Shaman King manga creator Hiroyuki Takei commented on Twitter on Tuesday that he turned down plans to make a new Shaman King anime because it could not use the original anime’s voice cast and music.
Takei drew a series of short stories titled Shaman King 0 in Shueisha’s Jump X starting in November 2011, and published a sequel series titled Shaman King Flowers in the same magazine from 2012 to 2014.
The Shaman King anime adaptation aired for 64 episodes between 2001-2002.
The original manga began in 1998 and abruptly ended in Japan’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 2004, though a reprinting of the manga revealed a “true ending” in 2009.