Yoh Asakura, a nonchalant looking teenager, turns out to be a shaman who can communicate with the dead. He is searching for a spirit so that one day he can become the Shaman King, the only being capable of merging with the “Great Spirit” and thus gaining unlimited power... But to do so, he must participate in the Shaman Fight, a tournament held every 500 years to determine the Shaman King. To succeed, he must face other shamans and their spirits, whose motives are not always very noble...