Let’s first start with what you all know, love, and enjoy, new Shaman King chapters! Today, we have 2 new ones! Yup, another double helping. These are actually some good chapters, the first half of the 2nd chapter could have been better, but there’s been worse. And, we aren’t stopping here. Yup, we’ll have another new chapter lined up for this weekend as well! Let’s see… next we’ll move onto….
Mankin-Trad’s first completed mini-series! That’s right! Funbari No Uta chapter 5 has been released! If you haven’t read it yet, this chapter is really going to throw you for a loop! It asks so many more questions than answers! And those questions might have never been answered, unless it was for….

Those Shaman King reprint volumes have finally been released in Japan! Yay! Now, you might be thinking, “that’s great and all, but how can I get them?” Well, the good people over at Shaman King Nation have put together a great little helper guide for you! It’s called Guide to Importing the Reprint Volumes! Now you’re right on your way to supporting the Shaman King series! Thanks. Who knows, maybe you’ll get your volumes before I do! (and that would be very helpful for me, since I’ve got questions)

And while we’re talking about Shaman King Nation, there’s been some serious updates lately. Maybe a guy called Stan Lee is kind of important. Maybe you heard about him. Maybe you heard he’s doing a manga special with Hiroyuki Takei. Well, we’ve know since Feburary 29th. Maybe you should catch yourself up with all the latest Shaman King news! Go check out Shaman King Nation now! (Also, the news feed at the top of this page pulls it’s news right from SKN, thanks to Kami-sama for that! You know, that guy who got you these great download speeds!)

Oh, it seems that the March 4th Marathon continues! Let’s see, what else do we have? How about Volumes 25 and 26!

Now, if you have already read these chapters, you don’t need to download these files. Actually, we prefer if you didn’t. It will save us bandwidth. If this is your first time to the website, welcome! We have these 2 great batch files, which combine all the chapters from these volumes into one nice download! It also saves us room on the menu on the left. If you haven’t noticed, it’s starting to get a bit clogged up. We’ll move all of our chapters into batch files at some point. This is just a starting point. More combined volumes coming in the future. Online Reading for all the chapters are still up, so no worries there.

Now, let’s see, what should be next…. How about Jyuki Ningen Jumbor Chapter 1 again!

Then again, maybe not. We’ve got alot of great releases already for you, maybe we can hold this one for a little while? I just ran out of time, so I couldn’t complete this for you all. I will do this in the future, but for right now, it didn’t happen. Sorry, for those who were looking forward to this. But to make up for it, I’ll have a “not release!”

What’s a “not release?” A “not release” is when we don’t release anything. I know you’re saying, “You don’t release things all the time! You’re so slow, but we love you so!” Or something like that. I hope. Maybe. Anyways…. We’re uploading (not releasing), these two little specials…

These were both originally released by Manga-Rain. Mankin-Trad is just hosting these files (with permission, from both Mad-Hatter, and Shaza (Pandora_C)). Now, let’s just make this clear, once and for all. Mankin-Trad WILL NOT host other Shaman King chapters or any other manga, that was not, at least in part created by Mankin-Trad. So, no we won’t host Volume 22, or Volume 19, or Volume 1, or Volume 123. This is a scanlation site for Mankin-Trad releases. Anyways, now that’s out… Why are we hosting these files? First of all, this is the “correct time” to be reading them. By correct, I mean, that by reading them now, they contain no spoilers, since Takei wrote and released both of these specials around this time (as in before Chapter 276). So, if you haven’t read them, then you are losing a bit of what everything in the SK universe means. Next, there was no real reason for us to make our own version. Why translate something for a second time? Manga-Rain did a perfect job, no reason for us to do it again. We’re all against doing repeat work.

So, I hope this will be a good March 4th for everybody. We’ve had alot of translators work on these releases today. Alessa, ReD, Yuya, and the Manga-Rain team, that’s four different translators. Of course we wouldn’t be here without them, so it’s really a team effort. I just make the funny, and post the news, and typeset, and work on SKN, and do the research for SKN, and compile the manga chapters, and such. But, no, really it’s a team effort. If you go check out our Staff page, you’ll see all the great team members who have worked with us over this last year or so. Well, I think that’s about it for now, at least on M-T (the news never sleeps over at SKN, like we have a brand new editorial coming up, called “The History of Shaman King, Part 2”), swing by this upcoming weekend for a brand new Shaman King chapter, and maybe a surprise. And the next weekend, it’s one of our translator’s birthdays… You know what that means? Double chapter release!? Her gift to you is our gift to her, maybe.

Update: Online reading now up for the Manga-Rain specials. Chapter 233 has been corrected in both online reading and Volume 26 batch.