Konjiki no Gash!!

Description

From Viz:
Fourteen-year-old Kiyo, an arrogant genius who is teased mercilessly at school, is given a strange boy, Zatch Bell, for his birthday to help him make friends, but Zatch turns out to have strange powers that change Kiyo's life forever.

Note: Won the 48th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category.

Type

Manga

Konjiki no Gash Bell!! (YADAKA Suzuo) (Spin-Off)

Konjiki no Gash!! 2 (Sequel)

Associated Names

Gash - Cậu bé vàng!!

Gash Bell!

Golden Boy Gash!!

Konjiki no Gash Bell!!

Zatch Bell!

กั๊ช!!

金色のガッシュ!!

金色의 카슈!!

금색의 갓슈!!

금색의 갓슈벨!!

금색의 카슈!!

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Latest Release(s)

c.Kanzenban Special Book by Hi wa Mata Noboru 5 years ago

c.Kanzenban Extras by Hi Wa Mata Noboru 5 years ago

c.Gaiden by Anime-Destiny 14 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

33 Tankoubon Volumes (Complete)
16 Bunkoban Volumes (Complete)
16 Kanzenban Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1

Ends at Vol 22, Chap 212 (Original Ending EP 139-150)

User Reviews

Konjiki no Gash!! by Zoro

Forum

2 topics, 10 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.5 / 10.0 (560 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.39 / 10.0

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Last Updated

July 22nd, 2025 5:10pm PDT - 2 months ago

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Genre

Action Comedy Drama Fantasy Shounen Supernatural
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Birgdin Board Corp [Add] (2020)

Kodansha (2011)

Shogakukan (2001-2008)

Serialized In (magazine)

Shuukan Shounen Sunday (Shogakukan)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

Viz (Canceled / 25 Vols)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #836

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Monthly Pos #1449

(-361)

3 Month Pos #2987

(-129)

6 Month Pos #3518

(-633)

Year Pos #4700

(-20)

List Stats

On 759 reading lists

On 699 wish lists

On 1387 completed lists

On 75 unfinished lists

On 307 custom lists

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Konjiki no Gash Bell!! - 4 Koma Special where can I read this? I can't find it!

14 years ago

Who do you want...*SPOILER*

16 years ago

User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

My Heart

by definitelasts
1 year ago

Rating: N/A

It's been over 10 years since I had thought of Zatch Bell! - I didn't get to read the whole manga as a child.
Revisiting this series has sent a wave of emotions over me. I didn't realize how much this series affected my sense of humor and self.
This is a goofy, heartfelt, and beautifully written manga. When you begin this, you have no idea what's coming.
I cried chapter after chapter toward the end.

Makoto's extras & art are charming, he will have you smiling.

I cherish this series.

Makoto Raiku, thank you for everything.

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one of the slept on greats

by trunkallergy
1 year ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I think the first time I ever even saw anime (didn't even know what anime was until like a decade later) was a few episodes of "Zatch Bell" or whatever the English dubbed version of this is called. I read this like 15-20 years later after just randomly thinking about that. I definitely didn't expect it to be one of the greatest manga I'd ever read. Easily the best one of these pokemon/Digimon/Yu-Gi-Oh/beyblade-esque adventure/battle type stories, and that's without the nostalgia.

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Amazing, Hilarious, and Tear-jerking

by rennov
2 years ago

Rating: N/A

As an adult reader myself, I grew up with Naruto, One-piece, Bleach, and other long-lasting shounen manga. I must say it's really hard for a shounen to bring all of the "friendship" theme without being boring and stupid by coming up with many one dimensional character, but Gash Bell is different. I read it as an adult male and I felt the emotion surging up in each later arc.

One thing I must say, the best shit from Gash Bell is the character development. It's one of the best manga that can depict how hard and amazing it is to grow from zero to hero. And of course, hero can't fight alone. It should and always be a company of heroes. This manga stick to it from beginning to end in a magnificent way.

For those who haven't read this, don't be discouraged by the cringe premise, weird character, and sketchy art in earlier arc. Stick to this and you may find the story get engaging in each chapter. For me, I think vol 8 is where it's all start to click together.

It has its absurdly hilarious chapter and it also has amazingly emotionally chapter. I ask no more and I'm satisfied. I wish the best for the author and the translator

... Last updated 2 years ago

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A nicely written story

by DakOZero
2 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

So I recently read this in the 2020s, the story goes through at a nice pace and there are nice slice-of-life moments between arcs to help with pacing with it.
The battles are great there are rules to help simplify battles and force the battle to be rather unique and no battle ever feels the same.
All the characters are quite fleshed out everyone gets a moment and no character ever feels like they haven't improved in this series.
There is no real big flaw in the story only minor setbacks.

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Well thought out

by Cryvern
5 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

Really like Raiku Makoto's brand of shonen. Great style of comedy, fun creative combat with well thought out powers and minimal asspulls, and a healthy dose of friendship and touching moments.

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Not what the other comments made it out ot be

by Seregosa
8 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

I wonder why everyone seems to love this thing. It's honestly quite horrible, but perhaps my tastes have just been corrupted from reading too much manga and novels that this kind of thing can't be considered amusing anymore, or my tastes are just different to other people here.

First of all... where's the fun? I see a lot of things where the author is trying to make it funny, but I find it to be just about all low-level stuff which might make a kid laugh, yet I don't even smile, sorry, I've seen too funny stuff to even crack a smile at this shit. It completely gives me the feeling that it's similar to dragon ball, written for kids and that I remember enjoying when I was younger and couldn't properly evaluate stories. The art style is not just bad, it gives off radiance of childishness akin to a search light in the night. I don't really mind bad drawings, I've read a lot of stuff with horrible drawings far worse than this and loved it, but this is just dull, the style of the drawings and characters that show up are clearly aimed at kids, with mascot-like characters abound and childish-silly appearances of just about everything, it turns me off quite hard.

Oh, and it'd be cool if the demon was a tough loli instead of shota since it'd make all the escapades and stuff that character does way more amusing and cute, but that's just my preference and doesn't really matter. If the story here was actually good, that wouldn't have mattered. Well, in the end I guess I just picked the wrong manga.

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Great Great Great!

by yduran7
11 years ago

Rating: 8.4 / 10.0

Best combination of comedy and action ever. The story is unique, the characters are memorable, the battling is just superb. It is so well balanced and interesting that I could not put it down. I love that unlike most stories this one focuses on the dynamics of relationships between two people. Well people and their mamodo anyways. It really is about friendship in the most basic level and not the cheesy kind like some other mangas that I won't mention.

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7 years later...

by MatrixM
12 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

So, Voltron again comes on tv and it reminds of this manga (because of that toy Takamine makes for Gash xD [though the toy is called Vulcan >.>]) and I just start laughing to myself. This series was freaking hilarious AND had great action/plot.
The more observant amongst you may realise that the series wasn't complete back in '06. Truth is, during the 9 month gap between scanlations in '06 and '07 I'd forgotten about this series (or maybe it was the next gap). When it finished a few years later I planned to re-read it from the start but that didn't happen for some reason.
From the 15 or 23 or so volumes that I DID read (and what I know of the end) I think I'm perfectly within my rights to spread word of this series' greatness.
It was so fun. So hilarious. The action scenes had absolutely no ass-pulls (except maybe the second last fight in the series, it seems). Even the little romance, I remember, was hilarious like in 'Nyan Koi!':
"They share a secret only the two of them know about!?" xD

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Classic.

by snowhamster
13 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I find that even though the art is not exactly beautiful, it actually helps to deliver a hilarious feel (especially when purposely drawn hideously xD) I found myself cracking up because of how weird the art was intentionally drawn (crazy bulging eyes).

Honestly, I have no idea if I'm just emotional this week, but I found myself mentally sobbing at some scenes (and actually tearing up during the entire Faudo arc) and then just going crazy with laughter at others. It's a really great series that I heard of when I was very little but never actually got into until recently.

... Last updated 13 years ago

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New Update, Gaiden: Freind

by Innovator1
13 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Zatch Bell was updated...not really. It was a One shot of Zatch Being King in the Mamodo world.
it was nice to see new content of Zatch, and to see that he hadn't changed.
I just found out about it...wish someone had told me sooner for I could've actually joined in the forum discussions about Zatch Bell ><

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