I bought the whole Shaman King series for a cheap price. I watched the anime in the past and enjoyed it, so I decided to read the manga + kanzenban. (SPOILERS)

Story: 5
The first volumes til the background story of Yoh and Anna were pretty good. Typical shounen story of a young boy who wants to become the best "Shaman King". Finding some loyal friends, gettin stronger, some ridiculous power-ups. A good beginning... but it becomes worse than better, story became a mess... killing people and reviving them again and again,some random fights and shortly afterwards a relaxing scene, fighting one boss after another (Patcheen), the whole plot got so complex and boring in the last volumes. And wtf was that ending...seriously...Hao gets a slap in the face from his mother and decides not to kill the humanity and gives Yoh and the others the chance to rescue the earth...that ending was horrible... NO COMMENT!

Art: 5
The Art is solid, you can see that Hiroyuki Takei gets better in the later volumes. The expression and some body parts of the characters are sometimes out of the place but in particular okay.

Characters: 7
The characters are probably the best part of this manga, I really loved Yoh and Annas scenes as well the scenes between Ren and HoroHoro. That were some really delightful parts of the manga.
The growth of some characters were noticeable, Ren, Ryu... The only problem was Manta, he didn´t really got anymore scenes in the last volumes and became more a minor character.

Enjoyment/Overall: 5
It is a enjoyable manga, nothing outstanding. It has a good beginning but disappointed me towards the end. I never had goosebumps or strong emotional moments in the whole series. The probably best part of the manga was the background story of Yoh and Anna, I really liked it. But the rest of it was mediocre...