Over the last couple of days several anime news outlets have written some articles about Kodansha’s new ownership of the Shaman King Trademarks and the upcoming 20th anniversary website. However, this story begins back in 2014 when the Shaman King Flowers manga was first cancelled. Since then there has been small updates about the changes in the status of Hiroyuki Takei’s manga. We may never know the real story on why this change was being made, but we can help provide a chronology on the events that led up to it.
In 2018, Patch Cafe will have several articles and resources available to help document the history of Hiroyuki Takei’s manga. Listed in our “Themed Articles” section, we have created a new page called License Transfer to Kodansha Timeline. This is an interactive timeline which describes the major events in this License change over. We’ve also included the horizontal timeline below, with the interactive one being available on the full page. Other timelines will also be created next year as well.
As more announcements are being made about this change, this timeline will be updated. Patch Cafe is committed to updating with the latest Shaman King and Hiroyuki Takei news throughout 2018 starting with the 20th Anniversary website opening on January 1st.
[timeline-express timeline=”License Transfer to Kodansha” horizontal=”1″]
