his anger. Unfortunately, even at the end of the series, there is no hope for the revival of Eliza.
Len Tao
Compete in the tragedy of fate with Faust andEliza may well Len Tao. His family is cruel and merciless, ready to destroy him, if Len does not meet expectations. He is raised as the future king of shamans and is not allowed to think about anything else.
Like most other heroes, Len comes to Yo with evil intentions and darkness in his heart, but gradually changes and even opposes his family and his inner demons.
In the Japanese version of the anime, he has a full-fledged family:father, mother and sister, and in the American father is not, but there is an evil uncle, so huge that I can not believe in the reality of his existence. In the end, when Len gains the upper hand over him, the uncle turns into an ordinary lonely person, left alone with his hatred.
In “The King of Shamans,” Nikita Prozorovsky became the actor who voiced this character.
“Just be in the shadows.”
Not so long ago, a video appeared on the Web about how, in reality, the history of the animated series “The King of Shamans” would have looked. Dubbing actors are the same as in the original version: Alexander Komlev and Elena Chebaturkina.
In this video, Yo finds himself in ordinary Russianplaces: in the subway, dirty porch, next to broken mailboxes, he even drinks kefir in the kitchen. At this time, the actors sing, that “the choice is not important” and “the grayness is accustomed to the eyes.” In the end they ask why they should sing it at all and stop to become “ordinary dudes”.
Despite the unusual interpretationThe original video is much better, because believing in miracles is necessary, despite the age and living conditions. "The King of Shamans" teaches friendship, loyalty and kindness, and beautiful bright drawing helps to perceive all this better. This cartoon series must be shown to children.
У этого аниме существуют две версии – American and Japanese. In the first, almost all heroes have no surnames and bloody scenes are cut out, and also some names and replicas of the heroes are changed. Even some elements of the characters suffered from censorship, for example, the combat pistol was replaced by a children's toy.
