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Now this is my second time doing shaman king reveiws. There's too many pages to delete my old stuf.
I don't want my old journal entries back
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That would screw up my new shaman king reviews and there's too many entries to get rid of all of them.
Shaman King Episode 25: Shaman's Journey
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Not long after they left China, they received a message from the Oracle Bell that the 2nd preliminary tournament was to start in America.
Manta asks Yoh if something happened between him and Anna. He says not really. Horo Horo and Ryu sit at a diner discussing their trip to America. Yoh is half asleep and Manta is concerned that everyone will be leaving in two days. Everyone promises that they’ll return when the preliminary round is over.
Yoh asks Anna to go for a walk. They are to get to Patch walk in 3 months. Anna tells him that if he loses, she won’t forgive him. He has a duty to her to become the Shaman King.
Horo Horo decides to splurge on a hotel room. Pirika breaks down crying because he’s being so nice to her before he leaves. She gives him Ikupasui, she dug for it herself.
Everyone is preparing in their own way. Yoh and Manta skip cram school to spend time together. Ryu reminisces over a present his gang gave him as a good luck present. He is worried because he isn’t as experienced as master Yoh and the others. Ren and Bason discuss what the tournament will bring. Anna and Tamao wait in vain for Yoh to return with a feast waiting for him. He’s out with Manta. They’re talking about all the people who might be at the tournament including Hao.
At home, Yoh goes to sleep without saying a word to Anna. She looks in on him and tosses the clothes she made him onto him.
Silva talks with Hao, who is particularly cocky. Silva tells him that there won’t be a next existence for him because of Yoh.
The next day, they are off to America by way of one of the Tao family’s 33 airplanes. Hao shows up to taunt them, claiming he can cross the Pacific using only Oversoul. He then brings out his genie, Spirit of Fire. He attacks Ren and then Yoh and then leaves.
Shaman King Episode 24: Invulnerable En Tao
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Ren commands everyone to stay back as he tries to put an end to his old man. He completely misses. No one can explain how he missed when it looks as if he connected. En Tao catches Ren and throws him up against the wall. He then sets his sights on the others, convinced that Yoh is the source of evil and attacks him. Ren attacks from the back and takes up the fight with his father. Soon, everyone is out cold and En lectures on the uselessness of trust and friendship. They only get in the way of each person’s path. Ren doesn’t buy it and continues his fight. The others stand with him. Ren finally realizes friendship and the emblem on his back disappears.
It seems that the idea of friendship was such an opposite thought that En Tao’s mind became entangled and they finally start wearing away on him. Ren takes his final strike to knock En Tao out of Oversoul. He’s a short and rather normal looking man… especially for maintaining Oversoul form for 10 years.
Not ready to admit defeat, En Tao explains the legacy of the Tao family. They had always worked under the dynasty, but with the advancement of civilization, humans became scared of their shaman abilities and treated them as monsters. They were kicked out of the capital and betrayed by the people who they risked their lives for. His Oversoul, Daidohoh, is the converged souls of his ancestors. He feels he owes it to his ancestors to rebuild the Tao family name. Ren must understand this.
Ren replies that he does, but he is still his own person. His father is unhappy with this and calls all the sould from 2000 years of history to take up all of his Furyoku and does Daichuuka Rasen, a dragon snake appears and attacks. Ren attacks head on, realizing himself, and strikes his father out of Oversoul. He still isn’t ready to give up, but grandfather and mother Tao show up and end the fight.
They then prepare a large feast for everyone to celebrate Ren’s homecoming. That confuses the group and they ask what’s up. Grandfather explains the family history but by finding friends, he and Jun were able to free themselves from the family history to find their own paths.
As Ren rides off, his father comes up behind him and gives him the Tao sacred sword, Houraiken - the sword he received when he became master of the Tao family. It’s now Ren’s turn.
Shaman King Episode 23: Awakened: Nyan Nyan Doushi
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Pailong awakens and learns that he was being controlled by her father. She asks that he lend her his strength. He agrees.
Meanwhile, the last of the 5 Deities is kicking Yoh & Ren’s butts with his Doushi Daodankyaku, his Uchuu Honjashi (a series of somersaults which culminate in what looks like an airplane diving beside him), and Honjakyaku (a powerful side kick). Manta can’t understand. The only person who can use Daodandoh is Pailong.
Together, the four shamans attack, but the Kyonshii is able to dodge every attack. Amidamaru thinks this is familiar. Manta recognizes it as Eijuken, where you mimic your opponent’s moves. He is convinced the Kyonshii is Shamon, Pailong’s master. The Kyonshii admits it’s true and attacks, almost applying a finishing blow to Yoh before Pailong steps in. Pailong is pissed that the Kyonshii is imitating his dead master and takes him out in one blow.
En flips out and sends an army of Kyonshii after them. With the five fighters take out a good number but more keep coming. Finally, the Kyonshii leave. They come to a door and Ren again tells them to go home. They of course refuse and decide to follow.
En Tao comes crashing down from the ceiling, still sitting in his chair. The shamans attack, but to no avail…
Shaman King Episode 22: Our Deadly Blows
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En Tao’s wife dramatically enters and converses with him about the state of their children. She is curious as to why he’s so mad that they’ve talked back to him. He explains that the Tao family has to be the absolute existence - that of justice. She asks what he’s going to do now. She answers to cut his doubt. Ren is trying to trust others and he needs to break that. She asks if he has doubt in himself. He answers he has no such thing and disappears.
Yoh and Manta lazily relax on a raft floating on a river in China. Horo Horo and Ryu are battling it out on the next raft as Ryu explains the records - he has won all three. Horo Horo has only won two, and Yoh has a win, a loss, and a draw. They have a moment where they discuss Ren and how he is now their friend so they must rescue him.
Ren and Jun are still chained in the basement. He mentions that everything will be ok. He believes that. She laughs because it reminds her of Yoh.
When they reach the Tao estate, the spirits are suspicious that there are no armies to greet them. En Tao sits in his lair applauding Bason’s actions. He had hoped all along that he would bring back the incarnations of evil that gave “doubt” to Ren. He calls for his strongest Kyonshiis which the Tao family has specifically created as bodyguards, the ultimate 5 Deities Army.
Yoh and company enter and are greeted by the 5 Deities army. They take Ryu down pretty easily. Horo Horo begins the fight in Oversoul and freezes one of the deities with Hipopo Punch, ice condensed by Oversoul. Another attacks and hits him from behind but Ryu takes it out with his death blow, Jigokuryuu Benitokage. Horo Horo and Ryu decide to hold them as Yoh and Manta make a run for Ren.
They free Ren and Jun. Ren is still intent on defeating his father, but Jun has vowed to never fight again. She doesn’t want to hurt anyone anymore.
En Tao calls forth Pailong. Meanwhile, Horo Horo and Ryu are making short work of the 5 Deities army. Yoh and Manta follow Ren, questioning his motives. Yoh doesn’t understand how Ren can hate his father this much. Ren explains that he came to destroy the hatred within him. His father placed an emblem on his back to fill him with hatred. He must overcome his father before he overcomes himself. He tells Yoh to go home. Yoh, however, has other intentions, puts his arm around Ren, and tells him that they’ll do it together.
Suddenly, there is a loud crash and Pailong breaks through the wall. Yoh tries to greet him as a friend, but Ren and Jun are quick to warn him that their father is once again controlling him. Pailong transforms into a dragon. Manta asks what’s going on, but then realizes that they won’t use Oversoul because Jun still cares about Pailong. Jun decides to step in and throws her seal to try to break her fathers. Ren cuts it before it hits Pailong. He thinks there must be a secret to this because there doesn’t appear to be a seal. Ren Oversouls and commands Yoh to do the same, explaining that En is controlling Pailong from far away with Furyoku. That’s why he’s in this state. Together, Ren and Yoh destroy Pailong’s Oversoul.
They then make their way back to Ryu and Horo Horo, who aren’t fairing too well against the last of the 5 Deities. He performs Ochankyaku…
Shaman King Episode 21: Believe
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En Tao is not happy that both Ren and Jun have decided to revolt against him. He decides to reinforce the one truth in the world - that the one who wins is just and the one who loses is evil. Ren agrees to the terms and performs Super Golden Chuuka-zanmai. Furyoku no Kisen! His attacks do nothing to his father, who strikes at him. Pailong starts attacking Ren under his father’s will. He has run out of Furyoku and can’t Oversoul, so he commands Bason to leave. He doesn’t want his father to control him as he is controlling Pailong.
After Bason explains the situation to Yoh, they all look to Anna who gives them today’s training session. She explains that the Tao family is dangerous - an assassin group started over 3000 years ago. Whenever there’s a bloody incident, the Tao family was always involved in the assassination. She asks Bason why they should be involved in a father/son fight. He admits that he isn’t totally clear, but that Ren had mentioned that he wanted to break the rope of hatred. Anna is not impressed and asks that he doesn’t bring Yoh into this for that petty reason. Yoh only has one month until his first battle. He needs to train.
Yoh’s father has been training Ryu. He now feels that he can meet master Yoh face to face.
Yoh, Horo Horo, and Manta leave in the middle of the night. Anna wonders what’s up. She thinks to herself that Yoh only has one month of living normal with the people of this town and yet he would rather go after Ren.
On their way, they meet Zen Hijiri and Ryo Kamishiro, two very weird people that have declared it their mission to clear away the spirits and evil of the world. Together, they are called Zenryo. Tamao shows up with Ponchi and Konchi and start laughing at the performance Zenryo just gave. They don’t take kindly to that and start playing their electric guitars, which oddly enough is like chanting a prayer to the Buddha. Ponchi and Konchi ascend to the heavens and Amidamaru and Bason are on their way. Their wish is to punish all evil spirits, thus destroying all competition before the Shaman Fight. With the sound of their guitars, they command evil spirits (Chimimouryo) to attack Yoh. Horo Horo is ready to fight with Kororo, but they capture her before he can Oversoul.
Yoh is pissed and repels the Chimimouryo by giving them his Furyoku, ready to fight for Amidamaru. Suddenly, Ryu shows up and destroys the Chimimouryo. He then breaks their guitars and frees Kororo in the process. Yoh and Manta are really surprised when they see Tokageroh. Ryu also has an Oracle Bell which means he’s in the Shaman Fight too.
They are pondering how to get Amidamaru and Bason back when Anna and Pirika walk up. Anna came to give Yoh what he forgot, his Chinese for Beginners book, which he was contemplating going back for earlier. All the spirits return and Yoh and company set out on their way.
Ren and Jun have been chained up in the basement for several days. Ren vows to defeat his father so he can overcome his own hatred.
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