As far as drugs go, one that tends to get missed a lot is how Faust is perpetually high on morphine (the literal drug, not Lyserg's fairy spirit) all the time to the point where he can't even feel pain anymore. It's more explicit in the manga, as well as his later depictions. Assuming anybody was wondering why he's in a wheelchair in most of his appearances in the 2021 opening...
Good on you for mentioning how exceptional it is for an anime to feature indigenous people. Especially in the respectful way they did, it's still some of the best representation in animation to this day.
Shaman king is very multicultural and religion focused. I like that, it feels more grounded and realistic. Amazing video you need more shaman king fans to subscribe here.
Thank you for your kind words shaman king connects with everyone especially with all the different nationalities that are represented in the shaman tournament
Finally someone talking more in depth about drugs in shaman king ! Drugs are, and will always be an essential part of shamanism around the world, and Shaman King does of course reference alot of them. Most of them are linked to the type of shamans that the characters represent, but the most obvious one is clearly yoh and his love for a certain leaf. I'd like to mention the fact that the picture on the 1st page of the manga is LITERALLY a weed leaf and the chapter's name is "leaf", while he also happen to wear a shirt with a weed leaf on it and "hemp" written under it LMAOOO But i'm surprised and i wouldn't have thinked that you'd talk bout Lyserg, i don't think there's many other people who ever figured that out, only seen it in a reddit post once a while ago, glad you talked bout other characters and their link to drugs as well ! Love the video !
Thank you for the kind words Yoh t shirt always has that certain leafs picture on it that could be his secret to be so calm and chilled out all the time.
Wow haha, what an amazing video! I love all of the points you brought up, yeah, SK includes a lot of different figures and cultures to make it lively, and it's so amazing honestly.
Great video! Loved from start to end, I'm pretty sure a lot of fans of the manga, myself included of couse hahaha, have been seeking analisys on the themes of the series. I really like dialetic approach the series makes with progress and nature, reading it from a western philosophy kind of way... May the Great Spirit bless your soul, friend.
@@ShamanTribe oh god hahahaha, umm, I could list a few on the top of my head [SPOILERS FOR ANIME ONLY] [PLEASE ADVISE] The topic of vengeance being a recurrent one in the series, the cycles of hate it produces and the solution for attonement (Chocolove and the Golem kids, Hao and the Mappa Douji stuff, Lyserg and the murder of his parents, Chrom and Nichrom, even Tokagero with Amidamaru) The aspects of maturity in the main cast, with most of them being shaped by the Shaman Fight and losing aspects of their innocence as the story goes on. At least, when I read the manga, Chocolove felt like he didn't cracked wise as much as before his encounter with the Golem. Feels a bit tragic when you compare their jovial attitude when starting the Shaman Fight, to their "serious business mode" nearing the end. It really shows the impact of a, pretty much, "organized" war can have on these children. Oh, something about the ofuro and the café scene where the gang and Yoh respectfully are interacting with Hao on a more "relaxed" way. It's something you don't see in a lot of narratives, having the main villain chill with the protagonists when they don't necessarily need to fight at the given present time. It lets the reader understand that Hao is not insane or a typical "bad guy" at the very least. I went all out hahahaha these are a few of the topics that I personally felt it gave Shaman King its uniqueness, but in all honesty any Shaman King analysis is good content imo. Thanks for the hard work! I appreciate it a lot
Honestly, it does make a lot of sense for drugs to be present in a series about different religions and spirituality. Even outside of shamanism, you do have some of the oldest cults (Not like more recent ones) where they were centred around the afterlife and wine, linking intoxication to divinity. Here's the other link though between religion and drugs; oppression. HoroHoro being part of an indigenous tribe is one case of religion and oppression although that manifests more with the idea of deforestation and urbanization destroying areas of cultural significance. However, hemp/cannabis is one of the big ones, especially tying into Hao's hatred of humans. Both for killing his mother and for the political corruption he encountered in his first life. Drugs are often used as scapegoats and reasons to discriminate against entire groups in the last century, most notably during the 60's and 70's war on drugs where the US government used the criminalisation of weed and cocaine as a way to stop political protests by hippies, black people etc against movements like the anti-Vietnam war protests and parts of the civil rights movement. For more ancient examples, the wine cults of pre-Ancient Greece did eventually become Orphic and, later, Dionysian which greatly appealed to those who were oppressed in Mycenaean Greek society, notably women and slaves which the then society disliked. I might be stretching with this but I'd like to see other people's perspectives.
I like your points and it only just proves how deep the themes in Shaman King are. More importantly how timeless they are. I am sure Takei did plenty research and he took into account many events to construe Shaman King. We see it more in the sequel series
An orphic/dionysian shaman would be interesting given it still exists, but its a mystery cult so we know lottle, but you could be very metal with what we know.
Great video but I have one nitpick. Mikihisa was not from a shaman family or from a family that was dedicated to Shugendo, he was just a struggling musician that could see ghosts. After he married Mito, he likely started training as a monk as Asaukra men sometimes do (e.g. Yohken Asakura was only a Shugendo monk). Finally, the Asakura is always looking for powerful shamans to marry into the family, to keep the lineage strong, but they don’t need other Japanese faiths to bolster their strength. That is, by the start of the story, they already had most of the Japanese faiths incorporated into the family: Yohmei (Onmyōdō), Kino (Shinto, Itako), Mito (Shinto, Shrine Maiden) and Mikihisa (Monk, Shugendo).
You're absolutely right, my bad I meant in terms of representation of 3 faiths being not alt present in the present time line for the Asakura family Also in terms of Asakura family and acquiring other strong lineages, I didn't say they actively seek them out, however they would favour families with strong lineages as it would be the practise at the time, hope that point is more clear. Apologies I should've made that more clear, thank you for the comment!
Dude I was born in Mex and there is nothing wrong with the depiction of the Mexican character. Guaranteed. Any Mexican who says otherwise is either not being honest or very detached from the culture.
Hola, alguien tiene los subtítulos en español o en su defecto el guión escrito (no auto generado porque no es muy conciso) así trato de traducirlo yo? Mí inglés es muy básico lamentablemente
As far as drugs go, one that tends to get missed a lot is how Faust is perpetually high on morphine (the literal drug, not Lyserg's fairy spirit) all the time to the point where he can't even feel pain anymore. It's more explicit in the manga, as well as his later depictions. Assuming anybody was wondering why he's in a wheelchair in most of his appearances in the 2021 opening...
Nice catch! That's more of battle and coping tactic for Faust but you have a point!
I was raised in an animist belief system and shaman king has been a favorite since i was very young just because of that. thanks for making this video
Good on you for mentioning how exceptional it is for an anime to feature indigenous people. Especially in the respectful way they did, it's still some of the best representation in animation to this day.
Shaman king is very multicultural and religion focused. I like that, it feels more grounded and realistic. Amazing video you need more shaman king fans to subscribe here.
Thank you for your kind words shaman king connects with everyone especially with all the different nationalities that are represented in the shaman tournament
I don’t think any series has such great representation and variety of symbolism as diverse as Shaman King.
Agreed
Kiba and yugioh
Finally someone talking more in depth about drugs in shaman king !
Drugs are, and will always be an essential part of shamanism around the world, and Shaman King does of course reference alot of them.
Most of them are linked to the type of shamans that the characters represent, but the most obvious one is clearly yoh and his love for a certain leaf.
I'd like to mention the fact that the picture on the 1st page of the manga is LITERALLY a weed leaf and the chapter's name is "leaf", while he also happen to wear a shirt with a weed leaf on it and "hemp" written under it LMAOOO
But i'm surprised and i wouldn't have thinked that you'd talk bout Lyserg, i don't think there's many other people who ever figured that out, only seen it in a reddit post once a while ago, glad you talked bout other characters and their link to drugs as well !
Love the video !
Thank you for the kind words Yoh t shirt always has that certain leafs picture on it that could be his secret to be so calm and chilled out all the time.
Oh his leaf spirits haha
Wow haha, what an amazing video! I love all of the points you brought up, yeah, SK includes a lot of different figures and cultures to make it lively, and it's so amazing honestly.
Glad you enjoyed it! Shaman King is a wonderful box of surprises!
@@ShamanTribe of course it is! An amazing experience whenever I read it!
Great video! Loved from start to end, I'm pretty sure a lot of fans of the manga, myself included of couse hahaha, have been seeking analisys on the themes of the series. I really like dialetic approach the series makes with progress and nature, reading it from a western philosophy kind of way... May the Great Spirit bless your soul, friend.
Thank you very much! Are there any particular topics you'd like to see covered?
@@ShamanTribe oh god hahahaha, umm, I could list a few on the top of my head
[SPOILERS FOR ANIME ONLY]
[PLEASE ADVISE]
The topic of vengeance being a recurrent one in the series, the cycles of hate it produces and the solution for attonement (Chocolove and the Golem kids, Hao and the Mappa Douji stuff, Lyserg and the murder of his parents, Chrom and Nichrom, even Tokagero with Amidamaru)
The aspects of maturity in the main cast, with most of them being shaped by the Shaman Fight and losing aspects of their innocence as the story goes on. At least, when I read the manga, Chocolove felt like he didn't cracked wise as much as before his encounter with the Golem. Feels a bit tragic when you compare their jovial attitude when starting the Shaman Fight, to their "serious business mode" nearing the end. It really shows the impact of a, pretty much, "organized" war can have on these children.
Oh, something about the ofuro and the café scene where the gang and Yoh respectfully are interacting with Hao on a more "relaxed" way. It's something you don't see in a lot of narratives, having the main villain chill with the protagonists when they don't necessarily need to fight at the given present time. It lets the reader understand that Hao is not insane or a typical "bad guy" at the very least.
I went all out hahahaha these are a few of the topics that I personally felt it gave Shaman King its uniqueness, but in all honesty any Shaman King analysis is good content imo. Thanks for the hard work! I appreciate it a lot
That's such an fresh fact that just nice I make also an presentation about Japanese shamans that's and cool video 💗💞💕😁👍
Cool breakdown
great video man!
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Honestly, it does make a lot of sense for drugs to be present in a series about different religions and spirituality. Even outside of shamanism, you do have some of the oldest cults (Not like more recent ones) where they were centred around the afterlife and wine, linking intoxication to divinity.
Here's the other link though between religion and drugs; oppression. HoroHoro being part of an indigenous tribe is one case of religion and oppression although that manifests more with the idea of deforestation and urbanization destroying areas of cultural significance. However, hemp/cannabis is one of the big ones, especially tying into Hao's hatred of humans. Both for killing his mother and for the political corruption he encountered in his first life. Drugs are often used as scapegoats and reasons to discriminate against entire groups in the last century, most notably during the 60's and 70's war on drugs where the US government used the criminalisation of weed and cocaine as a way to stop political protests by hippies, black people etc against movements like the anti-Vietnam war protests and parts of the civil rights movement.
For more ancient examples, the wine cults of pre-Ancient Greece did eventually become Orphic and, later, Dionysian which greatly appealed to those who were oppressed in Mycenaean Greek society, notably women and slaves which the then society disliked.
I might be stretching with this but I'd like to see other people's perspectives.
I like your points and it only just proves how deep the themes in Shaman King are. More importantly how timeless they are. I am sure Takei did plenty research and he took into account many events to construe Shaman King. We see it more in the sequel series
An orphic/dionysian shaman would be interesting given it still exists, but its a mystery cult so we know lottle, but you could be very metal with what we know.
@@marocat4749 Oh definitely. Could even have them do the whole "Ripping people apart" thing.
I can only imagine what my high self would be going thru, when you started making all those bob Marley references.
🤣lool
It also shows how racism and the modern age have effected those many cultures and religions
Exactly couldn’t agree more
I'm From Jamaica 😂 bod Marley.
Legend!
Great video, bro. P.D.: I speak spanish, my english is a very basic crap.
You wrote your sentence in perfect English so it’s fine with me 👍
Great video but I have one nitpick. Mikihisa was not from a shaman family or from a family that was dedicated to Shugendo, he was just a struggling musician that could see ghosts. After he married Mito, he likely started training as a monk as Asaukra men sometimes do (e.g. Yohken Asakura was only a Shugendo monk). Finally, the Asakura is always looking for powerful shamans to marry into the family, to keep the lineage strong, but they don’t need other Japanese faiths to bolster their strength. That is, by the start of the story, they already had most of the Japanese faiths incorporated into the family: Yohmei (Onmyōdō), Kino (Shinto, Itako), Mito (Shinto, Shrine Maiden) and Mikihisa (Monk, Shugendo).
You're absolutely right, my bad I meant in terms of representation of 3 faiths being not alt present in the present time line for the Asakura family
Also in terms of Asakura family and acquiring other strong lineages, I didn't say they actively seek them out, however they would favour families with strong lineages as it would be the practise at the time, hope that point is more clear. Apologies I should've made that more clear, thank you for the comment!
Mito? Not Keiko?
Dude I was born in Mex and there is nothing wrong with the depiction of the Mexican character. Guaranteed. Any Mexican who says otherwise is either not being honest or very detached from the culture.
What Mexican
Does that mean that Kanna Bismarck ist secretly a part of the Asakura clan? 😜🤷😂
Hola, alguien tiene los subtítulos en español o en su defecto el guión escrito (no auto generado porque no es muy conciso) así trato de traducirlo yo? Mí inglés es muy básico lamentablemente
Awesome video man
Thank you very much! :)
@@ShamanTribe no problems bro