And now onto unlucky chapter #13! But we also get volume 3 of Shaman King, so a bit more exciting than normal!
5/10: Chapter Summary + Partial Clean Color Spread
5/9: Even more details about Vol 3 extras, and free stuff!
5/8: Some more info + Andy’s morning update
5/7: Volume 3 image/info
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5/10:
Here’s a cleaner portion of part of the color page: (Expect to see this as a wallpaper download in the upcoming months)
And here’s the chapter spoiler!
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So our story continues with Hana and “Babylon.” Since Hana doesn’t have Amidamaru to fight with, he calls on his Leaf Spirits instead. Wearing one of them like a glove, it’s surprisingly strong against Babylon! But Hana keeps up the attack since one punch won’t keep Babylon down.
Continuing his attack, Hana merges the spirits together and forms a sort of “battle armor O.S.” (Dit will probably get us a better name…) This too also keeps Hana winning this battle.
To even the match, Babylon makes his own verison with his spirit “Name-Hage” and is ready to continue the fight with Hana!
And that’s the chapter. Lots of fighting, and double-spreads. A slightly shorter chapter. Takei must be busy on some other projects in order to trim down on Flowers. So I’ll take it!
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5/9:
First thing first, here’s the larger version of the “dress-up cover” from JumpKai:
It’s important to note, that the image of Alumni isn’t actually printed on the cover. Instead it’s transparent so you can see through to the actual volume cover.
Now the JumpX website also has updated with some new Shaman King Flowers stuff as well! They have a contest for winning a signed “Visionz” poster from Takei. It doesn’t say you need to be living in Japan to win…. But you can enter here: https://jumpx.net/w/mankinpresent/ Just enter your name and address to have a chance at winning!
Also! At the very bottom of the page they have some new wallpapers for you to download! The image is from the cover of Mankin Fanbook 2. You can grab them here: http://jumpx.jp/w/mankin/special.html
5/8:
And here’s the Jump X (Kai) cover featuring Hana! Plus you can see the “Dress-up Cover” as well.
Also from https://twitter.com/sasakura_i here’s some images from that book:
5/7:
So here’s the Shaman King Flowers volume 3 cover:
It’s also important to note that with the Jump Kai issue there will also be a “Dress-up cover” for volume 3. Basically this will be an alternate cover you can wrap around your volume with a different art design. We should hopefully get an image of that in the next day or so.
Also… some bookstores in Japan are getting some free special Shaman King books. They are about 48 pages long. These may be promotional materials that will be given out with the sale of volume 3, but some retailers may have gotten them sooner. We’ll have some more information on the contents shortly.
This cover is genius, I mean:
Also the free books are copies of the whole storyboard used for Yoh’s 0 chapter, hand-written by Takei and stuff 😀
If there is something important to say…. until then… Check out her great purchasing guide here!
