This tension in the air…
Who on earth is he?
How small!
What did you say?
Lord Hao…
Oh, sorry.
Don't worry.
You're smaller than him, Opacho.
Opacho's small!
Hey, did she just say "Hao"?
It can't be!
I see. You showed up sooner than I expected,
Hao Asakura.
The Ultra Senji Ryakketsu…
It's that bad for you if I give this to Yoh, is it?
Ms. Anna, don't…
Wow!
I should have known you'd get so far so soon.
I wanted to meet you, Anna.
I wanted to meet the Asakura bride-to-be
who defeated my Shikigami.
-You wanted to meet her? -And you're on a first-name basis?
It's an honor.
Don't tell me you're out for revenge?
Do I look that petty to you?
No, I actually have tremendous respect for you.
And I hope the Ultra Senji Ryakketsu gets to Yoh as soon as possible.
What's that supposed to mean?
To be honest, Yoh's still far too weak.
He has no chance of surviving the battles to come.
But if he can master the Ultra Senji Ryakketsu,
he'll be so much more powerful that he'll be unrecognizable.
I need Yoh to toughen up quickly
so that he can help me out.
Who is he, Master Manta?
I'll explain later.
He'd never help you.
Now get talking and tell me where Yoh is.
Superb!
I guess you need guts like that if you're going to marry him.
I like you.
Yoh went down that cave.
You better get the Ultra Senji Ryakketsu to him soon.
Feel free
to lend me your assistance anytime,
Anna.
Listen to me.
If you don't cut the crap…
Ms. Anna…
He blocked her slap!
I'm liking you more and more.
You really are worthy of being the Shaman King's wife.
Not so fast. You're forgetting about…
my left hand!
Of course I'll be the Shaman King's wife.
And of course, Yoh's going to win.
All right, let's go! Tamao! Manta!
-Okay! -No dawdling!
What a great feeling!
And what guts.
She's the first person to slap me since my mom.
It did sting just a little, though.
I told you, I'm sorry!
Come on, Amidamaru, don't worry about it!
No, you should be worrying about it!
This is the second time this has happened!
It's broken now! We can't change that!
Won't you be needing it? We'll be in the Patch Village soon.
Oh, damn…
What should I do, Ren?
Why are you asking me?
My liege! Getting so wound up is bad for your mind and body!
I don't intend on wasting any more time.
Cool it, Ren.
We've still got plenty of time left.
I'm not going back to my town.
I came all this way to defeat Hao,
yet you ended up trying to save his follower
and lost your intermediary.
Hey, Lyserg.
What are you talking like that for again?
It's just…
Horohoro.
How's he doing?
Not good.
Kororo's cold air hardly even qualifies as first aid.
I see.
Okay, let's take this guy with us and carry on, shall we?
Hang on a second, Yoh!
It's not far to go to the Patch Village.
If we get there, it will all work out!
But what about…
Is that okay with you, Amidamaru?
Once we get there, we can summon Mosuke so he can fix Harusame!
Do you really mean it?
There was such a heavy atmosphere, but suddenly, everyone's so cheery!
Now I see! This is Yoh's strength.
It scares me, though.
At this rate, I'm going to lose sight of who I really am!
You okay there, Ryu?
Cool as a cucumber.
I'm not made of the same stuff as your average Joe.
We've come so far, but I still don't get what anything means.
"Means"?
Like why they took us to America in the Patch Jumbo
and everything that's happened since,
like with Lilirara and the Seminoa warriors,
who this Hao guy is, and the X-Laws…
Everything's so big and complicated.
True.
Yes, and we're so small.
Did I say something weird?
No…
I just have a strange feeling again.
Wait,
you feel it too?
So it wasn't just my imagination.
It's like someone's calling out for us.
Your souls were guided here.
You're awake!
Put me down.
I'm all right now.
How could you be all right with those injuries?
You're dying!
Sorry, but I don't plan on receiving any charity.
So allow me to pay you back for saving me.
This is the Path of Truth, open only to chosen Shamans.
The Path of Truth?
The Patch Village lies ahead.
But that is not where I am headed.
The Patch are no more than guardians
who have protected that place for generations.
The great Holy Ground of the Stars.
What's the Holy Ground of the Stars?
That's all I owe you.
Now go.
-Screw you! -Don't, Ren.
But…
So what are you going to do?
I'm going to get there by myself.
I'm the toughest of all Lord Hao's men.
Big Guy Bill doesn't die…
that easy…
Yoh!
I know!
All we can do now
is steel ourselves and keep going!
The time for them to learn the meaning of their entire journey is finally here.
The Holy Ground of the Stars.
Where all souls are reborn…
Where all the memories of Earth's 4.6 billion-year history are stored…
And where the greatest spirit ally,
the Great Spirit, resides.
Only the Shaman King can receive its blessing!
The time has come!
What…
was that?
Where is everyone?
Awake at last?
Silva!
You're in the Patch Village,
which is also the Holy Ground of the Stars.
You've done well, Yoh.
First of all, drink this to calm down.
This banana-and-fish soup
is perfect after you've had a Vision.
Vision?
You saw them, didn't you?
The memories of this planet that lie dormant deep in your heart.
What?
Well, it's only natural you wouldn't understand.
Look.
That is what showed you your Vision.
You have received the blessing of the Great Spirit.
What?
Countless souls…
Intertwining…
Is that
the Great Spirit?
It's happening again!
Something's coming into my head again!
I remember now!
When we reached the end of the cave,
the moment I saw that…
Don't look directly at it until you're accustomed.
You'll fall unconscious again.
The Great Spirit is the source of all souls.
It is also to where all souls return.
All Shamans who make it here
have the memories in their genes awakened when they behold this sight.
Naturally, exactly what they see varies depending on their upbringing and beliefs.
Some, overwhelmed by the shock of those 4.6 billion years of memories,
never woke up.
Hold on a second!
This is all happening so quickly, I don't know…
That's why I told you to calm down.
Why are you drinking my soup?
Anyway,
seeing that you have been guided here safely
and accepted by the Great Spirit shows that your soul has great capacity.
You have passed the first test of the main round.
Are you kidding me?
That inappropriate voice. Could it be…
Now I'm one step closer to making my dream come true!
All right, Kalim!
Horohoro!
Yoh! So you made it too!
Isn't that Great Spirit thing crazy?
Where's everyone else?
By the time I'd dashed over,
there was no sign of Lyserg.
If he were alive,
his Patch Officiant would have taken him, but…
-"If he were alive"? -"If he were alive"?
Wait, so what about the other guys?
You're in charge of Ren and Ryu too, aren't you?
Oh, where have you gone,
Lyserg?
-Ryu? -Ryu?
Oh, Horohoro and Yoh…
Well, Ryu woke up first, so I allowed him to take a walk, is all.
-You could've said so earlier! -What about Ren?
He's something else.
He didn't lose consciousness.
Far from it, he stared right at the Great Spirit.
Splendid.
I have to have it, Bason.
Yes, my liege.
What a horrible dream…
But…
I can't die until I've defeated Hao!
That day,
I felt like I'd seen something that I wasn't supposed to.
Taming this Great Spirit
and becoming the Shaman King
was perhaps a far more daunting and fearsome task
than I had realized.
"Rest up in the Patch Competitors Village
until the rest of the competitors arrive here."
That's what they told us.
It's like a tourist trap.
Wow! A Patch Strap!
Apparently, they make your Oracle Bell look even cooler!
Still getting excited by touristy trinkets at this stage of the game?
You really are slack.
Where the hell have you been?
I've just been doing a little reconnaissance on my rivals.
Naturally, anyone who's likely to be my enemy--
This thing's awesome!
A Patch Doll!
I like this doll.
That voice…
It can't be!
My, what excellent taste you have, miss!
This is a traditional Silver Patch Man.
That will be 380 dollars, please!
That's quite pricey.
I'll take it for 380 yen.
Anna!
That's far too little!
What are you talking about, Yoh?
380 yen is the standard price for a key chain.
Don't you feel bad for the Patch people
who worked so hard making it?
Anna! Why are you here?
To make Yoh stronger.
What?
There will be problems if you don't toughen up.
For instance,
someone else might take me from you.
Oh, sorry.
What was that?
I have another bad feeling about this.
Anyway, you seem to have forgotten all about Harusame.
You brought along a girl to the Shaman Fight?
I feel insulted!
You all look like you're good buddies,
but will that win you the next battle?
Hey, don't you ignore me! I'm trying to help you!
Did you realize that it's a tournament next?
A tournament?
Permanent.
Hey! Listen to me!
I'm serious! I'm not kidding!
If you have something to say, make it short.
One little wisecrack and you're dead.
All right, I get it!
I'm looking for teammates.
Teammates?
Yes.
The tournament is going to pit teams of three against each other.
We're free to choose our own teams,
but if you can't find one, you're out.
It looks like you don't have the right numbers,
so I wondered if you'd let me join you.
What's your name?
Joco.
He actually stabbed me!
Is that actually your name?
Of course it is!
What's going on?
It's getting lively in the square.
Seems like you'd better let me join you right now!
The big, bad favorite to win has arrived.
The big, bad favorite to win?
There are practically no Shamans who haven't heard of him.
I mean,
he has been living for 1000 years just to become the Shaman King.
Along with his faithful servants,
he leaves a trail of destruction everywhere he goes.
Hao.
His team is the absolute favorite among the three powers.
The three powers?
The free showers!
What are you talking about?
There are three already established groups among the competitors.
The first is Hao's team.
The other two are groups set up to oppose Hao,
Gandhara and the X-Laws.
The X-Laws?
You know them? Well, that will save us some time.
It should be easy for you to imagine
that the heads of each of the three powers
are all god-class Shamans then.
-"God…" -"…class"?
Topless!
To get to the point,
nobody's stupid enough to take on a god-class Shaman.
So the best option is to join one of them
and make your dreams come true that way, right?
What are you trying to say?
Almost 70% of the Shamans here
are already affiliated with one of the three powers.
That's why I'm so desperate to find some teammates!
How do you know all this?
Because information is my greatest weapon.
If you want to succeed in this world, you need the most accurate info
before anyone else gets it.
What?
In effect, having information
is the same as knowing your enemy.
That's how I knew when Hao was going to arrive
and could tell it was them without even looking.
Meet my Spirit Ally, Mic the Jaguar.
With his nose and my wit,
I'm going to be the world's top comedian that people just can't get enough of!
That's my dream!
Not happening.
What the shell did you just say?
-No, never happening. -Never.
Hao's team, plus two other powers…
This is getting more troublesome than I expected.
What's up, Anna?
Do you think he's hopeless too?
Be quiet!
I could care less about that!
You could care less? So you must care a bit then?
You're not funny.
You sure are in a bad mood.
I want to get back to my room now.
What are you going to do?
Well, if Choco wants to join us,
-I guess that's okay with me. -No, it's pronounced "Joco."
Seriously?
You need to use your head sometimes!
Well, I mean,
even with Lyserg, there are only five of us.
We're going to need one more person, anyway.
Interesting.
He can be on my team then.
Your team?
This is a great opportunity.
We're bound to fight each other sooner or later.
So if we go on separate teams now,
the sooner we can settle it.
Don't be like that!
Fine by me.
What about your last teammate?
I presume you're going to insist on looking around for Lyserg.
Sorry, but I'm not going to bet on an unknown factor like that.
I don't care which one of you two it is.
Decide between yourselves.
You don't care? What are we, a joke to you?
I'm not going on any team that Lyserg isn't on!
-Ryu… -What?
Well, that solves it.
Joco and Horohoro.
My team is complete.
"Complete"? Hey, wait up!
I don't even know this guy,
and you're a pain in the ass!
That's fine.
You two jokers just stay back and shut your mouths.
I can handle all the fighting by myself!
I'll see you whenever they let us know what's going on.
Don't run away now.
Wow. He just left.
He's so damn selfish.
Well, good for him.
I haven't seen Ren look like he's having such a good time in ages.
It's cute when he gets like this.
"Cute"?
Fine by himself, is he?
He really underestimates me.
Looks like I'll have to show him just how strong I really am!
He'll eat those words!
Now Horohoro's all fired up too!
Joco, huh?
Well, he doesn't seem like a bad kid.
Anyone who looks like Muscle Punch has to be a good guy.
All right, now let's go find Lyserg!
Ren's going to pay!
I'm amazed you're still in one piece
with these guys as your companions.
It's thanks to these guys that I am!
It's odd how much your laugh puts me at ease, Master Yoh.
You've definitely forgotten about Harusame!
Looks like things are going to be busy from here on out.
I still can't get over how spectacular the Great Spirit is.
Who knows what would have happened to me
if Yoh's dad hadn't been there.
But then Mr. Mikihisa went off someplace else
and Ms. Anna went looking for Mr. Yoh and hasn't come back.
Why aren't you saying anything, asshole?
You're just going to sit there in silence?
Hey! Ponchi! Conchi!
You're being rude to Mr. Yoh's friend!
I'll head out and look for her.
I feel kind of uncomfortable being alone with a girl.
Singing?
And your heart
Was racing too
Subtitle translation by: Lewis Williams