Story arcs are a new narrative device introduced in "Shaman King: The Super Star."
These story arcs are used to break-up the story into parts and shift who the main characters are within each of the arcs.
Each story arc has their own titles and logo designs.
They are also named after one of Hiroyuki Takei’s earlier works before creating "Shaman King."
The first arc is the called “Itako No Anna The Third" – which the title based on the standalone manga story of “Anna the Itako.”
Next is “Death Zero From Flowers” – which the title is based on the story first told in the “Death Zero” standalone manga story.
Within "The Super Star," this story arc continues the story from the “Death Zero” chapters
found in "Shaman King: Flowers" volumes 5 & 6.
The “Dai Butsu Zone” arc is named after Hiroyuki Takei’s first full manga serialization, “Butsu Zone.”
He also drew a standalone manga story for this title prior to its run in "Weekly Shonen Jump."
From these main story arcs, here's how they are spread across the manga volumes.
Starting in volume 1, chapters 1 through 4 are the "Itako No Anna The Third" story arc
followed by chapters 5 & 6 in the "Death Zero From Flowers" story arc.
Finishing the first volume is the combination of these two story arcs
called the “Death Zero From Flowers cross Itako No Anna The Third.”
This combined story arc then carriers through the entire second volume for chapters 8 through 14.
And keeps going in volume 3 with chapters 15 through 21.
Then it finally comes to an end in the 4th manga volume with chapters 22 through 27.
At the time of volume 3’s print volume release some general anime news sites reported that "The Super Star" was ending.
This was incorrect and it only referred to the story arc that was concluding in the 4th volume, not the entire series.
The 5th volume of "Shaman King: The Super Star," which will release in early 2021 in Japan
contains the start of the "Dai Butsu Zone" story arc with the 28th chapter.
The story arc is still ongoing in Japan as December 2020.
Within this story arc each chapter has two numbers.
One number is for the chapter number of the entire series,
and the other is for the chapter number within just in this story arc.
"Shaman King: The Super Star" volumes 1 through 4 are releasing worldwide in English in digital editions throughout the month of December 2020.
New chapters are also released monthly in Japan in "Shonen Magazine Edge"
which comes out around the 17th of every month in both print and digital editions.