Before we get to that banner image, uhh, let’s start with that Shaman King chapter 263 is now out. It’s been a while, but now it’s out. Can’t say when the next chapter will be out, but, it will be out sooner than that one was. I’ll say “within a week,” you know to keep you guessing. But basically, I’m aiming for an average of “1 new SK chapter a week for the rest of the month.” Or in other words, we should have volume 30 finished before the end of the year. Then, to start the year off right, we will have a new section of the Man.Ji.En scanlated too! So that will be released around Jan. 1st. Oh, and the Volume 30 special pages will be released somewhere in there too.

So, now back to the news that will matter to you in 2008. Takei has stated it a couple of times, but now we have it in writing. Takei will have a manga in JumpSQ which will conclude Shaman King. For all that info go to the forum:

http://www.mankin-trad.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=40

Also, you may have noticed that there is a picture of Takei in that banner. It just screams “caption contest” right there. So, a thread will be created in the forum shortly for that. So think about it, if there are some good ones, they might appear in future SK credits pages! Images and details coming soon, but here’s one I made:

So yeah, Mankin-Trad is still here, and we are putting the “Sha” back in “Shaman King!”