So when I started Shaman King, I didn't have too many expectations, or any really idea of what was going to happen. I was blown away by how much fun I was having. I wasn't this invested in a story since One Piece, and I was having a ridiculous amount of fun. It came to a climax with the rematch that started off the actual Shaman Fight, but I was still having a lot of fun with the plot after that with Hao. But as soon as we got into the actual Shaman Fight, things just got worse and worse. The magic that had made me love Shaman King was gone. Character moments were skipped or ignored, the characters either acted inconsisently or what they set out to do was rendered irrelevant, and many fell to the wayside. This clusterfuck of just awful stuff came to a head in the last stretch of 25 or so chapters, where the final "fight" takes place, where people are nice to the guy who wants to murder their entire race. And then there's some timeskip bullshit where we learn Yoh and Anna are bum parents who abandoned their kid to kumbayah the fuck else, Horo-Horo is a hobo squatting in a field, Joco is in fucking prison for some reason, Ren is married to someone that he's had one interaction with, and the best character in SK in Tamao's errand boy and babysitter. oh and Manta is there. Do not read this manga if you are looking for a satisfying final few chapters. Go read Hitman Reborn if you want something like that.