- For other third chapters in the franchise, see Chapter 3.
Reincarnation 3: The Unfinished Billboard (未看板 Mi Kanban) is the 3rd chapter of the Shaman King manga series.
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Manta is seen dragging Yoh through the streets being late, Yoh tells Manta that he is sleepy and wants to go back when suddenly billboards falls on Yoh, which leaves a distressed Manta calling out to his friend. The nearby people see the accident. They remove the billboard revealing a surprised Yoh hiding in a hole. A nearby unknown ghost is watching on.
At school the two talk about the accident, Manta tells Yoh that the billboard always falls down, which worries Yoh. Manta tells Yoh that he should worry about other things like the kendo test. Yoh has combined with Amidamaru to pass the test and notices a stressed Manta. Amidamaru explains that he needs to obey orders and goes everywhere Yoh goes. Yoh exclaims that he is getting more friendly with Amidamaru, as well as other ghosts who passed away at school. Yoh introduces them to Manta and says that if he has them around it will be all alright. Manta calls Yoh a coward since he cannot do things on his own, but Yoh finds nothing wrong with that since he wants to become a professional shaman and explains that he does not care for tests. Manta disagrees with his methods and misjudged shamans being cool and leaves Yoh. Amidamaru notices that Manta does not see the difficult of being a shaman and Yoh replies that Manta cannot accept it since he studies. Yoh then orders Amidamaru to follow Manta since he needs to do something.
An agitated Manta is seen walking on the streets remarking Yoh being lazy and that he is not fit to be a professional shaman. Manta remembers the scars that Yoh had earlier and thought he has just fallen over. Manta looks up and sees the billboard and notes that the billboard also has fallen on Yoh. At a sudden surprise the billboard fell down, which a shocked Manta stands still, until a sudden voice tells him to jump away. Manta dodged the falling board and sees Amidamaru. Amidamaru told him the reason why he had to escort Manta since the billboard had been possessed by an evil spirit, which shows himself. Manta shockingly asks what it is, the evil spirit shouts: "Do it!" and assaults Manta. Amidamaru blocks the attacks and explains that the evil spirit is a self-bound ghost, which are ghosts that are coated with evil and causes distrust in people who can sense spirits, he also notes that those ghosts do not understand their reason for dying, which causes their feelings go wild and change into a self-bound ghost, one type of many spirits. Manta remarks that Yoh has to deal these ghosts. The self-bound ghost breaks through Amidamaru's guard, Manta shouts Amidamaru's name. Amidamaru says that he fine and a fight between spirits are not decided by strength and technique, but by the strength of the spirit's feelings and wonders what it will take to stop him. The self-bound ghost walks towards Manta, repeatedly saying: "Do it!". Yoh approaches the ghost, carrying white paint and calls the ghost a troublesome guy since he had to ask a lot of people what happened around here. Manta wonders what Yoh is going to do. The self-bound ghost gets enraged and slaps Yoh's face, which shocks Manta and asks what Yoh is doing to Amidamaru. Amidamaru explains that Yoh allowed him to hit to let it know that he is a shaman. Yoh retells the self-bound ghost's death: A year ago when he was painting the billboard, he fell from the ladder and onto the road in front of a truck. After he could not accept his death by not finishing the billboard, he haunted the place and turned eventually into a self-bound ghost. Yoh calls out his name to be Kanta the sign maker and gave him his body to use to finish the billboard. Amidamaru exclaims that Yoh got through him. Kanta changes into his human form. Kanta asks Yoh if he really can do that, which Yoh replies that he also a job that he likes just like Kanta.
Afterwards Kanta with Yoh's help finished the billboard and it never fell again. Manta knew the real reason behind the scars and felt kind of bad towards Yoh.