Reincarnation 1

Reincarnation 1: The Boy Who Dances With Ghosts. The 1st chapter of Shaman King.

Short Summary
Oyamada Manta sees an unkown young boy at the cemetary, hanging around with ghosts. The next day Manta encounters yet again the unknown boy at his school, being a transfer student and is called Asakura Yoh. Manta wants to know his secret and not just being dellusional. Manta stalks Yoh and is getted spotted by him. Yoh tells his secret to Manta that he is a Shaman. Manta returns to the cemetary and gets beaten up by "Wooden Sword" Ryu and his gang. Yoh gets revenge on Ryu for Manta, because he is friend. Yoh at the cemetary asks Ryu to leave and bonds with Amidamaru to defeat Ryu. Manta monologues that his adventure with Yoh regarding the spirit world has begun.

Summary
Manta is seen running on the streets, because he is late for cram school. Manta takes a shortcut through the cemetary to go to the train. Manta is then called by a young boy why he is rushing. Manta finds that boy strange and decides to leave. The unkown boy that Manta should join to see the stars with everyone. manta rejects the offer and corrects his grammar by saying that he shouldn't use everyone if it's only him. Ghosts appear behind Yoh and points toward them being everyone. Manta is shocked by seeing the ghost and screams.

At the Shinra Private School, In the class Manta states to his classmates that he saw ghosts at the cemetary, but nobody believes him. the teacher arrives and introduces a new transfer student, Yoh Asakura. Manta is startled to see the unknown boy from the cemetary, Manta claims him to be the boy who was with ghosts, the class laughs at him even Yoh says that ghost doesn't exist and asks who he is. Later, Manta talks about that he really saw ghost, but still nobody believes and wants to talk to him, but Yoh is avast asleep. The classmates suggests he should stop and never go to the cemetary, because it's a infamous place punks from the Banshou School. Manta is not listening and wants to know the truth.

Manta is stalking Yoh, but to no avail Manta is watching the whole time behind to pole to only see Yoh staring from a bridge and gets annoyed. Yoh find the breeze nice and Manta gets frustrated and scream out loud and is spotted by Yoh. They both get to a talk and Yoh tells Manta his secret that he is a shaman. Manta doesn't know what a shaman is and yoh starts explaining that a shaman is someone who can bind this world with the next world.

Manta is then seen in cram school trying to figure out what a shaman really is and finds it in a dictionary. Manta is shocked by the realization that ghosts exists, he shouts in the class that he can't deny this fact and gets scolded by the teacher. Manta is waiting for the train complains that Yoh is such a carefree person and envies him a bit. Manta takes the train to go and decides to go see Yoh at the cemetary.

At the cemetary, the punks have gathered there and talks about the a boy who has entered their territory before. Ryu the leader of the gang hears it and stumbles a gravestone and wants to punish the boy for coming to the cemetary. Ball Boy is scared of the gravestone of Amidamaru that Ryu has stumbled. Ryu wonders who this Amidamaru is, Ball boy explains the history of the legendary samurai Amidamaru and the person who doesn't respect his grave shall be cursed. Ryu demolishes the gravestone and boasts that that he isn't scared of the curse. Ryu spots Manta who was hiding and accuses him to be the tresspasser. The gang starts beating him up.

Manta returns to school and is laughed by his classmates and that he is crazy to believe in ghosts. Yoh approaches and says ghosts exist joining the side for Manta. Yoh heared about the gang and wants to help Manta. Manta doesn't want antyhing to do with Yoh anymore, Yoh grabs Manta and is gonna retaliate. Manta with disagreement doesn't understand why he does this, Yoh explains that he is Manta's friend and explains that people who can see spirits aren't bad people and laughs that he is Manta's friend. Manta shouts that he doesn't agree with that and that Yoh is too weak to handle the punks at the cemetary. Yoh says that Ryu uses a wooden sword and that Yoh knew a friend that would help him out.

Yoh arrives at the cemetary, Manta wants to leave but is tied to Yoh. Ryu is furious that a boy requests to leave him and will send him to the next world. Yoh says that his friends from the next world are furious at Ryu, the gang laughs at Yoh saying that Ghosts don't exists. Yoh then calls out Amidamaru, Amidamaru appears behind him, Manta is shocked to see the ghost of the legendary samurai, Amidamaru thanks Yoh to help him repay for his earlier humiliation. Manta sees a chance if it's Amidamaru the legendary samurai that he can take the gang on, but since he is a ghost he can't do anything. Ryu sends out Apache and Space Shot to assault Yoh, Manta is scared and Yoh laughs at the two guys who are approaching him. Yoh changed Amidamaru into a hitodama, Yoh grabs the hitodama and let it enter his body Hyou-Gattai. Yoh then takes the two out instantly with a single wooden sword slash. Everyone is astonished to see Yoh's swordmanship. Manta sees that Yoh can join with the next world. Yoh then ready himself to fight with Ryu, the former is scared to fight him seeing his swordmanship, Yoh then calls Ryu pathethic, Ryu assaults Yoh for insulting him. manta shouts that Yoh has combined with Amidamaru and can use everything that Amadimaru can. ryu slashses Yoh, but Yoh dodges it and retaliates with a upward slash and cuts a part of Ryu's long pompadour hairstyle. Manta is astonished to see a shaman binding with the next world, the spirits appeared around Yoh and so started the adventure of Manta with Yoh regarding with the spirit world.