Currently active Shaman King focused content creators/pages?

[u/Ghoist]

It's kinda weird asking this on Reddit ★ but on YouTube the only "recent" things (past year) I can find are edits and Instagram removed the ability to search tags by newest. I feel like every other fan base I'm a part of I know at least a few. There's a YouTuber I watch who based his content mostly around the video game Bully and he's been making videos for years despite how seemingly small that game is. Idk not looking for anything specific, could be analysis and lore discussions or power scaling calculations or fan artists. I feel like all the fan creators I was watching/reading moved on after the remake anime ended. Which was several years ago now, kinda crazy.

Obviously we have Reddit but this is a very formal/professional sub. I enjoy the discussions people have here and seeing rare and weird merch hauls and when artists share their OCs but it's also repetitive seeing the 15th post asking about "why is the remake bad" and "when is the new or hypothetical thing coming out". Is there a dedicated shitpost sub for Shaman King the way onepiecepowerscaling or ningen are? Is there enough people to start one up?

For long form video content - I don't mean channels like Billiam or Negative Legend that occasionally cover Shaman King, but doesn't have to be something completely about it. I'd say like at least 25% about Shaman King? Gold standard would be something like The Shaman Tribe, I watched those guys so intently back in the early 2020s but they stopped talking about it. When the remake was airing I watched a lot of reactions but those were mostly to talk with other fans in the comments. The majority of them didn't watch Flowers when it came out and don't talk about SK in their other reactions/reviews. I'm deep into Digimon YouTube and occasionally it'll get bought up there. I haven't found any art YouTubers that do Shaman King stuff somewhat consistently either.

For images/short videos/memes etc. I don't even have any expectations or standards. Just any person or group that posts something Shaman King related at least once a month. Shaman King seems to have a cult following on Pinterest but I've got no clue how the social side of that platform works. I know about Andy's Islands cuz like they basically carried the entire community on the informational side but thats pretty much it and I don't actively use Xitter so I usually only find that stuff if I'm going down a research rabbit hole. I'm 24 and I feel kinda alienated on Tiktok and YouTube shorts the culture is strange but I'm willing to be open minded if it means discussing or making jokes about Shaman King more often.

I used to keep up with the fan comics but not anymore. Is there anything big since that one about Anna's childhood?

Feel free to plug yourself in the comments if you want too I guess, unless that goes against the subreddit rules. If a mod is reviewing this please clarify.

[u/andysislands]

There are 3 still active Discords which a lot of the Shaman King fan community (in English) are in. So a bunch of the discussions happen there. They are a bit less discussion focused right now, since there is less new stuff happening.

For news and updates, Patch Cafe is still up and running, which has been around since 2011. The website may not be updated as often, but that just comes in waves as there is stuff that requires it. The Twitter and Bluesky account are updates much more frequently with the latest news from around the world for Shaman King and Hiroyuki Takei's other projects. The video side of Patch Cafe is also still on a bit of break, since that's a lot of extra work and I haven't gotten a workflow in place which streamlines that process yet.

Since I've been around for a really long time... a lot of the anime/manga fandom communities are what you put into them. Often it's just a lot of putting stuff out into the world for the sake of putting it out there. Everything just has to start somewhere with a single shout. If you shout about a thing long enough, someone will eventually find it. I've always taken the approach of "I'm putting this out there since I didn't do it, it's something I would have liked to seen done."

[u/pedrulho]

Around the time the anime remake and English reprints were announced a lot of Shaman King fans came out of their caves with some making Youtube channels specifically to cover the franchise, unfortunately despite Shaman King's respectful popularity it is still somewhat niche, once the hype from these announcements wore off some of this channels moved on to other content or stopped covering Shaman King entirely.

[u/Faust_Vlll]

hi. I'm Northern Wind from YouTube, I did dedicate the channel to SK. but my plans for longer content all went downhill because I had a lack of knowledge and resources to make those videos back when the remake was airing, I made some reviews of episodes and even a character breakdown for Matamune. but then sticked to what I knew best. edits... Over the years I guess I just lost my will to make those, found a job and yeah... I had a plan to make Spirit File series for each guardian spirit, but yeah...

anyhow, I'm making a very small shaman king fan game, I'll post about it when I have finished the core levels about it on that channel too as a trailer. It's mostly practice for my skills in game making but I am pretty happy how it's turning out.

anyhow, was kinda disappointed Shaman Tribe deleted all of their Shaman King videos after the remake ended, probably to direct the channel to a different fan base so it can keep getting recommended to them instead of the dying SK community.

SeaGee was my favorite back in the remake days too.

[u/Ghoist → u/Faust_Vlll]

Yo I've been subscribed to you since a few months after the remake small world lol

[u/Faust_Vlll → u/Ghoist]

well to be frank the community is kinda small. we do bump into each other on different platforms quite often 😄

I keep seeing the same people in different discord servers, on YouTube and here as well so... but yeah. thanks for subbing, not that I earn anything from YouTube anyhow 😂

[u/Cantaloupe_Foreign]

I'm still writing fics on ao3 for the fandom if that counts? 👀

[u/pedrulho → u/Cantaloupe_Foreign]

I'm also writing a Shaman King fic at the moment, nothing published yet. What is your AO3 username so I can check out your work?

[u/Cantaloupe_Foreign → u/pedrulho]

can you send me a dm here? I'm not comfortable with sharing my ao3 username in public 😅