This is a short one, as it's very few chapters and uh... wow. Let's get right into the ratings and explanations can come afterwards. :) Story: 1/10 Characters: 2/10 Art: 4/10 Art/Panel Cohesion: 6/10 ... what a fall from grace. I am too much short of hyperbolic when I say reading this had me crying for the wrong reasons. After what I can with all due respect best put as a 'gag ending' to the original manga, there were a few extra chapters here meant to wrap things up and wrap things up they did. If the previous ending was disrespectful, check this one out. Story - 1/10 - ... the storyis basically non-existent. Left in the middle of a gauntlet from the final chapters of the original, the heroes trudge on through to meet with Hao and do their best to stop him. I guess it's a good time to criticise the broader writing here instead, since the story's as linear as an arrow is straight.

What happened here??? Reading this felt like a fever dream and an absolute bastardization of the original work these chapters were meant to 'fix'. The tone has shifted to be joke-y and if you were not a big fan of the power of friendship, just wait until you see how egregiously unfunny the writing becomes. I am truly dumbfounded from the direction these final chapters took. Cool writing is still there, but phenomenally rushed as expected and it goes back into the expected and truly dogwater quality one would fear before long.

There were heartfelt moments between characters cut short for no reason but to 'progress the plot', making even what few redeeming qualities you could squeeze out of this impossible to extract through the slop. I wasn't laughing with it, I was laughing at it and that's... not good.

Characters - 2/10
- I'd love to treat these chapters' characters with respect, but it doesn't look like the author did. You'd expect with the shrunk cast of the added chapters that they'd get their due diligence, but everyone except for Yoh starts acting like a one dimensional slapstick character. Oh, and on top of that they don't really retain much of their personality at all?

There's parts where out of nowhere, all of a sudden these jacked 15 y/o's appear to be blessed with the knowledge of physics and intense natural phenomena to surgical precision, even though we're talking about again, 15 year olds in 1999 (was it?) with different backgrounds, none of which involve anything close to granting them this sort of knowledge.

Hao is the only one who seems to retain his memory, and I will agree with him on one line. "Humans are like cancer cells". I too would go clinically insane if I had the same encounter he does during the climax of the story, and I'd definitely adapt his plans to destroy humanity as it is.

Art - 4/10
- ... not much to say. The author has come back with a new artstyle, and though it looks clean, it feels a little 'too' clean for what you're likely used to with Shaman King's original release. The lineart is really thin but it tries to keep that stylized flair of the original, and it comes off a little odd. I'm sure it'd have grown on me if there was more room for it, but it was about fine for the few chapters I got to see it in.

Art/Panel Cohesion - 6/10
- There's not a lot of panels, and yet some still manage to be as muddy as the original's. The action is really grandiose and it makes for some muddy panels. As there's hardly any action however, most of the shots turn out to be really neat and they flow together relatively smoothly when scenes aren't skipped entirely.

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I have nothing short of disappointment and mixed feelings for the supplementary ending chapters added in the Kanzenban. The amount of ironic enjoyment I had was about as great as my genuine displeasure at the read. What a waste of a chance to make everything right. If you read this, please keep in mind exactly what you're in for- you got slapped in the face once with the original ending, and then you came back for more. Little has changed, and you hopefully won't stubbornly stick around to find that out for yourself... right?