Funbari no Uta is a series of short stories written by Hiroyuki Takei

Hiroyuki Takei

is a Japanese manga artist, best known as the creator of the manga and anime Shaman King.-Career:Hiroyuki Takei started drawing manga with writer EXIAD on SD Département Store Series which they created for a fanzine. Early in his career, he became the assistant to Tamakichi Sakura on as in 1992...

 relating to his manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 series Shaman King

Shaman King

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei. Shaman King follows the adventures of Yoh Asakura as he attempts to hone his shaman skills to become the Shaman King in the Shaman tournament....

; and a furyoku-inducing battle anthem-turned-jingle-turned-Japanese ballad

Enka

is a popular Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically. Modern enka, however, is a relatively recent musical form which arose in the context of such postwar expressions of modern Japanese nonmaterial nationalism as nihonjinron, while adopting a more...

 created by the Shaman King

Shaman King

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei. Shaman King follows the adventures of Yoh Asakura as he attempts to hone his shaman skills to become the Shaman King in the Shaman tournament....

character, Faust VIII.

Funbari no Uta is set seven years later (2007) after the Shaman Tournament, and revolves around Hana Asakura

Hana Asakura

Hana Asakura is the protagonist of Hiroyuki Takei's manga, Funbari no Uta, which is set in the year 2007. He is the six year old son of Yoh Asakura and Anna Kyoyama who is now traveling with Ryu, but is currently in the custody of Tamao Tamamura.He only appears in the special chapter, Funbari no...

, the son of Yoh and Anna. Hana and Ryunosuke Umemiya are searching for the members of Team Ren and Lyserg for the grand opening of Funbari no Onsen, which is run by Tamao in the story. The story ends with a montage of panels showing all the aforementioned characters preparing to travel to Funbari no Onsen, ending with a spread of Anna and Yoh.

Characters

Current State

• It seems that Yoh
  Yoh Asakura
  is the main protagonist in the anime and manga Shaman King. In the original Japanese anime, his name has been inconsistently romanized as Yoh, You or Yō; while in the English adaptations, his name is always romanized as Yoh. His seiyū is Yūko Satō, and his English dub voice is provided by Sebastian...
  
   and Anna traveled during the 6 years.
• Ryunosuke Umemiya is working for Funbari no Onsen.
• Horohoro can be seen in a field of Fuki
  Butterbur
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  , which may be his own.He looks the same but taller.

• Chocolove stayed in jail and has apparently been recognized as a murderer. He must stay in jail for 16 years (he has already served six years and must remain there for another ten years when Ryu and Hana come to see him).
• Lyserg
  Lyserg Diethel
  Lyserg Diethel is a fictional British character from the anime and manga series Shaman King. He is an orphaned from a young age, when Asakura Hao killed his parents,when they refused to join him. This in turn makes him seek revenge, and eventually made him participate in the Shaman Fights to kill...
  
   returned to England, and now sports a classic detective attire; little else is given about his circumstances.
• Tamao Tamamura now somewhat resembles Anna, and will start her debut as an enka
  Enka
  is a popular Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically. Modern enka, however, is a relatively recent musical form which arose in the context of such postwar expressions of modern Japanese nonmaterial nationalism as nihonjinron, while adopting a more...
  
   singer; singing Funbari Onsen's jingle, the Funbari no Uta, composed by the late Faust VIII.
• The fates of Manta and Pirika are not depicted or mentioned.
• There is a female figure who can be seen behind Horohoro. She could possibly be Pirika.
• Faust's death is acknowledged as there is a Shrine to him in along with Yoh's father who also died and the previous owner of the Onsen
• Tao Ren has grown his hair and wears it similar to how his sister, Jun did before and he had been implied to have married Iron Maiden Jeanne
  Iron Maiden Jeanne
  Iron Maiden Jeanne is a fictional character from the anime series Shaman King. She is voiced by Yui Horie in the Japanese version. She was born on March 2, 1990 in Mont Saint-Michel, France....
  
  and had a child with her, Tao Men. Men has silver hair and red eyes resembling Jeanne and has the same hairstyle Ren did 6 years ago.

Changes

• In 2007, Yoh and Anna are both twenty-one years old. Yoh's hair has grown longer so his appearance closely resembles that of Hao. Anna's hair has also grown longer.
• Ryu's hairdo is still the same from his Shaman King days but it looks longer. Ryu has matured, and sports considerably more facial hair in the story.
• Tamao's hair is longer and she wears a long black dress. She looks somewhat like Anna when she was 15 years old and has apparently inherited aspects of Anna's personality as well; Hana remarks more than once that his "mother" (referring to Tamao, who is Hana's legal guardian while Yoh and Anna are traveling) is quite scary.