As much as I 愛 Shaman King and all that good stuff. The アニメ seriously needs to be rebooted. It changed the storyline. It changed the personalities of some of the characters. The main character wasn't supposed to be your average shounen hero who just wants to kill the bad guy because apparently that's the only way. The bad guy himself wasn't supposed to act like he was 芝居 in the anime. The マンガ was way better,we actually got to see もっと見る development and such in it over what we see in the anime. So if あなた ever wanna get into this series,read the manga. A lot of the ファン like the マンガ over the anime. That's really all I have to tell あなた before I go off into a rant about all the flaws I noticed. (Though it DID have funny moments in it. )
In my opinion the マンガ for No.6 was far better than the anime. あなた get a far better feel for the relationship between Shion and Nezumi. あなた are left to understand Nezumi and why he is the way he is far more. It to me just felt far less rushed and easier to understand the motives behind the アニメ better.
Of course there is also the matter of Nezumi actually being called Nezumi and not ラット as he is in the English dub of the anime. Yes I know it is what Nezumi means. It's still irritating to me. :)
I tryed many times to read the マンガ but it's boring because I like only action with comedy and あなた can't watch epic fight scenes in a book that's why i get mad when people say "IT'S CANON" to everything i'm like b**** were talking about the アニメ i don't care about the マンガ but one good thing about マンガ is it's the first step to my お気に入り thing ANIME!